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When Katianna added the tofu, I was screaming NOOOO. It just seemed unnecessary. The judges kept calling it porridge but I thought she said it was just crumbled tofu.

I don’t want to defend Chipotle, because it can totally tear people up, but the lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole have always been fresh and good for me. I enjoyed the challenge and it made me hungry for a chicken bowl with fajita veg and guacamole. Vinny is too milquetoast for me to care about his edit. He feels like cannon fodder. Henry too. I’m not that bothered by Massimo because I think there is no way he makes the final.

I felt the ending was just a little rushed. I felt like it needed about 5 or 7 more minutes in the episode. I thought the Gordon/Aileen story was just purposeless angst.

I loved the original movie.And i'm really looking forward to this.

I wouldn't know. I've not read those or seen the show. By predictable, I didn't mean that the characters acted the same over and over. I meant that I could predict what was going to happen in each scene and what was going to happen next. Season two was a particularly long and painful episode of NCIS. But then again, maybe the writers of those shows are just ripping off the Reacher books.

I'm was done with Gordon within thirty seconds of him being on screen. He's a cartoon villain.

I know this is based on a book series and I'm just wondering if the books are as predictable. I'm certainly not watching for the good acting or the incredible storylines. Alan Ritchson is hot and likable.

The editing of the 3 day long fight scene with Paulie was terrible. One actor would strike a pose while awaiting the move from the other. Ugh. Had it been edited better, it wouldn’t have felt so choreographed. I also still don’t care about Teresa. I mean, how many people died for this personality-free and interest-free rando?

Tropes are for the fanfiction I read. Take two characters I already love and put them in a faking dating, single bed situation and I AM DOWN for that. The tropes aren’t fun unless I care about the characters first. I particularly like book series because the characters do get developed. Or should get developed. Not gonna lie, I read some books just to have something to read that doesn’t require much mental effort. And allows me to escape reality for a while. Right now, I’m reading the latest Tessa Wegert book in the Shana Merchant series. They are…fine. I guess. Too much serial killer nonsense, but they don’t require me to think or care too much. I can read the book, let it take up my time and then forget it later.

She definitely milked the family for more books than they were worth. However, I miss the days of curling up with a good romance novel and losing myself. I feel like the book market, at least what gets advertised to me, is over saturated with women-in-peril and domestic thrillers. I am sick of women-in-peril stories.

I don’t care about Teresa. I have never cared about Teresa. I never will care about Teresa. Every time someone says Teresa all I hear is McGuffin.

@LBC Me I took Russian/Soviet Lit in college. It took me decades to shake off that gloom. Sofia Petrovna is a novella and sort of the female version of Ivan Denisovich. @scarynikki12Sing it. I mean, all those novels have problematic elements, but I could never like James. I also felt like Lindsay liked him far too much. Ugh. It's been a long time since I read those books, but it seems to be time to revisit.

@grommit2 I enjoyed The Women as well. @GHScorpiosRule I also loved the Malory books. Except James. James was a dick. Don’t rename women with male names because you think it’s cute, asshole. James can fuck right off. I was always team Anthony. And YES to a young Pierce Brosnan. I recently finished The Briar Club which had an interesting twist. I can’t decide if the twist added to the book or didn’t. I enjoyed the multiple POVs. Also just finished The Goddess of Warsaw and I’m struggling to describe why it left me cold. If it had just been a revenge story, I would have liked it better, or if it had just been about the main character’s time in the Warsaw Ghetto during WW2. But… The book also skipped pretty much from 1950s to the early 2000s where we got …nothing. Just nothing. I feel like an interesting story left me uninterested. Anyone else? In other fun news, I thoroughly enjoyed Kills Well With Others the sequel to Killers of a Certain Age. Give me a team of female assassins in their 60s and I’m down. I have the latest Finlay Donovan queued up and I’m hoping for a third in the Suburban Dicks series. But I really need some lightness, so the Malory books might be on tap. Except James. He’s a dick. ;)

Sounds completely skippable. Voit is so trite and boring.

So my guess is: