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Annika. The Bay. Hidden. Unforgotten. If you don't mind foreign detective shows with subtitles, there are loads of good ones. Thou Shalt Not Kill. Luna and Sophie. The Nordic Murders. The Bridge (Swedish /Danish and French/English versions). Murder in Sweden. Before We Die.

Teeny doesn't want Sam to get in her head. Sorry kid, apparently he's been living inside your skull since before you knew he existed. That's quite a feat! Please seek psychological counseling when you get home. I really hate the way that Sue and Teeny especially act about Sam. It's like middle school level maturity. Very unpleasant to watch. I really don't like either of them.

OMG! Blue Bayou. If I never heard that song again it would be too soon. Many many decades ago I lived in an apartment where the manager and his kids lived upstairs. His teenage daughter had some breakup that she was moaning about and her bedroom was right above mine and she, I joke not, played that damn song on repeat all day and all evening for weeks. I thought I was going to lose my mind. That was when I decided I hated Linda Ronstadt. I can't even hear her sing anything anymore; it gives me PTSD. It was a good episode but I get tired of the murdered family storyline. I know it's a huge part of who he is but I would really like to move it to deeper background and get on with current cases more. I know that probably won't happen (Origins, after all) but I can dream. And please show, never ever play that song again. I can't take it.

This is killing me to admit but I totally get Kody's reaction to Aurora and Breanna wanting to go to church and his apprehension. I was for many years involved in a cult and when my grown son recently mentioned he was going to some church with his fiancee I totally freaked inside. I had so many questions. Fortunately both he and she were understanding about it and things seem okay and we've always been very clear about he gets to choose his life, not me. I had my turn, now it's his But that internal alarm and fear I totally get. It's way real. I love the Meri scenes. Watching her process her reality and seeing what great friends she has is encouraging. I wish her all the best. Christine is so happy and watching everyone who matters to her be happy for her is wonderful. Yes, it's tiresome to watch all the time but the reality of it makes me happy for her and I don't begrudge her the delight in all the things she never had and really missed. She gets them now. The Kody/Robyn date was hard to watch. They do seem to be happy with each other's company. I did cringe when Kody said that 'all of his kids' come to him regarding church etc and was confused until I realized that 'all' meant Robyn's kids. He was not meaning the OG kids. That was heartbreaking and infuriating. He just keeps topping himself in his assholery. I don't know why that keeps surprising me.

Yeah, unfortunately she does. There was at least one recent season of I think it was 20/20 that featured her talking heads during episodes of whatever crime of the week they were covering. I remember refusing to watch as soon as I saw her participation because I can't stand her and don't want to support her in any way. Dateline has decided podcasters are king and 20/20 had Nancy Grace. I didn't watch the 20/20 episode on Jonbenet this week because it was about Jonbenet so I don't know if Nancy Grace was on it but it would make sense if she were since that was her thing back in the day. Now I am wondering if she was the talking head on that episode. Sarah's impression wasn't good. Sarah has a habit of screaming her lines and thinks it's funny (it's not) so she pretty much screamed her entire impression and that to me is what made it a terrible impression. Nancy Grace doesn't scream, she speaks in a weirdly emphatic way along with that attitude of someone who has conquered all morality and is annoyed to have to be the one to explain why you are stupid and wrong to you but will do it kind of like she's been appointed by God to do so. Sarah didn't capture that at all, she just screamed her lines and looked crazy eyed. Nuance is completely lost on Sarah. I really liked this episode a lot. I have been pretty unhappy with this and last season so this particular episode was a wonderful surprise for me. I really enjoyed Jane's musical number during WU not just for the lyrics but for the way she acted and emoted during it. She's good at this and she's funny. The 1950s car brought me back to Christine and I was thinking no way would I ever get in that car. I guess the folks in the sketch didn't know about Christine. Just a regular racist car. They were right to burn it, which was a funny surprising ending. I never like the kind of sketches like the hospital operation one but this one was actually funny so good on them. I think having Rock on this episode really improved the usual writing this time. And the holiday party was brilliant IMO. I've been to many a forced march holiday party like that one while I worked at an insurance company - you wish they'd just let you leave early but you are stuck there having to celebrate with people you would never socialize with and it's during work hours so you can't get out of it. It's more fun to mock it than to be in it. Chris and Ego's part was especially funny.

Everytime these dumb women go on and on about 'my man' I can't help thinking 'Neanderthals in the building!'. This is the first time I have heard a woman call someone her 'mans'. Maybe I'm just old but it sounds so ignorant and stupid to me. Ditto with calling someone a 'female' in the same context. They might as well as be talking about breeding animals in a zoo. This season seems like a big liar and grifter season. I'm not sure I can get on board with any of these fools.

I didn't hear the dementia part but that makes more sense. If she wants to help the food insecure she still needs to manage all that livestock and fish with just her and the girls. I just think either she's taken on way too much or she has a lot of help that she did not reveal during the time they were there. It just makes no sense to me. I also have trouble believing she had a thriving homestead in Hawaii. We've seen several episodes based in Hawaii and it seems like it's hell to try to homestead there. The available land to buy to do so is pretty limited to inhospitable areas.

