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I was thoroughly charmed by all of those tuiles. My husband came into the room and I started babbling at him excitedly about the adorable BEES...and the BUTTERFLIES...and the LEAVES..."they RUSTLE!!!" He was less impressed. That is correct. I was disappointed by something I misunderstood from the preview, though...at one point someone said the leaves were changing colors, like the leaves in Central Park in the fall; I thought they were doing that in front of the diners, and couldn't wait to see that bit of wizardry! Alas, that was an artifact of how the preview was edited. Curse you, Magical Elves! They were still absolutely beautiful...and did I mention they RUSTLED?!??!! Yes, the bees were sweet potato, the butterflies were carrot, the leaves in the 3rd course were eggplant, and the stunning (and RUSTLE-Y!!) leaves on the deconstructed pumpkin pie were (naturally) pumpkin.

Hold the control key down and type an apostrophe; release the control key and then type the letter you’re trying to put the accent on. My name is Renée…I know how to do an accent mark on both a PC and a MAC ;)

I hope so, because otherwise there's going to be undue scrutiny of every single female contestant's interactions with him. We know how people are; there's going to be a lot of "Is it her? Is it her? Oh, I bet it's that one..." I suppose it's naive to hope that the identity of the contestant isn't revealed, but if it is, I do hope that in this post-Me Too world she is treated with dignity and commended for doing the right thing. HE's the one who did something wrong and got himself fired; SHE should not be put under a microscope as a result.

Jackson, April, and Harriet showed up in the most recent episode, and Harriet STILL looked 2. Maybe 3 or 4, but definitely not almost 6. She was still in a stroller!

The guy had actually told Max that he had soiled himself, so I think we were supposed to believe that Max decided the guy needed dialysis based on a urine stain tinted with blood. Only *slightly* more believable. (But not really) My favorite part of this episode was the gesture Wilder made towards her interpreter when she saw him duded up in his wedding attire--the whole gang was milling about on the roof and you can just see her in the foreground looking him over and making that universally-understood sign that roughly means "Hubba-hubba!" I just thought it was a cute little off-the-cuff interaction. I maintain that Max saying "I'm picking Luna up in Connecticut!" is code for "Snag her from her locker at JFK on your way through, ok?" And since Helen never got on the plane, Luna's still in her locker. Mystery solved. ::confident nod::

The whole Pin the Tail on the Donkey thing seemed a little dumb to me, I mean it was such a beloved family tradition because of the kids on the box? Mm-kay. And then it occurred to me that showing Kate to be so good at it was a way of demonstrating a natural aptitude for using her other senses to compensate for not being able to see, skills which we are later led to believe helped in raising a blind son and made her a superstar in her career.

I got all excited when Helen said "Mina" was coming with her to the castle...then realized I was not in fact watching The Resident, and it was not the awesome Mina Okafor she was referring to, womp-womp. I completely forgot about Helen's niece. I'm telling you, they keep that kid in a locker at the airport!

Ugh, I'm jealous! Our CSA doesn't start until JULY 5 this year. No idea what's going on with the farm this year; I live in Pennsylvania, so it's not like I'm so far north that my growing season is radically different from Maryland!

The Kromosome?

You're right, they most likely wouldn't have been able to tell malignant from benign based on the scan! Oh...maybe the back pain was from a biopsy site, (posterior approach?), not due to the mass? That hadn't occurred to me. And now I've officially spent too much time thinking about Gary's fictional cancer.

I took it that way, too...a little Easter egg for us long-suffering masochistic loyal viewers. She's actually a trained scrub nurse! I love BokHee (I looked that up, because I've always spelled it "Boki" in my head), she manages to be such a stabilizing presence in the OR without (usually) uttering a word. I yelled "IT'S A DRIVE-BY!!!!" when the other car rolled past Teddy and Owen flirting on the street. NGL, I would not have been disappointed to see those two go down in a hail of bullets...though Teddy was pretty funny with her Boggle obsession.

Same, but my money was on kidney cancer based on the back pain. I noticed that scar, but thought it was courtesy of the makeup department (didn't Gary have a mastectomy with his first bout of breast cancer?). So handy that it can contribute to the storyline! It could be a new primary tumor; they didn't get into the results of the pathology report except to reveal that the mass was malignant. Then again, with these writers, they probably assume that once you've had breast cancer, then any other mass that shows up is going to be the same cancer, sigh. That was my first thought, too! The viewers' timeline is so fuzzy that it's hard to tell, but I would assume this is the case, and also why Maggie and Gary ran to the fertility specialist after only "trying" for a short time. I mean, they could have banked more of Gary's donations and tried later, but sure, let's just add all of that stress on top of Gary starting chemo again, no probs. They must have amazing insurance coverage, too. That was just some bad storytelling; as someone upstream pointed out, the stuff in the doctor's office and chemo was a flashback sequence. All we know for sure Rome saw on the memory card was Gary saying something about "just in case I don't get better," but the way Rome was sitting there with his gob hanging open in shock, maybe Gary said more that was obscured by the soundtrack or just left out. I have to say, Theo annoys me as much as the next person, but I laughed heartily at "[Grandma] wants to talk to you...good luck." though that might have had more to do with the look on Greta's face.

