TheGreenKnight

Yay for Wanda Sykes!

I haven't seen today's show yet, but enjoyed Tuesday and Wednesday. The writer's strike has given us a few funny moments, like Whoopi saying they'll be back with Union again yesterday only for the camer man to immediately correct her as commercials cut in and she was forced to give the advert for Union's show at the end instead in hyper-speed. Then again, that's Whoopi most days pre-strike, too... I think there was one day, can't remember which, where Whoopi cut to break as soon as the music started, which was timed almost precisely for the moment Sunny finished speaking (last to do so) just as Sara/Alyssa both moved in to pounce on her at the same time. Whoopi told them to blame the music that the two were forced to put their knives away, lol. Seemed like the only subtle reference to last week's to-do otherwise though.

That's what I thought when she wasn't there yesterday. A shame though. So she is moderating today (pre-recorded)?

Probably will not surprise you, I'm guessing, that I didn't read today's show that way at all. ;) To me, the most interesting part about the ensuing argument was that Alyssa apparently thought she deserved to speak before, during, *and* after Sunny's turn to speak whereas she didn't think Sunny should be able to get through her full thoughts even once, interrupting her as soon as she got done with Christie before she'd even moved into talking about the Pence half of the topic. She really could not bear to allow Sunny to lay down those facts about the LGBT deaths in Indiana or his involvement in the failures of the pandemic response and resorted to attacking Sunny when Sunny wouldn't simply kowtow and let her take her turn to speak away from her. The truth is Alyssa's close relationship with the subject of discussion meant she should have been speaking the least, not the most, of all the co-hosts. As far as Sunny specifically goes, my impression is she's been preparing her thoughts prior to the show for a while now. At least in some ways she comes across as if she's reading through notes the same way Ana and Sara often do, and in the past Sara and Alyssa have used that against her by jumping in midstream trying to throw her off track (which is why Sunny ends up taking so much time stumbling over her words). I actually *don't* think that's what Sara was trying to do this time, the past week or so Sara's seemed like she's trying to not play favorites between Sunny and Alyssa for once, but still I believe Sunny saw it as the usual game they've been playing when the two of them both jumped in with comments midstream again and that's where a lot of that came from. Either way, Sunny didn't resort to personal insults like Alyssa did--including insulting the show as a whole and dragging Barbara Walters' (may she rest in peace) name into it. That's why Joy told Alyssa not to take it so personally as Sunny was citing things that are known about Pence. Anyway, a lot of this to me sounds like the usual end-of-season tension that changes may be coming--they do go on break in a month and a half, I believe? Contracts were locked in through 2025 for all of them, from what I thought, but perhaps one may end up leaving after all, who knows. Personally, in retrospect, I think Tara Setmayer would've been a better choice than Alyssa. Never thought I'd be defending Elisabeth, but in all fairness to her--she was just a Survivor contestant with opinions like any random person off the street will have the same as Joy, Whoopi, etc., not someone with actual ties to the people being discussed.

Not able to watch right now, but looking forward to it when I get home, LOL! From the atticle above, I'd say it's laughable hearing her trot out Barbara's name for her own self-interest. I don't think Barbara's legacy would include someone with the kind of conflicts of interest she has being at the table either, just sayin'.

I watched it on YouTube out of curiosity. Personally, I thought they went fairly easy on him considering the manner in which he went at them coming out the gate, and especially in comparison to other interviews they've had in the past. They could've really nailed him and got cheered on for doing it, too. Instead they let him speak uninterrupted for what felt like 6 or 7 minutes before offering any pushback. Personally, I don't think there would be any value whatsoever in a View that didn't offer a counter of some kind to the type of claims he was attempting to pass off as factual.

I didn't know her by name either, but once I saw a picture, I remembered her. She's a good pick. Anyway, I remember reading a lot of criticism of Todd here over the year, so I imagine many are happy at the news, lol.

Oh, I hope so! Love this series. Even without Maggie Smith, I think I'll still enjoy it more than most.

