Turtle Wexler

So glad someone else said this. I know we're supposed to hate Carol, and the actress playing her does a great job, but I've started to feel like she's a bit too one-note, and since it's an calculating/meddlesome note, it gets tiring, especially since everyone else just seems to roll with it, and Sandra and Jerry have always put up with her cruelty (though that might change next season?).

Me, too, but I also can't help but wonder whether it will bite Amy in the ass later/ditto the lies about the other store's staff, and whether it should (or shouldn't). I know, I know, it's a sitcom, but deceptions that have large payoffs/shift shows' trajectories always give me pause.

Thanks, commadrama (love your name!). I couldn't remember. I just thought Alba had had a solo of some sort, so assumed it was "Don't have sex, Jane," but at her wedding makes sense. 🙂

I loved the connections between Alba/Jorge and Jane's early experiences--the crumpled flower, and Jane repeating back to Alba the first lines of the pilot (that were spoken by a character, rather than the LLN); the cartoon of Alba and Jorge mirroring the cartoon of Jane and Michael, and everyone singing to Alba in church, though IIRC, they sang to Jane "Don't have sex, Jane." (I'm trying to remember exactly when that was?) I also love that Jane decided to write about her relationship with Rogelio; I'm assuming it was memoir, rather than a fictionalized story (with the montage showing us the inspirations). I'm curious to see what happens with Petra and JR--whether JR is going to leave.

Thanks, eat! Just added it to my watchlist.

I am so glad that Pushing Daisies is on CW Seed. I watched "Girth" the day of the Kentucky Derby. 😆 All of my DVDs are currently in storage as I'm job hunting, so being able to watch is still great. I still remember getting snowed in During Snowpocalypse in DC in 2010 and curling up on the couch with the DVDs and the bags of NECCO conversation hearts that we'd managed to track down as they were the "old" flavors.

He's going to send Jane a text/photo during the 10 seconds of cell service he has one day. Uy.

Utpe, I honestly thought that that's what she was going to do, especially the longer she stood there! (It would also be in keeping with some of the behavior of people in the random "inserts" (I don't know what they are called) that we see.

I don't understand: Does Glenn not want to be regular staff anymore? Is he not enjoying being at home with Jerusha and the baby, as wanting to be with them was the reason he stepped down in the first place? And he's usually good about backing off when someone points out that he's bringing up something related to religion that's not appropriate for the workplace, and this just seemed so over the top. I found Dina's angle in it to be more fun than what was happening in the store with the pastor. But, as possibilities said, Dina had seemed to like Amy. Lauren Ash mentioned in her interview on Home & Family the other day that Dina thinks she can control Amy a bit, and that we'd be seeing what happened. But, trying to control Amy doesn't automatically need to lead to sabotage, right? I'm not sure what she gets out of Amy and Glenn fighting, as she doesn't want to be manager; she likes Amy, and I think she tolerates Glenn. I wonder if they are making Cheyenne nastier so that they can move the focus away from her not always being bright? But...I prefer ditzy Cheyenne to nasty, ditzy Cheyenne. Mateo has always been catty, but the two of them together tend toward just...being mean for the sake of being mean, and that gets annoying.

Ooh, SnarkEnthusiast, I love that theory; I wish there were a way to make it work that everyone could buy and be happy with, or at least tolerate. It's still annoying that Michael hasn't interacted yet with Xo, Ro, and Alba.

Lauren Ash was on during the second hour of the talk show Home & Family (on the Hallmark Channel) that aired on 4.30.19. It's currently on the show's website for a couple of weeks, but you have to log in via your cable provider in the U.S.: http://www.hallmarkchanneleverywhere.com/#/Home+%26+Family/7163

Coming back to ask--Was Parker there? I realized that I completely forgot that Amy had a son--I don't know that I've ever forgotten a character/character's child before. I know that it's hard to integrate him into the store scenes, obviously, but was anyone holding him at the quinceañera?

I had to keep pausing this because of all the second-hand embarrassment that I kept feeling, mostly for Jonah. It was beginning to grate that he kept getting into mess after mess, though I appreciated that at the end, Amy realized that he had been trying to help Emma save face. Garrett's requests for the footage of Jonah's mishaps were hilarious, and very very "Garrett." I kept going back and forth, though, on his and Dina's interactions with the kid. I get that that subtext was to point out how into each other they are, but using a teenager as a foil for that was a bit creepy, as Snark Enthusiast pointed out. I have liked Cheyenne and Mateo, but as others have said, they've started to annoy me, Cheyenne in particular. And kicking Amy to hopefully make her cry? What are you, a child? Loved seeing Tony Plana again, though!

