JudyObscure

I hope all the women who get sent home find some nice local men to date, they look great for their age when given a chance. One reason some of them seem to be looking older is the show is asking them to show a lot more skin than most women that age are used to doing. Sleeveless gowns? Shorts and little tennis dresses? I'm used to seeing women that age out for the evening in black silk pants topped with pretty brocade jackets and soft scarves around their necks. It really isn't fair because Gerry can hide a world of faults in his suits. I noticed on the three wheeler thing that he had a good bit of soft bulging around the waist, so he's not perfect either. Did anyone notice Theresa interrupting Trista while she was trying to do her set introduction to the group date? Theresa actually lunged forward and put her hands on Trista to stop her talking so she could tell all about her one-on-one date with Gerry. What a strange little woman she is.

Well it was satisfying seeing Kathy get cut. That hand waving down her body as she asked, "How could he give up this?" showed just how deluded she is. She'll always believe that she would have won if Theresa hadn't messed with her mind. When she was shouting over Theresa to tell her to zip it I got a little scared. Now it looks like it's going to be a close finish with sexy Leslie facing off pickle ball Ellen. Leslie is 64 and Ellen is 71, just Gerry's age. Both of them seem truly caught up in this. Faith of the first-impression-rose is also taking it very seriously. This all just proves that you're never too old to get your heart broken. The ending might be really sad.

Katurah plus editing equals comedy gold to me, first the long rant and then an example of Bruce's corny shtick followed by Katurah's silent "see what I mean" face. LOL. I don't know what her game play is like, but I want her to win. Sean thinks we all said "awww" and made hearts with our hands when he said being with his husband was his true great experience. Hah! We know you're just hungry, Sean. Jeff's face was priceless.

Didn't Scout have a knee issue? I seem to remember people helping her simply walk through the jungle. There was also an older man (with very expensive shoes some woman put in the ocean) who had recently had a knee replacement. Now, like you, I can't picture anyone with knee problems making it through the first day. I messed up my knee 13 years ago falling down the steps into the garage taking my full weight on my knee because my hands were holding my puppy, and these days I'm in awe just watching people put on their socks.

You are so right and I keep forgetting that. Even the most superficial men (and most of them are very visual) will have personality traits they don't like or bad history with a woman who looked like her. Maybe Edith was an interrupter, maybe she had bad breath, maybe being with a white haired woman makes him feel old. Maybe when she's nervous she chatters on about her little dog (that would be me.)

New episodes start tonight. Yall better watch or I'll put a dead squirrel in your mailbox.

I don't think Peter did it, but when he called Julius an idiot he used the very word I called him. You didn't "fail as a man," Peter, you failed as an intelligent person when you filled your house with guns and let everyone know about it. I was ready to give Peter that mythical electric chair for calling his dead wife a tank and implying she should be able to handle a murderer because of her extra weight. Women don't usually gain muscle, Peter, they gain fat which just makes them slower. You would know that if you weren't an idiot. On another subject, don't all of you find it odd that two teachers couldn't live a little better. That house was so depressing. Brown on brown accented with shades of tan, cluttered and dirty. Just sad. I guess all those guns were using up the money with nothing left over for a can of paint.

Starts tonight in USA. I'm not worried about having forgot where we were. As I recall it wasn't making much sense anyway, so we can just plunge in and enjoy the scenery and clothing again.

Yes, there's no reason to think the skinny gals are truly fit. We know nothing about their drinking habits, blood pressure, family history, etc. As for weight as a life expectancy predictor, those whose BMIs are slightly overweight tend to live longer than thin or underweight ones. And most of these women look seriously underweight to me.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the dancing. For someone who brags about being a professional with a life time on stage that wasn't very impressive. A few fast kicks to some really loud music and a bit of grinding on Gerry doesn't wow me that much. It just reminded me that strippers call themselves dancers and I hate that. Someone asked how Gerry's hair could be faked. I think his hair is probably beefed up with a fiber spray in a gold color. I'd like to push them all in the pool for a few hours and see how they come out.