I don't know how that makes sense with Ana being Monday's and Friday's-only. They'd be forcing her to be there an extra day? Maybe this is just a thing while the writer's strike is going on, they can sort of comb over the prerecorded show ahead of time. Pretty good week, overall. I noticed Alyssa name-dropping Sununu on Wednesday again, she's manifesting. Byrne didn't seem impressed with Whoopi incorrectly referring to her film Platonic as "Platonic Friends" at the end, but I did like her cracking up over Joy mid-interview. Liked Sunny's and Ana's comments when they were talking about Pride Month, liked Joy spotlighting Gorman's poem among the Banned Books today. The interviews today were fairly good (McCarthy had the better of the two, but both good). At times Ana comes across very scripted and controlled in her comments (not as bad as Sara though), but I did agree with her most of the time today--on how Pence has likely turned off every available audience and defending Christie versus Trump, and drag queens versus DeSantis. She even brought up a little factoid I hadn't been aware of or forgot as far as Christie having prosecuted Jared Kushner's father.

I lean more towards Joy, Sunny, and Sara on the Kamala Harris topic, Alyssa sounded ridiculous trying to pretend race and gender play no role whatsoever in the conversation and even feigning shock at the mere suggestion. Sexism aimed at the first woman to ever be in a particular role? Impossible! But Sara is right that Kamala probably has given some fodder here and there to the criticism of her. Interesting though that the show conveniently didn't have time for the list Sunny mentioned while giving Alyssa time to speak twice, including pulling out the smallest violin for her former boss, Pence; the EP being in Alyssa's favor reminds me of Elisabeth Hasselbeck days. Despite what Alyssa claimed, I don't think it says anything about the topic that she can come up with a pros list for Pence without much ado like that since selling people on him was actually her job not long ago. There isn't a former aide for Harris on the show in comparison. Mostly the topic--and the guest as well--felt like the show was throwing Alyssa a bone, lol.

I feel like I've seen the same thing a million times with Alyssa finding some way to rationalize something indefensible like the Target topic. Not surprising when you have her number--I'm not gullible enough to believe someone like her is some LGBT ally just because she says it before every anti-LGBT cause or advocate she goes on to speak in support of, she only says what is expedient to say in order to get her talking points across and (she hopes) assist in causing harm. What's unbelievable is Sara saying she supports them doing it, too. Incredible... But to prove a broken clock can be right at least twice a day, I did agree with most of what Sara said about DeSantis. But I think it's more a case like with Whoopi and Alyssa, I can acknowledge when I agree with something or other she say from time to time, but she isn't a voice I'd ever find completely believable again because she's shown too much that's two-faced with what her past persona has been on this show for me to buy it anymore. All that said, I thought Tuesday's and Wednesday's were good shows otherwise. Of course, I feel the show in general has been fine this and last season with a dud show now and again. Admittedly, Joy is really the only thing that keeps me coming back every day, but I do like Ana and Sunny when I'm watching despite their foibles. Whoopi, Sara, and Alyssa can all be fun and add to the discussion even if I disagree with them or find them annoying a lot of the time, they're never to the point of show-ruining even if I wouldn't mind seeing the back of any of those three if the time ever did come. And since they've maintained #1 with Whoopi, Sara, Joy, Sunny, and Ana for several years now, I think the show will be fine in the ratings with this panel if they stayed the same 4-6 more seasons like some of their other iterations did over the years. She would've been right if she stuck to Idol having been the start of reality TV in general, not so much that show in itself. Who knows what Whoopi means half of the time. Because she's struggling with her words, sometimes I feel like she catches a thread and follows it to her own detriment sometimes in an attempt to make sense.

Best of the duets to me by far, with the Lainey Wilson one somewhere behind.

Wow, Colin going first. Another surprising result much like two weeks back. Thankfully I could simply sit back and enjoy the rest of the show after that. Iam does feel like the proper winner this season. I always thought he and We had the best voices, no doubt, with Megan becoming another favorite as the season went along. Both Iam and Megan came across incredibly genuine, both deserving, I would've been happy with either of them winning. I will definitely follow those two and We post-show. I would support Megan whether she goes country or Gospel (or both). Well, I think Idol on ABC has had a pretty great streak. They've had great winners every year other than Chayce and the show is besting The Voice in the ratings (and I think The Masked Singer as well?). Idol came back for their crown! And I admit it was nice to see a non-country contestant win for a change, too.

No offense to the other actors, but I admit I have little interest in III since Lainie Kazan doesn't seem to be back.

