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I think we are supposed to be amused by the foibles and follies, trials and tribulations, of the rich and privileged. I mean, they bring it on themselves, all of it, and are ridiculous, each in their own way. I am amused, anyway!

Tanya has been a lot more calm and tolerable since she's been with the gay group, for the most part. She's still entirely self-absorbed, but she isn't unkind. She made me laugh when she sussed out that Portia and Jack were having sex on the boat and her reaction was just to say she was jealous. If only! I'd love to see that makeover!

That phone line is probably the only thing in that house that works, and Chim was planning to buy it! 🤣

Yep, they were built to last. But phone companies don't provide service to a house that's been empty - with no utility bills paid - for 50 years. That was a silly story.

This was a really good episode. Those titanium ribs, wow! That was amazing. I really liked that Devon threw the documentary crew out to protect his patient's privacy. And bravo to that daughter for going to Kit to ask for another doctor. Good on her for calling Kit out...you're married to him. She was a great advocate for her mother. Bell should have removed himself. That's a long, complicated, and difficult surgery. Since he'd been experiencing MS symptoms, he shouldn't have been the one who was supposed to do it in the first place. Conrad's patient and his friend were hilarious. You didn't think to mention snakes and scorpions?! I'm glad Conrad reported their "zoo," and I'm glad the guy will recover from the scorpion venom. The crew being there to film Bell's impromptu surgery in the hallway was perfect. Padma...I'm sure we all saw something like that coming.

Andrews telling everyone they would be "fine" was ridiculous. They will not be fine with underdeveloped lungs and organs. They might be blind or deaf. They might not survive from complications due to all their surgeries to fix the immediately apparent medical issues. This entire episode, especially all of the babies surviving and being "fine" was egregiously misleading. I guess with all the faith stuff, this must have been a Christmas miracle episode bearing no resemblance to reality. Pure fantasy that even one person would volunteer, and even more of a fantasy that the hospital director would even suggest it. At one point, I was almost convinced Powell was hitting on Lim herself.

I wanted to shake Monica when she said talking about engagements would take away from the surprise, or her boyfriend said it and she agreed. Your future should not be a surprise, Monica! You should not be in the dark about your own relationship!

I feel the same way. Her character is awkward, and feels awkward in this setting, and I think her clothes reflect that. She has some trendy and interesting pieces, but she wears them paired with the wrong things. I see her as a young woman who is still figuring out her own style, on a small budget. She's very pretty, but she doesn't know how to dress herself yet. I am always amused by her wardrobe.

This also blows up Nancy's lie that she didn't know Keith was a pedophile and grooming the girls all along. She knew. Everyone who read that article knew in 2012, if not sooner. AND DID NOTHING ABOUT IT AND CONTINUED TO MAKE MONEY OFF IT. And that includes "we didn't do anything bad!" Sarah and Mark. But we don't need that for proof. The NYT article on Nancy has plenty that was not in The Vow about what Nancy did to Keith's rape victims, and that she clearly KNEW what was happening as it was happening and not from the trial. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/07/nyregion/nancy-salzman-nxivm-sex-cult.html

I think he said he was an IT guy? My guess on Iggy is he saw the guy had been fully capable of functioning on his own, enough to support himself and get that really nice apartment, so it was likely possible his condition was manageable without medications. Otherwise, I don't get it, either.

Wasn't he saying that Ethan was a nerd? I assume as opposed to Cameron who was probably a frat bro.

I appreciated her sister being there because it gave Lauren someone outside the hospital to yell at. She has been insufferable lately, especially to PATIENTS, yelling at everyone who comes in for a drug-related ailment. Her sister yelled right back at her, at just as high a volume, and that was satisfying since I wanted to yell at Lauren to STFU and keep her personal drug issues to herself instead of letting it spill over onto her patients and their families. I guess his dad is on meds now and that's helping, but without supervision, Reynolds can't be sure his dad will continue to take the meds the way he's supposed to. Isn't that a thing with bi-polar medication? People seem to want to stop taking it because they like the highs and don't like losing that feeling?

