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In 2017 we did a home exchange for two weeks that was extremely near the swimming location. Spotting the castle was our visual cue to turn left to get home. It’s in an extremely wealthy suburb of Dublin and it’s charming and gorgeous. I am so pleased at the final three. My favorite final three ever!

On Gary’s birthday, we saw him tell Daisy how hurt he was by her “meanness” and begged to have just his birthday when she wasn’t “mean” to him. This really affected Daisy, and it perfectly set up Gary to grab and manhandle Daisy so that she would only protest with smiles, etc.

Honestly, I kinda loved it. Brynn reminds me of a young Jennifer Tilly. Cheese-gate was funny, as long as it ends this episode.

Heather’s kids seem pretty decent, but she is crippling them in life not to teach them practical skills. Why doesn’t she simply show them how to do their own laundry, instead of shrugging and saying her kids’ dorm have laundry service? Why on earth is she decorating the dorm rooms instead of letting her kids do it? My 21 year old does his own laundry, can cook a few mainstays, participates in household chores, etc. The goal of parenting is to make your kids independent!

I, for one, think it may be a better idea for Marlo NOT to be armed.

The new housewife’s priorities for her family are interesting. Her insistence that her kids are always “impeccable” yet doesn’t seem to care that her four year old daughter feels comfortable giving the finger while her son disses both his mom and dad. Also interesting is that “impeccable” seems to mean hair gel and bows.

When one works for tips, anytime one is “invited” to do something it is pretty much a command performance.

I want to know who paid for the food and drinks. I know on other shows, it’s been the crew that pays for itself on nights out. But Norway is expensive! I would bet each cocktail is in the $20 range, entrees are probably around $100. They can blow their whole tip each night out.

Just started watching this on Peacock and I’m bizarrely stoked because I spent a week at Airlie Beach in 2019. We spent two months in Australia that summer and it was fabulous! I’m really hoping to see some of the local spots in the crew nights off. We did a day trip out of that marina to go snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef. That chef is a giant tool.

Heather’s look at Whitney regarding the abuse makes me wonder if Heather is afraid of who the abuser was. From my own experience, I know that factually repressed memory is a real thing. I was hit by a car when I was twelve, I can remember just before the impact, and getting up from the street afterwards, but the actual impact and flying through the air have been repressed. Also, from the day of my father’s funeral, I remember the services but nothing from the actual internment. Since I know that both these events occurred to me/in my presence, yet I have no memory of them, I know the mind can repress traumatic events.

The show has strongly indicated that Max was Gus’s lover, not just business partner. That is why his whole life now is dedicated to killing Bolsa, Hector Salamanca, and Don Eladio.

My impression was that Gus went to the bar specifically for the sommelier. He was going to invite him to try that special wine, but realized that would mean death to another person via Gus.

Kim has worn these earrings through the whole run of the show. Just like we are getting the glimpses of how Saul was created, we are seeing how Kim became Kim.

Sadly, I believe this was the last episode before the break. Update: my twenty year old son just told me I was wrong. Thank goodness! Sorry Andre LaPlume for doubting you.

I grew up on West 76th Street and lived there for my first 48 years. My house was almost directly across the street from the murder scene. I was delighted! Weirdly, all the camera scenes from the neighborhood (the wife, the defendant smoking, the defendant by the dumpster) were all located within one block. Every single one was specifically misidentified by the cops. The wife was on West 77th and Columbus, they said she was on West 78th, the smoking scene was a half block from the murder site, they said it was a block and a half, and finally the dumpster was on West 75th and they said it was West 74th. It clearly isn’t important to the plot, but I’m really curious why they did that.

I had really been looking forward to this season. This first episode was such a let down for me. The characters felt like they were all written by someone who didn’t actually know how to write comedy scripts, like they were all caricatures of the once multi-dimensional people they used to be. Joel was the only likable character, how did that happen?