I like Nicolle on her own show. I've never watched much of CNN though, and knowing Alyssa's on there gives me no reason to start now, lol. Speaking of, I think--aside from the interests involved with Alyssa wanting to defend her former employers--there's also the interest she has in defending her current employer also at work. At least I think the fact that there are two CNN employees on The View has a role in the weird attempt to overspeak Sunny for criticizing that network the past two weeks. It is sort of weird now I think about it that ABC would want another network's employees, with the conflicts of interest that can be involved when said network becomes a Hot Topic as CNN has been multiple times the past month, involved in their coverage--and The View is, whether it should be or not, technically filed under ABC News. I get doing it for someone with a lot of popularity and fans to add to the viewerbase like Ana Navarro, but taking on that baggage for someone less valuable like Alyssa is strange.

Not really surprised to see Sununu show up on here eventually, what with Alyssa name-dropping him almost daily. Looking forward to Sara Bareilles. Her last appearance on The View was a fun interview.

Well, I'm personally tired of Sara's vapid commentary that adds nothing to the conversation. She's always been that way, but it was easy to ignore when she was playing "the nice one," but it's much more irritating on top of the attitude. Lately she reminds me of what happened to Nicolle Wallace on this show, only at least with Nicolle (even when she became unbearable in her pettiness) there was always some substance to be had. That's never been the case with Sara.

Color me shocked--I almost expected to hear Sara defending MTG today simply because Sunny was also criticizing her, lol. I did miss seeing Ana today. She did seem a little taken aback last week by whatever it is with Alyssa and Sara tag teaming Sunny, maybe she just wanted a break from that, but I had been looking forward to a show with less of those two going on and on (and yet saying very little).

I agree with Sunny, being stalked is very frightening, whether you're a celebrity or not. But like that clip of Adams being skeptical it was a two-hour chase and Alyssa bringing up how it almost deliberately brought back Diana, I think they likely over-dramatized it. Whoopi was right that there's an easy way to deal with crazy in-laws--don't invite them, don't answer the door, whatever. Who would want someone like that at their wedding?

Sara sounded incredibly stupid on that first topic, arguing for a student being suspended for taping their teacher's massive blunder in actually using a slur that was being discussed? Yeah, yeah, if it happens, you wouldn't punish the child at home because they were in the right, sure, but to support the school suspending them in the first place, WTF? She's just a nutcase these days. It's very hard to imagine any parent allowing that to happen to their child considering what the situation was without causing a serious ruckus of some kind, threatening a lawsuit, whatever.

I think the difference is the last co-host had friends at the top ensuring nothing would change until they were gone. Whereas these days, the ladies are a little more likely to be heard when making complaints behind-the-scenes. Of course, Sara is an ABC plant who similarly has pull at the top (probably by kissing ass like she's always done with Whoopi on this show) which is why she and Alyssa probaby feel emboldened that they have an edge on Sunny to run her over sideways.

Interesting. I thought it might be Carrie Underwood and was excited. Oh, well. I like Reba and I like Niall. I like the other two as singers, just not as TV so much. A shame Reba and Kelly aren't on at the same time.

I wasn't that surprised We went. Her second performance had the feeling of a goodbye from her interactions with the judges. She was my favorite this year, but I always felt Iam was the best shot at a good winner this year. I like Megan more every week. Hopefully the two country will divide and Iam will win like the year's Maddie and Just Sam won. I think it didn't happen last year because they had a great contestant in Noah and Leah (the non-country one) wasn't very good either to propel her to the win, at least JMO. Here's hoping Iam wins though, his voice is beautiful. He would probably be my third favorite winner of the ABC years if he managed it, behind Maddie and Noah but ahead of Laine. I was grateful for some song choices that were out-of-the-box last night. I was gritting my teeth in expectation of hearing "How Far I'll Go" and "You've Got a Friend in Me" for the umpteenth time.

Interesting to see Moreno and Weaver again so soon. But good!

^ I think Sunny is the one that said that? I'm not sure. I don't agree with her that there aren't real independents. Only in some scenarios and related to certain topics might I agree with Sunny that "independents" are really just people who don't want to voice aloud what they actually support. On less divisive topics or figures though, I wouldn't say I agree with that.