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I can't believe I'm cutting those two asses a bit of slack, but Stacy had completely bonked her pork chop in the QF, so worrying about her chicken may not have been so crazy. But because I love me some schadenfreude, ha, stick it, you two, with your agar mess and shitty corn. Nice recovery, Stacy.

Seeing her use the pockets in the dress elevated the entire episode for me. What was the purpose of Handsome Tim being a fighter pilot who was doing a fine job of not thinking about killing people until now? I'm hoping it was a throw-away scene to establish his rapport with their daughter, or establish her as a fully functional human being, but I may be wrong about that. There was no draft during the first Iraq-area war--no need to have placed him there to establish his macho cred. Feh.

Was the point of this episode to reinforce what a lame-ass loser Lizzie is? Because good job.

It must be dusty in here, because when the guy started reciting Robert Frost, my eyes watered up. Go, human spirit. And pass the bun!

I may need one of these. I also need Jamie to write a script in which he's not forced to make Clara magical (go see to Sherlock, Steven). So now word is out that both planet Earth and this dimension are protected. Goodie. All these episodes in, can we now have more Big Damn Hero moments and fewer of the befuddled, Who-am-I? Leave us to ponder who the hell is Missy and how soon can she grab Clara.

An old lady critique is stupid. Because ladies? You should live so long. Mary Kay?? Anybody seen Heidi driving a pink Cadillac? And here's hoping Kini is getting that 24-hour turn-around-a-"miracle" treatment.

The Red Dress people got me a little (dead daddy stories do that) and good for them getting a deal. Their (incredibly slow) website came back up last night and, much to my dismay, was filled with the fugly. One King's Lane has been sending thank you notes and lovely wrapping for some time now, so good for them borrowing from the best and miraculously leveraging social media (really, Sharks? Don't embarrass yourselves thinking that's a new tactic.)

Looking at these people, it's hard to truly believe in the depths of Jake's depravity because Scott Foley. But he brings the cute. Papa Pope makes Dick Cheney look like a nice guy, but I root for him because Brother From Another Planet. Grieving POS POTUS lining up for a strike on Olivia? No redeeming nothing in that guy. And I did recall him telling Rowan "Olivia" and "tasting" and I do believe that was the moment he lost me forever. Buh-bye, Tom. You were killed by bad character writing--always a bad way to go.

That ginormous window behind Paxton was like a gun in a Chekhov play! (If a gun appears in the first scene, it goes off in the third.) ETA: Act. First act. Third act. Ack.

So before she became Smellie Mellie, wasn't her husband, the asshole, sleeping with her? Feh, Fitz. And I gotta say, with a lover like that, a murderous boy toy like Jake and an evil incarnate Daddy she can't see through, Olivia is working my last nerve with any holier-than-thou shit. You're surrounded by psychos, Liv. Apparently, it's likely contagious.

I will totally watch this--then they can cut away to Diane and Eli making mischief in their respective fiefdoms and all will be well. Alicia headed down this path for me a long time ago. Brave or b.s.? Not really caring, to tell the truth.

NCIS: Mellie! Hey, roomful of people feeling so sorry for Mellie and her crime-solving kung-fu--kindly keep in mind that up until that morning, the crime wasn't solved by some witnesses. (Of course there were other people nearby in the video, so Mellie could have called Ranger Jeff and gotten a status report before going off, but what fun would that have been?)

I'm not a CJ fan, but have to agree his fully declared love for peas did fly in the face of a dead relative or being a survivor story. Others have won by not making a dessert, so he wasn't kidding about doing whatever to walk away with 100 grand, a trip & a giant FU to the rest of it.

Not Blais. Not LeBron. Probably not watching eps with Blais judging if tonight's appearance is any indication of his Blais blah-blah. WTF?

Why yes, yes he did and yes it is. He was babbling on some other show about Russia's poison production (true) and so of course, Stalin used it on the injured Patton (wtf?). His immediate response to any question or challenge, repeatedly loudly, as is his way, is "They couldn't wait to get him in the ground!" If Jon ever interviews him, take a drink every time BOR says it--you'll get a nice buzz. Nice to see Wyatt again. Get well soon, Jon!!

Pharrell's producer side comes out every time he tells a contestant how much he wants to help shape them/work with them. Really looking forward to watching him with his team. Won't surprise me if he takes it (albeit there are too many contestants for me to pick one or which team they're on).

I'm too cheap to have a DVR and Comcast is too evil to enable the FF feature On Demand. Maybe I should start checking my Twitter feed on the smart TV--because having to sit through the scenes that don't involve Spader is getting too painful. I'm rooting for the cutie-assassin, but then, I was on Tom's side, too.

Ignorant jerk (those others don't need a stand-in, Tony now Anthony) who's clearly more concerned with artsy footage than content.

I admire Gloria Steinem. Using her as a device to get Alicia to run is supposed to make me root for this. But that chat about things to come between Alicia & the bald asshole did nothing for me but preview a soapier soap opera to come. At which point show can stop pretending it's anything but.

BearCat49, weather was what I meant by season. Huge mother of a snow storm vs. not looking so much like winter--as you say, could have been weeks and weeks between filming. Many here know how the show works; they were in my high-rise when one of our neighbors bought in, all of the filming was previously arranged. The alarm system was another annoying factor, not a related-to-the-weather one. I'd agree that sister cook took her time chopping those tomatoes on a cutting board on her granite, but they were mighty evenly chopped!

While waiting for Lura, I googled "Kevin Gillespie's potato salad" and the Southern Revival potato salad recipe looks good--the intro talks about serving it to chefs. Very happy for Kevin's win. Interesting that Art pulled out Oprah's favorite fried chicken--I think that entire dish is on his restaurant's menu and is a big deal. Not big enough next to porkopolis, though.

Bear must be so happy.

And apparently, their visit to the fake outs was filmed in a different season. The alarm system went off for three hours--these dopes must be really popular with their neighbors. "Think with your head." "Bombdigity!" Good luck, sisters.

Oh, Aretha. There was a quick shot of her before Dave's introduction and she was tossing aside some sort of dress-matching cover up (clearly deciding she neither wanted it nor gave two shits how she looked without it). I thought the start of Rolling in the Deep was a bit rough (I may have been distracted by all of her uncovered self) but man, when she got rolling (no pun intended), you remembered why whoever is in second place is waaaay behind her. Extraordinary performance. Dave also called out Cissy Houston among the backup singers in the intro and she (Cissy) looked none too pleased about that!

I'm afraid to ask, but do you think Derek drove Mrs. Kelly home? Ugh. His tribute had the Kelly moves, but not Gene's magic (if you haven't watched the full routine in the film, get busy). Mr. Hough, I was a fan of Gene Kelly. I know Gene Kelly's work. And you are no Gene Kelly. He got a 10 for dancing with two props (umbrella and Bethany). Loving Tommy. Missing Len. Not giving much of a crap about this season.