Irlandesa
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I feel like they're doing a lot of cakes this season. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought cakes used to be mostly reserved for the final challenge and they'd do a variety of different desserts for the final challenge By the time we get to the finale, we'll be caked out.
I didn't love the way this team challenge elimination was handled. Usually they at least have a more clear delineation of what one partner did vs. the other partner but these efforts were truly togetherness. I imagine they must have relied on the producers to tell them who did what.
That said, Sabrina did deserve to go.
29 minutes ago, mlp said:The cake was a failure but it was mostly Sabrina's fault. She screwed up something she claimed to be really good at and then blamed the mess on "time" during judging.
I do think time played a role. She said she is used to having more time for things to solidify/harden before she starts stabbing it with the dowel.
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3 hours ago, Riplet68 said:
One thing I've loved this season (and Gerry's women also) is that there is no where near as much overly made up women - we've seen natural, let it go hair, and I think even some either make up free, or very minimal.
It can sometimes take a lot of makeup to look natural but I do agree that there have been some great looks on this season when it comes to hair and makeup.
2 hours ago, Jaundiced Eye said:Did I hear right? Before Joey introduced Kelsey to his family, did he describe her as silly? So silly? Seems like an odd thing to say about your intended.
I think he used it as a synonym for goofy as in they can be silly together. They showed a bit of that during the spa date.
1 hour ago, WatcherUp2 said:That's probably the least acrimonious rejectee talk with the Bachelor on AFR that I can remember
I know people didn't love when Joey shut things down with people but in the end, I do think it lead to the women taking the hint and not being blindsided when they're let go which is why so many still have positive feelings towards him and their time with him.
1 hour ago, JenE4 said:Wait, Gerry and Theresa get a trip to Italy. Someone else got a freakin down payment on a house, but Joey and Kelsey get…an all-expenses paid trip to Jasper National Park. Um. Okayyy.
My thoughts exactly except Jasper National Park was pretty gorgeous.
1 hour ago, JenE4 said:Did Rachel just find out it’s not her?!? She looked pissed shaking her head and seemingly yelling at someone when they introduced Daisy as Bachelorette.
I don't think she was mad. I think she was just confused. I suspect she had potentially heard that Jen was the bachelorette or that Daisy wasn't and was surprised when they brought Daisy out on stage.
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2 hours ago, kaygeeret said:
What does Copaganda mean?
It's a combination of cop and propaganda. It refers to cop shows that almost always put cops in a good light, especially if they're the main characters. They only want justice and aren't influenced by biases. They're good family people. All force is justified and necessary force. Even when they do go over top, the show will vindicate them somehow. Internal Affairs are always the bad guys...etc.
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1 hour ago, ECM1231 said:
I feel pretty dense, but neither my husband or I understood what having clearance meant wrt Conan O'Brien.
I took from it that Conan is a famous person and a stranger, even another famous person, just can't approach a famous person to strike up relationship/friendship without being introduced by a mutual acquaintance. So clearance in this instance would be Richard telling Conan "Hey, do you know Larry David lives in your new neighborhood? You two should meet."
Richard, someone Conan trusts, is vouching for Larry.
3 hours ago, Galileo908 said:(EDIT: This "The One" was played by his wife Joyce! This time it really WAS "The One!")
That's cool.
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I didn't love Shifting Gears but I was better than I was expecting.
2 hours ago, MerBearHou said:They did the annoying Hallmark thing where Katherine was quite snarky and antagonistic with Tyler right from the get-go due to their history, and it made me think “why in the world would anyone be drawn to her”.
I think they did a pretty good job of explaining why she wasn't thrilled with him. His grandfather was an idiot for not formalizing his wishes in a will but I didn't think her irritation was out of nowhere and he even seemed to hold some guilt over the situation even if he wasn't in control of it.
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8 hours ago, Ancaster said:
Yes, I think you're right, but with the accent it become KAYvan.
Pronunciation is the purpose the accent serves. As I learned when I was abroad, sometimes it's just easier to let the native speakers pronounce my name the way they want to rather than trying to get the correct pronunciation from them. (It's why Timothée Chalamet goes by Timothy even though his actual name would be pronounced Teemotay. His dad is French but he lives in the US.)
3 hours ago, Bastet said:I haven't been there, either, but I wanted to really like him based on the concept. But he really bugged me. And that hasn't happened during a first episode in quite a few seasons, IIRC.
It's unfair but if he hadn't already lost me with the hat in the kitchen, he would have completely lost me once he announced his girlfriend's name was Kale. Even if it isn't something she chose but rather her parents loving greens, I still reject it.
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20 minutes ago, buttersister said:
Tony Goldwyn is a good actor, but no way could he pull off telling Nolan he was a great prosecutor.
My thoughts exactly. Nolan wasn't a good prosecutor at all if he couldn't get a conviction or at least a hung jury with this case in NYC. He basically just gave up once the "surprise" witness came forward and let her ramble about things he assumed and even things she thought the defendant assumed. If he wants to talk about what he assumed, he can get on the witness stand.