That was me. Very dark brown until the white ones started showing up. So I put a blonde dye on my hair and the white one turned to blonde streaks and didn't change the dark hair. This went on over the years as more and more gray came in and now I'm a platinum blonde. Hubs loves it. Gerry lost a lot of points with me this episode and I wasn't crazy about him to begin with. He's so self-centered! Almost every time he's raved about a woman it's been because "she looks at me like I'm the only man in the world." That's nice, but I'd rather he liked them for their own unique qualities. Joan's poem was cute and clever and she looked great on stage, it wasn't just about looking straight at Jerry. Then the sobbing when Joan left. A woman he had one date with in the midst of a dozen others waiting in the wings. Come on Ger. I think it's fine when men cry -- when their wife or mother dies -- but male or female someone who cries as much as he does is simply a cry baby to me. Another thing I don't like about him is that he only seems to like the women who have had a lot of work done and only carry 90 pounds of gristle on their frail frames. Edith was gorgeous but she had a natural face with a tiny bit of jowls and beautiful natural hair. Not Gerry's type. He cut all the women with a few extra pounds the first night. So basically he wants a woman his age but not if she looks it. I'll be here till the bitter end though.

I liked Sabiyah a lot. I liked listening to her talk and I don't like listening to Emily because she talks faster than anyone I've ever heard. She could get a job listing the possible side effects on the drug commercials. Still I'm happy she saved Kaleb. Drew was hilarious talking about his chance to use his acting skills and his great entrepreneurship (?) making up a story to tell the women, then they catch him and he just looks at them and runs off. I'm looking forward to a wonderful blindside with Drew and Austin.

Yes, and once you know a nasty piece of work like Brody is in your child's life, watch her like a hawk! Mom's alarm should have gone off the minute her daughter suddenly had a stomach ache and needed to go home. Then to go home to a quiet house and not go straight upstairs and check on her? I'm not blaming the mom either, and I know from experience how you trust your own children and think they would never do things that they end up doing, but still we all know how intense young love can be and how much boys pressure girls to do things they shouldn't.

Good call @Starlight925. I think we've seen our winner.

Just adding to the many dumb things the Westerville police did and didn't do: They didn't run any sort of background check on the people who lived in the house where the dogs said Emily's scent had stopped. At first they didn't answer the door and the second and last time they just talked to them for a few minutes! They thought Emily couldn't have gone in the woods to kill herself because she made her bed. Clearly the police don't have any automatic morning habits and only make their beds when important guests are expected. The bartender was almost laughable saying that the Emily she knew would never kill herself. Does she think the people she sees drinking and dancing in her bar are that way all the time?

I would be terrified to drive in traffic like that and it would be twice as bad in that little toy car. I thought I saw fear on Gerry's face and misery on Theresa's over the hair everywhere. I never got the appeal of convertibles. Gerry seems to be looking for the right things in his choices. Just based on looks Theresa would have been my last choice, not that she isn't cute, but in a sea of women with obvious face lifts, hers looks the most drastic. It's probably new and the jawline will relax a little in time. Yet, she turned out to be really great, she took the hair disaster with grace, was thinking of Gerry's stress instead of herself, and danced and looked happy with the flash mob. Was that Joan who was rattling on about her cooking skills? She was my early pick to win just based on the cast photos, but Gerry doesn't seem that interested and maybe there's a reason. I'm not surprised Gerry thought the one in the short dress with the tan and the whitish lipstick was "sexy." My husband likes that type , too and he's just the same age as Gerry. I read somewhere that men forever admire the look that was in when they were in high school/college.

Right now Kaleb is my favorite to win, but Katurah is my favorite to watch. She doesn't seem catty to me at all, that would be whispering smack to a little group of friends. Instead she tells no one but us about her irritation with Bruce and does a great job of pretending to like him in front of her tribe. I also find her comments funny, she doesn't seem to hate him she just finds him super annoying and is frustrated that everyone else just adores his corny shtick.

Am I the only one who sort of wanted to hear the pretty prosecuting atty and the handsome, dapper detective read the phone sex transcripts out loud? I was already laughing at the spanking part.

I think they've just been watching too much History channel. They have a lot of shows where they talk to 'theorists." Youtube has one of their shows called , "The Great Pyramids Are Power Plants?"

