Minaboo

I watched this last night. The recap videos are plenty good enough.

2/5 meh

4 out of 5

For FJ, the answer was immediately obvious to me: kingfish! Then I thought no, it can’t be that easy. Sturgeon came to me then, for no logical reason I could think of, in plenty of time to write it down. Yay, me.

So did I (and one of the contestants did too). I wonder why that seems to be a common mistake. I think it’s because Western Kentucky University is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It’s easy to confuse that with Bowling Green University in Ohio. In the late 60s, as a high school junior, I drove to WKU with two friends to tour the school as a possible college destination. Ended up at Indiana University, but will always remember the beautiful hills and grass of Bowling Hill.

2/5, no * Tough week for the boards for me,

I bet the tape was a mix tape that Benny made for her back in the day. That was my take on it also. I really enjoyed this and will be back for more.

Correction: I actually got 3/5, 1* this week, forgot to count my right answer of Tolstoy. Yay, me!

2/5, 1 *

Love love love this book!

2 out of 5

Me, too! I was so proud of myself as I confidently waited for one of the all-stars to reveal the obviously correct answer. Then my husband asked me how to spell Ethiopia...

Bloomington, Indiana?

I love this show more each week!

I got horseshoe, opus, and narcolepsy (because I have narcolepsy). My goodness, those kids are bright!

AH CRAP! @opus wins the internet yet again!

I got Segovia immediately because I saw him in concert when I was a senior in high school. I was drafted to drive the nuns who taught at the Catholic school I attended and got free admittance as a result. After intermission when Segovia started playing again, a patron entered late and started toward his seat. Segovia stopped playing, had the lights turned up, and waited until the patron was seated before starting again. I was impressed that he demanded respect, he certainly deserved it. Also got turquoise: my daughter and her husband are stationed with the embassy in Turkey and turquoise immediately came to mind.

I DVRed the first seven eps of this season and started binge-watching them last night. I am all caught up now with episodes and with PTV commentary. Can’t wait to see the finale tonight! Random thoughts: The Beacon is most sincerely dead. He is also the father of Julian, whom he allowed to live to become the group’s perfect scapegoat. Good on Vera (truth) for weeding Beacon out. I think that Heather’s father is also Marin’s father. This explains his unusual way of talking to her the night she ran away, which I didn’t think was normal but also didn’t think was loverly. I think she may have known for a long time he is her father and that is the main reason she wanted to be part of Heather’s family, spending as much time as she could with them. Heather, not knowing the true family relationship, fell in love with Marin, and their father tried to protect Heather, pushing Marin away from her. When I think back on the things that Marin said to Heather, and the times her father told Heather that he always put her first, he really was putting her first and protecting her from the knowledge that she had sexual feelings for her sister. Still not sure who Marin called at the end. IMO it can’t be the Beacon. I suspect it is someone we already have met, like Glen Fisher. I also suspect it will have to with who owns the commune’s land and who’s heir to it now that Beacon is out of the picture. I will be really pissed if it is the sheriff or the prosecutor. I don’t want to believe Julian planned the killing of Adam and Bess. I’d rather believe that pony-tailed guy gave Julian the jimsonweed with instructions. I also don’t believe Julian killed Marin, I can make a case for pony-tailed guy/Vera or Fisher instead. I’m guessing Julian tried to use the gun to defend himself/Marin/Vera though. I’d didn’t watch the first season, having read the description of the plot elsewhere. I am glad I was able to binge this season, not sure I would have enjoyed it as much stretched out over two months. Love the cast and acting!

Long time lurker here, but the wife being angry at receiving a really strong vacuum cleaner as a gift made me laugh. Many years ago when my daughter was young, we had neighbors with three little girls. Mom and dad both worked full time and were always pinching pennies. George had a habit of buying gifts for Martha that they needed for the house anyway. She told him that was unacceptable, she wanted personal gifts from him. Next birthday he gave her a microwave oven with a silver plaque attached which read “A Personal Gift for Martha Washington.”

I found a court document online regarding Greg Owens's (The Intruder) attempt to have three search warrants declared invalid. The document is the judge's ruling of more than thirty pages and it has lots of info about the evidence in the case. Towards the end it it, it does mention that Rachel Owens had early onset dementia. Greg told his mistress that he was overseas on secret missions when he was with his wife, and he told his wife he was on secret missions when he was with his mistress. You can read it at https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-med-2_15-cr-00055/pdf/USCOURTS-med-2_15-cr-00055-0.pdf

I gave up (finally) on this show twenty minutes into Ep 14. Will someone please have mercy on me? I would appreciate a short recap of the last three episodes of this season, an executive summary, if you will, if anyone has the stomach for it. TIA

I watched this episode with a stopwatch in one hand and the DVR remote in the other. The episode, including "previouslies" and the entire ending credits, ran 19 minutes 13 seconds. Without the bookends, less than 18 minutes. That's a lot of commercials.

I have been binge-watching this show the last couple of weeks, having been disappointed in the Sherlock series, especially its last season. Some comments in the Sherlock forums prompted me to try Elementary. It is a pleasure to watch fine actors and the growth of their on-screen relationships. Just watched this episode this morning and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was so lovely when Sherlock figured out the murders looking around the hotel bathroom, moving from sitting on the toilet seat to sitting on the shower bench, glancing down to assess the size of the bench, a glance that Joan didn't catch. And the next day he laid out the murder method for her, saying the size of the electromagnet was not made to scale in the diorama, but that it would be the size of a small keg of beer. He could figure it out because he had some twenty years more general and specific knowledge about all kinds of stuff, so he could theorize about things she had no knowledge of. Once he shared that specific knowledge, she had the deductive ability to figure the rest out. I love that he held back about his obviously knowing about the hiding place so she could figure it out herself and he never let on to her that he already knew. I had the impression that she never felt "led" to the hiding place by him. Her anger with him is also very understandable to me. During an episode in Season 2, he apologizes for something, and she says, basically, yes you do sincerely apologize, but it always AFTER you have done something to get exactly what you wanted. This dynamic gets real old real fast. I had more to say, but decided I would rather watch the next episode.

I wore saddle shoes attending Catholic grade school also, but we called them oxfords.

Boy howdy, Nashville! This show has been long mired in hopelessness for me. Have watched the first six episodes with either the mute button or the fast forward button depressed. After reading this forum, I'll do the the same with the last two eps.