JudyObscure

I do understand that and I hate it when the man thinks all the money is his when a proper division of labor says she deserves half the income if she is raising the children, cooking and cleaning. But I'll never believe Elisabeth did any actual work as homemaker. She says she sewed with the children but their little sewing machine was still brand new and she seemed to have bought hundreds of pieces of clothing for herself and matching outfits for the girls. David and Elisabeth both admitted that they didn't do housework or cooking and one of the girls said it was always a mess. David said she had always spent as much as she wanted to and never even saw the bills.

He was just tall, that's all. Jelinsky and Jess represent my most hated type of player (overly self-confident with tons of excuses for failure) and my favorite type, (humble, kind and human). I'll really be rooting for her to break through the insomnia and get started playing. I'm already worn out. I thought he was two people at first, the high-pitched funny gay guy, and the deep voiced serious student of the game. Help. Tiffany is quick and smart. Love Q and his intolerance of fools.

David and Elizabeth proved that this show will never stop amazing me. When we looked at their wedding pictures and David said she had been "plainish," while we see she was cute and he looked just like Ichabod Crane. I just shook my head. Then we saw all the money he had spent on stuff he liked while admitting he was too lazy to do anything and wouldn't even take out the garbage -- and then remarks that Elizabeth is selfish. David also complains that she pays full price for things while he always pays the "sale price." I guess 30 years of QVC shopping he's never noticed that everything is always on "sale." If the original price ever happened it was probably for five minutes off camera. He also probably never thought that buying a lamp you don't need and don't have a place for is not a bargain even if cost one dollar. You just waste a dollar. Even my husband looked up from his computer and said, "What a jerk." So at the one hour mark we hated him and turned the TV off. Now, I've watched the second hour and I can't stand Elizabeth either. She is selfish, unable to part with a single purse or parka and not interested in living in this house but wants her 50% of it along with her assisted living house and nice six o'clock dinners cooked by someone else. Frist she was saying she came home from the hospital and got dizzy in the nasty kitchen but later she admits it was always like that, just with a little square clear space. David is amazingly lazy, but at least he held a job for many years while apparently Elisabeth didn't do one darn thing. How do people like this manage to raise such nice children?

I always wonder how they manage to film any British shows. We moved to England (the Cotswolds) in January 1990. It was already beautiful and as spring came in it became breathtaking. So I set my camera out to take pictures to send back to West Virginia. Just waiting by the door for a sunny day. Three months passed. All that drizzle makes for technicolor green grass and fields of flowers, but you really work for it.

I just watched the "Meet the Cast," thing. Once again, they all grew up in poverty but rose from the ashes to be the most incredible people ever and their biggest challenge will be hiding their awesomeness from the rest of the cast so they wont be voted out first. I'm still excited about the season.

She is amazing. So brilliant and yet so modest about it. Such a contrast between her and all the arrogant police detectives. Just think of all the times Angie's mother went to the police station and was told "We're working on it." Yet now we know they hadn't even bothered to follow up on the man who lived across the street.

Yes, and I kept thinking of her mother saying Angie was almost 6 feet tall and very strong. Angie sounded about as young and fit as a girl can be, and yet, a skinny, drunk, stupid, older man can come in and rape and kill her. Why do men have to be so much stronger than women? At least we got to see her mother, Carol Dodge, who was such a fine woman, one of the best of many we've seen on this show.

Oops. You're right!

Catherine Cookson set most of her novels in Yorkshire and I got used to "nowt" for nothing and "ta" for yes. My favorite was "gormless lout" for a big dumb guy.

Agree on all points. I enjoyed all the Siegfried, Mrs. Hall, Carmody, and Christmas at the pup scenes, but the whole birth story seemed off to me. I can't think dutiful straight-arrow James would have ever considered going AWOL and all his talk about being there to support her was very contemporary. Helen, whose acting was so good last week with her fear over not feeling the baby move, didn't do "brand new mother" half as well as most of the Call the Midwife actresses. While James looked properly awed over his new baby she seemed almost bored standing there stroking his fontanel area over and over. Just not their best episode.

Yeah, sending a pair of panties to someone an ocean away is not at all the same as actually sleeping with your best friend's ugly husband. Not that I can understand falling in love with Bob-from-England while playing a game.

