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Eh,my sister got divorced. Only once. But when she remarried it was her ex. So she has a divorce and two marriages but only one spouse. Georgie and Mandy could Mary and remarry and remarry again without violating canon.

Honestly I think Brenda still works for that. You cant buy liquor at KMart in Texas which Jim Parsons would have known while he said the line so you know no memory is perfect. I do see how Sheldon might not have seen enough of Mary to recognize her. It totally is a retcon but I buy Sheldon making assumptions based on what he saw.

With those names and places in Georgia I was waiting to learn my family owned Jesse’s family. And while I didn’t it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that later.

And the baby was intended to be a girl until they switched it to honor David Angell.

Anybody who met my nephew from birth to 12 and met him now would not believe they were the same people. He was terrified of everyhing, Everythiing...and then he wasn't and I absolutely know that didn't happen over night but I was away at school and and missed a lot of evolution. I'm not wildly impressed with this show so far and I hate that they gave it the same name but I'm cool with Freddie having evolved. My understanding is live audience shows have to be punched up with a laugh track because if you use different takes in the editing the laughter is all over the place. Also that while everybody hates laugh tracks (and everybody does hate laugh tracks) when they test the shows with a laugh track vs without people laugh more and claim the show is funnier when they have seen the show with the laugh track compared to audiences who saw the show without the laugh track. The audience who watched the show with the laugh track even says how much they hate the laugh track but they still rate the show higher than the audience spared the laugh track.

I am only slightly ashamed to admit I spent a good 47 seconds considering writing a fanfiction attempt at Howard writing Papa Smurf/Skelator fanfiction. Love that the crew is together again and hope Oliver's second heart attack was a panic attack. I mean I'm sure they aren't killing him off but I don't want the show to get too heavy now that it is back to flying on all the cylinders. I am all for Mabel rooming with Theo. I love Theo and any excuse to see him more. Also love Detective Williams. Did we learn the baby's name last season?

The minisodes are the bits in the past in each episode so the begining at the dawn of everything, the parts with Job, The bits with the body snatchers, and the zombie bits. If it is flashback to their past it is a "minisode".

I stumbled on Its Not Only Football and went on a big rewatch kick and have been listening to the clear eyes podcast as well but skipped a season or two to get to my favorite episodes I feel like it is all the same story over and over again at this point. INOF has some of that as well but as it is a newer podcast so it annoys me less. Also CEFH has their interviews in the same session as their watchalongs so huge stories are just ignored in the watch along segments to make more time for the interviews. The interviews are good but it just isn't as much my jam.

I don't think anybody saw enough of Nina's abusive relationship to know that it was an abusive relationship. There were red flags but I'm not sure that what Nina actually said about Lindsay was enough to lead to intervention. And I really liked that Nina was taking the time to heal post relationship. Things I liked. John Hamm. Aziraphale with Crowley's car. The negotiaton. The car's reaction. The chat. LOVE. Every mention of Jane Austin. Aziraphale chatting up all the shop owners and finding there perfect book. Things I didn't like. The Zombies, bits falling off is one of my squicks. Things I'm meh about the grave robbing. The ethical question was all good butt it was slow and not enough alone tie with Crowley an Aziraphale. The children of Job were annoying but in the way children of privilege who have not yet been personally tested an be, and the rest of the Job interactions were quite good. The ending is all good if and only if we get season 3.

We don't get to read the article about Paul Campano and Will Trent but it wouldn't shock me if the article mentioned Will was found in a trash can. That detail and the approximate dates would have pinged for him. He might not have known Will's name before that. Or just seeing it all might have brought it back. Why kill all the others? To torment Will and because he is a person who likes killing. There is also a possiblity that he hoped to frame Will for he crimes. There are two possibilities for why he went dormant (and serial killers have before) 1) with Juice in prison and then dead the heat is off him. He stops and then he sees the story and he's right back there. Th other darker alternative is he didn't stop just switched MOs and some unsolved serial murders will be linked to him in season 3. After all he is on life support but not dead in the finale. I was supsicious of Greg German because he's Greg Germann but I wasn't 100% convinced because this show has used Jennier Morrison for two episodes with no return, Mark Paul Gosslear as recurring (and I for sure pegged him as the killer in the first episode for being MPG) and French Stewart who obviously was a bad guy but not in a hey this random guest star turns out to be he bad guy but in a way you KNOW who he is the moment you meet him, so they've a little bit subverted this trope... and stll I was like, "I mean the killer is probably Greg Germann) And if I was Will I'd be getting a DNA test just to be sure.

