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LOL! In an earlier season, a local place (whose bones were made on triple D) got themselves an ep--they have no liquor license and one of their "employees" was driving thirsty customers (who hadn't thought to bring their own beers) to a van parked a block away to buy some. The over-acting on the part of the two owners was adorable (they're sweet and the place is great) and beyond any proof needed that this show was the fakiest fake that ever faked. Bon appetit!

Emily and Jason moved from Austin to Tortola because she got a teaching job at "a international school." Lord help them all.

She was artistic in her head. Good luck adjusting to Arizona!

Comedy hospice. Oh, Jon. (Supplying the fuel for that one almost gives Trump a reason for existing.)

it's not. We can go after the assessments if the unit is foreclosed on or when it's sold, as well as put the owner in collection, but can't instigate a foreclosure. Any chance the producers futz with voices in post-production? Or is this show a magnet for the country's most annoying voices?

Maybe, but to me, she's also not as annoying as the others. She's the one I'm pretty sure I could have lunch with without wanting to jam a face into the dessert plate. Also not surprised to see her out first. Still, this is a great gig for this bunch--not anyone's top tier of chefs but thankful, one could surmise, for the ka-ching.

Craig Bierko may have hung with Mike Fleiss, but I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't Bruce Campbell (on a bad day). I like it. A crapton more than the actual Bachelor or Bachelorette. I like Rachel--messed up and all the better to mess with the contestants. We'll see how far they take that--although by this time, many are used to rooting for unsympathetic characters. (And I discovered tonight that Comcast has the first 4 eps On Demand--or at least they do here!)

Wraps it up for me! I was gone after Jet got chopped--since we can't taste anything on TV (and I don't trust most of those judges), I'm going by sounds/looks good to me--and Jet's food was what I wanted. Poor Art. His restaurant is down the block, his food/kid charity work is wonderful and his food tastes good (fried chicken and biscuits!) but he doesn't operate in the styles du jour, so he suffers in competitions in which judges gravitate towards that. But he seems to mostly enjoy himself, so there's that. I don't know what to make of Anne. I've enjoyed her on my TV since her Mario sous chef days, but the FN machine has done her no favors. Now if I see her coming up, I'm more often than not changing channels. And the Food Network machine should get off the pipe thinking they've supplanted Bravo for food competition shows. Top Chef has seen better days, but even in their less stellar seasons, they present chefs and cooks with some reputations, not manufactured blowholes (or former legit chefs/cooks who have sold their souls to Tush and will say or do anything to keep their pusses on the screen). Except for Blais, and I call FN cooties on them for that. ETA: For grammar and that besides the emotional pull of their charities, at least we didn't have to listen to any sob stories about family rejection, death, addiction and more drama than can fit in a basket. Geez, Queen for a Day or what? (Go find it someplace--probably on Kinescope;-)

Victor, don't be insulting those bags. I'm so glad Jon is back, I don't care who he has on. Wonder if he'll acknowledge the veterans program that got the press over the weekend? It's hard to love you more, Jon, but apparently, you'd like me to still work on that.

*Ding* That was Penny's 15 minutes running out. [/justice in TV universe]

I lasted about 20 minutes. Quest seemed like he'd been injected with some experimental drugs (not the good kind). How long did I last? About 20 minutes!!!

Oh yeah. So many great moments, that one was pure Louie. I think Louie's main concern is that the girls are all safe--after that, phone sex, group outings to the cop shop, late night ice cream--it's all good.

Yeah, I agree we're aware that there's no "reality" show going on here. But there are good TV times to be had, especially the glimpses of homes in places I'd like to live--whoever the hell they belong to. Don't care.The uber-annoying husbands and/or whining wives are just the cherries on top of my spectator sundae. (Ack, small rooms and no ginormous fridge in hill town apartments?!)

*Yawn* Congrats, Sawyer, you seem like a nice young man with an interesting (abeit limited) voice. I don't recall you ever really emotionally connecting with a song, but good on you for not letting that get in your way. I think I'm still laughing because as the season rolled along, Pharrell wore fewer hats. That alone should have won you something.

Weird. So did they approach HHI? So bizarre to begin with, but creating a nice video scrapbook so the kids' friends can watch them hanging out in Norway instead of being home with their dad for a YEAR--I think the divorce story sounds more plausible. (I'm not saying you're not 100% right, Gretchen.)

I'd watch the Cy and Mellie Show. Not sure I'm watching American Hypocrites, though. I didn't think it possible for me to loathe Fitz more, but congrats, dude, you hypocritical Piece Of The Ultimate Shit. Bye, Jake, not sure you're happier to be walking away than bleeding to death on a conference table, but there you go.

Much as I suspected, without Kimberly, I don't really care. Joshua may be a perfectly nice guy, but bores the crap out of me. Koryn should have been long gone (a "solid" performance by her is amazing, of course). I don't like Meghan's music much. Sawyer is too mannered by half for my taste--and FWIW is one of my favorite songs (so thanks for bringing it to folk's attention, too bad there was no emotional there there. Oh, there's emo, but that's not the same thing, is it?) That leaves India, who I like, but wasn't my favorite Team C singer--not enough for me to keep watching anyway.

Sixty-minute tongue bath.

That bar scene! I was dumbfounded by JM's choice of the bitch face profile rather than looking "at" Kalinda. Bitch, you have no friends because you're you: the most unlikeable series lead ever (and I watched House--and Andy Sipowicz from the beginning). Happy that Jason got rescued--bad police business there (trying to recall if there's been a story like that in Chicago, non-fiction division). I suggested Matthew run and off he went, taking his cute face and suits with him. I unselfishly support his decision to get the fuck away from Alicia before she ruined his life, too. Wallace Shawn! There's a Princess Bride dialog joke here somewhere! (Now we know why I watched, but hard to imagine what will attract next season.)

The kids are starting to become real people, which will help. June's great and I hope she gets lots of screen time. There was a lot of humanity in this one, especially Sol's heroic efforts to try to cover all bases (and the obvious one they missed). I thought putting the cake on the beach house table was a nice touch. As was Brianna's leaving the room to rendezvous with a glass of wine--that one rang so true and universal.

Lots of potential--and Lily Tomlin!--so I'm hoping the characters actually develop. Plan on getting through this a bunch at a time (agree that Fonda won't bear continuous watching). But I saw that Ryan Gosling joke coming--it's the first thought I had when I saw the chair.

The point in Picture Perfect needs to be made. Maybe it can be someday in a way that's much better than this was. By someone else. This crew likes to go there/but not all the way--and not in any memorable way. I'll watch Louis. At least I know he'll go for whatever he's going for. (Which in this case, I guess, is awareness of his show. Although I can see him being supportive of SNL in the hopes that it crawls out of the lame shame pit.)

All the Gladiator torture reinforces for me is that there is no single "good" character on board. Complexity!, eh Shonda? Mellie's probably the only one I could stand to be in a room with. Mostly because she rejects her well-earned victim status whenever she can. (What drives here isn't an ambition I can identify with, but I understand she considers some things pre-paid.) Whatever political view that condones torture by the good guys on this show in order to demonstrate that sometimes ya just gotta go there--can go fuck itself. And if it's to show, "see it doesn't work!" then gratuitous torture porn can pleasure itself as well.

Which would explain Lizzie the assassin and the whole show--she's at the top of Red's Blacklist and this is all his way of catching her. Because she's soooo super clever!

Rowan was in the room, so hard to say who that person would have been talking to--can't see anything happening to Mellie while she's in the room with Rowan. Unless Mama Pope got out of that hole.