PokerNerd

Late to the show but loving the Simon / Justin showmance. You can see them both growing better individually because of their time together.

Let's not overreact and burn down Shan's church if she isn't fired immediately. You can tell the starvation, sleep deprivation and general paranoia of being in the game are getting to her. Before the merge, her attitude in confessionals were much more playful and upbeat. The game is getting intense and she's running into some people she that put up some resistance for the first time. I think she is a person with a lot of charm who's used to getting her way. It reminds me when Ted Lasso first meets Dr Sharon who is the first character to be unimpressed. The combination of the higher degree of difficulty and the extended time in little food are making her stumble, but I do think she's savvy enough about interpersonal skills to recover and mend fences.

I love all these bakers but Crystelle is just radiantly lovely. She is having a blast. I'm rooting for her to get to the final with Jurgen and Giuseppe.

I thought that in the end Sarah wants excitement or she wants blond babies. Feel like this series is a 10-hour lesson on confirmation bias. People discard the evidence they don't want to believe. Also Nakia - Fernando is a chiropractor and an Olympian and a grown-ass man. Jared pouts like a toddlers when he doesn't get his way. SMH. Lastly - I laughed every time Hawaiian Kevin was on the screen. Who? Exactly. At least he got 10 free weeks in the Caymans for getting 0 screen time.

Justice for Garrett! He's an asshole, but he played the game according to the rules he was given and he picked the girl stupid enough to fall for it. I get that Josh wasn't that exciting, but you can guarantee yourself $50K rather than picking red flag in frat bro form Garrett. I do like the way the producers manipulated the megadates to give the fboys the best shot possible. I'm curious about the alternate reality were Josh gets to jet pack and Garrett gets peed on by bats in a cave.

I am loving Nikki Glaser. She seems to be striking the perfect balance of taking her job seriously while not taking the show or the stakes too seriously. Of course the show is trash, but it's well-produced trash. All the contestants look amazing in and some seem genuinely sweet. It's a bit disappointing that It's also refreshing to see guys like Casey deal with the jealousy of seeing their crush date other dudes by understanding that he signed up for a reality show and that's the fucking premise unlike the holiday dating show on HBO Max where some of the contestants got irrationally jealous whenever the main cast was sent on another date.

I agree that one thing that makes the show great is is the depth of so many of the side characters. Lily is awkward and weird but she doesn't seem to be upset by her eccentricity. I like how she can be both empathetic and bluntly honest and the other characters end up kind of liking / respecting her. Compare Lily here to the fat chick Lola on Big Mouth who is just supposed to be disgusting and mean. I liked the little foray into the mean girls clique, but I'm surprised Ruby wasn't a bit more reformed by the last episode. Overall i love the casting in that everyone is compelling to watch. However, I fully expected Ola to be 5 years older than Otis. She is lovely but so much more self-assured and confident than everyone at the school. She looked more destined for the big sister role than the love interest. I liked the actor playing Adam, but he also looked way too physically developed for the role, not that I minded when in the scenes he was barely clothed. I lost a lot of sleep because once I got to episode 6 I couldn't stop. Agree that I love how the story line with Eric's dad played out and the way the church was portrayed as actually helping Eric find himself.

OK even funnier than the episode is the 1 star IMDB review complaining about the portrayal of the Men's Rights movement. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367934/?ref_=ttep_ep10

I loved Rob Huebl as Tad the HGTV host unable to stop hosting. The combination of writing and delivery was pitch perfect. Looks like Mikey's got something to say. Let's kick it back over to Mikey for the end of that thought.

This has been the first season of Survivor I've watched in years. While I personally like Nick the best of the final three, I think Mike deserved the win and played the best game. He flew under the radar while the physical threats were picked off and then seemed to control all the votes in the end. Nobody ever cast a vote against him yet he only won immunity once. I'm shocked they chose Alison to leave before him in a season where many players seemed to respect maneuvering and strategy over physical prowess. I'm happy Nick won, and in the end it's a tautology that whoever wins deserves to win because he convinced the jury he deserved to win. That said, if I were on the jury I would have begrudgingly voted for Mike.

My favorite moments came in the first 2 minutes during the kids' auditions. Starts to sing "5-6-7-8" Titus's horrified line delivery of "You forgot 1 through 4!" was perfect.

My favorite joke was "Sentenced for three counts of white kidnapping and one count of Oopsie no Bueno"

When Valencia and Heather confirmed Paula's inattentive parenting, I realized they could completely recast her two sons and I wouldn't notice. And since you're distracted now, can I get a tattoo blueprint of the local prison on my arm?

Every second with Angela Basset is amazing, but the moment after Michelle compliments Denise with the angry wine-drinking side eye while the aunt taking a swig from the bottle is the best thing I've seen all month. I may need to learn how to make GIFs to immortalize that second because it is PERFECTION.

The actress that played the Indian woman Priya was just pops off the screen. I recognized her as the good Eleanor on the Good Place, where she is also terrific. So much charisma. And it looks like she gets at least one more episode. I think she and Dev will be interesting together if the hot war photographer doesn't snatch her away.