A brief marriage followed by a long term relationship after their divorce. The women he was with seem to be women of substtance and maybe Midge got a song written about her. I don't see how that was degrading at all. Sammy Davis Jr (did hey say they had a relationship? I mean he's on the piano but was there a mention the wedding episode? He famously had career repercussions for relationships with white women during that time period so I wouldn't find it implausible that he and midge had a fling. But I don't remember the reference. They did say one of her relationships was with Joel Grey (why they weren't sure who she meant when she said she was in love with Joel) which I thought was absurd because Joel Grey was married from when Midge met Suzie until the early 80s so Midge being engaged to him prior to that would be weird... also he's not straight. Although I suppose this alt NY where Yoko Ono lives in a building that looks like but isn't the Ansonia could also be one where Joel Grey was single in the 60s/70s and Midge had a thing with him. And here is a whole oher person who carried watermelon in Dirty Dancing (or not... she was born before Midge got famous) I genuinely don't think Midge is close to family and I think she is perfectly content with the choices she made. But she had picks of the grandkids while Joel was in jail and hung with them when Joel was arrested so there may well be picks somewhere else in her apartment. Also, I think there have to be at least two grandchildren because Joel says he'll meet baby Rose when he's out and he had obviously met the baby who was there when he was arrested. We only saw the public locations. She clearly has bedrooms and closets and what not. Maybe in there are stacks of family photos, or not. And she's a famous person she is going too have a higher than average number of celebrities who are actually people she knows and might get together with for lunch some (though not all) of those photos seem more candid than staged publicity things. But unlike Philip Roth who didn't make her laugh, Suzie is he funniest person she knows. Her platonic soulmate. And I don't think Moishe was watching Esther and Ethan because Shirley said he was hyped up on pain killers (as opposed to hyped up on pain killers and watching the kids, and Abe and Miriam ask where Moishe is, theoretically they'd know if he'd come to take the kids or if somebody came to bring them the kids. They were home with the kids when the kids were faking sick, when Miriam came home to change clothes (the firs time) then Abe left for the Village Voice and Miriam was in the house with the phone off the hook. But I'm willing to believe that Midge pays some kid in the building to watch them when they get on her parents nerves. I'm also willing to believe the kids bedtime is 7:30 and they were asleep when Miriam and Abe left for Midge's show (either with, or without letting the potential kid in the building Midge potentially pays to watch them know to look in on them.)

She was bailing Suzie out of jail because Suzie had a bender slept it off in the park and attacked the cops who tried to move her along. She was arrested but it wasn’t going to come to anything because Suzie played poker with the police chief. Suzie told Midge about her relationship with Heddy and Midge apologized for making Heddy go to a woman who hurt her so badly but Suzie brushed it off and said it was right to get Midge her break. But Midge is fine. She’s quiet. She’s content. She can be alone in that apartment and be fine. Midge in 1958 couldn’t be alone or quiet. The piano was absolutely covered in framed photos presumably some of her children and grandchildren are there. She is laughing her ass off with Suzie watching Jeopardy. They are platonic soul mates. She might maybe be lonely in that big house but she absolutely isn’t when she’d on the phone with her friend. During the roast she even says nobody makes her laugh like Suzie. She certainly isn’t having that much of a gas with her joyless son and his joyless wife. But if she wanted to be with somebody she would be. She has the money and fame to have her house jam packed with people. She has the money to stop working. She doesn’t because she loves it. Because she didn’t pick the stage over chilling with Ethan and Esther because she was broke. She picked the stage because she loved it. If she wanted to be chilling with Ethan and Esther she’d have married Zachary Levi’s character. That isn’t who Midge is. And that not be a choice every woman or even most might make but that is who Midge is the day we met her and who Midge is in the end. And that’s fine. She’s fine. She’s spending the night hanging out with her best friend in the world.

As a non New Yorker I absolutely knew Yoko meant Midge was living at The Dakota and I'd have recognized The Dakota if I saw it because I've been to New York and seen The Dakota. But I didn't pay any attention at all to the establishing shot but I rarely do.

