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I watched this right after I watched "Mr. Mayor", which is also on it's 8th episode. The difference was kind of surprising. "Mr. Mayor" is really starting to gel (cast and writing are both getting good). "Call Me Kat', however, still seems to be stuck in "pilot-stage". The cast is still a bit unsure of who their characters are and where to take them, and the writers are still writing "set-ups" rather than character-driven stories. I hope it improves, but I still feel like every episode is covered in a sense of uncertainty and trepidation.

It seems like the cast is really starting to gel. This was the funniest episode yet, and there was a comfort factor among the actors. The Trivia Night host ended up being very endearing as well. Hey, Orly wasn't an irritating pest this time! In fact, she helped move the "A" plot along nicely.

I'm starting to think that Kat isn't so much "quirky" as she is "challenged". Walking around in public with a pillow under her shirt, pretending to be pregnant, is something I'd expect in a pre-teen or teenager, not a 39 year old. It was kind of sad. I liked the creepy customer, though. His trying to be included in the little group hug made me laugh.

I think Emily Van Camp needed some time off to co-star in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier", also filming in Atlanta at the same time as this show. When she's not healing patients at Chastain Hospital, she's fighting super-villains in the Marvel Universe.

That was a lousy episode! This looked like a series ender, where the producers only have a single episode to tie up all the loose ends and wrap it up with a nice big bow. The whole "hospital is closing" story arc was ridiculous. They announced they were selling the hospital to condo developers at the end of the last episode and now, maybe a month later, the entire place is shut down and the staff have all moved on (except for the stars, of course). Then, at the literal last minute, they decide to turn Chastain into a public hospital, contact the governor (a former patient), and convince the State to take over the hospital, add a half-penny sales tax to pay for it, get the staff back together, and set up a doctor-run management board. What was the point of this? Why not keep Red Rock around as the faceless corporate villain? Why not make turning Chastain into a public hospital an ongoing subplot throughout the year? You could do a lot with the whole public/private hospital thing. (BTW, Atlanta already has a huge public hospital, Grady. Their marketing campaign is "Atlanta needs Grady". Sound familiar?) Nic and her healthy baby are randomly injured. I hate when pregnant women are put in jeopardy on shows (must have been too many soap operas when I was a kid). Mina was also severely injured, but somehow managed to perform not 1 but 2 operations in a single day! When she was threading that needle into the old man's heart vein, I started wondering if her arm was throbbing in pain yet, and how many pain-killers she'd taken to keep the pain from affecting her delicate work. Dr. Cain finally got what he deserved, Last season, when they introduced that awful extended care human warehouse place that he owned, I thought it would be a fitting end if he himself got stuck there. Then, he did! I was so hoping that this would have been the big focus of the episode, and Dr. Cain getting wheeled into his own sub-standard facility would be like an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". Instead, it just seemed tacked on to the end. (Not to mention, he wasn't exactly getting quality care from the "sainted" staff of Chastain while he was still there. They basically ignored him while he was struggling to get their attention multiple times.) They spent all of last season setting up Red Rock as the villain, with that CEO and Dr. Cain as the faces of the greedy corporation. Suddenly, it's all over, and none of it was really satisfying. They all just kind of disappeared. Very disappointing.

I like the actress who played the seminar leader, although I don't know her name. She was a lawyer on "The Grinder" (great show!) and played Tom's girlfriend on "Parks & Recreation". She would be much more believable as the Mayor's chief-of-staff than Michaela (who comes across as a high schooler writing a term paper about local government rather than an adult in a professional, high-pressure job).

This one was kind of rough to get through. The plot was fine, the jokes were either missing or really weak. I think they have the basis for a really good show. They just need better writers to tighten it up and make it a truly funny show. Right now, I still grading it on it's "potential", but I'm starting to run out of patience. Extra credit for hiring Jerry from "Parks and Recreation" to play the reporter. Imagine, Kat was so nervous to be interviewed by JERRY! haha

Atlanta is fortunate to have many excellent hospitals in the area (or rather, hospital "systems"). Over the years, a lot of our smaller hospitals have merged together to form hospital systems that have locations all around the metro area. If "Chastain Memorial" was real, I'm sure that Emory Healthcare, Northside Hospital, or WellStar would have loved to have added Chastain to their systems.