Right? I've known my husband since we were 11 years old, but I am his second wife; our friendship didn't turn romantic until after his first wife died, and we were married 36 years to the day we first met (first day of 7th grade; he sat behind me in homeroom). I like to think we'll get more than 30 seconds' face time on "the train."

I read that in a People online article this morning and slapped my forehead. Duh, of course!! I saw that too! I'm torn between re-watching to look for Easter eggs...and the knowledge that I'm not always good at picking out those kinds of subtleties, so a re-watch could just turn out to be another workout for my tear ducts :)

Sorry, double post!

That’s what I thought was going to happen. I actually didn’t realize little Kate was little Kate, and thought they for some reason were showing Kyle as a child. Derp. SAME…and I just now remembered that I did indeed record New Amsterdam! Thank you!! Anyone else notice that Dr. K was polishing a glass behind the bar with a Terrible Towel, and that Jack’s coffee mugs (World’s Best Dad, with his picture on it, as well as one from Lundy, the company where he worked) were on display on shelves behind the bar? Makes me wonder what other Easter eggs I missed…good thing I didn’t delete the episode!

Fun fact: Karla Souza (Marina) was the narrator of the audiobook version of The Go-Between, by Veronica Chambers.

I had to laugh when the Superintendent asked if the kids were ok and Max said, all full of righteous anger, “No, they’re not, I’m treating them at the hospital.” No, Max, YOU’RE not treating them, you’re off tilting at windmills again. I keep forgetting about Luna. I hope she’s ok in that airport baggage locker.

She was also nominated for a freaking Oscar for her role in Mank!

I was hoping that the app cost $1.99 and Judith would say "Oh, well I'm going to have to get approval for that expenditure. I'll be right back..." and leave them cooling their heels.

There are blood markers for many types of cancer, including melanoma (LDH--I am a Stage IIIC melanoma survivor and have had that marker checked every 3 months for the last 4 years) and prostate cancer (PSA), but yeah, these tests aren't run unless there is a clinical indication. Ain't nobody going to be running regular tests for every blood marker under the sun "just in case"... And even if there are clinical signs/symptoms AND a blood result indicative of a particular type of cancer, official diagnosis and staging will STILL depend on biopsy and scans, so Elizabeth Holmes can take several seats with her nonsense.

Knowing that this episode was filmed before Regina King's son had died by suicide earlier this year, I found her musings on generational trauma to be quite poignant. The young man had to have been struggling, to take his own life. Andre Leon Talley just died a month or so ago; I wonder if the show will acknowledge his passing.

Kevin is a goddamn hero with his dogged insistence on seeing the labs--"WE'VE GOT TO SEE THE LAAAAABSSSS!!!" as he pounded on the town car window made me stand up and cheer. I am a "Kevin" type and have actually audited aspects of Walgreens's and CVS's businesses on behalf of my own clients, so this episode was ::chef's kiss:: in my book. I have indeed had audit hosts escort me to the bathroom on many occasions, and in one particular instance, one came in with me (not in the stall, she was waiting by the sinks, but still). Anyone else snortlaugh when Naveen Andrews' "Sunny" said to Kevin "We wouldn't want you to get...lost..." in that menacing tone? I don't know whether that was a deliberate LOST reference, but it still made me giggle. I've been fascinated by this story for a couple years, and am loving the series. I also always root for Amanda Seyfried, a fellow Lehigh Valley native.

I was on to Becky within the first half hour and was getting sleepy (and a little bored, truth be told) towards the 1-hour mark, so I turned it off and went to bed. Finished up this morning, and had me a grand old time hooting and hollering when that purse shot was revealed. That was the best 5 minutes of Dateline in forever! The title of the episode was "Hands of a Killer," so I thought analysis of the blanket footage was going to reveal Becky's hand sticking out with a distinctive engagement ring being the thing that identified her. The purse camera thing is certainly much better, though! I do wonder who Tim wound up marrying; he was wearing a wedding ring, and I was halfway convinced that it was going to be revealed that he and Becky had still gotten married. I didn't have a problem with the arrest, I mean, the cops didn't know if Becky was armed (Tim sure was open carrying in all of his B-roll footage) or was going to go nuts at the church and hurt someone else. What I shook my head at was them pulling the family away from the visitation to tell them Becky had been arrested and then sending them back to greet mourners like nothing happened. C'mon, guys! Don't you think the family had enough to deal with on the day of Linda's funeral? Surely news of the apprehension could wait another hour or two. I'm not actually sure there was a service or anything (they just kept calling it a visitation), but unless there was and Becky or Tim had a key role, it is likely they wouldn't have been missed with emotions running so high. My favorite part was when Dennis was like [to Tim], "So all that time, you were sleeping with, sharing a bed with, a slash and stab killer. How do you feel about that?" I CACKLED. Dennis is everything. I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at that, too. Unfortunate.

Also, abnormal ejaculation and anorgasmia are both listed as rare (reported in <2% of patients in clinical trials) adverse effects on the Viagra package insert, so now I have *that* in my search history. You are all welcome. All kidding aside, I actually got the impression from the tortured "train/station" metaphor that Eddie may have lost some of his, urm, "enthusiasm," leading to neither party being satisfied. Which, I mean, uh, Ed? Your hands still work, and I'm assuming Anna wasn't out of reach, right?? There are other ways to make the lady happy, I'm just sayin'.