Night Cheese

Lol yeah, I won't argue that she's not a little spoiled, shallow, and/or vapid.

Same! When she walked into the classroom I started humming "if you wanna be somebody, if you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up and payyyyy attention". I also just recently treated myself to a Sister Act double-feature so the songs from both movies have been stuck in my head for days now.

I thought Piper wanted to go on this trip herself, but her parents were all, "let's make it a family vacation!!!" I may be misremembering, but I thought she told her parents she needed to go to Thailand for her senior thesis (lying about that as we know now and actually wanting to scope out a new lifestyle), and her parents decided to tag along and bring the whole family. I didn't get the impression that Piper was the one pushing a 5-Star family vacation to Thailand.

I hope something got lost in translation in her interview, because I 100% agree that they're actors and to have that sort of genuine reaction to that is very unprofessional. Unless Patrick is super method, and he really got into his character and looked at the actor playing Locky as his real brother, he should find another occupation because that kiss wasn't something that should cause a professional to have that reaction. When he auditioned for/accepted this role, did no one brief him on his character's storyline? This is a short, limited series, it's not like they are 6 seasons in and come up with an incest story out of nowhere to boost ratings. This had to be planned all along; it was hinted at in episode one.

And I Never would have guessed that. Thank you @atomic! Google tells me he's a gospel singer so that explains my unfamiliarity. My first thought was Barbara might know some Michelle Williams (arguably the third best child of destiny, not the Oacar winner) songs, but a 90s gospel artist makes sense for her too.

I watch this show on Thursday mornings while I'm getting ready for work, and let me tell you, I was JAMMING this morning! I was loving all the song choices, although I didn't recognize Barbara's song. Can anyone clue me in? Jacob's Papa Roach choice was a funny surprise, but I would have never, ever guessed Melissa would pick a 20+ year old pop/alt-rock song from a one-hit wonder. Barbara crying over the lyrics of What Would You Do? was a mood. We tend to brush aside or even normalize stuff like that, but when you really think about those lyrics and remember that this is the reality for some women/families, it's really sad. Anyway, I was having such a good time with the songs that I forgot to pay attention to the stroylines. I'll have to go back and watch the non-karaoke parts. Sounds like Ava and O'Shon had a little two steps back, one step forward happening, but will hopefully keep working on it.

I remember my dad proudly showing me the scrubs he got from either my birth or my sister's. I thought it was so cool that he got to keep the scrubs. He occasionally wore the scrub pants as pajama pants.

That seemed odd to me as well. If you want to fill in the background of a character to suggest that the character has become more conservative and religious - and also concomittently divergent from her still-coastal friends - why have her move to one of the few places in a very large, and otherwise generally conservative, state that remains stubbornly still liberal? At least the other two friends didn't directly diss her or shun her for seeminly voting as she apparently did (but refused directly to admit). Though maybe that would have been preferable to gossiping about her in her absense, as she saw them do later. I was confused as well. I wonder if the writing team is aware that Austin is a very blue (only blue?) part of TX? I can see them writing her as living there to demonstrate how much money her husband has because the cost of living in Austin is so high, but to be a wealthy, church-going Trump supporter, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex would have made more sense.

In those stills, Piper is a spitting image of a young Brie Larson. I had to do a double take because I thought it was her at first glance.

I wish I could figure out how much of this show is scripted. Sometimes it feels real(ish), but more often than not I just feel like it's all set up for fake drama. I can't root for anyone because it will probably end up in a tie or something. Just like Christina winning last week was just about tying her up with Tarek and Heather.

Well to be fair, Michael Crichton wrote the pilot for ER in the 70s (originally conceived as a movie). It was based on his experiences from med school in the 60s. John Carter is loosely based on Crichton himself. St. Elsewhere the TV show came before them all, but the idea of portraying life in the ER came first. That said, it's still weak, IMO, to sue for copyright infringement. Medical shows are medical shows. I was just telling a buddy (ER fan who didn't want to watch The Pitt cuz he thought it was an ER rip off) that it's really good and outside of Noah Wyle appearing in both series, it doesn't have the same feel as ER at all.

Grey's Anatomy probably will, so why not The Pitt? 😉

Well this hour was rough. I watched during my lunch break and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to concentrate on anything after that sob fest. I guess a silver lining is that my son wanted to watch Paw Patrol with me this morning and I wasn't able to watch this before work like I usually do on Fridays. My whole day would be shot, if so. The potential sex trafficking woman is interesting. I liked the theory upthread about her being a surrogate sex partner for the boss's husband. That would be an interesting twist. The way they played her answering the doctor and nurse's questions was very ambiguous. I couldn't tell if she was really conditioned to not say anything or give any details or if the two ladies were really off in their line of questioning. Kind of reminded me of the daughter from last episode. When Santos questioned her about her dad, she vehemently denied it, but it wasn't clear if Santos was way off base or the girl was in denial/protecting her abuser. I was most looking forward to a resolution on the influencer storyline, but it seemed lackluster. Last ep the young doc (I don't know many names yet) seemed to be onto something when she ordered labs for mercury testing, but Dr. Rabby seemed angered that she didn't turf her to Psych like he said. This episode starts with a positive mercury poisoning diagnosis and Dr. Rabby seems proud that she figured it out. I thought there was going to be some fallout there, but no. The different cases in each episode are so cool that it reminds me of peak ER. But I can't help but wonder if it is normal to have such a wide range of unique cases over the course of one shift. Accidental OD x2 (one death), accidental child OD, woman pushed in front of a subway, mother of an incel who made herself sick to have her son seen, family overrides elderly fathers DNR, sickle cell woman, teen medical abortion, elderly dementia woman, black widow bite, mercury poisoning, nail gun to the chest. Plus all the new cases from this episode as well as the dozen or more that I'm probably missing. Probably several more children storylines that I had to fast-forward through and promptly forgot. And Dr. Robby's ptsd is flaring up because it's the anniversary of his mentors death, also Dr Collins is pregnant and miscarries. This is supposed to be a normal weekday right? Incel boy ran off to school in the first or second episode and the OD college kids took Xanax to relax and study for finals or something. Oh, and a stolen ambulance and high-speed chase. What a day! And we still have like 5 hours to go! I'm loving this show and am here for the long haul, but my goodness. What an exhausting ride this has been.

"We're a normal family. You'll see." Oh boy. 😬

I really loved it. I can't say that I've ever enjoyed anything that Miley has ever sang, but I thought this was a great rendition. I've been a Brittany fan for a while so I was super pleasantly surprised by this duet. I too wish it was on Spotify. If you liked Brittany's sound, her band Alabama Shakes is great. She's lead singer and guitarist and is awesome. I don't have much to add that wasn't covered already. Sandler's song made me tear up. It's crazy how great of a performer he is when he's not doing his silly "skipidoty doo, blamity boo" nonsense. I thought Kim K was Nasim Pedrad (whom I think is naturally very beautiful) at first and asked Mr. Night Cheese what she'd done to her face. He had to tell me it was a Kardashian (he can't tell the difference between the 3 or know their first names), not Nasim. Was Nasim there? Did anyone catch her in the goodnights?