JudyObscure

I can see where a lot of actresses would much prefer a chance for a huge dramatic exit over just drifting away. Nobody cried or quit watching when poor little Nurse Miller got assaulted and then was sent off to the mysterious psychiatric convent. She was my favorite.

Or, as Bill Bryson reported in "A Walk in the Woods," they're listed on the menu in Gatlinburg as "Rudy beggars.."

LOL They did didn't they? One thing you can count on with this show is they'll never gloss over the icky realities of life. I was binging "Broadchurch" last week and the woman who had a baby screamed at the top of her lungs through the whole thing and I thought, "The writers have watched too much, CTM." I didn't do more than moan a little when I was in labor, I didn't have the strength left over for any dramatics. I'm not without sympathy for the women who have really terrible births, but CTM makes it seem like every single birth is horrendous.

So Jonty is going to lose a mother a second time and Trixie doesn't seem to care beyond a crying hug. Did she ever really bond with that child or did she simply do her duty the same way she would with a patient? None of this story seems believable to me.

Yes! The part of that scene that makes me dislike her most is, "Ben is lying and I see right through it." If she was just plain wrong about Ben it wouldn't be so bad, but she's so superior and thinks she can look at people and judge their souls or something. I was also put off by the way she stopped Ben and demanded, "Talk to me about the idol!" Like Ben was in some sort of job interview and it was up to him to sell himself and impress her. She's at the bottom of my list now. I like Venus better.

The woman he lived with for a while, right after his first wife died, reported an incident where he told her he wasn't going to take her to some event because she had gained a few pounds. His daughters are more than a few pounds overweight so I expected them to read that and distance themselves from a father who would likely be ashamed to be seen with them.

Wow Violet, thanks for calling attention to that. I just watched it on YouTube and it's pretty intense. Violet made Ben cry and was just so sure she could tell he was lying, when he wasn't. ugh. Charlie was sweet to him though, and that was worth watching, too.

Me too! I did those things for years. I was taking a class in college where we had to demonstrated something, so I taught the exercises to my roomie and she demonstrated while I narrated. She looked really cute doing them and got an "A" while I got a "D." Those were the days when male teachers could grade girls on looks and no one even noticed.

I didn't say it was false or unfair, tattling usually is true. But whether we call it, "tattle," or "spoke the truth," my point was that someone who claims she has never been able to speak up has done a whole lot of speaking up lately. I really hated the way she lectured Sister Monica Joan about not wanting to eat all her food. The nerve!

If they're planning on making us love Rosalind all of a sudden, they've done a strange job setting it up. This episode we find her worried about the exam because she lacks confidence and has "never been able to speak up" -- yet the few scenes she's had so far this season are two when she spoke right up to Sister Monica Joan in a very disrespectful manner and when she spoke right up to tattle on Trixie about the placenta mistake. She was a bit of a blabber mouth pill on the bus when the scout was getting sick and she has never been a bit shy around Cyril. Don't the writers watch this show?

I never liked Jerry, he was far too "sweet" for me. However, I don't think we know enough about the marriage to say it was all his fault. If he prefers to travel, go to nice restaurants, and play pickle ball, rather than continue the rest of his life doing a nine to five job or waiting for someone else who's doing that, then he's like most people his age. Most over seventies are either retired or wishing they were.

I don't think Jeff should ever skip the voting. What people say in front of the others and how they vote in private may be two different things. Imagine if you wanted a certain person gone, someone who is after you, but everyone else likes. You could say you wanted to leave and everyone should vote for you -- then go vote for the guy you don't like and play your secret idol, blocking all the votes in your direction.

Yes, indeed. I watched it with the sound off because I hate to be spoiled, but I saw my Geordie is still there and Mrs. C as well as the eye candy, so I'll be there.

Yes. It's come to this, "I thought about her first!" I've never quite understood the amount of credit given to, "I masterminded the vote for person X," as a great bragging point at Final Tribal. Someone is voted out every week, many names are suggested, after the suggestion many people have to agree, and when it's time to vote, idols and last minute changes come into play. The only time I really admire it is the rare occasions when someone who has a cult like hold on others (Boston Rob) is voted out, because a brave person talked enough people into it. Neither Venus, Liz, nor Tevin should get special credit for getting Soda out. They had limited choices and so it happened. I love those people. Coach is one of my all-time favorite players, so I'm enjoying Q very much although I sure don't think he should win. I think it's too bad we don't have family visits anymore because I really want to see Q's wife. I'll bet everything at home has to be exactly his way and he comes home with new plans daily. I imagine if they all go to the movies, it has to be Q's pick, but if the movie turns out to be boring he comes home and tell his wife he's calling the divorce lawyer and releasing her from all commitments.

