JudyObscure

Good choice, mmecorday. It was very sad. And unfair! Elsa was there first! The good: I liked the acting this time, particularly the man who played KC. The bad: Everything else. Silly bunch of eijits. Don't make a fuss when new young people move in and throw a big loud party. It's been our experience that they do that to celebrate and show off their new property to all their friends, but after one or two parties they realize that it's too much work for too little thanks and they don't do it anymore. Don't buy a Pit Bull when you have a bunch of little dash-about kids. That running is what sparks their prey instinct. If you must have the one breed most likely to kill your kids or neighbors, don't "train it to protect my property." You don't own anything more valuable than human life. Don't shoot your neighbor's dog unless it's going for your throat. Come on! Don't ever shoot your neighbor's cat. Come on-er! Believe surveyors. Just because you've been parking on your neighbor's land for years doesn't make it yours. If you have PTSD you should not own a gun. If your neighbor has PTSD try not to antagonize him. Why not just let the old guy have that driveway? I laughed in the beginning when one narrator seemed to give a shout out to @Cobb Salad saying the two families didn't have a cookout, but then they had one with other people so I think that goes in her bingo card.

I just looked this up -- in England, in 1960, only 7% of women took university degrees. I didn't hear Geordie or Kathy say anything about expecting her to go further in school. Last week, I thought they sounded really proud of her for getting a job at that place they were so impressed with. It's the flashy clothes, sassy remarks, and red lipstick that seems to have Kathy all upset. I don't think we're supposed to understand why at this point.

I love Alphy and his calm confidence. I noticed last week that Dickens was already leaning against his leg the way big dogs do when they adore someone. He may be the truest dog lover among the actors. I also notice that Alphy is more of a forensic detective than the others were. I'm glad Mrs. C "just showed up" in the vicarage kitchen. I hope he lets her stay. Cathy scared me. She's either going through the worst menopause ever or she's in the beginning of a real mental illness.

Neither can any of them pass a body of water without stripping down and jumping in. That is always so forced and obvious with some young woman always happening by at that moment. Even, "All Creatures Great and Small," stooped that low.

Oh that Belinda! So unintentionally funny throughout the story. Her house was decorated! That Sherita Haggerty woman had probably never seen decorating. Nope Belinda, I expect Sherita hadn't seen decorating like that. My neighborhood doesn't have an HOA but we have enough sense to put up the play houses and party cabanas in the back yard. Belinda was so surprised that people don't want to pay her money every month for no particular reason. Bragging about how clever she was trapping that truck with her car and then outraged that her car got nicked. Finally saying she can't understand why anyone would shoot her for smiling. I can understand it! I was hating that self-satisfied smirk enough to shoot her through the whole show.

At least it's an improvement over most PBS dramas where the 21st century sensibility is injected into the 19th century period pieces (Sanditon, Miss Scarlet etc.)

That whole fight would have made a lot more sense if Cathy hadn't been wearing bright red lipstick, too. I agree, though, that it was mainly about giving Mrs. C a reason to go back to the vicarage. I always thought Dickens probably thought Mrs. C was his alpha anyway, he spent the day with her in the kitchen and she fed him. Leonard being so afraid of the "burglar," didn't make much sense either with Leonard fearlessly living with a whole house full of ex-cons. I'm just hoping this episode was an awkward transition one and next week they will settle down. I did like Alfie.

I thought sure the surveyor was going to prove Jeb right. He had just bought the property so you'd think he had a clear idea of his boundaries, and the Hills only "proof" was "My granddaddy used to own all this," which means nothing after he starts selling off lots. Neither is, "I know it's my property because I've been piling my trash on it for years." I wonder if some realtor exaggerated the property lines to Jeb, and is actually the person who started all the trouble. Jeb should have had the surveyor out painting property lines before he even bought his lot -- then he might have had time to notice that the neighbors were junk hoarders. Why buy a place in the mountains with scenic views if there's going to be rusty car bodies in the way? Also, if you hate "hillbillys" why decide to retire in the midst of them? So I was feeling sorry for Jeb until he started in on Cadence and that's just inexcusable. Shame a child about his clothes? What a jerk! The Hills were a bit over the top. I doubt if Jeb caused the man's heart attack or that she really needed to carry that big gun.