I was on Baxter's side. The facts, as presented, pointed to murder even without the testimony of the undercover cop---and we don't even know what he knew.
29 minutes ago, buttersister said:an innocent black man in trouble with a side of gay.
I feel like this was even ripped from the headlines a bit. Jarrod Carmichael is a successful comic who recently came out in his great special Rothaniel.
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1 hour ago, Chaos Theory said:
I wasn’t really feeling Hen’s story this week and thought it was just something to throw in besides the adventures of Bobby and Athena on the Titanic.
She was a bit of a brat going after her friends for not lying about things they didn't see but also claiming she's not asking them to lie. It's not like Chim can smell things he didn't smell.
I can't wait until next week when the show is going to pretend that everyone who got on the lifeboats survived cruise-ship-high waves that overturned a much bigger ship.
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3 hours ago, catsitter said:
Stu really didn't seem like someone who had had a serious stroke.
I think that's part of the joke surrounding "taking care" of his daughter and selling the violin. It's not that he couldn't suddenly die but he stood a pretty good chance of not only pulling through this medical crisis but retaining much/all of his cognitive function.
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1 hour ago, TVbitch said:
Ah, just when I was about to be so impressed with the husband actually accepting that his mother did it, being honest with the police, and wanting to help the investigation, he back tracks later. Maybe he was just destroyed by the whole thing, and couldn't face it.
Based on the way they described how the grandmother tried to be the mother to her son's child, she struck me as quite overbearing. The daughter-in-law likely pushed back because that's not the way she grew up but the son probably had years of conforming to her desires. Once he left the police station after the confrontation, she could work on him.
1 hour ago, iMonrey said:The witness who identified Joanna's truck was key.
Yeah but it's not like it was a license plate. It was an after market effect which I'm sure wasn't exclusive to her truck. And they drove past her house and said to the guy "do you recognize any vehicles?" I think it would have been better to show him a few pictures of similar looking trucks and have him point it out.
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1 hour ago, Trini said:
Eh, they've got that female FBI agent taking the 'law enforcement' role, so I don't think it's that big of a loss. Seems like she'll have an arc with Nadia.
I don't think Garrett's absence is as a law enforcement figure, specifically. If that's all it was, then Paris (I refer to as Paris even though I never watched Gilmore Girls) would be fine. The issue is that her relationship was strictly with Garrett. They have to develop her connection to the rest of the cast as much as they have to do the same with the Sin Cara crew. That's why I said I think it's difficult.
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4 hours ago, Rapunzel said:
They wanted to show more of Arman’s background and how he got where he was even before Adan passed and I think they are trying to stick with some of that this season, which is why he wasn’t killed off on the show immediately this season and we are left to think he is quite possibly alive but hiding from or maybe having been taken by rivals of his aunt’s cartel. No matter what they manage to bandage together this season, I don’t see it getting renewed. They are probably regretting killing off Garret/Oliver Hudson’s character at this point. It would have left them more options had he survived.
They're keeping Arman alive because at the time they filmed this, everyone was hoping Adan Canto would beat his cancer and return to the show. He didn't die until later in production.
But I also wonder if they regret killing off Garret. It's tough to lose two main characters on a show with basically only 5.
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On 3/16/2024 at 10:53 AM, iMonrey said:
Deadly Swap: Twist! It wasn't the husband for a change, it was his mother! I kind of suspected it the first time they mentioned Joanna, they made a point of being very specific about how she didn't get along with Heather then just dropped it until they circled around back to her.
I thought for sure it was the girlfriend when I saw her because she looked thin and seemed like she could have been the figure in the security feed. But then their alibis cleared and we learned more about Joanna. (I guess the son could still have been involved but I don't think he would have caved about his mom if he were. ) I wonder if the son even fought for custody or if there just wasn't any money left once the mother needed to put up a defense*.
*I am a little surprised they got a conviction. The evidence felt rather flimsy.On 3/16/2024 at 10:53 AM, iMonrey said:Still, I thought Heather's new boyfriend was awfully glib when the police brought him in for an interview. For someone who claimed to be in love with Heather he didn't seem to be the least bit distraught over her murder.
He seemed more upset in the Dateline interview he did years later. But all we get is a quick snapshot of the interviews and he might have been numb or felt in control during that moment. Not everyone cries a lot. I think I've said before that I don't and I hope I'm never suspected of murder on Dateline because you'd all declare me guilty because of how unusually I react to death. Seriously, I think I cried once, alone, right after my dad died and never again and had to control myself from not laughing out loud during my uncle's funeral when everyone else was crying.
I'm a psychopath, y'all, just not one inclined to murder.
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9 hours ago, call me ishmael said:
And did it not dawn on anyone there that while yes, it was pretty horrible for Chelsea to violate Jimmy’s confidence, it was the show that chose to put that in the episode?