Q is the star of his own show about a brilliant, self-sacrificing hero. Unfortunately he doesn't have a good script or logical plot, so he has to make his noble speeches at random. I'm glad the rest didn't play along with his improvisation and went on with their own plans. I just think Hunter was right and it made more sense to vote out Tiff who had turned against one of the six, rather than Tevin who was loyal. Oh well. I expect the Six is over now anyway. I didn't think Hunter was show boating at the challenge so much as resting his arms which must have been in pain. I also don't think that was a challenge that could have been practiced at home to any great advantage. It's mainly a matter of pain endurance and a little bit about foot size and muscle strength. Venus did very well and I'm sure she didn't practice at home. She wouldn't have thought she needed to. I gave Venus the benefit of the doubt for a long time, but ever since she lectured Maria about how to play the game, I've been seeing that smug sense of superiority everywhere and it really is obnoxious. Hunter's beard! He could hurt somebody with that stuff!

I kept waiting for Dr. Turner to mention that his wife is a TB survivor or at least tell her about it all when he got home. That story line was my very favorite, with the two falling in love while she was still a nun and all the heavy decisions she had to make.

I remember that! Marcus and Lacey who ran elder care home. After they broke up he said she had changed completely and he called her toxic.

Part of it was that the patient smoked, so Trixie was quick to think any oddness in the placenta was due to that. It reminded me of the years when I smoked,40 cigarettes a day to that woman's 30, gasp! At first doctors didn't think smoking was any big deal. When I was pregnant, my doctor told me to try to keep it down to no more than ten a day so I just didn't smoke at all because I wasn't really addicted yet. I did smoke while I breast fed, and it shocks me to think of it now, but we were told it wouldn't affect the milk at all and side stream smoke wasn't even an idea at the time. Than all of a sudden everything changed and smoking became the root of all maladies. My doctor teased me once by saying I had a lot of ear wax build-up and it was probably because I smoked. The whole situation with the smoking woman was mishandled. They could have at least told her why a small baby was a bad thing.

The Daily Mail's slang always makes it hard for me to understand their articles, but in spite of having to look up "fly-tipping " (illegal dumping) and "beauty spot" (a place in the countryside which is famous because it is beautiful) it was an amazing story. At first I thought he didn't own the land, but it's his so he must be fairly well to do. How can one human destroy so much land in just a few years, merely by living on it? I hope this guy does some real jail time.

That's a great idea. They could have the Arizona Bachelor, The New York Bachelorette, etc. I live close to Columbus, a surprisingly big city, I'll bet they could fill a cast from Columbus alone.

I never liked Jerry with his too ready tears and fickle emotions where he can be madly in love with Leslie one day and then drop her the next, after Teresa knocks his socks off in bed. Still, I don't see Teresa as an innocent either. I think she's extremely competitive and was more about winning the final rose and sticking it to the others, than about spending her life with Jerry. No woman who is over at her daughter's house every single day is going to move to another state so she can sit by the pond with Jerry.

Yes, it reminded me of when she was showing her sensitive side, crying over something, then paused to ask if her tears had made her eyes look extra blue. Last night, she was telling us how caring and compassionate she always is, then ruining it by saying, "That's how I make my money!" Hee.

It was a fine episode for me because I'm always here for the interpersonal stuff. Venus lecturing Maria to the point of making the mature, unflappable Maria flap? Interesting. I couldn't tell what Venus was saying, her fast choppy talk is usually indecipherable to me, but I also hate it when much younger people give me unasked for advice. Kenzie and Tiffany are such a good team. I really liked them mocking Q the way two sisters might express frustration about a brother. I feel the same way about Q, I want to tell him to shut up and he's not the boss of me, but I find him loveable some how. Charlie is my darling. He had me with the salsa dance. I love his sense of humor. His teasing of Q by pretending to not understand the alphabet game was hilarious. Tevan is so much more than than the flamboyant actor I first thought he was. He surprised me in the challenge and by his willingness to let Soda go. Tim seemed sullen and grouchy to me this whole game and then, one minute after he's voted out, we see his beautiful smile and meet his good natured side. Where were you Tim? Hunter's mustache deserves special mention.; so even, thick and tough. I have a scrub brush that looks exactly like it. I really like everyone now except Liz who can take her fabulously wealthy awesome self on home anytime.

That's a very interesting site! I'm still confused about Trixie though. Yes, it does say her father was a bank manager and she has titled relatives. Then it says, during Season 4, Trixie "finds herself dealing with a case involving four children who live in appalling conditions whilst their mother is out trying to make a living as a prostitute. For Trixie, this proves to be a painful reminder of her own childhood." That must have been where I got the wrong idea.

Well now I don't know anymore. My memory is of an episode where the nuns were going to shave the heads of some children with lice and Trixie talked them out of it because she remembered the shame she had felt over that situation. Maybe I read too much into that.