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All I can think about here is...so Vet Assistant is pretty upfront that it's Jimmy or nothing, and she's tired of nothing, but what is Mia's excuse? Why does she even want him? I do agree with you though, there was no reason to bring her back just to have Jimmy reject her again. She told Jimmy when he left that she was done with him.

Me too. Jessica said something like, some of you really like living off the grid. I guess she could have just been talking about Travis, but I got the impression she meant plural. Tai already knew where Nat and Shauna were, and no one seems overly concerned with keeping tabs on Misty.

I think she means the three times she has "seen" Jackie in her adult life, where Jackie still appears to be a teenager. I could be wrong though.

Yeah, wasn't Beth almost in tears last season when Jamie admitted the reporter was about to blow the whistle on the Duttons? And John said something like, this is the only time I've ever seen Beth afraid? I mean, Rip could easily hide out, but John definitely would be hung out to dry. Although maybe not, the way John runs the town and everyone in it. They'd probably all collectively agree the dead guys had it coming and thank John for taking care of them.

Yeah, I just remembered that Callie pretty much said that as well during a Halloween episode. Ouch. I am not sure they would have given the money to Jeff after he admitted to screwing around on Jackie in high school, but I'd be impressed he had the balls to go back and ask. I wonder if maybe he is doing some kind of money laundering or something through his furniture company. Something illegal that he's hiding from Shauna but not involving an affair.

Oh really? I had no idea about that. He totally deserves better than this show.

I think John is a despicable human being. He had kids and basically terrorized/manipulated them into dedicating their lives to preserving the ranch, in ways he found fit. Last season, when Beth asked John if he loved Jamie, the way he loves Beth and Kayce, I snorted. Daddy doesn't love you, Beth! If he gave a shit about you he would have assured you your mother's death wasn't your fault, and he would have forced you into therapy when it still had a chance to save you. Instead, he exploited your worst fear to get you to do his bidding for the next 20 years, and kicks you out the minute you don't fall in line.

Well, I love Wes Bentley but I think Jamie always was kind of a cowardly dope. A smart, educated, cowardly dope, but a dope all the same. He was groomed to be a pawn his whole life. John and Evelyn might not have been physically abusive, but they sure were fucked up parents who piled heaps of emotional abuse on their children.

Yes. John and Beth Dutton are the Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield of Yellowstone. No one is ever allowed to get the better of John, and only John can get the better of Beth. Everyone else is a mere mortal. I'll throw a bone out to all Beth-haters though: it must really grind her gears that even after John found out what Jamie "did" to Beth, he still maintained a relationship with him at times.

He can't hit her back. He did that last time and John said if ever did it again, John would kill him.

The reason Beth hates Jamie so much has never really rung true for me. Even if I can suspend the disbelief that any clinic would perform a total hysterectomy on a minor, with or without parental permission, and not even mention to the minor what the abortion would entail, the story still seems inconsistent to the characters. From what I could tell, the receptionist at the clinic warned only Jamie what would happen, and Jamie said it was okay. They do not show either Jamie or any clinic personnel telling Beth. I think we are supposed to assume that Beth did not know, and only found out after it was too late. In the episode of the flashbacks, adult Beth tells Jamie he cares so much about his reputation, the implication being that Jamie was so ashamed to have a pregnant teenage sister that he tricked her into sterilization in order to get her an abortion. Jamie may care about his own image, but that is a real stretch to assume 18 year old Jamie would have cared about Beth being pregnant. It wouldn't be his head, and I don't think anything we've seen indicates Jamie would feel another Dutton's choices would negatively reflect on him. Honestly, what I have always suspected is this: the writers wrote the rivalry between Jamie and Beth without really making up the backstory first. In the first two episodes, Beth is mildly snotty to Jamie but nothing as bad as the season progresses, and in one early scene they even seem to reconcile. I think the writers backed into the reasoning after they had already written up the animosity between Beth and Jamie. It just really doesn't make sense for Jamie to withhold that information from her. I am not sure how Rip would react, but he might not be that angry. I don't think he wants to be a dad and John probably would have killed him when he found out who the father was.

Look Angela! Something shiny! (Dexter voiceover: Crisis averted).

