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  1. I don't think there is any danger of Stuart Martin going away forever. I was kind of glad they did something to move their relationship from the sort of constipated place where it had been stuck for so long. Although the character of Nash is not charming, or handsome, or possessing a mysterious accent, he does seem to accept Eliza as a whole person, woman and detective. Maybe it is because I am old, but that can be pretty damn attractive, at least IRL. Having said that, the show writers will probably make him gay.
  2. I know when facts are thin this show will make leaps, based on what they have, but saying that Hagar's ancestor moved in with his mother and left his wife because she had an affair with a Belcher seemed a stretch. Another likely story - maybe the husband was just a big old Mama's boy, and that is what destroyed his marriage, and the Belcher DNA entered the family at some other point. Would Sammy Hagar have a chance in show business as Sammy Belcher?
  3. Given how this show has operated in the past (hunting down and testing potential offspring), I would have to say there were no kids, or more likely in my mind, they refused to cooperate. The weird pictures that they used for Studi's potential fathers were public domain. One looked like a public service ID picture, the other from a published newspaper obituary. The family obviously didn't provide them. If this information was a complete shock to him (and I'm not sure that it was) it brings me back to my question about how much celebrity guests are told before they appear. They made a big deal, for example, about calling LL Cool J and telling him his mother was adopted before his episode was filmed. But for Julia Roberts, George R.R. Martin and others it was just "ha, ha, guess what, your grandparents screwed around". There seems to be an inconsistency in how they handle DNA surprises.
  4. This was mainly what I noticed, because the rest of the episode was, as someone else said, unentertaining. I was trying to find a nicer word for inarticulate, but Wes hardly seemed able to put together a sentence, where as Levar seemed to to be reciting poetry the entire episode. Three questions: Does this show (or Gates if it is his decision) have any consistent policy for telling a celebrity ahead of time if when DNA tests reveal more than they may have bargained for? I can't imagine Gates was cold enough to present Studi with information that "one of these two men might be your father, but we can't figure out which one" without some warning. Where did the name Studi come from? From what little they showed of his family tree, it didn't seem to be his mother's name. Did anyone get a screen shot of the DNA profiles? Both of them seemed far more colorful than any I've seem previously.
  5. He took his time answering, he was quiet and he was verbose, but I didn't understand what he was trying to say with most of his answers. Of all the guests in recent memory, he certainly had the most wide-ranging answers to the Gates variations on "how does that make you feel".
  6. 1. your family were slaves 2. your family owned slaves 3. your extended family died horribly in the Holocaust. After 9 years of the same story, I think I'm really done. I always check the first few minutes, and if the celebrity guest is really engaging I stay on. Otherwise, I can't believe that there isn't another story out there.
  7. It was satisfying to have it back, but the predictability led me to do some channel surfing, sadly. The only thing I missed (and perhaps it is not important) was why Mr. Sharma was returning to his condemned flat now. Where had he been before now, and why had he been away so long that he had to break into this flat? The timeline of his sad history with the RAF and his mental and physical problems didn't seem to match up with his suddenly being back in Poplar in December of 1968. I'm sorry they even started down this road and I don't see how they are going to resolve it to satisfy the reality of the 1960s and sensibility of the 2020s.
  8. The 2024 guest list includes Valerie Bertinelli, Danielle Brooks, LeVar Burton, Ciara, Michael Douglas, Lena Dunham, Brendan Fraser, Sammy Hagar, Sunny Hostin, Tracy Morgan, Alanis Morissette, Ed O’Neill, Bob Odenkirk, Anthony Ramos, Iliza Shlesinger, Wes Studi, Dionne Warwick, and Jesse Williams I'm not saying I won't watch, but none of them excite me, many of them I don't know and can't be bothered to Google. Gates isn't all that enthralling as a host without someone open and engaging on the other side of the table. I think Bertinelli has done the other genealogy show. Dionne Warwick seems to have had an interesting life, but she is never particularly well-spoken or likable in any interview I've ever seen her in. I don't know if Gates can overcome that, regardless of what her story is. On the opposite end of the spectrum, LeVar Burton is always well-spoken and interesting when he is interviewed; I'm afraid Gates will ruin his segment by being too much of a fangirl.
  9. I liked this episode better than the others in this season, and I'm glad there is another series. I thought it was tiny bit self-serving for Christine to tell Donckers she showed "leadership qualities" because she gave her information about slimeball boyfriend (against orders) giving Christine the chance to make the "leadership decision" to shoot him. It showed blind allegiance, or something, but not leadership. And how is Jasper in such big trouble? I guess he didn't tell on Christine, and she didn't bother to say anything to defend him. Something in me always wondered why Jasper got along so well with the Dean (does he have a name?), and why the Dean tolerates Jasper's oddities without much complaint. In a previous episode when Jasper bluntly tells off the father with all the money (no matter how eloquent or true his statements), and didn't get fired, that said something about their relationship. Something apparently even Jasper doesn't realize.
  10. 100% unprofessional. I don't even know what a slow hand clap is supposed to signify, but it is old, overused, and needs to go away.
  11. I was disappointed by the ending for a couple of reasons. Count me among the cynical (as well as confused), but they basically spent what appeared to be an enormous amount of money and man hours on what turned out to be a murder suicide. And they locked up a man that was legally innocent of the murder, regardless of what he might be morally or historically guilty. Although they said they also got him charged with the rape. I think in the US the statute of limitations would have precluded that charge, but I'm not a lawyer and certainly not familiar with British law.. I didn't believe that Lord Hume would plead guilty to murder, although he doesn't have long to live. And I didn't believe Lady Hume would sit quietly and let Ebele go through the long speech and soliloquy that she did. I would like to take this opportunity to nominate the actors who played perpetually empty-eyed Jay Royce, and his girlfriend Scabby Face Unfortunate Bangs for BAFTAs.
  12. I'm a little late to the party, but I've been binging Antiques Roadshow. My favorite drinking game is when someone (slightly older) says "it isn't for sale" or "it will stay in the family". Nope, it will be sold as soon as you die, if not sooner.
  13. Parts of this story remind me of the child of US Senator Strom Thurmond - minus the murders and drugs.
  14. No, in one of her first statements to police, Ebele said that Precious initially ran away (or later said she was kidnapped) to David Bell's cult at 14 or 15. Ebele wasn't a part of the cult, but because she had her own problems, didn't try and get Precious out of it. It was assumed that Joseph was Bell's son (the police man visiting the compound in the most recent episode mentioned that Bell was 42 and Precious was 14) I think the fact that Ebele's mother, Ebele, and Precious all had children in their early teens is confusing to the timeline.
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