Matthew and Diana end up discussing this particular stereotype in one of the books. I can't recall which one it is--perhaps the third one--but Matthew is horrified. I'm enjoying the show, and am trying to keep it separate from the books in my head. I've read all of the novels, including Time's Convert, and hopefully this will bring more readers to the series. The locations are gorgeous, and I really love the senses of place that we get. I miss some of the subplots, though I understand why they had to be cut. I'm looking forward to finally getting to Madison, as I love Alex Kingston, and so far, I think she and Valarie Pettiford are closest to my imaginings of the characters they play. Malin Buska is fantastically creepy/"plotty" as Satu, and I love Sorcha Cusack on Father Brown, so when I saw that she was going to play Marthe, I was excited. Lindsay Duncan is great, too, so I'll forgive the fact that Ysabeau is supposed to look younger than Matthew because of the age at which she was reborn. (Though, wow, it seems like the characters don't all use the same pronunciation of her name?) And yeah, some of Theresa Palmer's lines sound "off" to me, but I also chucked that up to the fact that she's speaking with a different accent (and yes, doing a great job). Speaking of accents, I'm so used to hearing AK use her own on Doctor Who, so it's so odd (but neat!) to hear her speak with an American accent.

If only....

Berto says, "Ya no puedo con este cabrón, "roughly, "I can't with this [any number of colorful male descriptors] anymore."

Gina was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, 5/16. I think the episodes are available for free for 5 days on CBS's site? (Other guests were Brad Pitt and Ben Falcone.)

Oh! Ha! I'd forgotten about that. I naively thought it was a Goonies shout-out. ;) Never mind! Thanks!

I binged the entire series on a whim the night before my birthday during a bout of insomnia; it made the insomnia more bearable, as I spent a lot of time laughing and really grew invested in the characters. I loved this, and also hope that there is a Season 2, which I would like to have watched already. I also caught Lydia's "Hey you guys!" I didn't look--The line worked, but also seemed like a random shout-out. Is there any crossover between the two? Loved the Hamilton quotation, too.

So awful. If only he could have been prosecuted when he was alive and been convicted. As an American, I couldn't help but notice some similarities between Smith and Donald Trump, though I've no idea whether they were supposed to be intentional, too, though at any rate, obviously the Saville parallels were stronger. *nod* This all makes sense to me, too. Right. I'm curious as to what their relationship has been--how much does she know about Mycroft and Sherlock's personal life, and for how long has she known it? Is it just a matter of her having information about Eurus (if Sherrinford is indeed the hospital where she's been) because it would be something Mycroft would have had to disclose given his sensitive position, or is there some other reason she knows it--he slipped and mentioned it, or something. Do we know exactly what she does in the government/what their professional relationship is supposed to be?

Thanks, Tardislass and klowey. OK. I figured Smith was, in part, threatening them and reminding them of his clout, but wasn't sure if there was something more specific to it. I've been reading people's comments on Jimmy Saville, but wasn't familiar with him otherwise, no, and yes...extra-strength brain bleach is definitely necessary, wow.

I've lost track of what rewatching I'm on, but, are we supposed to make anything of the couple of times that Smith asked someone how long they'd been working at the hospital? (I think it was Nurse Cornish and Saheed?) I kept wondering whether they were going to wind up dead, because they'd be around, according to Smith, for "a long time." Also, when Smith kicks everyone out of the morgue, he tells Saheed, "This time knock," after 10 minutes when they come back...Does that just mean that in the past, Smith has been doing things in there and Saheed "caught him"? Given that he's in jail, I don't know what, if anything, he'll have to do in the next episode, but they were things that got my attention on the first watch, and I wondered whether they were foreshadowing something.

Am on my second viewing. Definitely enjoyed this more than "The Six Thatchers." I'm trying to figure out--how did John manage to find Eurus in the first place? Or, more accurately, how did Eurus manage to masquerade as a therapist meeting all of those qualifications? I know what Mary told John in the car about how he found a therapist/how Sherlock figured it out, but how is it that Eurus was able to be that woman? And... along with what rereader2 said earlier, because Mrs. Hudson had seen the DVD before, is it possible then that what she told John at the therapist's (via the flashback we saw of Sherlock going off the rails in the apartment) didn't actually happen, but was something that Sherlock just told her to tell John?

Happily stumbled on The Hollywood Reporter Comedy Actress Roundtable with Ilana Glazer, Lily Tomlin, Niecy Nash, Gina Rodriguez, Allison Janney, and Rachel Bloom. I don't know if they leave the videos up for a long period of time? http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/comedy-actress-roundtable-ilana-glazer-903627

Happily stumbled on The Hollywood Reporter Comedy Actress Roundtable with Ilana Glazer, Lily Tomlin, Niecy Nash, Gina Rodriguez, Allison Janney, and Rachel Bloom. I don't know if they leave the videos up for a long period of time? http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/comedy-actress-roundtable-ilana-glazer-903627