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On 5/4/2024 at 11:03 AM, CarpeFelis said:
Anyone else feel a bit nauseated at Catherine’s pandering to the rich family?
Yes. That she was interfering in the doctor's treatment plan was just gross. I get tired quickly when Catherine swans in acting like she is Queen of the hospital. I get that she owns the place, but it gets old.
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10 hours ago, aghst said:
In fact, my impression is that Joan stopped caring about not getting the plum job by the last 10 years of her life. Maybe that isn't the case, I'm not sure.
Rivers did have a late night show on Fox when it was a new broadcast network. The ratings were not good, and she was fired after a season. Her hosting that show was what destroyed her relationship with Johnny Carson.
To me, it makes sense that Deborah would still care deeply about that kind of opportunity, given her history. I don't know if she would realistically still be considered for that job, even if she was having a big moment, but Jean Smart really sells Deborah's ambition.
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I'll ask the obvious question: Why is the Mayor of Seattle making decisions about whether to fire individual firefighters? I get Hughes embarrassed him, but I would think disciplinary decisions about a firefighter would be handled by the department.
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That was mostly a boring filler episode. I wonder what is going on medically with the Chief this time?
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6 hours ago, maddie965 said:
Sorry, wolfwoman girlfriend, but Ava and Deborah belong together. (She's not wrong about the abuse, though.)
Ava and Deborah really do have magnificent chemistry, even if the girlfriend was totally right about how toxic the relationship got.
And Jimmy's mother is Deidre Hall? So random, but funny. I presume we'll see her at some point during the season then.
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I thought Inez's school pulled out of the librarian program. Is she still working at Abbott?
I don't know what it is about this season of the show, but I really haven't loved it. I'm tired of Gregory and Janine circling a relationship. I also feel like the main characters are kind of losing their human side to just being a bunch of eccentric weirdos who crack one liners and cater to whatever character beat the network has told the writers to play up. It's like the Urkel-ization of the show.
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Airing May 2, 2024
QuoteA runaway bride calls the SVU for help on the day of her wedding. Rollins pitches in on her day off.
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Airing May 2, 2024
QuoteMika and Teddy receive a patient from a nearby penitentiary. Catherine pushes back on Link and Monica's treatment plan for a VIP. Bailey tries to integrate wellness into the residency program.
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I had seen the first season of this show, and while it was not good, it had some interesting ideas, and decent performances.
This season just got too campy and weird for me, along with feeling very padded. It was too: Nightmare on Elm Street meets Raggedy Ann and Andy to be taken seriously. I also get that the character of Edmund was already supposed to be very disturbed when we met him, but I felt like the actor needed to be told to dial things back a bit. The connection back to the first season felt unnecessary, and now I realize the whole setting in 1991 around the time of Rodney King was more a way to make the connection back to the first season work.
And honestly, the whole six months later, happy family scene at the end was kind of ridiculous. Even if Dawn was cleared of murdering that kid, I would think she'd still have a lot of people suspecting that the cops covered for her and she'd be living under constant suspicion. And that doesn't even get into the trauma of finding out about her twin, the murder he committed, the murders he then committed as a vengeful ghost to get her attention, her son being put in jeopardy and her own adoptive mother's extremely violent and horrifying death.
On the positive side, I did think Deborah Ayorinde did a good job with what she was given. Pam Grier deserved better than having her head chopped off.
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6 hours ago, Silver-hyren said:
My head canon is Sam doesn't leave the manor very often because she sees ghosts everywhere so Jay does all the shopping.
I think she said something similar to this last season. She made a comment about not wanting to visit Central Park because it was wall to wall ghosts and it was too much for her.
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50 minutes ago, Starchild said:
Will this be universally acclaimed as the worst season ever?
Possibly. I didn't really understand much of anything in the episode. It seemed like a Mad Libs-style finale where the writers had a vague idea of what they wanted, then just filled in the blanks with random words picked out of a hat. That's how we ended up with a double incest monster baby.
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On 4/20/2024 at 12:50 PM, Cineaste said:
Was her seeing the wanted poster in the bank supposed to be some sort of shocking reveal, because didn't we all see that the prince was a fraud like three or four episodes ago?
It was telegraphed fairly early, but in fairness, most everyone on this show is really dumb. I mean, I don't feel bad for Ricky Martin that he isn't going to get to run off with a con artist he just met like a day or two ago.
I did laugh at Julia Duffy menacingly saying "fibrosis" to Maxine. I also wonder if they no longer have any idea of what to do with Cindy Crawford Jr. It's weird that Robert would leave the care of Norma to her.
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2 hours ago, Stardancer Supreme said:
ETA: Let's not forget the connection to that Short Trek! I'm going to watch it again.
A little bit. Though if I remember right, in that Short Trek, Zora had been abandoned for hundreds of years, but was still operating without much issue.
I know Zora is just AI, but there was something very touching and sad when Zora asked Burnham if she was real or if this was just a dream.