Just finished watching the original Rivals, which is, I believe, Evan and Kenny's final appearance. Evan is the butt of many jokes for gaining so much weight, and Kenny seems like such a sad sack the whole time. He just looks so beat down in every scene he's in. I have never had a season where I went from loathing someone so much to actually rooting for them. I thought Laurel was an obnoxious bitch in almost every episode, until the soda over Cara Maria's head incident. Whatever her motive was, I was so glad she jumped to Cara Maria's defense and comforted her. I also loved, loved, loved, her screaming at Wes, "Get the fuck out, Fire Crotch, before I kick your ass!" and Wes, although smirking, I think was intimidated. I mean, I am sure if push came to shove Wes could defend himself against Laurel, but he's not going to let himself be filmed putting his hands on a woman, which means he's just going to have to take a couple punches until someone pulls her off, something he wasn't looking forward to and couldn't guarantee wouldn't happen. I am split on her verbal attack on Paula. I mean, Paula was a major instigator, and totally egged Wes on and laughed at and taunted a humiliated, crying, Cara Maria, and certainly didn't deserve much sympathy. Paula is totally the type to dish it out and then start crying when it's lobbed back at her. That said, Laurel went after her instead of Wes because Paula is much more vulnerable, and the insults she was using- you have an eating disorder and you can't get a husband and you're 39 and won't have any kids- I mean these aren't character flaws. Paula has plenty of those and that was what Laurel should have focused on, but she picked those because she knew that was what would hurt Paula the most. I really don't like the implication that not being married and having kids in your 30s is an insult. Another thing really frustrating about that season- so, CT and Mandi have some kind of hook up (Mandi denies it involved sex) and CT quickly loses interest afterward. Mandi takes it very well, is completely mature about it, and insists she doesn't care, and doesn't give any reason to make people think she does care. Yet, Evan and Johnny keep picking at her- hey Mandi, doesn't it bother you that CT doesn't like you anymore? Doesn't it bother you that CT is sitting with Laurel now? They basically want her to break down and cry about it, which she eventually does, after relentless needling from them. It's like, they want to mock the women and if they can't get a reaction from them, they will keep going until they get their pound of flesh. There is no amount of money in the world that would make me spend 10 minutes with these assholes.

Well...this was just silly. I don't think Wiggles was a real kill of Dexter's. I think he was just a stand in/amalgamation of Dexter's Miami victims. Dexter was modifying the story based on Deb's input. If there seriously was an influx of missing children, all local to Miami, the FBI surely would have been called in. Angela definitely broke up with Dexter, and more importantly, wasn't happy about finding Harrison in bed with Audrey so I really doubt she would have insisted on Modern Family Blended Christmas time, and certainly would not have agreed to having them as houseguests. I do love how Dexter is completely oblivious to her. I prefer to think Angela is so frequently moody and pissed off that it simply doesn't register with him. I am SO sick of all the killers turning into idiots and always being outsmarted by Dexter. I also can't see how Kurt was so confident that Dexter and Harrison wouldn't go straight to the cops. Dexter and Harrison both had their phones on them and were in contact with each other that night and it stands to reason after Dexter was kidnapped and escaped he'd come looking for Harrison. Kurt was kind enough to leave a paper trail for his lackey/incompetent hitman, Kurt also can maybe prove that Matt was in the incinerator but has no way to prove it was Dexter that did it so they really do not have each other over any barrel. I assume Molly was killed simply for shock value. Telling that no one even thought to look for her until five seconds before she's discovered in Kurt's little museum. When Harrison kept going down the line I assumed he was going to find someone he recognized. If this is an "apology" for the way the original series ended, then I would say they actually doubled down on what sucked about the first series ending.

Hopefully the big twist isn’t that Adam truly is just a random guy that Shauna rear ended, with no connection to 1996 crash and no hidden agenda beyond getting into Shauna’s pants. I don’t know why Adam, if he was the blackmailer, would target Shauna to get close to but only actually threaten Taissa, Misty (she got postcards right?), and Nat. And I still can’t figure out why Nat would cough up the blackmail money either. They don’t even know what the blackmailer knows or what he/she can prove. Jeff makes the most sense but he also seems so simple and kind of lazy in general. I am hoping for a vengeful Jackie, unrealistic as that may be.

There might be something to this. Remember, they made a point of showing a very strained goodbye between the coach and his wife. Also, bringing along the kids on a trip like this is kind of bizarre. Maybe they just wanted to check out Seattle, but they wouldn't be able to wander around by themselves and neither seemed too interested in watching the soccer team or befriending the players. Why were Javi and Travis there? Even if Mom had to go somewhere herself that week, Travis would have been old enough to stay home alone.

Well, Pam said it, but Bobbie didn't have to repeat it in her book. Sorry to veer off topic, I will be brief. Tommy Lee and Bobbie were out at some LA club and saw Pam there with some people Bobbie knew, so they all ended up sitting down together, and Pam was making a pretty obvious play for Tommy Lee (per Bobbie's book). She mentioned that she was breaking up with her boyfriend, David Charvet, soon because he had a pencil dick and Pam was over it. To me it just seemed like Bobbie wanted the readers to know that Pam was a disloyal opportunist, and poor David Charvet's alleged pencil dick was collateral damage :).