I think the show might have resolved too many problems too quickly. I loved the early seasons. James Norton as the handsome young vicar with PTSD carrying a torch for another man's wife. Leonard, deeply in the closet, nervously preaching sermons that went over everyone's head, and Mrs. C, holding everyone and their red lipstick by 1920's standards, needing weekly lessons to help her soft side come out. I adored those three and although I wanted them to be happy, they weren't quite as much fun after. Particularly Mrs. C who just became a nice ordinary, boring married woman. I wanted her in the vicarage kitchen, alternately casting judgement and making pies, forever. What would have been the point of Samantha making strange things happen every week if Mrs. Kravitz hadn't been watching out the window?

Has Bonnie ever once said a kind or supportive word to Will? On their first date she was screaming at him for not sleeping with her. Now she's mocking his sermons, shaming him for growing up rich as though he had a choice, and telling him how superior she is because she was married before. All because he didn't ask her before turning down a job offer. He needed to ask her before taking a new job, but I don't see why he needed her permission to stay the same. The nice people of Grantchester don't deserve a vicar's wife who looks down on them for talking about Dahlias. I was really hoping they were going to move away at the end of this episode and we could start with the new vicar.

Poor Lewis looked so tragically sad in his mug shot. He never should have had to worry in jail for four weeks. I was suspicious of LaRene right from the start. No one sits in a park by herself for more than a half-hour or so. That note! "I'm leaving you for Ike he makes more money bye." LOL The detectives were slow witted on this one.

Charlie probably knows how much he lost, but not what the other's lost, so he couldn't compare. Way back when everyone was mad a Q for not taking Liz on reward I said that if it was based on need it should have been Charlie, just based on the fact that he was dizzy all the time and how sickly he looked. Survivor never takes into account how much harder the food deprivation is on young men than the women.

I really, really wish the professional writers who write about reality shows where everyone is known, for months, by first name only, would find themselves capable of using those same first names when they write their articles, instead of being so far up their own asses they must use last names because that's what separates them from the lowly proletariat.

I had given the jury the benefit of the doubt and thought the 30 second thing was a producer rule. Ugh, how controlling of them. Now, I'm remembering how cruel Soda was to Ben by saying something very flattering to him so that he started to smile and then hitting him with, "but you have no agency." Suddenly Liz and Hunter are my favorites. Hunter always just seemed like a nice young teacher who liked games and was bewildered by all the shenanigans. Being bad at Survivor is getting to be a plus on that big resume in the sky.

Of course. And the rest of us have always been allowed to say whether or not we agree with their decision. If the juries continue to give the million to the person who is best at bragging, I'll probably keep complaining. I should have guessed Kenzie would win after she comforted Ben during a panic attack and then immediately talked about herself like she was the new Mother Teresa.

And that's what it comes down to, so many times. After 29 days of working hard, playing grueling challenges and keeping an even temper under extreme conditions of sleep deprivation and hunger, the jury votes on whether someone stroked their ego or touched their heart immediately before the vote. The game is supposed to be judged on who played the best game of outwit, outplay, outlast and year after year none of that seems to matter and it all comes down to the performance before the jury and the money goes to who outsold. If Survivor was a retreat for salesmen, or a camp to prepare people for job interviews, that would make sense, but other qualities are supposed to count more here. Time after time a great player loses because they "choked" before the jury. Reducing Survivor to the Toast Masters.

However Kenzie's remark about her eyes wasn't in response to a question. She was crying and talking about something else, then suddenly, Kenzie asked the producer, "Do my eyes look really blue? After I've been crying my eyes always look really blue!" Kenzie has an exaggerated view of herself, she can sit in front of the jury, covered with $5000 worth of tattoos and say she has worked in salons since she was fifteen and never spent any money on herself, so if she wins she's going to spend it all on herself, so she won't have to cut bangs when she's seventy. And they bought it! Suddenly owning a salon was the depths of poverty and cutting bangs worse than flipping burgers. They thought her story was better than Ben's and Ben actually had an impressive plan worked out to bring music to kids. Casting needs to quit confusing hubris with confidence. That's why we ended up with Bhanu who really thought he was winning the hearts of millions and Jalinsky who thought he could volunteer for everything but not have to do any work, and Maria who can "see right through" Ben and know when he's lying and really believed Liz and Kenzie when they told her it takes two to beat you -- even though she'd been beaten by one other person in quite a few challenges.