I don't think anyone is expecting the show to care about the woman's privacy which is why Jimmy told Chelsea off-camera, asked her not to mention it on-camera and felt betrayed when she brought it up during an on-camera argument.
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I wanted to love it because I love Paris but I watch these in the background and I still don't think I could tell you who was murdered.
And I did think it was ridiculous you'd have two French people speak to one another in English and yet they'd also start randomly using French phrases with the English speaker.
The culprit did surprise me though.
I'd watch another given the setting.
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3 hours ago, HerkyJerky said:
Do you mean Trevor and Jimmy?
Don't Trevor and Jeramy make even more sense?
(And really, Jimmy, Johnny and Jeramy is just a casting fail in terms of names. )
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There were things I liked about it and things I didn't. I think it would have been more interesting if Athena started having a bit of panic about being cooped up after she got on the ship instead of being cooped up with Bobby. I'm sure she wouldn't be the first to think a cruise sounds like a good idea only to feel a bit cooped up by the fact that you can only go so far.
I feel like we've seen something similar with Christopher related to his mother before so that felt like a retread even if I liked his scenes with Buck and Oliver.
But I did like the relationship theme of the rescues.
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59 minutes ago, sainte-chapelle said:
i wonder why Lauren and Cameron were not there.
It sounds like the S1 people (or at least couples) are moving away from the franchise. I recently read that Lauren said that their contract with Netflix ended and she didn't really watch the show any longer.
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Joe Manganiello surprised me. He wasn't just good. He was out of this world at times. He had almost telepathic connections with the contestants. And he got so many of the final passwords with the contestants. I feel bad for the second contestant because Jimmy was just bad.
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17 minutes ago, Hanahope said:
Peppermint because she was trans. She was "targeted" because she was 'different' and did not act in a way that Trishelle "expected" when Trishelle made her rude comment.
And if I remember correctly, we saw Peppermint's reaction and it was a nothingburger, IMO. A nothingburger that Trishelle blew up.
4 minutes ago, Cherry Styles said:Have you seen any challenges, or real world? Trishelle has been around lots of people.
She came into The Traitors with a reputation of being the queen of microaggressions because of what she did in The Challenge. The way she reacted to Peppermint is just a continuation of that, especially since she went after Peppermint first. Being around a lot of different people doesn't prevent someone from performing acts of microaggression.
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7 hours ago, zenithwit said:
I think Clark Duke (Dale) might have been the most successful post-Greek. Oh and I guess James Franco and Olivia Munn (who both had very small roles in this show).
None have broken out big but I don't know that Clark Duke has had a better career than Jake McDornan (who has lead or co-lead a few series), Scott Michael Foster (been a series regular in other things), Amber Stevens West (also a series regular in other things, or Paul James (has had regular series roles recently.)
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16 minutes ago, UsernameFatigue said:
It does make me wonder though, if there had been no Covid to delay the trail, if he would have gotten off as wife Michelle may have not have had a change of heart yet.
I think it'd depend on whether or not the prosecution opted to go to trial or not. They did seem to be losing evidence.
I will say that they were unclear about how much they pushed her. Prosecutors might have met with her more often to see if she still stuck with her alibi which may have led to her cracking a bit. And she might have gotten cold feet once she realized she would have to testify to the alibi under oath.
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Technically, it's a premiere for Hallmark. Guiding Emily originally aired on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
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5 hours ago, howiveaddict said:
Larsa is so shallow that she only went on the show to be on TV. That tracks for her.
One "benefit" of all-start seasons is that you could make that claim about 100% of the celebs and be right. To regular people playing the game, the money likely matters quite a bit. To the celebs, it probably doesn't matter all that much. They're doing this to be on TV.
7 hours ago, Cherry Styles said:I didn't quite understand why Peppermint made the speech about that. I didn't see the banishment being from people not liking Peppermint. Trishelle freaked out because she thought Peppermint was mad. And it all spiraled after that. But it wasn't because of anyone's sexual orientation.
Peppermint's point is that it's easy to target someone different, under the guise of game play. I doubt anyone consciously decided to go after her because she was a trans woman* but quite a few felt very comfortable targeting her first as "suspicious" and may not actually question why that is.
*Although Trishelle, apparently has developed a reputation during The Challenge competitions of targeting minorities.
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S28 E11: The Finale
in The Bachelor
It makes a lot of sense if you're a producer. Maria is very popular but they need to deliver a season of television and need a lead reliable enough to make that happen.
Maria's unpredictability could make for some great television but I have to imagine her threatening to walk away twice when things got hard would make them nervous about making her the main character. They don't want another Clare season on their hands.
Oh definitely. I think Daisy was probably their top choice. This finale seemed edited to launch her season more than it was to celebrate Joey & Kelsey which is pretty typical. Since the new season starts filming really soon, they already knew Daisy wasn't going to be the Bachelorette. I think they wanted her to come on stage to explain why she said no because they knew people would be rooting for her and not to make it seem like she was saying no in real-time.