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That describes all of the try-outs other than the Real Housewife. It's sort of a trend for this show to seek out a Foxbot for that seat. It wasn't surprising that Elisabeth and Jedidiah both moved over to FOX after this show, and MM is about to re-join them. Abby was also from there.

The episode opening with a misspelling made me laugh. I know mistakes happen, but it was the first shot....

Glad that Peedy is gone and that Hailey survived.

The Blue Fairy was easily the most underused character considering her potential to be a good character with powers. Emma was really the only other one. And Merlin, too, I suppose. I think it would've been interesting to involve the Blue Fairy in the Oz storyline, perhaps she could have turned out to be one of the good witches (Glinda?). If Zelena ended up in the Enchanted Forest, it wouldn't have been that hard to believe someone else from Oz could have done the same either before or after her. The Blue Fairy being Glinda would have fit so well considering the actress as well as the character of Glinda's own ambiguous nature in the 1937 film.

Watching through this for the first time. I remember wanting to watch it back when it premiered because of McPhee's involvement, but too many things were going on at the time. I'm midway through the second season right now. The most recent episode I've watched was the Christmas episode where they have to fix the dam. Happy singing with the helium voice was hilarious. I loved the first season, but I feel like the second season has been a little messy... Not horrible by any means, just a little all over the place. I'm thinking of how Drew just vanished until a Christmas message in this most recent episode I watched after Paige nearly moved away with him at the end of the first season. I thought we'd at least see some resolution--I assume he decided to leave by himself anyway. So we never see Paige and Ralph's reaction to that or any fallout after so much buildup over how that would hurt Ralph? Or the first episode after Walter's accident when he's having problems with dizziness when things are tense and he's thinking too hard. I thought that would be a recurring issue for three or four episodes to build up to some kind of accident or drama, but it never showed up again after the episode it was first mentioned (in which it had little consequence). Or Ray joining and then leaving Scorpion pretty dang fast. I didn't really like the character at first, but he sort of grew on me. The fact that he continually got Paige's name wrong made me lol (probably justified after she had to leave him to walk 22 miles back to their headquarters in one of his first episodes). Or how Molina was introduced as their new boss before vanishing after two episodes; that one surprised me big time because I really thought they were setting her up as an eventual love interest for Cabe. Maybe she'll be back in future episodes though. Or how Walter has a hard time dealing with touch--which has been notably and inexplicably absent the past couple of episodes with people constantly hugging him and putting their hand on his shoulder. And some of the plots feel a little OTT even for this kind of show. Like how they need all the characters to be in the hospital for Megan's death, so conveniently there's an outbreak, lmao. Still, I love Paige and Walter's chemistry, as well as Happy and Toby's. The first episode of season two, when Walter dropped the papers when Paige says she kissed him while he was unconscious was a maximum moment of cuteness, and I loved their kiss scene at the end. I found Megan kind of annoying, which is why I wasn't as invested in the pairing between her and Sylvester--but Sylvester's also the one I like the least of the core group, too, so... Not that that means too much since I like them all. They did wrap up Megan's inevitable death well with the rocket being used to send her remains to the stars. BTW, I hated Walter's parents so much, wanted them gone ASAP. I was very glad they were only in the one episode with Megan's death, because the father was unbearable. Hopefully they don't reappear much over the next two and a half seasons' worth of episodes there are left.

Same. I can definitely understand where Che was coming from with saying--and I believe Sunny herself has said something similar on the show before--that the American flag often makes him uncomfortable. OTT flag displays can't help but remind you of certain things or people when you feel they are hostile towards you. But I agreed with Joy when she said they shouldn't let that color the way they think of the flag because nobody owns it or America more than anyone else, it belongs to all of us.

TBH, James and his storyline were mainly what got me to stick around for the whole first season. By the end of that first season, I liked all the characters. I still liked the rest of the cast, but when James' character had to be written out, it ruined it all for me. I was hoping the ending for the show would be that James would eventually end up with Harry after everything. Hoping for that ending was what got me through the horrible third season. Anyway, it almost looked like that endgame with Harry and James was about to happen, too, until the actor for James became unavailable. Just sad, this show was almost perfect. Now I can't bear to watch any reruns knowing how it derailed in the end, which is a shame. When it started, I personally thought it was nearly on par with Downton Abbey. On another note, I never liked Henry for James--I almost felt that was purposeful, because it felt like James and Harry would be endgame originally. That they put Henry with Harry seemed like an attempt to salvage that storyline with a new ending and I /hated/ it. No offense to the actor, I just never saw any chemistry between him and James, much less him and Harry.