"Everybody wants to marry Liz," was how I remember her putting it.😊 I think Ben is the other person who thought Liz might win. He was the one who was really mad that Q didn't take her on reward. I think Ben is the type to be super sympathetic to anyone who is straight up seen as needy. In his mind Liz hadn't eaten in a long time and only a heartless goon would deny her food. He probably never once thought that it was her own fault for going on the show like we did. I think Ben thought that if Liz made final three she would win because she had suffered hunger more than anyone else. Period. I think the ones who voted for Kenzie were all a little like that. Q in particular. They simply took Kenzie at her word that she had never spent a penny on herself and let the other hairdressers use her salon for free, while she herself supported her family since she was a child, even though she never charged anyone. And I'm left bewildered until @Nashville explained it up thread. Meanwhile Charlie has been using his law degree to help immigrants and indicated he planned to continue to do so all his life, actually keeping families together and probably saving lives. Not that making people look pretty isn't nice, but, come on. The efforts of my hairdresser are usually gone by the time I walk to my car.

I agree, I was shocked when he didn't stop her. As they were going up the stairs for the final vote I happened to notice Jeff burst out laughing at the elbows-out way she was running. It had been gradually dawning on me that he really liked her. I do like the quirky characters and throughout the season Liz kept reminding me of The Andy Griffith Show's Lydia Crosswaith. The guys kept trying to fix her up with others, and she would deadpan her way through every date. She will flatly state that she hates: guitars, bridge, games, chit-chat, and that chocolate and car rides make her nauseous. Lydia. Definitely not a fun girl.

Every year the people on the jury say they're going to vote for the person who played the best game and then they vote for the person who's best at bragging, heck maybe Liz really would have won if she'd made it that far! I don't really see owning a beauty shop as a tragic backstory but the jury sure did. Now Kenzie can have a fabulous wedding and that's fine, but I kind of hate that so much of their final vote seemed to be about her need for the money. I wonder how Maria explained turning on Uncle Charlie to her kids.

I can't imagine him being unpopular in high school, good looking, extroverted and the oldest of three boys, it puts him at the top of the sibling placement theory in confidence and leadership. He's been in television, both behind and in front of the camera since 1982, in eleven TV shows and directing two movies, so I wouldn't call his success sudden either. As an aging adult myself with lots of aging friends, I don't think I've ever seen this desperation over whether or not they were popular in high school. Most of us can't remember high school.

Hilarious! That will sell much better than the Q-skirt. Watching his TH in the last episode, right after he found the idol, where he was teasing about what might be in his pocket, I was thinking what a good teacher he would be for little kids. He really is a handsome charmer when he wants to be.

There's an old episode of "The Big Bang Theory," where Leonard is in the comic book store holding a valuable comic he'd just found and a really pretty girl is trying to get it from him. Leonard says, 'I'd give it to you but you'd always know you didn't use your super powers for the good." Those little witches were not using their super powers for good and poor Erik was helpless against them.

What is up with all the happy, understanding, loving exit interviews? I get more sour losers and angry face icons on the online Hearts games. We know these people. None of them are so mature they should be able to take a sudden loss in a game they've been struggling with for 20 some days without a moment of bitterness and a short feeling of betrayal. I'm wondering if some of them come down the path of shame with both middle fingers up and a string of expletives shooting out of their mouths -- then they're given cookies and hugs and a reminder that their boss and their children will see this and they try again.

I just looked up Maria's bio and found out her proudest achievement was "birthing her three children at home on her own terms," and her job is, "Parent Coach." Frist of all no woman has a baby "on her own terms." Mother nature dictates that whole event, you can yell orders to stop the pain, all you want, it's just going to keep on coming until the baby decides to arrive. Maria may think she's done something no other woman has done before, and that partially raising three children makes her a universal expert qualified to teach others, but it just seems like more smugness to me. Did she ever admit she was wrong about Ben having an idol?