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Piling on here, but in the early 70's, my sister and I were at boarding in the South of England. Our winter uniform was a tweed skirt (generally only one, which was worn every day for 2 1/2 months), a flannel shirt with tie, and a V-necked sweater. We got a clean shirt every week. If you were under 13, you wore knee socks all year round. If you were 13 - 15, you wore thick, ribbed stocking with a suspender belt. If you were over 15, you wore panty hose (people had great fun dropping dilute sulphuric acid on panty hose to create holes of various sizes. We had indoor and outdoor shoes. I remember winters, even indoors, being really cold. In knee socks, our bare knees were ashy, and we had chilblains in fingers and toes. We spent as much time as possible hugging the radiators. We were very envious of kids in state schools who were allowed to wear thick tights with their school uniforms. :-)

Isn't Jesus in Brandon's old room? He definitely has his own room now. Where IS Brandon sleeping? (I'm spending WAY too much time thinking about this...) Also, yes, having Noah staying over in Jude's room is a double standard. He's Jude's declared boyfriend, isn't he? The others don't have their significant others staying all night. (Not that they don't have sex in their rooms...)

The books are very Gryffindor-focused. I keep thinking I want to see a book told from the Slytherin point of view -- about those dreadful jocks in Gryffindor.

I thought Alice was the warrior and Kady, the torture artist.

Where is Poppy going to sleep? Will they put another bed in Mariana and Callie's room? Poor Mariana -- she once had a bedroom to herself...

I realized Helen did still have her disturbing scissors through the neck tattoo. It was just hidden under her clothes.

Re: Tom and salt In the 18th and 19th century, when a nobleman's chef started preparing food that was too heavily seasoned, he would be sent away to the country for a month to eat bland foods. This was to reset his palate. Maybe that has to happen to Tom. :-)

Netflix could find a market. Season 1 & 2 are on Netflix internationally now, and they don't rely on advertising to support the show.

This made me laugh. My half-sister is from Alabama and I always thought her grand-daughter was Tyler. It turns out her name is Taylor. It takes a southern accent to make them sound the same. :-)

I do enjoy Jason Ritter's physical comedy -- which is a surprise to me as it is something that usually leaves me cold. His charm made me laugh heartily when he was slipping and falling in the jelly.

ItCouldBeWorse, I totally agree Dre would be a terrible SAHD. The kids knew it which is why Junior stepped up. What IS Dre good at, beside spending money on shoes and hats?

I was impressed by what they turned out for Restaurant Wars. Forage and Create had amazing food presentation skills; they deserved their win. Summer House made some interesting food but they really should have used Marcel. He was definitely trying to be helpful.

Did Helen actually get rid of that scissor tattoo on her neck? (It creeped me out so much.) Or is it just covered with makeup? (I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one!)

Tom and co still said it was the best dessert they had eaten in the entire history of Top Chef so I guess the upside down cake was pretty tasty.

I didn't get that the righteous would all be babies. Yvette seemed to assume most of them would be older than a new born.

Wasn't it just the one while she was pregnant? Yes, that is also cause for discrimination, but AFAIR, it was only the one. Bow has always been proud of her job and enjoys it. I would say if someone had to stay home with the baby, it should be Dre. He spends most of his time at work talking about personal issues. [Personal anecdote: A boyfriend of mine broke up with me because he didn't want kids. A few years later, we reconnected and his current wife had him at home looking after 4 children under 6. I did laugh.]

Except for the quirk of Douglas Adams, of course. Quirky is out there though (in different styles, see The Good Place, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, or Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). - I think it's doable.

I don't see why they couldn't use a different showrunner. There are many, many shows that use multiple writers and have changed their showrunners, and have been successful.

There's also a possibility that Netflix, with its international reach, could take it on. It's a great place for quirky dramas.

That's why I would have wanted more back story -- which would be more likely to happen in a series.

OT, but Max Landis was pretty fair to the women in Dirk Gently.

I loved the book but my first thought for the trailer was: Why do the game environments have to be so dark and gloomy? I'm not a traditional gamer but it seemed to me that the book's version of the game worlds were sunnier and cleaner than reality. In particular, I'm thinking of their school environment, which seemed filmed through a blue filter and looked as if it was shot on a cloudy, grey day. The game worlds seemed a bit too similar to the apocalyptic reality. And yes, I thought Wade was remarkably fit and trim climbing down in the beginning.

I mostly enjoyed it. Definitely appreciated the world-building and would have liked to spend more time there. It would make a great series that would allow that to happen which would make the piece more interesting. The actual plot of the film was less interesting to me. In particular, the racism by everyone was off-putting and it was difficult to be sympathetic to Ward who was a particularly egregious example of it.

Unpopular opinion: I quite like Joel. I think his asshole-ishness is the result of being married too young, with a growing family, and being in a job he's not in any way qualified for. Add to that the fact that his wife is brighter, talks more, and appears perfect at all times to him. She doesn't allow him to see her vulnerabilities and he feels emasculated by revealing his. I would say that is why it was easier for him to have an affair with dumb as a box of bricks Penny, and leave Midge as soon as he bombed at the Gaslight. I appreciated the flashbacks where we saw that they did have things in common and shared a sense of humor and literate references. His reaction to hearing his wife share their personal emotional and sexual history with a bunch of strangers and treat it like comedy made me think of Chris Evan's reaction during the first round of dating Jenny Slate. He was at a stand up show that she did and ended up leaving the club when she included jokes about their sex-life. It can feel like a betrayal of your most intimate self by the person you love. I'm sure Midge's parents or kids would have much the same reaction. At least, it was clear that he finally understood that Midge was a much better stand up artist than he ever was -- but it does have to come with a certain amount of coldness.

This show reminds me so much of my grandparents who lived in New York from the late 20's. By the mid-50's, my grandmother was a sample cutter in the fashion district. I have a distant memory of her in a shop like the one Joel's father runs. The "negro girl" at the make up counter who was a model could have worked for my grandfather's model agency. He had one of the first model agencies in NYC to handle what he called "sepia ladies" and, by the 50's, was putting his models on the cover of Ebony. In the early 50's, my mother was one of his models.