I thought early 30s, but it wouldn't be a hard sell to age him up/down a few years from that. But if he was the son of one of the girls, he could only be about 24-25, which I think is a bit of a stretch. So what ten year old was running around in 1996 that would have a stake in the crash? ...Not sure how to take "Surprised, but not surprised" comment from Melanie Lynksey...does that mean it's obvious, or that's not obvious? I mean, the son of another main character might slot in, but it's not one I think would be easy to guess. And it's not like any of the siblings of these girls have been introduced. For some reason, I am just really stuck on Jackie being alive in 2021. The show has given nothing to think this is the case, but still. I think it's pretty clear she is at least presumed dead by her parents. They could have cast her adult counterpart under a different name, like Once Upon a Time used to do. Or she could be dead and I could be way off base. I like the theory that Jackie is behind it all, or in on it with Jeff, although I am not sure how much sense that really makes. Does it still appear that Shauna was not targeted for blackmail, only Nat and Taissa? If Shauna goes so out of way to hide her contact with Taissa, it might not have occurred to Jeff that Shauna would find out.

I had a huge crush on David Charvet in the mid 90s. I was a total Matt/Summer shipper! That little blurb may never get back to him (and he might not care anyways) but there are all these guys that really deserve a nut punch for the way they treated women, and she unintentionally insults the one who did her no wrong. I’ve watched a few of Holly’s videos. I usually don’t watch long because I’m not that into makeup or fashion, but I really like how she clearly reads the comments and addresses them in her next video.

Haha, in Bobbie's book, she tells a story where she and Tommy Lee are out somewhere, and Tommy asks her when she posed for the cover of Playboy that is currently on display wherever they are (think it was an airport gift shop), because she hadn't mentioned a recent photo shoot. Bobbie is totally confused and said she did not have a recent Playboy shoot. Tommy points to the magazine in question and she was like, um, that's not me. It was Pam. As open as she was in that book (enjoyable, but also my secondhand embarrassment for her was at an all time high), she really glossed over the whole Tommy-Lee-dumped-me-for-Pam-Anderson point in her life. It cracked me up that as awful as the men in the book treated her, and deserved to be maligned in her book, the guy that got it the worst was a guy she never dated or even met, David Charvet from Baywatch, who Pam, in an attempt to endear herself to Tommy Lee one night while sitting at Bobbie and Tommy Lee's table, outed for having a pencil dick. I mean, consider the source, but ouch, Bobbie. Back to the GND- I certainly believe Holly was the "busiest" during sex night, but I don't believe Kendra at all if she claims she never had sex (of any kind) with Hef.

At the 1:08 mark, there is a scene of a bewildered Shauna wearing what appears to be a wreath in her hair- are the rituals starting? ETA: I just noticed that in the interview clips with the young actress- she has blue eyes. I am guessing she wears contacts then to match Melanie Lynskey?

Ohhhh. Hey don't forget the other classic gem often uttered by young women at some point in their lives- "I like hanging out with guys more than girls because girls are usually drama". Yeah, I don't know how it's ever going to get better. I didn't even know there was a word for this type of behavior.

Right, plus, if Beth is exiled, would Rip be willing to give up the Dutton life? What would he do in Denver or Utah or wherever it was Beth lived? And Beth herself, never a treat to begin with, certainly won't be any more pleasant if her only reason for living truly washed his hands of her.

Is it that recent though? I know we've made some strides since Me Too, but the whole "guys who sleep around are studs while women who do it are sluts and whores" hypocrisy has been called out since at least the 1990s, maybe earlier. Of course, not helping the cause are the Challenge women, who are all too happy to throw stones at each other. Slut and whore gets bandied about quite a bit amongst them, or at least it did on the ones I watched. Equally guilty is production, which totally eggs the guys on and provided no consequences, until things would turn physical. I did laugh when Zach called Marie (St Thomas) Staten Island Trash, which was fitting as it was more about her getting sloppy drunk and then getting into fights with everyone vs. who she was or was not sleeping with. On the other hand, when Wes kept calling Theresa "trash", my skin just crawled. And there was no reason for production to make a trivia game out of which girl was the trashiest. They didn't ask the girls which guy was trashy.

She just wanted to yell at him. She was pissed that he was (as far as she knew) dodging her calls while staying at a 5 star hotel while his dad had guilted the poor people in town to go look for him in freezing temps, and Angela herself had to go grovel to the oil billionaire for his resources instead of being able to sanctimoniously scowl at him like she was able to do the first episode. Her whole point was not a legal issue- she just wanted to tell him off face to face for being inconsiderate. Why she insisted on seeing footage to verify it was him who checked out was a writer's leap- at that point she didn't know Kurt was lying about talking to him, and she wasn't considering that someone stole his credit card, so there really was no reason to insist on verifying it was Matt who checked out. It was a pretty clunky way to expedite putting Angela on Kurt's trail. Oh, I forgot, since Podcast Girl was bankrolling the NYC trip, Angela also decided she could kill two birds with one stone and go to the Miami Metro sponsored lecture on missing women, but that lecture was not her main motivation. And amazingly, a throwaway comment by Angel brings the whole house of cards down on Dexter. Because God forbid there are two teenagers out there named Harrison.