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OK...confused. Major storm where I live last night so I missed parts of the show; did they get rid of the cult or are they an ongoing subplot?

On pretty much every show, yeah. I've gotten to the point where I record anything I actually want to see and watch later, fast forwarding through the ads. Seriously. It helps and is a lot less annoying.

obviously the show is choosing to veer into dramedy territory but it seems to be a bit too heavy on the 'sit' and not much 'com'.

Good point, I'd forgotten

The part time job could turn into a full time job. Dale seemed ready to retire and I'm sure if George was willing and able to take over, Dale would let him. It's also possible that he'll be offered a coaching job at Sheldon's college. The show has made a big deal about how important Sheldon's happiness and staying in the school is to them. Or not. It would be an easy semi-resolution.

My son was born in 1988 and, luckily, we had medical insurance. If we hadn't the bill for a normal, uncomplicated birth was running around $20,000 for the OB/hospital and sundries. That was in the New York Tri-state area so rural Texas may have been less but still...that's a lot of money for Meemaw to lay out. To her credit.

I agree and thank you. As he became older he had the mitigating softening of good friends who would call him out on his extreme behavior, tell him when he was being impossible; at least part of the time. As written and directed in this show Sheldon is simply obnoxious. That's on the writers and the director(s). Yes, I realize that he's alone and, to a real degree, isolated by his own IQ but he has very few restraints on his behavior which increases his problems of no friends, no reason to learn basic interactive skills or understand compromise. Sure, he's on the spectrum but he also lives, to various degrees, in the real world. Okay, yes, this is a TV show but still...in his allowed and continued enabling he has no reason to think that some of his problems may be of his own making and so has no reason to change or adapt. He's a thoroughly unlikable character. And, JMO, as they say.

I was in high school in the 70's, in a small town. Pretty much every year at least one of the girls in school would 'disappear', go visit an aunt upstate or whatever. Sometimes they came back, often they didn't and (I presume) graduated at some other school. Yeah, that's how it was usually handled back then, in a small town. Either that or they got married. The classic was the head cheerleader and the captain of the football team. Graduated, he headed off to college, she stayed with his parents with the baby. Rumor was he was having way too much fun at his ivy league university, his wife had another baby a year later (yes, his). Marriage didn't last very long.

Unless he was lying to sound older.

My own son was born in 1988 (yes, he's in his 30's now) and the homes tests I took were always 100% accurate back then. Sure, you could get a false reading now and then but they were pretty damn good +, if worried, you'd obviously take a second or third a couple of days later. Yeah, pretty reliable. And she didn't say where she got the info; she may well have gone to an OB/GYN or Planned Parenthood or some such.

Thank you. Beyond the justifiable above snark, there are several young and undoubtedly confused kids who have to be wondering what the hell happened here and where--if anywhere--do they fit in now? Insecure, probably not all that bright, needy people putting their own dubious responses to their own needs ahead of the needs of people defendant on them= a recipe for a mess...especially with all the media coverage which they'll obviously be able to access when they're old enough. My sympathies and concern are for these kids.

Which is why I record the show and FF through them. Much less annoying.

Absolutely and I honestly didn't mean to cause any hard feelings. My own widowed 50 something grandmother ended up marrying and being happy until her death with her 2nd husband who was 17 years her junior. I was referring to the in all likelihood scripted plotlines which, IMO, encourage often over-served women into catfights, faux arguments and a superficial view of pretty much everything to boost flagging ratings. I simply prefer a bit more reality in my entertainment. But, as my much beloved step-grandfather was fond (and accurate) in saying; 'you go to your church, I'll go to mine'. AKA; live and let live.

With respect, I disagree. Admittedly I stopped watching any and all (scripted) reality shows, including the various HW series years ago but, were I to watch, I'd rather see women of any age not going on any terrible dates. I'm not amused by desperate appearing women incomplete without either having a man or being arm candy. I find that premise to be both insulting and misogynistic. I don't see drunken catfights as either okay or entertaining but offensive and simply sad. Perhaps I'm in the minority but I see my gray hairs and no longer 20 year old skin as being well earned through a long and full life. Botoxed, frozen faces, don't make a person look young but embalmed...and I speak--write--as the granddaughter of a funeral director and have seen too many embalmed faces. I understand the realities of the financial side of the entertainment industry--worked in it for decades--but would it kill TPTB to have some reality in their reality shows? The early years when the women weren't nearly as plastic, scripted, desperate and were dealing with relatively actual problems regarding careers, children, troubled marriages and relationships had enough of an air of some truth that they were an sort of interesting distraction. Fighting tooth and nail to come up with storylines to keep the cash cow alive is, well, not. I'm not knocking anyone who enjoys watching, honestly I'm not. I get vapid entertainment, like why not? But I just can't. I'm insulted by these shows and think it's time to stick a fork in them rather than scrambling to flog them a couple more years.

The show will start airing on CMT Friday, September 17th. Crazy slow turnaround IMO. Thank you Ladies, appreciated!