The last episode with the alligators was weird. Homesteader is a single mom with two little girls who had what she claimed was a thriving homestead and business in Hawaii but left it to be close to her dad who is in failing health. Yet she seemed clueless about the place she bought, apparently did no research about weather, swampland, wildlife, etc and has no idea how to begin to problem solve the solutions. And her failing in health dad was doing some pretty heavy work on the place so how failing is he really? In these newer seasons of the Raneys coming in with a build crew and seemingly unlimited resources and brand new buildings and equipment given to the homesteaders I wonder how many of these newer applicants are hoping that if they have a rundown hopeless property and absolutely no appropriate skills that the Raneys will just come in and set them up entirely with housing, equipment, livestock, gardens, and solar. If I knew I could get all that free I might just buy something really stupid and apply myself. If I was that kind of person. Seriously, eighty percent of the land she bought is actual swamp with many alligators. The scummy algae covered 'pond' comes close to their home with no protection from alligators. And the mosquitoes must be terrible. Now the Raneys set her up with goats and chickens galore and a garden to feed her family and what is it we find four months later? She has added rabbits, turkeys, geese, and the chickens are multiplying as are the goats. Yet it's just still her and her two little girls on the homestead handling all of this. I don't trust this at all. There is just no reason for someone alone and with two little girls to have that much livestock to manage in such a small area (the swamp takes up most ot the property). And when the hurricanes, tornadoes, and torrential rainfall hit protecting all those animals and the garden will take some doing even if the Raneys did their best to protect what they had left them with. And who is to say that the hydroponic garden that juts out from the barn cover but is still connected to the tanks inside with the fish won't be drowned in rainwater that backs up into the fish tanks? I have so many doubts about this whole thing. But my primary complaint has always been the applicants who have no business even doing homesteading in the first place and make no effort to even research the land they buy or learn any real skills to make it work. They kinda piss me off. I love the Raneys though so I keep watching.

Someone here once posted a video of a girl going down the list of weirdly spelled Mormon names and it was hilarious. It was in response to the names Christine gave her kids. But I can't find it anymore. Does anyone have that they can post again? I saw that Meri's friends were named Andreah and Hillaree and immediately that old video came to mind.Thanks if you have it - I wanted to share it with someone.

They are desperate to get out of that house and away from their weird parents. Every time we see them they look miserable and the one acts just like Robyn with the weird cry thing. It might be too late to save her but the other sister might make it out okay if she leaves now. Returning to church would probably mean that they are looking for polygamous husbands of their own to get on with their lives. I can totally see Robyn really talking that kind of marriage up, with her dreams of multiple rocking chairs on the porch and all.

She's a manipulative sociopath so I doubt she has much guilt to live with. She's fine as long as she gets what she wants. Poor babies. It was a WTAF episode alright. The weirdest part was trying to see what John saw in her that he loved her and then he transferred that love to a sex robot. There was something very very wrong with John. At the very least his picker was broken. The legal issues were jarring and the lack of any real humanity in anyone really was disturbing. All in all a very strange episode, taking it into the future like this.

Ugh, Sue. Ugh, Teeny. It's like Survivor: Middle School Edition. Well I guess Sam can't sit with the cool kids any more. I am completely astonished by how each of the remaining survivors has perfectly straight, pretty white teeth. Not a flaw among them. That seems statistically improbable. I noticed this recently so I cannot say that this carries through the entire cast, but I'll bet it's close. Was going to root for Teeny until tonight. She lost me entirely in her crazy eyed grudge against Sam. Sue and Teeny both have that look in their eyes like they could cut a $@tch. Two episode finale over a two week period. Thanks a lot, Survivor.

I was happy to see that for once Remy didn't pair off with Nina. It was getting to be a little tiresome the way he always picked the hot blonde to accompany him on cases. Speaking of which, the show is dressing her more and more inappropriately to the job each episode. This time a very low cut top, shoes she can barely run in. She runs like she's had Chinese foot binding or something. It's ridiculous. She falls so far behind in chases I sometimes wonder why the chasee doesn't just stop and question 'Really? This is the best you can do?'. I like Nina on her own but the show is making her look like a token hot girl. Or a Charlie's Angel. At this rate they'll be adding 'jiggle' to the Nina repertoire before the season ends.

I guess new agent is some kind of wonderkind. Next we'll find out she's the unit's sniper, and she is an expert in seven languages or something. Having her command the whole profiling situation irritated me and took me out of the story entirely. She is just so unsmiling and offputting. I can't put my finger on it because I have lots of police/detective shows with taciturn leads who I really like, women and men. But this particular character I just don't ever want to see at all. Perhaps it's because she hasn't really paid her dues to be taking the attitude and liberties she routinely does. She's new, but she bigsteps all the time. It was an interesting episode but seemed kind of heavy handed in the way it dealt with the subject matter. Uber-paternalistic doctor and son, crazy receptionist, Maggie wobbling over caring for Ella, pitting women's roles against one another as some kind of zero sum game in a very simplistic way... The episode certainly had a viewpoint it was beating to death.

Sue is an ugly person. That ridiculous grudge against Kyle that she just seethed and stewed over was not a good look on her. ( Note: inflated duck lips, like tattoos, do not age well. Something to think about when you're younger.) I really can't stand this woman at all. She'll be with us to the end, won't she? Good bye Kyle, I'm going to miss you. You are pretty much the only person I could actually root for, aside from Teeny so far, in this silly season.