This is one of the best episodes of the series so far. My favorite part of the episode was when Tom says some line to Marina about how beautiful she is and then they turn to look at Connor sitting by himself, and then Tom repeats the line about Connor, lol.

This is the only episode of the season so far that I loved almost straight through. Bowen Yang as Daddy Long Legs, Aidy Bryant in the mattress skit, Aristotle Athari in the lounge skit, the Prince skit, Chloe Fineman as Jennifer Coolidge in the celeb gameshow skit, all of them were so funny. Malek was one of the best hosts they've had and I didn't expect that; he was pretty cute dressed up as Prince, too. Even Chris Redd, who is very rarely a highlight for me, got me going in the monologue about blimps and congratulating Colin on "little baby Cletus."

Funny hearing them explain the "Shame the Devil!" saying on this show, to tell the truth even if it hurts you, since it's a pretty good description of what Schiff did to Ortagus just five minutes prior. He was exactly right that she was intending her question to act as a smokescreen for Trump, to divert from what still are facts of the Russia scandal because it benefits them to pretend the whole thing was a lie. Kudos to him for having enough spine to point out all the things that are very much still true about Trump's connections to Russia.

I watched a little of the auditions, but mostly this was my first night all the way through. I thought I would try to watch this season to see how Ariana does as a coach. The Lives are really the only part of the show where I can enjoy the contestants. Overall, this looks like it's going to end up being another Kelly v. Blake season to me. Gymani, Hailey Mia, and Wendy Moten were the ones I enjoyed the most. Paris was good (and dressed like Chris Stapleton?), too, and Peedy, while I didn’t like it personally, I could definitely see him winning with the way these shows go. Hopefully not though. When Gymani started, I immediately expected to hate it because Christina is in my top 3-5 favorite artists and I love Christina’s vocals in particular on “Say Something.” And it was sort of a mess in the first half, but when she reached the peak of the song, she pulled it off while avoiding being a copycat version. She reminded me of Fantasia Barrino during that one line where she took it over the top with an adlib (“anywhere I would’ve followed you”), but I was impressed with how she ended the song without because I expected too many runs. Sort of the same thing with Wendy Moten; I didn’t expect much because of the song choice. But I was impressed that she mostly performed it straight without overdosing the runs. I think what I liked most about her was her manner while singing, she seemed very down-to-earth and unadorned. Hailey Mia definitely isn’t a threat for the crown, but I really enjoyed her performance; sounded like she probably performed the best she could ever be expected to. I wasn’t too crazy about anyone else. I guess I do have a soft spot for David Vogel and Libianca was interesting if nothing else.

Ortagus was a non-entity. There's still tomorrow though.

Jedidiah was definitely as bad as Elisabeth to me. I believe she was only fired to make room for MM, who had some strings pulled for her. I have no doubt Fiorina would like to have this job, not so sure about the others. Although I'd say Rice was certainly doing the most if she wasn't really interested... Mary K is probably in the running, too. I personally thought she came across a little off with the others. She was antagonistic, but in a more quiet-spoken, passive aggressive way. The other ladies would definitely end up having disagreements with her, just not the sparks they probably want from someone more openly aggressive, imo.

Any bets on who they'll cast? I personally think it'll be Alyssa Farrah. For one thing, I think they'll want to cast someone younger than the others to balance the general age of the panel, which knocks Rice and Fiorina out of the running and perhaps Tafoya, too. I was thinking Cupp could be likely, except I remember some here pointing out that Whoopi was out when Cupp was there... Which could mean Whoopi doesn't want her on the show, and Whoopi has much more pull than the rest of the cast. There was a decent amount of press over Farrah's appearance on the show, too, which is why I feel like she hits most of the bulletpoints they're probably wanting.

They put out a list of names at the beginning of the season of guest co-hosts there would be trying out. Tafoya and Ortagus weren't part of that list. Not a big deal or anything, I just thought they were implying a new co-host would be cast over the holidays for when they come back in January. I figured after they got through the initial list they'd eventually have the people they've narrowed it down between to come back a second time around. Guess not. Two days doesn't seem like a lot to go by, especially since the majority of the women they've had on didn't even interact with the full cast for both of their days (with Joy being off the first day for most of them and Whoopi being off while Cupp was there, I believe). Still, it's better than casting without anything like they did with the last one, I suppose.