I like Devon, but his storylines are always the weakest on the show, and the most boring. I hope he and his Mom help each other get through their grief, but is it mean for me to say that I hope they do this off-screen? Turning Chastain into luxury condos? I thought it would be better as a high-end art museum of some kind. 😉 ("Chastain Memorial" is actually the High Museum of Art in Atlanta)

I've enjoyed this show up to now, but this episode is definitely the best! I really feel like it's kicking into high gear now, and I was really surprised when the credits came up. I couldn't believe the half hour had passed so quickly! It was nice to see characters from Ant-Man, Thor, and Captain Marvel show up, and I like that everyone (so far) is competent, hard-working, and focused on the mystery. The first 3 episodes were kind of fun and nostalgic, but now we're really getting into the meat of the story. I can't wait until next week!

I liked the fact that "Mayday Malone" was worried about his ability to throw a baseball, LOL I like the Mayor and Jayden. Arpi is growing on me. The 2 staffers continue to be a drag on the show, although I did like their frantic plan for getting a new ID; hiding from the picture lady made me laugh. They're both too young and too inexperienced to be the primary staffers for the mayor of Los Angeles. Maybe the producers should steal some ideas from "Parks & Recreation" for how to populate a city government with interesting (and funny) characters.

This was the worst episode so far. I didn't laugh once, and several of the "jokes" I could see coming a mile away. I hope this was just an outlier, and the show gets back on track next week (I've enjoyed the show up until now). Nit-pick: Does Kat have a door that separates her apartment from the cafe? It looks like that staircase simply goes straight up to her apartment, with no barrier-to-entry at all. This really bothers me for some reason!

Hiring Brandon Routh as the bad guy was a stroke of genius by the producers. He's such a likeable guy on other shows (so good on "Legends of Tomorrow" as the Atom as well as Superman) that you keep hoping that he's "not really that bad" - but then he is. He's flipping the switch from affable training officer to raging dickhead so quickly that it's keeping me on the edge of my seat. Having said that, I'm looking forward to him getting caught soon, and the storyline wrapped up. For me, the best part of this show is the relationships between the officers as they go through their day and the various cases they encounter (some funny, some serious).

When they started the surgery on Dr. Cain, they had that weird dream-scene where he jumped up from the cutting board and pulled that thing out of his throat. I thought what the show was telling us was that he hadn't been put under the anesthesia correctly and could actually feel them cutting him open. That freaked me out! It appears that wasn't what happened, but it would make a good story. I'm glad Dr. Bell is a good guy now, but I hope they keep Dr. Cain as a villain.

I thought Holly Hunter's character was named R.B. Is it actually "Arpi"/"Arbi"?

I'm enjoying this show more than I thought I would, but the Mayor's 2 assistants are the weak part for me. I'm still not sure, after 4 episodes, if the Chief-of-Staff is supposed to sound like a teenage Valley Girl or if it's just the actress herself. Either way, she doesn't sound like a professional or an adult. The young guy is equally bad in this regard. The questions/answers asked on the ride to Sacramento were hilarious!

I thought it was okay. Granted, I was hard at work on my laptop at the time, and only partially watching, but I was able to follow the storyline just fine. The show, so far, is completely disposable, but it passed the time well and, during the current events in the world today, "disposable but okay" TV is just fine with me.

Have we seen Devon's father on this show before? When he first showed up in this episode, Devon was warning him to quit driving his cab. I thought his father was a rich gynocologist in India. Then I realized they were just using the same actor who played Raj's father on The Big Bang Theory! LOL

I loved Georgie's van (after he got rid of the rat, of course!). My family had a very similar van back in the early-mid 1980s with a fold-out bed, mini-fridge AND a little sink! Plus, an 8-track tape player. We used it for travelling to college football games. I really miss driving around town in that thing as a young college student! haha

Each season, there's at least one episode where neither of the challenges look like fun at all. This episode was it for me. Did you see how hot and sweaty everyone was? It must have been miserable out there! The watermelon challenge was pure grunt work and would be incredibly frustrating to try and get right. The dancing challenge seemed to be shorter to do, but required such precise detail work that I would have gone crazy trying to complete it. I'll bet the contestants all considered that a LONG day on the Race! I did enjoy the cello building challenge though. I'm not a fan of alliances on TAR unless they're more of an informal type of "helping out your friends" kind of thing. Although there are 5 teams in this seasons alliance, it looks like Will & James are the only ones taking it REALLY seriously. The rest seem to be of the opinion of "Yes, we're working together. Let's help each other out. Oh, maybe that team over there could use some help, too."