And their minds refuse to admit that the girls were "willing" only because they were groomed.

I thought it was interesting when the film makers were on the Zoom call with them, and told them they were going to have to seek something else to find meaning, and they would also need to find jobs and places to live. It was so bizarre they just silently stared at her, as though she was speaking in another language.

I vaguely remember something too...did the college kids jeer and boo at him when he went to speak? In any case, I think it is that incident because I could swear I heard them say on the episode that the incident occurred 3 or 4 years ago...that is how long it had been since Frank had gone there.

I wanted to feel more sympathetic to Lauren since she got no jail time for her crimes, and I wanted to feel better about her serving no jail time, but I don't. I really didn't end up more sympathetic. I still think she should have done jail time for at least the 2 full years she kept Daniella in that room in the dark and sleeping on a mat on the floor with no human contact. Also, she chose Keith over having a child. She chose having Keith's baby over having a child. Keith was her priority, not having a child.

One of the worst things about that breakfast story is that Pam wasn't just a random woman in the cult. She was his longest partner, his biggest partner in crime when it came to grooming those young girls, and his partner in crime in all ways for decades. And he left his cancer-stricken life partner to die in a soiled bed like she was rotting leftovers in the back of the fridge.

Lim's paralysis is still a major mystery to me. I still do not understand why Sean's operation on her stab wounds led to paralysis. I do not understand what sort of paralysis it is if it isn't a severed spinal cord and they can do an operation that would likely repair the issue. Is there a blockage of some kind? Blood vessels that could be repaired? In this episode, we have Sean saying that the longer she waits, the less likely the surgery would work. Why? Is her issue progressive? Will waiting calcify something that could be repaired now but not later? Is it something that will get worse the more she moves around? Or does it get worse the more she sits still? I'm so frustrated they built an entire season around her paralysis, yet her paralysis is so muddled and unexplained, so none of the story lines are making sense to me. Is playing basketball where Lim is knocked over with a wheelchair on top of her, or another person and their wheelchair landing on her as well, something that could make her condition worse? I am stunned that Danica is just willy-nilly guiding Lim against PT and into sports. No, Lim is not "sick" as Danica said, but it seems like it isn't a good idea to risk further injury under any circumstances, and especially not if Lim is still considering having the surgery.

I don't think so. The episode would have been far more entertaining and funny if they had. Seems like they phoned this one in.

Bethenny is a raging, sobbing, paranoid, mean beast in the season she returns. Self-absorbed doesn't begin to describe her then. I can't remember if it was that season or the one following, but she lost her shit on Luann at Dorinda's house in the Berkshires like a lunatic and kept screaming "whore!" at her. And then scuttled away with Carole the next morning so she wouldn't have to face anyone. Horrid woman.

Even if Ethan didn't cheat on her, he's lying to her about what did happen and she knows that. Something happened. I think she's hoping he'll choose to be honest. Every time she asks what happened, she's hoping he'll tell her the truth instead of lying. Each time he lies, she has to absorb that he's just sitting there lying to her face and he's doing it so casually. I imagine she's questioning if she even knows him, and if he's casually lied to her like that about other things and what those might be. I was thinking along those lines, too. I wondered if I had missed a scene between them or something.

Yes! I was suspicious when he suddenly was so delighted with her and attached her to their group. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I don't think he would kill her. He was quick to mention the house in Palermo and the boat, and that they aren't guests of the hotel. My guess is his life of distraction is paid for by lonely, rich women who don't have any friends.

All of this. I don't understand why Ethan didn't tell her what happened. She told him that Daphne indicated her husband cheats on her, so he had the perfect opening to say, "Yeah, he does! He cheated on her last night." But I guess he decided bro code was more important than being honest with his wife?

I missed the last episode. So Darlene, who is building a new house, just quit her job? Has she never learned that you should find a new job first and then quit? Who is paying for all the construction? Did they forget about the house?

This. Dislike her for playing so coy with them both.