I never think Midge was funny and I didn't think Midge was funny here but in the same way I never find stand up funny (and I also didn't find Joan Rivers funny so it might be me) but I do think I bought it as something the audience was enjoying and that would get her seen by somebody. I don't think this was supposed to be a literally overnight phenomenon thing but the launching of the thing that got her her next gig and the next and the next and superstar. And I buy that. I loved the end with Midge and Suzie. Theirs was a lifetime relationship and it felt right them being there for each other like this. Honestly watching jeopardy on the phone with my bestie is pretty much my ideal retirement. And honestly more than I hoped for for Suzie who clearly retired and is content enough to not want to be back in the game. Midge does seem lonely in her giant home with nobody there eating alone in the kitchen but she clearly still loves to perform and honestly she may be more content than she seems because a younger Midge would be there with the cooks and the housekeepers trying to get them involved and being Midge at them. Midge certainly has enough money to have all kinds of people be entertained by her at the snap of a finger. She can have the staff being her entertainment. She is choosing to be quiet for the first time in the literal entire time we've known her which might indicate that she is more contented than the setting would indicate.

People Midge would run out of the office to see in an emergency? Her parents, Joel, Joel's parents, Ethan, Estther, and Suzie. I'm not saying it isn't about Lenny (although I find it implausible that Lenny would call her at the Gordon Ford show) but I can think of loads of People that would have Midge sprinting off to check on. I genuinely hope this is not how it goes down. I like the chemistry between Luke Kirby an Rachel Brosnahan as much as anybody but this whole past episode is about women standing up and taking their shot and taking credit while I don't love that Suzie was put in the position to leverage an ex for Midge I prefer that to Midge being in the situation she's been fighting against with Gordan Ford this whole time which is having to not know if her big break came from her badass comedy skills but rather because of a physical relationship. Lenny respects Midge as a comic, sure, but if he's responsible for her big break then it isn't her getting it on her own, it is about what doors a man opens for her and that is not my preference. I don't think Suzie's rant to James was about racism it was about her being frustrated that Midge has paid more dues for longer than James and Suzie can't get her where she knows Midge should be while it is being offered to James. There is a huge white privilege to not immediately knowing that James is also going to have doors slammed in his face because of his race and that she can't afford to let an open door close. But I don't think she did that because she is racist or because James isn't ready, she did that because she had a terrible moment. But if she really believed James wasn't ready because he is too green or because she's a raging racist then she doesn't call Paar and she doesn't get on that train to Baltimore.

I have known fathers of only daughters to have these epiphanies. And they are always applauded and I try but the whole time I'm thinking that's nice but did it never occur to you that your mother, sisters, girlfriends and wives were also people? I think Abe is sincere but how that changes how he treats women as a whole vs just Esther? I don't know. One difference though is Chaim is going to grow up seeing Abe respect Esther's intellect which is something Noah didn't get.

In fairness he said he didn't give each child what they needed to be better. Noah is like him, very like him and he molded that. He doesn't have Midge's fearlessness. I think Abe wonders if he'd left Noah alone more if he'd have picked up less fear from Abe either by spending more time with his mother or by just exploring the world in an unfettered way. I don't think he is disappointed in Noah as he is wondering if he could have done better by Noah by doing more for Midge. My grandfather had only daughters and to that extent he treated them somewhat like boys expecting them to do all the chores a son would beause somebody had to do them. My mom was very intelligent and did well in school. Took college classes in high school and won scholarships to college but her dad couldn't see for her a better alternative than marrying the guy whose father owned two gas stations. And when she went to college he insisted that aside from math that she also take secretarial or bookkeeping classes because that is how he could forsee her having a future because that is what women did. My mom could split and stack wood but she also needed shorthand. My mom was fearless. She loved her father. But she thought he was wrong. And she was right. She had a great career (although as that career was in computers learning to type didn't hurt) and the last time I went on a walk with him he showed me where my mother went to school and told me how proud he was of her being better than all the boys at math. I told her when I got home an she wept because she never heard that. She never doubted he loved her butt she never knew he saw her.

It certainly felt like Rose was terminal in the 1970s segments (maybe more foreshadowing for people who think Midge is terminal in he 1990 segment. And it is a very Wiseman way I feel to pay for all of Rose's dreams but doing it by booking an extended Australian tour rather than by just spending the time with Rose. And if Midge is terminal in the end does Suzie coming back into her life means Suzie pulls all he strings to give Midge another momet on stage outside of Kansas? Like many bits with Moishe and Shirley the not understanding that Midge is successful goes on to many beats every time they play it. I don't even need them to get it I just need them to stop referencing it multiple times in every single line. I enjoyed Hank Azari here but that segment went on way too long at the end.

