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OMG I wish they would make Midge's clothes available in a special Marvelous Mrs. Maisel line! I especially want that multicolored dress she wore under the dark red coat, and the dress with the crimson fitted top and pouffy peach skirt!!! Having grown up in Manhattan in the 60s and 70s, this is such a time machine show for me (and ditto for Mr. Snappy who moved to the city when he was 5, in 1960, so also grew up there a little older than I am so with slightly different memories) ... I really wanted to rewatch one of the scenes shot in Washington Square Park ... you see a big high rise in the distance which I THINK may be the building my cousins lived in on E. 8th Street (mainly because I don't remember another high rise like that in the immediate area that early) but I could be wrong. But SO many references to places that were part of our childhood that are gone (a few remain, but not many) ... Also? The music supervisor should just be given the Emmy right now. Am loving the soundtrack SO much. There was a moment in the episode (I think 7, maybe 6, we watched both last night) where Midge and Noah are smoking on the fire escape and having an amazing sibling moment and "Hey There" is playing quietly in the background and the line "Won't you take this advice I hand to you like a brother" played just as they finished the conversation. It was not "over the head with a frying pan" at all. Very subtle and perfect. I need to rewatch the pilot because it was so long ago that we watched it that I've forgotten everything and hubby didn't want to rewatch it, so I'll just give it a second look after we watch Episode 8 later and then I can come back and actually read/comment on all of the threads here ... I had mentioned to my daughter (like me a huge Palladino/GG fan ... we have matching Dragonfly Inn T-shirts) that I wished it were 22 episodes instead of 8 and she said that being 8 makes every episode have to be absolutely perfect, and she thinks it comes about as close as possible to that. I've had only two moments of "disconnect" ... one in Episode 7 where I couldn't really believe that Midge would "go there" on Sophie Lennon ... she's been level-headed and making good decisions all along, why would she knowingly do something THAT stupid and self-destructive, especially knowing Lennon's agent was there? (Maybe Episode 8 will shed light on it) ... and also, was the name Ethan "a thing" for little Jewish boys in 1955 or whenever he would have been born? Evans, Erics, I even knew an Erwin. I did not know a single Ethan until I went to college (and I knew probably half of the nice Jewish boys of my generation in NYC).

THANK YOU!!! Yes, watching on Amazon Prime but on our TV. Saving last episode for today (cringed through last part of Episode 7 but as hubby said it really removed his suspension of disbelief ... I'll post on that one there though).

That deserves a major BWAH!!!!!

I'm just giving the Emmy for music supervision to this show right now. "Life Upon The Wicked Stage" by Blossom Dearie? I'm dead. I wish they'd throw all the episodes onto Tunefind though. Right now they only seem to have the pilot up. A few songs I'd like to try to identify.

Wodin: I know! I respect and admire the time, patience and ingenuity (and I'd throw in a slight obsession with this show, which I have certainly developed since she turned me onto it!) ... I don't consider myself very good at deductive logic but I am good at sudoku LOL. ETA: Just wondering ... at what point do you think this could have been figured out by the patient and deductive among you? I mean, did it take until the episode where you and she logic'ed it out? Could it have been done earlier?

I mentioned in the previous ep thread that my daughter and her friend sat down for a few hours after that episode with the results of the previous match ceremonies before this week and also came up with the exact same chart as Wodin (you guys are amazing) ... so if they (daughter, friend, Wodin) could figure it out, why couldn't the group or Keith? Maybe Virginia Tech or wherever he went should rescind his diploma. I also find the Geles/Clinton match crazy sauce. Maybe she was not that forthcoming re: sex in her Q&A as she is showing in the house? Maybe they just matched the pretty? I also think if you guys are right, Zoe is gonna be BUUUUUMMMMMMED. Not sure she's that into Joe but still ... Because this is my first full season watching this show all the way through, hoping for one of those post-show reunions where we see who is together and who is not, etc. ... and also that there is another Second Chances show for people like Joe, who I can't get enough of on my screen. Oh, and yay Tyler for getting first PM. I think he's adorable.

