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My theory -- Berkeley: Bill :: 9/11/01: Dennis. That is, the turning point.

And what about the bit on Overtime where Prager insists that "the left thinks men menstruate"? I am not familiar with the story myself, but he has to have blown it way out of proportion.

You can see the cane hanging from his table in the bar, but that's easy to miss. Poor Paul, I was hoping he'd survive the '80s but apparently not. Some may disagree, but IMO this show ran for exactly as long as it needed to,and how many TV series can claim that?

The recap I read last night says Lori's real name was Sarah. Tragic death though it was, I thought a nice touch was her pulling out her coke, then changing her mind and putting it back. Next thing to come out was the gun. No sign of Paul this week. I hope we get to see him one more time.

It wouldn't surprise me if the series finale contained some reference to "personal computers."

After watching the sourdough episode, I decided that if I were worried about impending apocalypse, I'd stock up on ingredients for soda bread (flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, boxed/powdered milk and vinegar) and live on that, rather than try to raise a sourdough village as Alton did. That said, it was cool to see the yeast puppets again.

Furthermore, she and Bill seem convinced that all ex-Muslims become atheists. None of them join another religion. How do they know this?

Just saw the episode about steak tartare and poke. Nice recipes,but I pity how poor Alton has to walk such a fine line in the food safety/liability department.

FYI: Ovation runs episodes of No Reservations on Thursday nights.

Just ask Butters from South Park.

It's tempting to do the stand-up comic math: Dennis Miller minus family plus weed equals Bill Maher. But IMO, as long as the right denies climate change and opposes legal cannabis, Bill will stay left-of-center.

Whenever Bill comments on "The Squad", I wait for him to attack Ilhan Omar. Hasn't happened yet. However, he did put a dig on Rashida Tlaib for alleged Antisemitism.

That icebox cake with the chocolate wafers looked yummy, but I found the shakshuka episode -- well, problematic. You must really want to eat this dish to go to all that trouble (making preserved lemons and spice paste, then keeping them around for days.) And unless you live in a college dorm room, what's the point of that high-tech hot plate Alton used?

I wonder if Bill creates his most potentially offensive shows for nights when he has to skip out of town right away.

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Poor Deep. I hope he gave that lobster a decent funeral.

I'm surprised there was any gold to be found. I figured it would just be dried food and such - that would be the greatest WA-WAAH! Not surprised that it was J who took out Smurf. He had the least emotional connection with her, and may want revenge over Baz as well. But killing Smurf is still a stupid decision on the show's part. Next season ought to be the last.

I was kinda bored with most of this show -- kept looking at the clock. But now I think I know where Garry Trudeau got his inspiration for the character of Trff, Bezerkistan's President-for-Life.

That business with Doppelganger and the Senator appears nothing but timely to me! I haven't read the comics, so I wonder: Is there some kind of hierarchy among supes at the corporation? Like the Seven get all the attention, but there are others around? Frenchy's accent is way too thick. He may have some good lines, if I could only make them out.

Finally, after nine episodes, the flashbacks start to make sense. And for a heist of the magnitude that Smurf has in mind, she damn well better have a pie ready. I don't think J is still comfortable with killing people outright. Passive-aggressive is more his style; we saw that with Morgan and now with Angela.

Yes, that was that woman's car. She mentioned the make/model to Smurf.

It just makes you an asshole.

What was the point of Debra Soh's appearance anyway? Was it just to reinforce the latest chip on Bill's shoulder, about allegedly overindulgent parents? However, I agree that giving sex drugs to pre-pubescent children is a dubious solution at best. And is it just me, or was Bill's final New Rule (Oprah for President) not the least bit funny? The best I can hope for is that nobody takes the idea seriously.

Ugh! Do we now have to define what a "social justice warrior" is? Bill and Charles Blow were butting heads over that, for what felt like forever. I've seen Katie Porter on the news, and yeah, she's terrific. I loved the way she (however inadvertently) embarrassed Bill about his own ill-advised birth. Eyeroll over Bill's final New Rule about coddled millennial college grads. Like Bill, I have no kids myself, but could it be that these parents indulged their children out of fear of abusing them? Maybe they don't want their kids to get as fucked up as they were? I'm not saying they did right, but I'm trying to understand.

Ah, Jeff Goldblum in a role he was born to play! Hope we get to see (hear?) him again on this show. I loved this final episode, watching Sonny get smoked and taking all those IF's with him. (Hey, we all lose them sooner or later.) Then, Happy in the empty IF bar and finding BoPeep, um, occupied? I guess that was inevitable as well. My memory of last week's episode is a bit fuzzy (the show airs late in my time zone.) Was that a witch coven Merry was recruited into? I guess that would be in line with a Halloween-based third season (assuming we get one.)