No, Suzie didn't get Joel thrown in jail. Joel got Joel got thrown in jail. Joel made the decision to save Midge 30% and get her out of the mob by going harder with the mob than Midge ever would have been. He made that choice on his own for whatever reason but he went looking for that choice. He decided he needed to act on his own and he acted on his own. And he didn't tell Midge that Suzie was in over her head. And he didn't tell Midge what he'd done previously for Suzie. He let Midge believe things that weren't true. And suddenly he's a good guy but he's as much the reason as Suzie is booking Midge in Vegas to pay off debts as Suzie is because Joel has information he doesn't think Midge needs to know. He let Midge get used by Suzie for DECADES after he stepped in with the mob. And you can't say he didn't know about Suzie's issues because he does. He's stepped in there before. I don't know while all of a sudden Joel is this hero because he made a stupid self sacrifice for stupid reasons but didn't tell Midge the things she needed to know. I'm pretty sure ASP wants us to think this is a hero move from Joel too but it's not. It's stupidity guised as selflessness. If he is all in for Midge then he goes to her and gives her all the information and they work out a plan together instead he does it all by himselfe, Midge is still in the dark about Suzie's problems and Joel now in trouble too. And as much as Suzie used Midge, Suzie is going to get that guy fired to get the policy change that gets Midge on the show for her big break. Suzie has to pivot every time Midge blows up her career and find new pathways for her and Midge blows up her career n the regular. Talent and management is a parasitic relationshiip on both sides. Midge gets to be pissed but when she dumps Suzie she's not booking Ceaser's she's booking QVC and Kansas.

Joel got in deep with the mob to save Midge 30%. Susie isn't the reason Joel went down and I have no doubt that Midge was right about Suzie being in trouble because of her gambling debts and booking Midge in gigs to keep those debts paid and Midge gets to be pissed about that but it isn't on Suzie that Joel spent 24 years laundering money for the mob. That is a choice Joel made. People saying he's a mench for protecting Archie, I mean sure, but Archie didn't sell himself to the mob Joel doesn't get extra points for taking the whole fall for something that was all on him getting himself into. And I don't think they turned Suzie into a monster. She has a gabmling addiction and has since we've known her. The stakes went up as she got deeper in and more succesful... shocking not shocking. But the only person we've ever seen care about Suzie enough to help her get out is Midge and when Midge identified the problem she cut Suzie out and that's fine. But suzie doesn't have a Joel tilting at windmills for her. Midge has two. And without Suzie she's selling wigs. She's not doing any better without Suzie than Suzie is doing without her. Just Midge's version of not doing as well is stylish and flashy.

I heard oop not huh or oopsie and I also thought it was an accident. She was totally fucking with him but I don’t think she intended to drop it.

I mean he said that but he could have said literally anything. There is no reason to assume he’s telling Dennis the truth about the phone call. Like in all the time he spent looking for his sister in her cult he forgot to do any research about cults or leaving them. 21 jump street did the cult thing better.

They were in the photo stoned Lena was looking at. I was waiting for the reveal that stoned Jude rather than Kamaya superglued the ring to the Barbie.

Joel seems to indicate that she's not doing comedy. Not that she's also sidelining in wigs. Susie and Midge don't break up until about 1983 if you believe NotMikeWallace about their 25 year partnership. We don't know how long Joel has been in prison but it is clearly a cushy joint and he expects to be out in 4-6 months so certainly not murder. The bathhouses certainly existed by the early 60s and while Bette Midler didn't play in them that early it clued the audience in t what they were seeing. There is a reference called Gaedicker's Sodom on the Hudson published in 1949 that chronicled various gay places and described the Everard bathouse as having showers, steam rooms and a swimming pool in the lower levels (as oppssed to the rooms for sex and voyerism upstairs) so that Suzie might be aware of this type of institution isn't crazy. Early and the wrong location for Bette, sure.. But plaussible this guy was there and Suzie could find him? Sure.

The Complex I live in has large studios- 4 bedrooms all in the same physical building. All condos. My previous place had all stand alone condos ranging from 1 story 1000sqft to 3 story 3000sqft. I'm not sure the size of Maggie's place has much impact at all on the size of Delilah's place Also moving an hour and a half away from pre=teen Theo would be a really crappy thing to do. Sometimes parents have to move away from their kids but Eddie and Delilah certainly don't. People keep mentioning that Cameron/Greta is 41 but Grace Park is 49 and the characters are the same age. They could both be playing 40-41 butt they could easily both be splitting the difference at 45. /shrugs.