Mermaid Under

Okay, this week's episode is Kathryn Hahn (who I am familiar with, but the reason for her popularity escapes me) and Pamela Adlon who I don't know, which is more typically the case with the participants this season. Is it me - I'm not young, avoid the news, don't listen to music, haven't gone to the movies in years, and I only have the most basic TV channels. Or is HLG picking folks that he wants to promote, regardless of whether they are familiar to his wider audience. And I just read (on a non-PBS website) that André Leon Talley is one of this season's guests? Him I know, and if it is true, his recent death means it will be the last episode of the season.

For me, so far, it has been Andy Samberg and his mother's search for her birth parents. I had no idea who he was (I stopped watching or paying attention to SNL decades ago) and yet found him and the whole story engaging.

I can never tell which episodes are going to resonate with me. The whole process is so repetitive, each episode is boilerplate , and HLG pretty much says and does the same things every time. So my interest kind of depends on the guests. Anita Hill was gracious and intelligent and it was interesting to hear her early history, as well as her perspective of the public history of which we are all aware. But kind of a blah episode for me.

I'm assuming that they didn't do their DNA because it didn't add anything to the story they wanted to tell. How would identifying their DNA put someone at risk?

This. Especially since they produce so few episodes (even before COVID) and rerun them so many times. Why waste two new episodes on one night? I watched the first episode and recorded the second, so I haven't watched David Chang yet. Someone upthread mentioned he was quite an a$$, but I don't remember if any of it was sexual harassment. It made me think about Garrison Keillor - they've never aired his episode.

I liked it, and everyone else has mentioned the reasons why, so I will ask two questions that might only matter to me Why did all the expectant mothers get dumped on Nonnatus? There was the initial call about 20 new mothers, but I didn't catch any reason why (other than to make a story) I noticed that the Greek mother was bleeding out, and Dr. Turner mentioned blood transfusions for both the mother and baby, but again I missed the reason why. Was it thalassemia, and was that why they made such a point of her Greek name?

Rewatched yet another rerun - George R. R. Martin and Andy Samberg. Had to look up both of their names to make sure I got them right, not really familiar with either (no cable TV, no Game of Thrones). I remember when the researchers discovered that LL Cool J's grandparents had adopted his mother, and though she suspected, her parents never told her. They were careful about telling him off camera. I can't believe how differently he approached a similar situation with George R. R. Martin.

He looked like a tubercular teenager to me, especially during his interaction with Miss Higgins. Which was kind of appropriate. He is so thin. I though they sugar coated the ongoing relationship between the sisters. The younger one changes her mind and doesn't want the defective baby, but their relationship is just peaches? And his 'auntie' brings him a tea cup?

I've never been one to complain about the "masterful" PBS edits of this show. Trixie leaped from the green polyester pantsuit talking to Sister Julienne to the blue polyester Jackie Kennedy suit getting a lift to the BBC, and that was really obvious and jolting. I don't even like the Mother Mildred character, and even I could tell they lopped off the whole conversation. Are we going to find that Sister Julienne has a baby somewhere? We don't know much about her backstory at all.

He is good, but I think he is still playing Baxter from Mom. The character has a different name, a different job, and you don't see his ex-wives (yet), but he still is a lovable, lying, loser. I think Bob <heart> Abishola even has the timeslot that Mom once had.

I also remember standard PKU tests on babies (note that I'm 30 years out of hospital work). I'm glad to hear they now screen for other diseases as well. The reasoning for screening for PKU was that if it was caught at birth, you could alter the baby's diet immediately, and avoid the developmental delays that would occur. And I didn't call PKU on the daughter - I thought they were heading towards an autism storyline.

Is her only issue that she was a little bit "rough around the edges" - and the sisters didn't appreciate that. Because initially I was beginning to think she was illiterate, and had somehow managed to fake her way through her training. They brought up two issues where her lack of attention to written details could cause pregnant women harm. She didn't notice that the patient's record noted that she had previously had pre-eclampsia, and she gave a polished but wrong answer to the question about blood loss.

The liquefication of organs in a unembalmed dead body at room temperature - brain or other organs - would take longer than a few days. So no, it isn't scientifically correct- it is a television plot device to reinforce the point that the guy has been brain dead for awhile, and his wife and daughter have been fighting over the feedback from something that is basically an Alexa. But the plot this week was weak. The whole episode presented two plot pushers that will impact future episodes - Peggy isn't dead, and Jenny and Donovan were finally honest with each other about what is going on in their lives.

I kept thinking Donavan was going to break his back with the big hole in it. I thought it while he was skating, and when he was wrestling with the perp, or whatever they call the bad guys on this show. I also had a great deal of difficulty following Liam's story. The whole point of it seemed to be that he was better, because the horse trusted him now, but they took a lot of time getting there, all of which was wasted on me.

The rain falls on everyone, but the thunder cloud that seems to be perpetually over Jenny and everyone she breathes on was just too much for me tonight. Her husband, her father, her boyfriend, the psychopath she hired to take care of her father (not just a typical crook, but a psychopath who seems determined to be lingering storyline), and now her son. They have good actors and a good premise. The writers shouldn't have to resort to ensuring every person in this woman's life finds a way into a horrible situation. Concentrate on the corpses for a while.

His face looks like he has lost weight, but his body looks like he hasn't had skin removal surgery, and probably has to wear the large shirt to hide loose skin.

I'm looking forward to the new season, even though I only recognized about 50% or less of the folks in the preview. Anita Hill - I know she is an accomplished academic and a lawyer, but so are a lot of other black women. Would she really have gotten Gates (or his producer's) attention if she hadn't testified against Clarence Thomas? And if they do mention that part of her history (and how could they not) I'm looking forward to seeing how they stretch to tie that into genealogy.

In the US the duties of the coroner vary from state to state, and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction within the state. So I think it depends. For this story, it seemed like she realized she was stretching the boundaries of her powers as coroner, but she assumed because the death happened so long ago, it was a case where no one would really push back. How did the father know to go out in the woods and hide his son's corpse? For McAvoy, although I know that a lot of people don't want their colleagues to know that they are ill, I hate that he is keeping a secret from everyone but his new hookup. That seems like foreshadowing of something really bad.

Jenny's relationship implodes, and Donovan hooks up. Jenny hasn't been hallucinating (lately) and Donovan starts. I came here to see if anyone had an explanation for the eggs. If it was there, I missed it.

I stumbled across this, and noticed that it was the 5th episode. Was there a heavy publicity campaign? Because I did hear they were doing a re-do, but then nothing.

I don't like Ram, but I don't understand why his father won't look at him. Ram expressed his disdain to his brother, who seemed secure and smart enough to ignore him, but the father wasn't party to that.

I enjoyed this one a little more than the first two celebrity episodes. Christian Siriano was fun. Soledad O'Brien seemed like she was announcing/reading the news; nothing about her interactions with the appraisers seem particularly natural. I don't remember her being that way when she was on Finding Your Roots.

Pretty young, I think. As of 2020, she was still living, and looks to be in her 70s.

No, I thought they implied that the families had known one another for awhile.

I didn't know Roy Woods, Jr. and I barely know Lewis Black. What I do know about Lewis Black was that the few times I saw him on TV I didn't find his performance funny or even annoying if that was what he was trying for. Maybe that is why I didn't find much in this episode interesting or new. Only that Roy Woods, Jr was really Roy Woods III, and didn't seem quite sure what to do about that.