The split level house last night looked really nice inside, but it was ugly on the outside! That blue-on-grey exterior paint didn't do the house any favors. It just looked bland and unappealing to me. That was a really large lot the house was on, though! For $1.2 million, even in CA, I'd want something nicer than a mid-century modern split-level with no views.

I was disappointed to see Dale back, but I get the feeling his "turnaround" is due to a medical issue (drinking water only, praying, going to church, apologizing). I miss Dr. Sturgess. When old Sheldon said his son was named Leonard, I thought, "uh oh" until he said he wanted to name him after Leonard Nimoy rather than "best friend Leonard". In my experience, people who name their children after their best friend usually do it after that best friend has died.

That HugSleep thing seemed incredibly claustrophobic to me. I'd hate to be all bound up like that, trapped is some canvas sack like a kidnapped hostage or something. Plus, what happens if you wake up in the middle of the night and have to go to the bathroom? You have to struggle to get out of that thing, go do your business, and then get back into it in the dark. By then, you'll be wide awake. Not to mention, for older consumers, that hassle may be repeated multiple times a night! Also, parents with young children need to be able to get out of bed much quicker than this thing would allow. I'm glad they've seen some success with it, but I can't imagine EVER using it myself. I was confused about the cereal restaurant. Do they serve lots of cereals, plus home-made milk shakes, or just home-made milkshakes? Can I buy a bowl of Count Chocula cereal for them, or is it a Count Chocula "inspired" chocolate milkshake? It seems like a limited idea. I buy a hamburger from McDonalds because, even though I can grill a hamburger myself in my backyard, I'd have to buy the ingredients and go to all the trouble to cook it and clean up later. With cereal, I just buy the cereal (and maybe the milk) and that's it. Not much advantage to buying it in a restaurant vs. at a Kroger. I'm glad they're in Las Vegas, as a quick cereal restaurant may work for all-night gamblers/early morning risers along the Strip. In these cases, some type of easy-to-hold cereal "product" would be a good idea, so gamblers/on-the-go customers can hold their food item in just one hand. The animated fishing lure was interesting, but the battery seems to run out pretty fast. A 30 minute charge on the small lure isn't very long, since most of the time, you'll be settling in to fish for at least a few hours. Otherwise, it was pretty cool.

Great BB finale last night! I was excited throughout, starting with Nicole getting completely blind-sided and taking it badly. LOL The Meow-Meow was very entertaining. I loved watching him fail so spectacularly in the HoH competition (37 minutes vs. 4 minutes!?!?) and then just completely ripping himself a new one, roaming through the house, bad-mouthing himself over and over. Hilarious! His Final 2 speech was terrible, but his constant wandering around the living room and throwing out the "Yo Yo Yo" and other various Enzo-schtick had me laughing right along with the Jury. He spent 2 entire commercial breaks complaining to Cody about being laughed at, with Cody trying to patiently explain the concept of "laughing at" vs. "laughing with"! hahaha (Having said that, though, I actually got a bit choked up when Cody cut Nicole and Enzo teared up thanking Cody for taking him to the final 2. I think Enzo REALLY needed that $50k.). AFP was interesting. They usually name the top 3 finalists, but last night, they called Day and Tyler "two of the top vote-getters". I wonder if Janelle or Kayser were in 2nd place (with Tyler in 3rd) but, because we had the entire cast in 3 different locations (well, 2 locations, plus Julie elsewhere), it was easier to just focus on the 2 who also made it to jury. Looking forward to BB23 next year, but hope they come up with new challenges that aren't specific to "Cody-types".

I'm glad they got this clip-show out of the way on a special Friday edition, so our last 2 episodes next week will be challenges. Nicole peeing on herself (and the kitchen floor) isn't nearly as funny as the BB producers seem to think it is. It's actually kind of pathetic. I enjoyed the Kaysar/Janelle segment and the crying-in-the-diary-room, which, thankfully, wasn't exclusively a Kevin-fest! lol As noted before, I used to like all final 6 contestants in their previous seasons, and rooted for each of them. This season, I didn't like any of them! I'm looking forward to going back to (hopefully) old-school BB next summer!