JudyObscure

I didn't see any of that, but I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. Of course it's always stupid to blame an actress for the roles she plays, soap opera actors have had to deal with that forever. I do blame Anna Gunn for implying that anyone who doesn't like Skylar is misogynist. Skylar herself seemed to hate other women judging by the way she sneered at all the women in her office and bullying her way past the receptionist. Kim is just the opposite at work, defending women, respecting her secretary, and helping other women lawyers like Paige.

I hear you, Daff. I paid a lot for my TV (I remember when that was all you ever paid.) I then also pay a large monthly bill for cable and internet. I feel like that's enough and that my cable company should give money to PBS out of what they earn from subscribers like me who want that station included in their package. I did donate $60 to PBS a few times and was extremely disappointed when I saw which shows "Passport," had.

To me Skylar, unlike Kim, never cared about anyone but herself and her children. She always reminded me of the wife in, "A Simple Plan." When her husband showed her the huge bag of money he had found in a downed plane, her first reaction was the standard, "Oh we must turn in into the police!" After thinking about it for a few hours she was coming up with ideas to make sure they keep it and planning how to spend it. Skylar saw the money and started right in with ideas of her own. Skylar ruined two men, acting entirely on her own plans, her boss and the man whose pride and joy in life was his carwash business. She didn't have an ounce of sympathy for a kid like Jesse or any other kids ruined by drugs. Long before she knew anything about Walt's business, she punished her own sister with the silent treatment for weeks over the stolen bracelet. She told Walt's old partner about his cancer immediately after Walt had told her not to. When Walt gave their son a wonderful car she made him take it back, when it would have been easy enough to say it was a gift from someone who saw their Go-fund-me site. I think she was just mad because Walt didn't ask her permission first. Walt said to her one time that in their entire marriage he had never had anything his way and she couldn't think of an answer to that. Yes, Walt broke bad for himself, but one reason he loved it all so much was that for 20 years he had been totally controlled by her.

Yes and it's sad when the original idea of public broadcasting was that they didn't have to pander to sponsors and could show quality TV that didn't have to sell cars. So now they're pandering to people who want,"Sex and the City," in Regency dresses (Sanditon.) I don't want to work hard anymore than anyone else. I'm not asking for Shakespeare. I loved "Last Tango In Halifax." I loved watching You-tube's copy of Brit TV's "The Detectorists." I would be happy to see reruns of the original Upstairs/Downstairs. Just don't give me bad writing and expect me to be pleased with anachronisms like Bonnie.

LOL Tessa's singing was hilarious and it looks like she had more lines than most Marys get. I never understood why her older sisters didn't take her in hand and improve her a little bit. Even her parents ignore her and allow the others to make fun of her and shame her for not being asked to dance.

If Bonnie was a man wanting sex on the first date and then shouting at the women when he was turned down telling her how good in bed he was -- followed by staking behavior. We'd be outraged. I enjoy those, too, but some are much better than others and while PBS can't control the content in a series they do have control over which shows to buy in the first place. I think they're too influenced by things like pretty locales (Hotel Portofino) and anything where the cast wears vintage costumes.

The Everton story was just horrible. Those poor innocent people. this time it wasn't a case of no one being willing to back down or escalating tit for tat business. It was a lot of nice neighbors trying to deal with one impossible situation. the home owners association is usually just about keeping up lawn care and repairs, this was way out of their depth and even the police couldn't do much without real evidence of a crime. What we need is something like Child Protective Services for the mentally ill. Remember when we used to talk about the "men in white coats" who were going to come and take someone away in a straight jacket? I guess those people went the way of the mental institutions and now there's no one to call when someone is clearly psychotic.

I felt sure it was. Marie was a favorite of mine, the most loving wife, aunt and sister, ever, with the most interesting failing, ever, -- wasting realtors' time. The ending was perfect for me. Jimmy and Kim seemed so much happier without all the guilt and fear hanging over them. They still have their love for each other and they still get to use their legal expertise, just on a strictly volunteer basis. If that's all the happiness they get it may be enough, but in my fan-fantasy, Jimmy gets a gubernatorial pardon after a few years for all the help he's given his fellow prisoners. I loved the afterward where the stars thanked the fans. I thank them for one of the best shows I've ever had to watch, enjoy and look forward to

This season of Grantchester following after Hotel Portofino makes me wonder if PBS cares about writing quality at all. What happened to the Masterpiece part? The Bonnie story seemed like a fantasy based on typical school girl day dreams: " He's so handsome! He seems to like the sexy cheerleader, but what if he met me?" "Well he met me but I saw him with the cheerleader again." "I know! I'll ask him to scheme with me to get our mutual friends back together!" "Well we did that but he was going to take me straight home after, so I offered sex and he said 'no' so I got mad and screamed at him." " I ran into him and he apologized and said we should be friends. so I went to his house and said I want to be more than friends and deep down I know you want that, too." "Then I saw the cheerleader was there, so I got mad and shouted at him for leading me on." "Then he came to my house to apologize again and I told him straight out that I was going to move unless he had some reason why I should stay!" " He said, 'no'" "Then he got stabbed and I was ready to leave town and he left the hospital to come and meet me at the train and tell me he loved me and wanted to marry me! I always knew that was how he secretly felt about me!" Poor script writers will often throw out weddings, thinking we all love weddings. Only if we've grown to love the characters and want them to be together. I don't think I'll watch next season. I'm not eager to see any predictable problems where Will expects Bonnie to do things like go to church, and she gets mad and lectures him about how she's her own person and she and her Aunt Kathy form a consciousness raising group.

