JudyObscure

That's very interesting. I remember one of the women cast members saying that Parvati had a magical sort of charm that even the women fell for.

Senior Forum is for older people to talk about anything and everything. For example they have a thread that's been running for years that's nothing but pictures of tea pots. There are also serious threads about things in the news, health, pets, finance, any subject at all except politics. So that's all fine, but a forum like Primetimer takes the focus off us and our problems, and puts it on TV Shows, so we have far less chance of personally offending each other. We can just let ourselves go and get snarky about people or TV characters who are either fictional or just unlikely to ever read this board.

I've read that the life expectancy of those pilots was extremely short and I think any old men sitting in an office deciding that those who balked at going, "lacked moral fiber," should have been the next to go up. My dad was on a ship headed to Japan when the war ended and he has a vivid memory of how the ocean looked when the great ship made a U-Turn. We're both lucky to be here!

I've belonged to Senior Forum for 7 years. It can be fun, but not as much fun as you guys on a roll.

LOL It's people like him who make this show so much fun. I wish they had more episodes. I know there's no shortage of neighbor feuds, they don't have to end in grizzly murders. The Brits have a nightmare neighbor show where they get mad and tip over next-doors wheelie bins. It's still pretty good.

Thanks for finding the painting for us @HappyHanna, saved me a lot of hunting. I actually don't see any wings on the little one who is kneeling over the manger and I think he looks just like the shepherd who is center back. I wouldn't tell anyone in Poplar that, though. I agree that they tried to pack a little too much in. My TV plays the background music too loudly and I think I heard, "big emotional conclusion" music about eight times. It still made me cry even when I knew I was being manipulated. Darn show.

Well I never bought into Emily's great growth arc, I just thought Kaleb had taught her how to fake it better. So we got her last minute hateful dig at Austin, for what? We don't know, probably for being a "boy." I wasn't surprised at Dee's win either. The jury always awards the best bragger and Dee was really good at it. Most men would be embarrassed to call themselves a giver and claim credit for all sorts of things that were either luck or part of the group effort.

I know. Did they think she hit herself in the head to cause that big goose egg? The prosecuting attorney demonstrating how she could wrap her own hands in a tie and pull a chair to the door? So what? I really wanted the defense attorney to act out a long scenario of the daughter's ex boyfriend coming in, pulling all the drawers open, stabbing the husband and hitting the woman in the head. If you can act it out it must have happened, right?

Yes, I was watching everyone struggle through the reward challenge in the last episode and then Austin stepped up and I thought, "His body simply does what ever he wants it to do." It's beautiful to see. I can barely get mine to lift me out of a chair these days. I miss watching Emily in the challenges. She had a uniquely feminine way of moving. Not so great for the challenges but pretty to see.

From interviews I've read Charlotte Ritchie always says things like, "Sometimes I'm sorry I left the show," so it seems like it was her idea. She must surely prefer being the star of "Ghosts" over an ensemble part shared with a half dozen other women on CtM. Plus she has a long relationship with the leading man in Grantchester. I bet the other actresses who left wish they had been given such good parts.

Survivor is also a crazy place to say that, just after the producers have picked you out of thousands of others.

She is a mean girl! We see it in every episode as she laughs with delight over the fun of lying to people and anything bad that happens to others. Last night it was the total glee when they got to buzz the losers as they went over in the helicopter. I'm holding a tiny hope that Katurah wins, but I'll be happy with anyone but Dee.

I've always wondered why any homeless person would head north. If you must live outdoors with no roof over your head, surely you would choose to be warm.

Yes. It always irritates me how quick the young ones are to look at any woman over 30 as the "mama." They don't often call the older men Daddy but it wouldn't matter if the woman was a green beret or a senator, she's seen as their mommy. So I thought they were dismissing her as any sort of threat, but now they've decided she's a shoe in to win if she makes the finals, -- not because she's been strategic and done well in the challenges, but because "everyone loves her." SMH.

LOL I was so embarrassed for her I had to look away. The Last Weekend: I'm going to have to add "waitress" to all the things I wouldn't let my daughter do if I had a daughter. Creepy old dude, ugly as sin, twenty years older than she is, thinks she belongs to him because she smiles at him and brings him food. Poor innocent trumpet player gets caught up in the middle of it all. I didn't blame the detectives for going home to sleep, but why did they all have to do it at the same time?

Is there now? So that's how it happens. My grey hair is truly "grey" not the beautiful soft white of some of my friends, so I put Nice&Easy blonde #9 on it every couple of months for a color my husband likes. I was a dark brown brunette back in the day, but with my blues eyes and pale skin I find I look better blonde. But I love that shiny platinum you're talking about. I see it on the philanthropist, Darlene Shiley on PBS.