I agree that Gerry's a nice guy, just right for the show, but not at all sexy. He's exactly my husband's age so I did a lot of comparing, my husband is also tall and still has plenty of hair, but he would never do the stubble thing because I hate it and he knows that white stubble is more likely to say "homeless' than hot. Looking at Gerry's old pictures I would have thought he was sort of a nerd back in the day, his hair was much too short for the period. Over time, his happy marriage and life experience made him the man he is now, it's so sad that she couldn't have lived out a long life with him. The singer who got the first rose is way too up-town for him, I hope she doesn't just use him to promote herself. All that eye contact that he thinks means she's so into him is just her confidence that comes from being a local star. I notice that the only woman who had a little bit of jowls got rejected. I think it's sad that women are expected to have had surgery just to be in the running. One thing I've learned as I get older is how the aging speeds up over time. There's a huge difference between 65 and 70 and even more between 70 and 75. Whoever Gerry picks, I hope they go on some trips and have lots of fun, but think long and hard before marrying. Strokes and broken hips are just around the corner.

After all we've heard from people saying Survivor is the greatest experience of their lives with the chance to challenge and change themselves and make lifelong friends -- we get Emily -- saying that she's all about the goal and if she isn't going to win she'd like to go home first thing. Followed by every mean person's favorite saying, "That's just me, being honest." After that I was so looking forward to her being first off and then Hannah messed that up for me. Smokers should never go on Survivor. I want Brandon to stay and have a nice growth arc, gain confidence, quit confusing his stomach with his heart.

They're working poor Will into a horrible crisis of faith when he understands that the euphoric relief he felt while kneeling in church was chemically induced. He is already, as Paul called it, "unequally yoked." It was never considered a sin, Paul was just warning Christians that it would make life harder for them if they married non-Christians. So there's been the Bonnie element pulling him away from his faith, then the road accident where he can't accept God's forgiveness because he can't forgive himself, and now drugs. I'm finding this season interesting for all the questions it asks. Will Will give up his calling? Will Leonard have to choose between his work and his partner? Will Geordie be able to keep his self-respect with nothing to do but weed an allotment? Did Kathy have to tell him she got a promotion right now? Couldn't she just go to work at the same place, cash her new larger paycheck and appear to be making their money stretch a bit better? It would be nice if he could be happy for her, but it would also be nice if she could be a little more sensitive. She seems tone deaf about a lot of things this season. One bright note -- Mrs. C shall now have a reason to gloat. Hah! I miss the old days when she, Dickens and Leonard were always up to something funny in the kitchen.

True enough. Actually we did have quite a few of the early episodes in the south didn't we? I remember everyone sweating nearly to death from the heat a few times. I also remember an old couple from my home state of West Virginia who lived in house that seemed to be crumbling back into the earth. I was afraid that once the hoard was removed it might just fold in on itself.

"Oh my heavens, Miss Robin, I'm just as sorry as I can be, but I couldn't possibly part with those expired cans of okra, I'm planning to give them to my needy cousins in Macon, bless their hearts." I'm so happy they're making more episodes!

I always seem to be on the unpopular opinion side here, but I'm not seeing why Will is such an awful person. Right after the incident he was helped and counselled by Leonard and Will accepted it and cried on his shoulder. Now he's trying to get on with life and he's got Cathy making up busy little events for him, people calling his wife for him when he had made up his (unselfish) mind that she needed to be with her mother, and then, after he has nicely asked them all to stop, several times, they're having a meeting about him in his kitchen. Did he get a little mean with them? Yes, but I thought he had pretty good reason. You can't tell other people how to best handle their grief. I was called out by the minister during my mother's funeral, in front of everyone, as he smirked at me and said, "It's okay to cry." Well I apologize to everyone for myself and Will but some of us can't cry in front of others and prefer to do it alone. Telling him he's struggling is not news to him. Telling him he "needs help" is useless unless you have some idea exactly what that help is and who the person is who's going to provide it? His wife is one of those people who thinks sex is the answer for everything, so she's probably going to add to the stress if he's not ready to perform to her expectations right now. Will has killed someone! He has taken a life and he will think about that and feel guilt about it for the rest of his life. He can't undo that by talking about it. If he still seems a little distracted a few days afterward then that's only natural and all his friends and family should just step back and let him process it. It's not their problem, they aren't him, he isn't ready to talk about it, they don't know what he needs better than he does. I know that's not where the show is going. Before the season is over Will is probably going to have "you weren't nice to Kathy and Bonnie" added to his guilt and they'll be all smug about it, while accepting his apologies. I'm starting to hate watch the show, too, but not because of Will. I'm tired of the weekly lessons where we see 1950's people shamed for not being 2023 people.