Isn't that the truth? I understand the therapists wanting to encourage the slightest bit of progress, but some of the "where are they now" shows and final reveals still look like one big unbearable mess to me.

True, but whatever her husband had would be considered hers also, and she would inherit it if he died. As kind as Siegfired would be (and I'm sure he would) Audrey would always know she was there out of charity, because "like family," is never quite the same as, "family." I think I would choose marriage to Gerald.

I've been thinking about Audrey. I wanted her to stay of course. We can't separate Dash and Tess and they would both miss her terribly. I'm sure in their minds she's the alpha. But what happens to women like Audrey when they get too old to run up and down stairs or lift heavy loads of laundry and iron skillets? What if Siegfried marries one of those bossy women he favors?

Josh did look great and I had noticed last season that he was sometimes a little short of breath. Good for him! I want all the cast to be around for many more years. Even Andrea. I hope to see her in her seventies still wearing those flimsy party dresses.

I'm not a huge Leslie fan, she was far too sure her sexy dance was going to win that talent contest, but Joan is so boring I get sleepy just thinking about her, so I'm glad it isn't her. My worry is where in the world they're going to find a bunch of retired men who are willing to get out of the recliner for anything but golf.

I think Audrey likes being needed by these people she's come to love and she also probably likes the endless variety and excitement that comes from being part of the vet practice. I also think the thought of leaving Dash was kind of the last straw for her.

Let's just hope Helen doesn't decide to breast feed.

Poor Tara. She would have been two when her mother suddenly disappeared from her life to go to Greece for a year. That must be experienced just like a death to one that young. Then her mother comes back to life for a few months and then disappears again. No wonder she clings to her murdering father. I can't really understand military women with young children taking tours without their children. They said she could have taken a longer tour with family included but she elected not to do that because of resettling the kids. The thing is the military is so good about all that, they pay to pack up all your stuff and ship it overseas. They provide you with housing and schools for the children, plus free medical care for all. Even your dead beat spouse gets to come along. The third choice would have been to simply refuse to go anywhere, in which case she wouldn't get to re-up when her enlistment was over, but there's no punishment.

The re-hoarding is depressing and gives us at home a taste of what the friends and relatives have had to endure over the years. If Terri has had ten years of therapy and still completely filled a house in 2&1/2 years, I think it's time to give up on her and just let her hoard. Destiny and Dorothy are the cutest couple, they just thrive together. Over the years I've enjoyed watching our psychologists as much as the hoarders. Dr. Tolin (my sweet baboo) has steadily gained weight until it peaked in Carl's first episode and now I see he's lost some and got it under control. An inspiration to me! Dr. Zasio, in spite of being blessed with lots of natural beauty, always seems to be working against herself with her hair and make-up choices and the last few years it seems to be misplaced botox or something. I think she still looks good, just different. They're all still patient and kind with the Hoarders, so they have my deepest admiration for that. I think I would have switched to an area with a higher success rate like heroin/fentanyl addicts or something.

I agree with that completely. I didn't feel like James was putting duty to country above duty to family, but that stopping the Nazis was the very best way he could protect his family at that time. Other than emotional support, Helen doesn't really need him. She can count on food and shelter from both her family and Siegfried's and she has women friends she can compare symptoms with. Men had much less to do with pregnancy and birth back then. No prenatal classes, no men allowed in the delivery room, and, in most cases, very little help with the baby.

Definitely worth it for ten dollars, but my station, and most of them, have a 60 dollar minimum to get Passport. I did it a couple of years but now I've seen most of the archived things I wanted and the new things I can watch online for a week after it's on TV.

Yay! Now I've watched it thanks to @ProudMary. I had to go way back to "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" to find where I'd seen the actress before. She looks so pretty to me, those hair and clothing styles were what I saw and admired when growing up and I think that remains the ideal somewhere in the back of my mind.

Aw. Siegfried is intelligent, brave, and extremely kind hearted. He also looks really cute with a rat peeking out from his vest. But then, I admit I've loved Sam West since he played Leonard Bast in, "Howards End."

I waited too long to watch this and missed my chance. I bought Passport one year and was disappointed at how little they had so I won't be doing it again for one show. it's odd to me that I can buy one month of Netflix for 16 dollars, watch a season of the Crown, and many other things, while the "free" public television makes you pay $60 to watch anything at all. 😒