Not for nothing, but my daughter (who turned me onto this show late last season and now I'm addicted) just messaged me that she and a friend had spent a few hours looking over old matchups and came up with their predictions and it was exactly the same as Wodin's. I'll be interested to see what happens with Clinton and Uche ... I think Geles is prepared for it, but hope Joe gets a slot on Second Chances, whenever that comes back. I'm really Team Joe.

Shad exists. (Seriously, he's the one person in the house I keep forgetting is there.)

Back in the day I'd spend chunks of time in the general Phoenix area for a few weeks during spring training and then again during "fall ball" ... when I was first starting out, the veteran baseball writers all raved about Los Dos. I went once or twice and thought it was good but didn't live up to the hype. Definitely agree everyone has their own favorites ... I definitely learned, though, when going out for Mexican food in Arizona do NOT go to a chain because there are plenty of great little innocuous looking places in strip malls that would be much better. To be honest, I was a lot more familiar with the bars there LOL. Oh, and Pischke's Paradise for breakfast. And Downside Risk which may not even be there anymore. Oh, and the Grotto (Italian) ALWAYS.

Is Los Dos Molinos (sp?) still considered one of the better places?

EDITED because based from what I'm reading in this thread I can see I'm going to be the unpopular opinion in Every. Single. Topic. from LLL to the "choice" to breastfeed (you do: good mother; you don't: bad mother who doesn't want to leak on her silk women's business suit, which was what I was told at one of my LLL meetings, even though my "work clothes" consisted of pajamas and sweats most of the year since I worked from home ... she told me this while her four-year-old son was standing there nursing, though I'm not being judgmental, just explaining where the source of this critique came) to ... well, everything else being discussed. The good news is, I managed to raise a pretty awesome bottle-fed kid and apparently didn't ruin her too much despite weaning her after two months of failure and massive raging mastitis, 20-plus hours a day spent trying to nurse or trying to pump FRUITLESSLY ... I was lucky if I could produce an ounce in two hours ... and her losing a few pounds until my doctor basically BEGGED me to put her on the bottle before she starved and that it didn't make me a bad mother. (I wish someone had warned me that just because the boobs are HUGE doesn't mean the milk is free. In fact, as I was told later by the mom of one of the kids I covered who was a nurse ... yeah, they ALL knew me, the only pregnant sportswriter in captivity LOL ... the bigger you are to start with, the harder it may be to nurse) One possibility re: why the girls are not being encouraged to breastfeed: Maybe their parents/grandparents DO want them to go back to school and nursing might make that a much slower process. Just a thought.

This. In fact, when I was pregnant in the paleolithic era (Little Snappy is 27) my job had me at the local minor league ballpark for every home game from April until September (finished up two weeks before she was born) and the "free meal" we got as reporters consisted of hot dogs and soda. Mr. Snappy had already banned hot dogs from my diet because of the nitrates and soda because of the caffeine. Luckily, the guy who ran the concession stand took pity on me and tweaked the rules to give me a burger and lemonade every night.

CoachWristletJen, would you please accept this delicious cracker with some 7-11 cheese and a soupcon of Smucker's strawberry jam?

I didn't see this link so apologies if it's not the right place but it sure explains a lot ... as soon as I saw his nickname was Tobo it made it pretty easy to find it ... http://starcasm.net/archives/377880 And meanwhile sending soothing hugs and painfree days/nights to all of my 90DF friends here with PN and other neurological et al issues ... I've been relatively lucky that the worst physical maladies I have is a lovely pupu platter (HAHAHA) of IBS and degenerative disc disease in my back (I could not live without my ECCO sandals ... pretty much the ugliest things ever made especially at $120 a pop BUT they allow me to walk miles and miles and miles painfree which is excellent because that's the only exercise this poor "still middle-aged and sticking to it" woman can do (I train every year for the AVON 39!) On the other side, have had a silent stroke and two episodes (so far) of Transient Global Amnesia in the last two-plus years so my bigger issues by far are the rare-but-it-happens-to-a-few-unlucky-few permanent short-term memory loss issues which my neuro said at this point is unlikely to change. My hubby is a saint. The good news is my longer-term memory is starting to come back in dribs and drabs (I now have better recall of memories from up to about 2015 but after that photos and notes help and I have a one-out-of-seven change of knowing what day of the week it is and one-out-of-12 of knowing the month LOL!!!!!) This is why I love this kind of brainless awesome schadenfreude-laden show that makes hubby just shake his head and go into the living room and watch "classy" shows like Stranger Things. I can't really remember stuff (making me the only person who actually APPRECIATES the endless "PREVIOUSLY ON 90-DAY FIANCEE" pastiches!)