I'm not suggesting they part with anything, just push it off the end of the couch onto the floor. They could kick it off with their feet. "Churning" (moving stuff from one place to another) is actually part of the hoarding disorder, something most of them love to do, and that's all I'm asking. That doesn't have anything to do with cleaning.

Best idea for Kim yet! My husband volunteers at a non-profit food bank by doing taxes for people for free. He did over a thousand last year! There's a tremendous need for people to do paperwork for those who just aren't capable. When the stimulus checks started coming out, people who were homeless or unemployed and had never earned enough to need to pay income tax, suddenly had to turn in tax papers in order to get the check. Lots of government benefits are dependent on a pile of paperwork that the potential recipients aren't capable of but Kim could do in her sleep.

My take on this is that attempts to make up for a wrong are acts of atonement. Redemption is another thing and not dependent on specific acts. The Christian teachings on this (as I feebly understand it) is the only thing required to be redeemed is to confess your mistakes,(to God not to the police) then stop whatever the mistakes are and "go and sin no more." Jesus simply forgave people he never followed it up with, "Now go and work in the salt mines." Yes, and she built for herself something not required for redemption. I want to shake her and tell her she didn't need to muffle her brain and erase her personality, she just needed to stop messing with people. If she requires atonement of herself she could do something that would use her energy and intelligence to actually help people. Medicine, social work, anything but sprinklers. Lots of people do things they regret deeply and can't undo. I thought her break down on the bus was her moment of realization that she will never really be able to undo the damage she did and she's going to have to live with that. Maybe now she will begin to accept that and quit punishing herself because no one is keeping score, no amount of self denial will bring back a dead man. Even Kim in prison wont bring Howard back. I hope that nice woman on the bus tells her that whatever it is, it's time to forgive herself and go on.

I was watching the Martha show last night, too. Over years of watching Hoarders and Buried Alive my sympathy is almost entirely for the family members. I absolutely could not stand to have a hoarder in my house. The mess and clutter my normal relatives bring with them when they visit is hard enough, I'm getting tired of Dr. Tolin, too and he used to be a favorite of mine. He can be as soft and tender as a bunny with the hoarders if he wants to, but not when it comes to siding with them against the relatives who are just trying to help. Why are we all supposed to be saddened at the tiny little square of sofa the hoarder is sleeping on? All any of them ever had to do was grab a trash bag, load it with whatever's on the other end of the sofa and toss it on top of the hoard. If they would rather have a pile of old clothes and burger wrappers at the end of their bed than be able to stretch their legs out, why should we care? I can understand that they can't stop acquiring crap and bringing it home and it's their home and their right to turn it into a rat infested fire trap if they want, but their rights end where someone else's begins and that's where any children or parents still living there should have equal say.

Mira Miracle Whip has only 1 gram of added sugar. It's sweeter than Mayo but the one gram doesn't turn your tuna salad sweet it just snaps at the natural bitterness the way a half teaspoon of sugar can take the bitter aftertaste out of your spaghetti sauce. I've never bought it myself, I buy Hellman's Mayo, but my mother had it around as well as Mayo and I think, among other things, she liked the fact that it was lower in calories. As for "low rent." My brothers are both food snobs who have conversations like the ones Frazier and Niles had. To me they're just as boring as any the Florida Sprinkler gang might have. If the brothers are coming to visit I like to buy something like Twinkies just to start them up.

We always had both Miracle Whip and Mayonnaise in the house. Miracle Whip is sweeter and has more spices, making it better for certain things -- like tuna fish salad. Kim has probably discovered that now, but I expect she would be hesitant to come right out and declare for it.

They seemed like nice enough women to me. I'm not crazy about TV writers who assume anyone who doesn't have a glamourous job is boring and stupid. When did we ever see Kim having scintillating conversations with women friends back in Albuquerque? How is doc review more interesting than figuring the specs on a sprinkler system? Why are frumpy clothes required at her new job? Why does being undercover mean no longer allowed to have opinions or a sense of humor? Why does dark hair equal ugly? (Yeah, as a brunette, I've always resented that.) Kim's break down on the bus was the saddest thing ever in a really sad series. I hope it was partly relief and not all despair. Surely someone as brilliant as Kim can find a new career that challenges her and a new boyfriend because... just no.