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22 hours ago, ahpny said:
Maxine seems to be one of the few people, other than Robert, who truly care for her and show her some genuine kindness.
I mean, Maxine also stole her jewelry and a lot of her money.
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9 hours ago, aghst said:
It's fun, not too weighty.
All the crazy facial expressions Maya Rudolph made while sitting with Benjamin Bratt were pretty darn funny.
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Airing April 18, 2024.
QuoteThe squad is on edge as Carisi waits for a verdict in Maddie's kidnapping case. Benson tries to help the Flynn family pick up the pieces of their broken life.
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1 hour ago, Empress1 said:
She was a fellow, so I assume her position wasn’t funded by the district. Kind of like being a temp made permanent - as a temp you’re employed and paid by the temp agency, not the place where you go to work. Once made permanent you’re employed by the place where you go to work, so you’d get all the employer’s benefits, perks, etc.
She already worked for the school district as a teacher. She didn't quit her job as a teacher to become a fellow. She already should have had a 401K and health care benefits through the district.
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I did feel like Janine's storyline was two steps forward, one step back. She built up some confidence, but seemed too timid when she realized the new job wasn't just about her comfort zone of Abbott.
I was also a little confused with all the onboarding they were doing with Janine. Wasn't she already a district employee? It's certainly a shift to go from teacher to administration, but I didn't understand why she was being treated as a totally new employee.
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Glad to see it will be back for Season 5. I'm curious if we will be treated to 80-somethings being NASA's only astronauts capable of leadership positions, or if they are going to fully move on to the next generation.
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9 minutes ago, vb68 said:
Well the whole point of those sketches was always Kate messing with Ryan and getting him to break, but after tonight, it did seem redundant.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they have done those sketches in the past without Ryan. I'm not saying that she doesn't try to get people to break, only that I think he only appeared for two or three of them and the rest were done with other guest hosts.
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4 minutes ago, LennieBriscoe said:
IMHO, Ry-Ry is using his "I Break" schtick waaaay too much. He can't get through one sketch? One scene?
Didn't Lorne say at some point that he did not want SNL to be like The Carol Burnett Show where the actors occasionally broke during sketches? I get that Gosling is the host, but he seemed unable to hold it together during any sketches. Though I'll admit watching Heidi Gardner completely fall apart during the Beavis and Butthead sketch was pretty funny.
1 minute ago, vb68 said:I knew Kate would comeback for the alien sketch.
I really enjoy her performances, but I do think they really have run out of ideas for that sketch.
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20 hours ago, DEL901 said:
(Not that I want this show to steal another storyline from ER and do it poorly. But ER did this storyline in the early years with an intern and to this day I remember the moment where they paged the intern to the case and realized the beeping from the pager was coming from their patient that had just stepped in front of a train...)
In fairness, I don't think it was established he committed suicide. There was an open question as to whether the character jumped or fell. I think Carter made assumptions, because he blamed Benton for the death.
Doctors at Grey Sloane are more likely to die from trigger happy relatives of dead patients, electrocution, plane crashes or stabby child traffickers.
I also did not understand why firefighter Ben just stood there watching the whole scene. It seemed like it would be a good idea to call out the rescue squad than just hope some interns would handle things themselves.
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On 4/11/2024 at 4:51 PM, EtheltoTillie said:
Also, what did Alison Janney mean when she said (paraphrasing) "that's not what the Rolodex is for." ??
She was saying the Rolodex helped keep things in check in Palm Beach. It helped maintain the social order.
On 4/12/2024 at 8:39 AM, Milburn Stone said:Douglas continues to be too stupid to live, and I find the whole performance by the actor annoying. (There's a fine line between me understanding the character is supposed to be annoying and me just not wanting to see the character on my screen and almost feeling insulted as a viewer by him.)
I don't like the character either. I feel like he's supposed to be more charming than how he comes off, and he's essentially there to just be a barrier to Maxine achieving whatever it is she wants.
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On 4/11/2024 at 8:42 PM, dttruman said:
Did it seem like the husband was more interested in getting the baby, then getting justice for his murdered wife?
Yes. I'd almost go so far as to say he didn't really care that his wife was dead. Maybe you could say his behavior was about grief, but he played it like his wife's death was someone else's problem.
4 hours ago, Theli11 said:On a brighter side.. When Baxter told Sam to step up and do her part, I really did enjoy that. She's spent the past couple of episodes meandering about.
I just wanted him to slap her. She was so mesmerized by the defendant's sad story that she seemed to forget that the same defendant bludgeoned the victim to death and stole her baby. Not to mention, the defendant had enough foresight to use that baby to try and leverage a plea.
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Yeah, if a review indicated to you that you wouldn't have needed to see the first season to watch this season, then I can see how confusing for you the last episode was. Everything you described were events from the first season. The twist was that that Dawn and Edmund's birth mother was the older daughter from the first season of the show. The minstrel guy tormented the father during the first season. I thought I remembered the father defeating him, but I guess he came back once again as some kind of representation of intergenerational trauma, maybe?