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I haven't read the books, nor did I have any idea what this was about going in. I'm glad I binge-watched because I probably would have been even more confused watching week to week because I'd forget things. Lasher is most confusing as I don't really understand what he is. Throughout most of it, I wondered if the witches had more control over him than they realize. Since a witch summoned him, can't a witch send him away? Lasher needs the witch to voluntarily take on the necklace/him, so if they all just rejected him, would he disappear? For the transfer, they said Lasher needs to choose the new designee and she needs to choose him. So it seems like choice and will is involved, and it seems like he needs a witch in order to exist. Courtland's daughter said some would kill for that power, which sounds like they think they can wield it/him? What do they think they can do with Lasher? Seeing the backstory on the key necklace, finally, it seems like that might be something that could be destroyed or de-cursed? It's not like Carlotta wasn't already making blood sacrifices.

Why does she suddenly want a baby? Has she explained what that’s about? Because she won’t ever be home for that baby if she takes a new management role that will have her working all the time.

I wonder how much choice Nicholas had about that. Maybe he would have preferred that he and Amrit pay for it themselves, with a much smaller wedding that didn't require everything that a big fat Indian wedding does. I'm guessing it wouldn't have gone over well with Amrit's family and friends. This is the wedding they expect and want.

This is exactly the business model. The more outrageous and illegal and nasty the behavior, the more publicity they give it and the higher the ratings they get. Teresa and her table flip started us down this road and look at where we are.

My Lost UO: I hated Juliet with a passion. The perpetual condescending smirk on her face was only replaced by the silent, blank stare. Other Lost fans seemed to like her, but I loathed that character and now I can't watch Elizabeth Mitchell in anything else because of it.

It must really sting for Nicholas every time Amrit or his parents bring up the Ghari, and how it's for the parents, with all their eagerness to participate...while Nicholas' parents are disapproving. There are a lot of layers to what's going on with him. I feel bad it's happening on tv. I'm glad he at least his aunt. Nicholas probably would have felt somewhat out of place being suddenly immersed in Amrit's world no matter what, but even more so because he moved away from everyone he had in his life at home, and his job, too. He gave up his home, the teaching career and identity he had built at home, and easy access to his friends. And he's getting married. Those are big life changes, and they're happening all at once, with all the emotional roller coasters that go with it. I can understand how he would feel displaced and lost among that. Big changes can be overwhelming even if you chose them and are excited about them and are looking forward to them. I don't blame him for not handling it well. It's human. It's a rare moment of reality in reality tv. I don't know if Amrit sees how overwhelming it all might feel to Nicholas.

And don't forget Brandi's relentless bullying of Joyce, and insisting on pronouncing her name wrong.

GoT had a far more expansive cast with all kinds of things - talky and otherwise - happening all across Westeros and in Essos. Here, I think it's too insular and confined. We get no sense of context at all, who they are ruling and how that even matters. It's just infighting among the Targaryans, and they aren't very interesting other than having dragons. If we hadn't watched GoT, we would literally have zero understanding of Westeros from this show. It's like it barely exists.

I don't watch this show anymore, but y'all made me curious about the hand thing, so I looked up his monologue. What is that? It's so unnatural. Yet, quite precise and exact each time. I wonder if he also does it behind the table, but it's just not visible. Could he have some kind of signaling device that he's touching with his two fingers? Like, push the top button to speed up the telepromter or cue cards, and the bottom to slow it down. I don't know. It's just so weird, and so consistently the same spot, same gesture, same placement.

Andy's product is indefensible. The Housewives are the punchlines to every joke about horrible women behaving horribly. We used to reference Dynasty for knock-down-drag-out catfights, but now the Housewives are cultural shorthand for that instead. That is Andy's legacy. That, and his fat bank account.

He's currently working as an actor on this show, so he isn't unemployed.

Andy is riding his bunches of criminals, grifters, liars, and bullies all the way to the bank.

Nicholas is a teacher, isn't he? He isn't a full time house husband. In the future, he can do what all other parents do - cobble together a way to work and parent their children.

It helps to understand the house as a whole, and as a home, if we can see all the rooms. They spend so little time on the reveal at the end, and now they want to spend less time showing the home itself.

Stella wanted to open up the vent and send someone down. My question is, since there was a vent on top, couldn't they just open it up and pump air down there? I was confused on the construction of that thing. Kelly was wrong to ignore the obvious signs of an explosive device, and totally wrong to do it without even an attempt at protective gear. And everyone was standing around him as he did it! Like they all forgot you're supposed to clear the area when you might trigger an explosion.

They got rid of some of the annoying cast that was dragging the show down, and the writing has been much better this season.

That was my favorite part! I love Erika Christensen in this role.

It's always like this on tv shows and movies. Wives go after the "other woman" when they really need to have it out with their cheating husbands. They never want to confront the person in their own marriage, their own house. I guess they don't want to rock the boat so they give him a pass and tell the woman to stay away, as if that will solve their cheating husband problem. If it's not Angie, it will be someone else!

I could be misremembering, but I thought Tristan had another patient that had just left...a cat that belonged to a little boy? I was under the impression that the surgery was such a mess because Tristan had trouble with the cat. And she came in with the dog before he could clean up.

Eliza most definitely did not like that, either.

They had a short romance and quick wedding, if I remember right. A few months? This was their honeymoon, so they really didn't know each other well.

It's an amicable "divorce," so maybe they'll work out some sort of friendship in the end.

Has there ever been any explanation for what exactly that was about, and why the writers would write that plot line?

Writers do this with a lot of medical issues. On Grey's Anatomy, one of the main characters was in a plane crash and ended up losing part of her leg. The writers focused on that for a while, and wrote her as someone who used a prosthetic. But, at some point, they seemed to forget all about it. They had her running up and down stairs in her townhouse. I think the writers get bored, or think the audience would be bored, of continuing to see the realities of their plots. But I think they are wrong. On House, for example, his damaged leg was practically its own character.

I think it would be very interesting to see Shaun in therapy, and to see him with autistic friends or even a support group. I think that would be very much in line with what this show is supposed to be about.