I couldn't remember that clearly so I found this montage of Endeavor and Monica: https://vimeo.com/213111546 What do you think happened there? Did he just ghost her for a while or did I miss some subtle bit that told her they were over? Was it all because he was (and still is) fixated on Joan?

When we last saw Bonnie she was screaming at Will for not wanting to have sex with her on the first date, then last night Will runs into her and he apologizes and she says she forgives him but doesn't apologize in return. Next she barges into the vicarage, sees he has another woman there, and starts screaming at him again calling him entitled when she's the one who keeps acting like they're married when they only had one friendly dinner. It doesn't help that I don't find the actress attractive at all so the whole thing smacks of the plain woman in the office yelling at the handsome guy for not liking her back. I want to tell Bonnie, "He's just not that into you!" He is that into Maya and, now that she's free, I don't mind their relationship, they just need to be a lot more discreet. I expect Maya will go off on her own to Paris soon and that fire can be allowed to go out. Kathy didn't apologize for anything either, just decided to forgive Geordie for being romantically nostalgic, (the fiend) but I'm glad to see them back together. Mrs. C was really mean again when Will was just trying to help her. Are we supposed to always be on the women's side here? I needed Leonard to spread a little kindness and he didn't show up.

Good catch, 12CatCrazy! I'm going to watch for that. When we watched "The Crown" my husband and I loved the way they used music to show how "wild" Princess Margaret was. After she meets Lord Snowden for the first time she goes back to her rooms in the palace and plays, "I Only Have Eyes For You," on her record player, and dances alone in her room. It was so hot!

Aside from the fact that I didn't know Maya was considered non-white and only noticed how much she reminded me of a young Joan Baez -- I like the way the British have been casting people of all colors the last few years. They've been casting actors of all colors in parts that were traditionally only cast with white people. Recently they cast a black woman to play Jackie in "Howards End," although E. M Forster hadn't written it that way, and I thought it was a very interesting choice. I don't want the casting directors to feel they need to do what many American show runners seem to do -- that is, read through scripts and make sure any non-white character is written as a near saint and treated with kid gloves by the other characters in the story unless the part calls for a straight up racist villain. I think that's unrealistic and terribly limiting for the actors. Last week, Will learned from listening to the women who worked at the brothel that lots of men are into a fantasy that is only in their heads. He recognized himself and his relationship with Maya. Yes, he had said he was in love and was envisioning marriage, but he suddenly faced the truth, that he didn't even know Maya. They had barely said two words to each other before jumping in bed. Yes, It was just sex! That can happen sometimes with men and women regardless of anyone's color. I think the casting of Maya was fine. She was fascinating, sexy and mysterious, and that's what the part called for.

I think Francesca's a great character, too, She reminds us that people like Saul don't just enable drug dealers and criminals, they can quietly ruin good people. Con men always say that they couldn't succeed if their marks weren't greedy and that's true but it doesn't have to be "make millions through chain letters," sort of greed it can just be someone like Francesca who wanted to be able to pay her bills. She was such a nice cheery person when we first met her, loved old people, worshiped Kim, worked hard at her job, but soon she was disgusted with Jimmy's dishonesty and only liked Kim. When Saul wanted to hire her at his new office, and she knew Kim wouldn't be part of it, she said 'No," and out came the offer of big pay, probably three times what she could make anywhere else and the next time we see her she's making lying phone calls while saying she wont ever do it again, and we know she will. By the Walter White days she hated herself, her life and Saul. Now when she calls Gene, we know she's had the fear of prison hanging over her head because Saul used her name to hide money. A life ruined. After being reminded of that I was so delighted to see "Jeff's friend" with the dog walk away from it all. I wanted to stand up and cheer for him.

Well I loved this episode, even with the sadness. The theme of listening to each other and not making assumptions was a good one. Mrs. C got her bad news out and now everyone will be more understanding, although ridiculing the bad poet was meaner than I thought she could be. Kathy can be pretty mean, too. I'm not really eager to see her get back with Geordie. The gossip ladies demonstrate their sister-hood! Nice. Leonard admitted how much he misses the church. I thought he probably did. I don't like Bonnie anymore, with or without foundation garments. People who are pushy about sex and act entitled to it make me mad. It's worse when it's the man doing it because he's physically more intimidating, but it's always bad. Also, Bonnie, can anyone ever really know in advance that they're "Really, really good at it?" Doesn't that depend on meeting the unique desires and expectations of the other person?

Well said. Mrs. C is the perfect example of the Elbert Hubbard quote- "We are punished by our sins, not for them."

It was funny to me, too. Canadians just can't do menacing like my West Virginia hillbillies.

Will? Sanctimonious and preachy? I've seen him be lascivious, lazy and drunken, but I can't think of a single moment of those other charges. If you're talking about those thirty second spots at funerals and church services, well preachers preach. It's what they're paid to do.