Right. That's why I went on to say: " Lipstick smeared on your face does not a real lip make."

You're right. I remind myself of that when the tears start to flow. Look at Leslie, she clearly thought she was all that in the beginning, making her entrance in the old nightgown and then whipping it off to pose in her tiny, low-cut, mini-dress. Interviewing that she knew she was going to win the talent contest with her great sexy dancing. So if she found out along the way that maybe she wasn't the single most desirable 60-ish woman on the planet -- that might not be such a bad thing. I think they're probably all vain and go into this fantasizing about the calls they'll get from Hollywood planning to build a sit-com around them.

Great find, Starlight! I've been wondering how she looked young. I actually kind of like red lipstick on dark haired women ( certainly better than Leslie's sad and gloomy whitish gloss) but the difference between then and now for Theresa is back then she had lips to put it on. Lipstick smeared on your face does not a real lip make. I find Carolyn's story very believable, if she was going to make things up, she would have found something that made Gerry sound worse and something more flattering to herself than, "I'm not going to take you to the reunion looking like that." Isn't that the Gerry we know that would be foremost aware that he was taking her, probably on his dime. He also gave credence to his fat shaming by eliminating women almost according to size, starting with the heaviest and working down to the thinnest. His daughters and wife being overweight has nothing to do with it. My father first mentioned that he was ashamed of me because I was so fat when I was in high school and had grown to 125lbs at 5'6". Gerry's wife was thin when they got married, who knows how he felt about her later weight gain or what comments he made.

Me too, I couldn't stand either one by the time it ended, much less be happy for them as they gloated. "Sure it's a bunch of lies, but it would have been better for me if it hadn't surfaced so soon. " Great post. It takes me back to when Kathy said something to the effect that Theresa was either really stupid or very cruel. Theresa's a very smart woman who uses her brain to say exactly the right things to manipulate people. Yeah, Gerry, she knows how to "nurture a relationship" alright. I'll bet she spent that whole fantasy suite night telling Gerry flattering things, watching carefully to see when his eyes lit up most, giving more of that, quickly backing off anything that didn't click, making constant eye contact and casually touching him at every opportunity, dropping lots of humble brags. No wonder she got that finance job over more qualified people. Too bad they didn't keep the cameras rolling so we could watch the master at work. Also too bad that all she got for all that work was Gerry.

I can't read "Maricopa county" without thinking of "Raising Arizona," one of my all time favorite movies. I found Alessa's story sad and unsatisfying. Poor young thing had lost her mother, her step-father was a nasty man who called her awful names (at the very least) her teachers let her down and her nice aunt in California and kind older brother, who would have loved to help her, just weren't close at hand when she needed them. I agree with everything @Peanut6711 said. There just isn't enough proof. Garden party dress is what I always think, too. I wonder if she has someone make her clothes or she finds them in some sort of store that caters to pre-teen girls. I never see anything like them when I'm shopping.

That was exactly how Dee had her legs and she was doing fine, until the part when they all were ordered to straighten out their legs, at which point Dee's long strong legs became a liability pulling against her arms and she immediately dropped.

Yeah, I've taken her career with a grain of salt. My parents lost a bundle when their smart, young stock broker failed to tell them something important, someone I know who is reputed to be the best in that area lost over a million of his own money in the recent slump and we lost a lot recently and we have our savings in one of the big mutual funds where supposedly many great financial minds work together. Treesa did great teaching herself the business and getting hired over lots of other applicants, but that doesn't make her rich or mean she can't make some bad calls. It's a risky business.

Well I woke up this morning thinking...$60,000 for a dress! I just saw a long red velvet one from temu for 29.99. I agree, I think I saw Treesa's permanently stiff upper lip quiver. I hated that. What a jerk move. He expected her to go from a crushed heart to rapturous joy in seconds. I wish she'd said, "I just realized I can live without someone who thinks it's funny to make a fool of me in a vulnerable moment. Take your adolescent humor back to Leslie." I don't think I'm going to make it to the wedding. Two hours of Treesa repeating ohmygod in that monotone drone would just be too much.

He was kind. Everyone else was caught up in their own little world and he seems to be the only one who noticed Katurah wasn't just shaking from muscle strain, but was going through something serious. Even after it was clear she needed help he had to tell Emily to give her a hand. We complain about Jeff a lot but he really does love the game and invests himself in all the players in a way you seldom see in other hosts.