That wasn't what she said from what I saw. She was saying that most of the people she's known who claim to be Independent usually vote exclusively one party downballot consistently every election rather than switching back and forth as the description "Independent" would imply, and that she thinks many only refer to themselves as Independent because they don't like to be labelled as one or the other for whatever reason.

Oh, I disagree. Tafoya was definitely nasty, but it was more Elisabeth than MM level and was bearable for me because she didn't scream, the other ladies were able to respond to her spin, and nobody had to restrain what they could say to make her look good. I loved when Whoopi gave her her rudeness right back to her and how the audience cheered for both Sunny and Whoopi at different points in the Kaepernick discussion.

I was expecting Meredith or Elisabeth judging by the shadow--so I was surprised to see Paula! I didn't even think of her. I always enjoyed her (an unpopular opinion, I know), it was nice to see her again. I felt like there were so many things said by all the women in the first segment that I agreed with even if Sara and Joy were mostly where I am. I agreed with Sara that this is a centrist country, not necessarily a center-right one, and also thought Sunny was right that most independents generally vote one way despite calling themselves independent, they just don't like to own a label. Joy was on the mark with saying that that statement was a deflect by Manchin from the fact that a vast majority of his own state support both bills, and is (as she said) more indicative of the fact that he's getting money from various industries. But I agreed with Ana on the point that there is a huge difference between Manchin, who at least is open and seems to be trying to some degree, from Sinema. Her description of Sinema as a bait and switch of someone running as one thing while governing as another was a bull's-eye, imo.

The percentage she mentioned was actually 57% for CRT and they were taken from exit polls, they said. Sunny was right that it was almost double the 33% that the guest co-host yesterday brought up for being the economy number.

Good show, and I enjoyed seeing Padma again. She was a contributor when Michelle, Raven, and Candace were on the show and, while I came to like Michelle over time, I didn't think any of those three were a good fit and was rooting for more co-hosts of substance like Padma and Ana. I'm glad Ana at least managed to stay with the show over the years. Sara's question about CTR to the guest was such an uncomfortable moment. What she was asking them to do was treat something false as being real. If a person has any decency at all, they're not going to sell out like that, whatever the consequences for the truth end up being. I'm not surprised there's always been a bit of coldness between her and Sunny over the years taking into consideration the past couple of days. People can often sense who their allies are and who they aren't.

Well, like with Sara yesterday, I imagine the show is pushing Sunny and Sara to add "sparks" to the show while the conservative seat is empty for there to be some back-and-forth. Sunny has always had opinions that differed from the others in minor ways, but before now I think she always shied away from voicing them too loudly because of Whoopi hating her and looking for any reason to steamroll her. So it clearly must be some kind of directive from the people behind-the-scenes for Sunny to voice her differences more this season because Whoopi has been allowing it without going crazy for the most part. I personally enjoy the show more for it.

Probably the worst quality of the guest is she already self-victimizes herself. She was already doing it halfway through her first day, when she was commiserating with Andy Cohen when he came out. Now more of it today. I mean, if you can't take it, then get a different job?

The CRT discussion is so pointless. The only thing anyone can do is keep repeating “CRT is not being taught in public schools, this is a lie” as Sunny was doing… And yet the discussion keeps spinning around as if anything being said is based in fact. Just a very sad state. As for Sara diverting to talking about how she wouldn’t want her daughter to be told the world is against her… Well, for one, as Sunny said, nobody is saying these things to children in the first place (on gender or race or otherwise). But leaving that aside, I couldn't help thinking that Sara clearly wants her children to be lied to, to present some naive illusion to them that the world is fair and the deck won’t be stacked against some people versus others. As for the guest co-host, for anyone who didn’t watch that was wondering what she was like, I’d describe her as a lighter version of Jeanine Pirro. Something about the way she looked and spoke reminded me of her. I didn’t comment on yesterday’s show, but I enjoyed the interview with Abedin. I didn’t think I was going to get to see it since the press conference cut in. Thankfully, the show was back before the guest was introduced.

Looking forward to Abedin and Lakshmi. I still wish Padma had been cast on this show back when she was trying out several years ago. It'll be nice to see her on again since so many people have come and gone since then.

I actually liked the costumes this time, they all looked cute. Still, the Halloween shows are always boring to watch.