I USE THIS TOO!!!! LOVE IT!

There's a term, something like "elderly primagravida," that refers to someone having a first child in what's considered "middle age" based strictly on the slight dangers of having a first child later in life. Was that it? I'd be insulted too unless I thought it was a medical term like that.

Honestly, while the guy's very appearance on my TV screen makes me cringe, I really did not see any difference in his stupid "put your dorky hands in the air like you just don't care" dance here, which allegedly showed how drunk he was, to his dorky "give us your money engagement dance down the street with the townspeople" dance from a few weeks ago when the whole town followed him to Annie GoldBaht's house so he'd give them money. I think he's just an awkward cringeworthy physically-challenged dork, drunk or sober. "As gross as I felt the sheep head was it still wasn't as bad to me as the fried bull testicles they showed someone eating on Arranged - is that really a thing in TX? (sorry, but, shudder)" This brings me back to a work road trip I took with my then-best-friend/co-worker to Oklahoma for two nights. We ordered "lamb fries" from the steakhouse menu not having a clue ... thankfully, the lovely waiter asked if we knew what they were ... when we told us, we switched to mashed potatoes. Also, not for nothing, but in my 40-some-odd years of going to weddings (family weddings, friends' weddings, my daughter's friends' weddings, my own wedding for that matter) I have ZERO recollection of a single cake (including my own). As long as there was alcohol (preferably open bar) and dancing I was happy. A good appetizer spread, even happier. Free-flowing wine, ecstatic. By the time the cake came around, I couldn't have handled all that sugar. (And I love to bake, so go figure). Watching some of the TLC-et-al bridezilla/four weddings etc. shows, I've been really intrigued by the new dessert concepts (sundae bars, mini-desserts, cupcakes, etc. instead of cake). Finally ... I never thought I'd "feel" anything but contempt, disdain and a little schadenfreude for Nicole but damn, the scene with the chicken (not even going to go into the sheeps head), I really DID feel her. I'm not a vegetarian by a longshot. I know where cooked meat comes from. But that said, I don't want to be reminded and I DEFINITELY don't want to "meet my meal" (I even hated it when we were shown our live lobsters at a fancy steak/seafood joint, I guess to prove how fresh they were) ... I even get weepy-cringey at the cartoons on the placemats of Joe's Stone Crabs of cute little crabs in suits with briefcases getting on the airplane to COME BE OUR DINNER!!!! (That doesn't stop me from eating them ... I just rearrange ALL MY WINE GLASSES over them ... why yes, I do like wine).

Gaithersburg/Montgomery Village chiming in. VERY affordable here as far as MoCo goes, which is to say still not cheap cheap cheap. But VERY big Latino population so maybe David Spain would feel more at home here. As long as they don't move in next door to me (David is welcome, Evelyn and her voice are not).

EXACTLY!!!!! I think I even thought the word "schlumping" while I was watching it! I don't know if that hurt Kenya at all but it really jumped out at me how much her model just kinda blew chunks there. It looked like she'd rather be anywhere else in the world rather than trying to rock it.

