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I was going to cry no matter who left, but awww, Tash. Matty signing “thank you” to her after the signature was so sweet. Those apple tarts looked delicious, and now I want one. I was especially impressed that they had to cut all those slices by hand; I would have been reaching for my mandolin! I love the way Josh honors his Nan. Dan has consistently been supportive of the other bakers and I appreciate that about him. Noel and Matty plotting their sabotage made me laugh. I really can’t call next week. It’s going to be a proper nail-biter!

Dan isn’t my favorite but I don’t dislike him. I don’t read him as arrogant. I’ve been seeing him as ambitious, competitive, and very, very anxious for the praise, but that’s understandable. I think he just wears his heart on his sleeve a touch more intensely and it can be a bit much. I’m okay with Christy’s exit, though I feel bad for her. My wish for her is that she learns to stop apologizing for minor things. “You didn’t like the flavors? Oh, well -I tried. Lesson learned.” I hope this experience gives her a confidence boost even though she didn’t win. She seems lovely. Josh’s showstopper looked amazing, but I wasn’t surprised by Matty’s star baker win. The semi-final episode (next week) is always the hardest for me. SO close!

Oh, yeah. I re-watched that episode with the skulls and even knowing it was supposed to be a skull, I just couldn’t find it. I don’t know how she keeps making it through. I wasn’t crazy about the skull tattoo that sent Jessica home, but at least I could tell what it was supposed to be. I’m with you re Bobby’s tattoos. There’s just something…I dunno…lifeless in his work. Honestly, we’re four episodes in and no one is really standing out for me. I don’t hate Freddy’s tattoos because at least they’re different, but he’s another big “I don’t work in this style, let me be meeeeee” whiner that makes it hard for me to root for him.

After 15 seasons I don’t know why I’m still surprised by the contestants who get shocked when they have to tattoo in a particular style they’ve supposedly never done, and Jozzy is no exception. “I don’t even own color”? Really? Why are you even on this show where every season there’s going to be at least one episode that tests your ability to work with color? Get off my TV.

I want to like this show but I’m having a hard time because I don’t see any way out for Gabi. You just don’t come back from keeping someone locked in your basement for a year - even this someone. I suppose they could throw in another shocking twist that he’s a figment of her imagination? This could explain why his “help” is so…unnecessary.

Not to mention nobody wearing hats and the men running around in their shirtsleeves (don’t get me started on Henry’s Undershirt).

They mentioned Bellingham a few seasons ago as not being too far away so I’m guessing British Columbia maybe?

What, what? I haven’t seen today’s episode yet and haven’t decided if I’m going to, but I hated Abigail even before Lori Loughlin’s arrest. If she comes back I’m definitely out.

Nope, not just you. She did that!

Nah, it’ll all be a Hallmark Christmas dream and all five seasons will disappear when Mel wakes up from her long train ride to start her job in Virgin River.

I mean, there was the time Elizabeth’s sister Julie showed up and brought a bunch of chaos with her.

As much as I’ve enjoyed snarking on this show, I think I’m over it as well. Lucas deserves better.

Of course not! I always drop letters in the mail with no salutation, no signature, and no address. It gets pretty expensive though, when I have to keep buying all those magazines only to cut them up, but that’s love, amirite?

Maybe it’s a Gift of the Magi thing. They’re staying close to Elizabeth, who’s staying close to them. They should just build a compound and both families can share.

I realize the plot needed a dark apartment but I don’t find it that weird. I walk through my (and my parents’) dark house all the time, so if Sazz knows Charles’s apartment It’s not that strange. Maybe there’s a light in the wine cupboard or sonething.

I was very confused at the end and kept saying “isn’t this the last season?!!!” I’m glad I’m not the only one!

I’m not particularly bothered by Preacher only dating other women of color (Lexia Doig, by the way, is Filipina/Caucasian so that does make them an interracial couple). If by “interracial” you mean we haven’t seen him dating Caucasian women, it could be the writers but we don’t know Colin Lawrence’s own preferences. Denzel Washington famously won’t have on-screen relationships with white women out of respect for his large fan base of Black women and the Hollywood history of treating Black women as less desirable. I’m fine with Preacher being paired with other poc. I’d be fine with him being paired with a white woman, but I don’t think there’s anything to it that he hadn’t been so far. Writers who keep a woman pregnant with the same babies for five years just aren’t capable of any kind of nuance beyond “hey, Preacher needs a girlfriend.”

I am not going to put up with another Lucas-Elizabeth-Nathan g-d effing love triangle. I won’t even hate watch this show if they go down that road again.

All of them. They have had All The Carnivals. I swear, everyone in Virgin River is either a drug dealer or a party planner. Or a drug-dealing party planner.

Wait. Isn’t Mike the Cop a bad guy?

Yeah, I rolled my eyes pretty hard at that. I wish they’d follow soap opera time logic and have Charmaine go on a two-episode vacation, then return with a couple of 5-year-olds even though it’s only been two weeks for everyone else, and no one bats an eye.

After the first three episodes I skipped ahead to this one just to see if ANY advance in time has happened, and…nope. Charmaine has been pregnant since 2019. Two thousand NINETEEN! I think I’ve officially bowed out of this show.

Absolutely not. I’m going to keep calling her Rosemary’s baby or Mia. I have spoken.

Faith had better brush up on her “running while screaming her lover’s name” skills, then….

I am thisclose to What Does Lucas See In Elizabeth? territory. I was firmly Team Lucas and still think he is miles and miles better than Nathan, but now I’m seriously starting to wonder what’s in it for him. Elizabeth never seems to do anything for him. The wedding has to be her way, staying in Hope Valley has to be her way, and now he can’t even build her a house in the same freaking town, where she’ll still be able to see her precious Rosemary every freaking day? LUCAS HAS A CAR. Will probably buy one for Elizabeth. But nope, he’s no doubt going to be expected to move into the tiny house and live 100% according to Elizabeth’s paltry teacher means. It’s easy to forget that although Elizabeth was married, she really never had to learn to be a wife. Oh: “date night?” /eyeroll. OMG I seriously think I hate this show now. I could not care less about Jack and the Shady Mystery Widow (who’s out to contaminate the town’s water or something). Faith still has zero chemistry with anyone in town, Fiona has nothing to do, and at least Allie isn’t getting enough screen time for me to want to throw things at the tv. As God is my witness, at this point the only way this show can be redeemed is if Baby Coulter gets named Mia, because it would show me there’s at least one writer who isn’t a complete idiot.