I like Delores, but she has for years explained how she and Teresa, and their families were “old school” Italians. She uses it sometimes as a shield, defending someone’s prejudices or gender practices, and sometimes she uses it as a weapon like when she and Jackie didn’t get along. It was all due to Jackie not being raised as an “old school” Italian (in other words, the right way). So when her daughter insists on calling her father “Frank” instead of “Dad,” and insisting she can limit his bringing of a girlfriend to the shared house, I would like Delores to explain how those sync up with being raised in the “old school.”

I loved the scene in the van when the women were engaged in talking to each other about whether or not they should stay in SLC to see if Shareef was ok. Like the move “The Birds,” we can see the cops gathering outside, but the women don’t notice.

I thought Dr. Archer was controlling the dummy patient so that Dr. Choi would continue to fail, and Archer could stay in charge. Then when Choi worked on an actual patient he did fine. Did I entirely misread the situation?

I can understand what you are saying, I can also see the other side. What if, after joining a business and recruiting, training and building a hugely successful team you are still treated as an employee, rather than an equity sharing partner? I don’t know what happened in the real estate business but I’m sure it wasn’t all good or all bad on either side.

The invitations reminded me of a finale in Ru Paul’s Drag Race. One of the contestants was going to have a big reveal-she had butterflies in globes on her chest. But when she pulled off the globes and the butterflies were supposed to soar free—they fell to the stage, just dead.

I didn’t hear Prajje say he couldn’t stand the idea of white men wearing his clothes. Not a single word. Prajje, in fact did for Kenneth what some say they wished happened for Meg. He defended Kenneth against a bully. Meg was the bully to Kenneth. She yelled at him, told him to “shut up.” After Prajje took Meg to task, Meg then went and yelled at Kenneth some more.

Meg was annoying on so many fronts. Last week’s loud sniffling through others mediation, then this week’s debacle. She was absolutely tone deaf at breakfast, practically lecturing POC on cultural appropriation (Meg, please, they already know this). Apparently Meg inserted herself into Prajje’s wanting the Black model (it wasn’t shown but referenced in the later argument). Meg supported Prajje getting the Black model. Later, she was asked to do the very same thing she supported before-allow a person of color to have a model that reflected the designer. This time, it is SHE who must give something up and WHOA, the brakes came on. Then she came up with an imaginary argument about what possibly could happen, if she didn’t agree. Instead of calmly stating why she didn’t want to trade, or trading with grace, she did the worst possible thing and agreed to trade in the rudest way possible. In the resulting kerfuffle, after Prajje yelled at Meg, Meg took it out on Kenneth. I do think she is too thinned skinned for this arena. I also think she is clueless, rather than outright obnoxious.

Lisa not only didn’t deny she told Angie to deny her cousin relationship with Whitney, Lisa angrily asked Angie “How could you betray my confidence?” That catering company is going to be screwed by Lisa anyway, for letting Angie know it was Lisa’s assistant who called them. I loved Heather’s and Whitney’s peanut gallery on ice! Lisa is such an amazing hypocrite for not seeing the comparison between her friendship with Jen, and Merideth’s feelings about that, with Angie’s friendship with Whitney. When it comes down to her and Jen it’s “nobody tells me who I can be friends with.” When it comes to Angie and Whitney, it becomes a betrayal by Angie for not considering Lisa’s FEELINGS.

The interaction between Mary and her son makes me think that Mary doesn’t spend much time with him at all. Now that Robert Sr. is “trapped” in Florida, she’s roped in Junior to be her conversational foil. The saying grace over lunch was entirely performative. If this was a regular activity in their house, he would know the three to four sentence grace without being cued. Merideth’s entrance unto the ice killed me. It was supposed to be this dramatic reveal “ooh, Merideth is here after all!” But because the party was so far off shore, they just awkwardly watched her walk across the snow for ten minutes. It’s like when someone tries to slam the door when they leave, but the door has air hinges, so instead of slamming shut, it just slowly closes with a “pffffffffffffft.”