LUNCHLADY ARMS!!! Can I get lipo on my upper arms, because I HATE sleeves! So, I won't say I was surprised by the results before even seeing any of the designs ... I was pretty sure Kentaro, Brandon and Ayana were locks for T3 and toss-up between Margarita and Kenya if they went with a fourth. I actually didn't hate Brandon's designs but that's only relative to how much I've been underwhelmed by him all season long despite what seems obvious (to me, maybe I'll be wrong) that he's the chosen golden child this season and he could send models down the runway in NOTHING but straps and still be hailed as visionary yada yada yada. I was surprised by how bad Kentaro's designs were because I've enjoyed his stuff so far and find him just adorkable anyway ... he is SO lucky that they have already anointed him a front-runner and were not going to get rid of him now just because his stuff was so bad (maybe the dead cat was hidden in that big lump on the side of the design). Ayana to me was just boring. Well-made, nicely tailored, completely forgettable. But SHE seems lovely so I'm happy for her (honestly, of the five, the only one I really don't like personality-wise is Margarita and she almost won me over with the "Shawnie-Claire" comment). I thought Margarita's designs were hideous, frankly, BUT I was impressed when they showed the close-up of the material with the beadwork. And Kenya. Sigh. I preface this by saying as a 50-something/almost-60-something (despite feeling 16 in my head a lot of the time) with a figure that is VERY hard to find ANYTHING flattering for (short, high-waisted, VERY big boobed, post-menopausal and post-childbirth and lack-of-exercise poochy tummy ... I'm not a "big woman" to use that term per se, but I'm curvy and flabby for sure), I actually really loved Kenya's designs ... yes, they were kind of mother-of-the-bride (if you have a daughter who is getting married a little late LOL ... I'll be a 60-something mother of the bride if/when the day comes) but I think there is a market for that! And I thought the two designs she sent down, while nothing that would turn the fashion world upside down, were pretty and frankly were the ONLY things to walk down that runway on this show that I would buy. I'm in the minority, but that's how I felt. Also? I thought her models did NOT try to sell those outfits. I can't remember the names but the blonde one really phoned that runway walk in, like she was not happy she had to wear that and just clumped down the runway. Liris would have SOLD that baby no matter what. I don't know if it would have made a difference or not ... probably not ... but I noticed that from the get-go. Finally, just as an aside ... there's a show on the Disney Channel called Bizaardvark about a video channel (based on YouTube) where the "boss," Jonathan, is never shown in person ... he does all his communications with the staff on a rolling monitor and that's all I could think of when Heidi showed up on the big screen.

I was extremely confused by that and also who/how they focused on. When spotlighting couples, it seemed they were still treating Clinton and Uche as a match and I realized at the end that we basically NEVER saw Jada at all. They dropped that drama fast. Also, I was turned on to this show about midway through last season because it was my daughter's favorite reality show and I hated Taylor then too (though I thought Andre was cuuuuuute). I'm just gobsmacked that she's Joe's ex. He's totally my TV crush but now I have serious doubts about his taste in women. I still think Joe and Zoe are a match FWIW.

All I can think of is she REALLY DOES NOT want David Poor and Annie GoldBahts to live with her (and their growing family) but she can't actually come out and say so to her Happy Handout (Ending) husband Chris ... so maybe she is hoping that if she is just stays quiet, Chris will manage to offend Annie enough on his own for her to get off her goldplated ass and get a job and she'll be rid of them, because we ALL know David Poor ain't EVER gonna get a real job in a real world where he will make enough money to move out on his own ...

Gets to or has to? Snerk.

I love seeing so many fellow denizens of the DMV on here ... we should have a 90DF watching party (with lots of wine and bingo cards!) ... Also, while I may be off since I now live in MoCo instead of NoVa, my best recollection was that the area of Virginia I assume Spanish David is referring to is -- or was -- heavily Spanish-speaking (largely Central American) split with Asian (ETA: Just wiki'd and 35% of the population of Fairfax Co. is Latino and/or Asian). Not so much Eastern European, etc. (I think DC is more of a mini-UN). So his speaking Spanish, especially if his yowly wife does not, would be a plus. Just please keep her far from Jammin' Java (my favorite acoustic music venue). Thx.

Really badly. Thanks to a great music scene courtesy of a ton of actually, you know, talented singer-songwriters (from Berklee and BOCO, etc., for starters) Evelyn would be outed for the yarling mess she is (which would be a good thing for her because maybe Miss I AM The Band would actually have to learn a skill and some grace).