Mermaid Under

I give someone credit for coming up with something different after all these years, but these five "celebrities" can't take up the whole hour, can they? I wonder how else they will fill the time... and if I was watching the preview closely enough, Nancy Kerrigan was asking how much her own skating costumes were worth, which doesn't surprise me.

Love this. If I drank (which I don't) I would take a swig every time someone said "Here on Milk Street we always..." use spoons, or some other thing that is so obvious everybody already knows it. It always feels like they are trying to 1 - make sure everybody knows that they aren't those other shows that Kimball used to host and 2 - imply that they've been around longer than the two or three years since Kimball was ousted from those shows.

Upcoming show (tomorrow night in my area). Mandy Patinkin has always been just slightly too much for me - talented, but oh so dramatic with every breath he takes. If he doesn't cry a couple of times, I will be surprised. I have been amused by videos of Mandy and his wife in lockdown together over the past year, posted by one of his sons.

For the Don Lemon and Gretchen Carlson episode - the only thing that piqued my interest was Gretchen Carlson saying after she won Miss America, one of the judges wrote a book where he called her Miss Piggy. I spent a happy couple of minutes down the internet rabbit hole finding out that the judge in question was the late William Goldman. He wrote The Princess Bride, among others. I don't have cable, and have never seen Carlson as a host - only as a guest on network talk shows and obviously here. She comes across the TV screen as somewhat unlikable, which if I understand it, is actually a plus on most news programs these days. Goldman made a misstep calling her Miss Piggy (if she continues to repeat the story, she is only helping his estate by selling the book). In the the book Goldman wrote (about the pageant generally, not specifically about Carlson, as she seemed to imply) his major critique of her was not her looks, but her religiosity, which he found off-putting.

Gates mentioned that they tested Maria Hinojosa and she had indigenous DNA, but unless I wasn't paying attention they didn't show her "pie chart" like they often do. I wondered why. And they didn't do Lithgow's, either, probably because it is 99.9% European and boring.

I enjoy this show more when I enjoy the subjects, which probably isn't a big surprise. I liked Roseanne Cash more than Clint Black. Her reactions seemed less....practiced. More spontaneous. Tony Shalhoub was so damn quiet I could barely make out a word. He's a actor, shouldn't he know how to speak for a microphone. Gates provided Keenan Ivory Wayans with a similar story about an ancestor returning to slavery.

I won't. I found the character annoying and clichéd (woman in charge on the coat tails of her husband, has to be a crazy bitch) and Lauren Graham was the weakest singing link. Although the title of weakest singing link might be a toss up with Mary Steenburgen, and I hope Ted Danson gave her that hair cut, because I would hate to think she paid for it. When David played Mitch's message to Maggie, I thought for a minute that he or Zoe had performed some CGI magic to make it smoother. It would be nice to see Mitch's messages to David and Zoe, although I bet they won't follow that string. Glad to have it back. Good first episode.

TV website says this is a new episode tonight. I've lost faith....does anyone remember seeing these people on the show previously? Somehow I think I've seen Gayle King. Is this new, or another remix?

This was a new episode, but it appears that it is the only one. They are going back to showing reruns. Without knowing, and just going from what wasn't said during the program when this was discussed, I can guarantee you that they tried to do that. The researchers who create this show must not have been able to find any descendants, or no one was willing to test.

General question. Are COVID-challenged US broadcasters specifically looking for new content in Canada? Or does it have nothing to do with the current situation and I am missing something because I only get basic over-the-air television.

The storyline for each and every show is 1- DNA from horrific cold case goes to Parabon, 2- CeCe does her genetic investigation and (after a hiccup or two) finds perp 3- law enforcement confirms DNA and arrests perp 4 -victims or victim's families talk about how they had closure So, I can see where they are going to need some kind of filler. Does anyone know how many episodes there are? It has got to be limited by the cases that CeCe worked on.

I don't think it is a question of maturity or immaturity. This program always seems determined to end with the idea that Cece has given the survivors a sense of closure. I have trouble believing that the victim's mother and cousin could feel anything was resolved or closed because this (I hesitate to say man) was sent to prison. He didn't seem capable of understanding anything.

A creepy vibe isn't against the law, or I know a lot more people who would be in jail. With his diminished mental capabilities, this man probably gave off the same odd vibe his entire life. It was implied that he had very little contact with people, and it didn't imply that he and his brother were in contact at all.

Oh sweet lord, don't attack , I'm not defending him, but I think the killer had what used to be called retardation, and would now be called impaired mental ability, or something like that. I don't think he was capable of being clever, so ignorance was pretty much all he has to show anyone, ever. There was a throwaway line in the episode where the murderer's brother said that he had always been "slow". Obviously he was deemed mentally capable of being tried (I assume, since he was tried) but this guy was no BTK killer - I can't imagine being in prison is much different than living in a trailer alone, working at Walmart. There isn't much closure in the resolution of this crime.

CeCe Moore has a new series premiering tonight "The Genetic Detective" ABC,10:00 PM 1 hr"

My immediate assumption was that Beryl was taking the pill for fear of passing on the retinitis pigmentosa (which they knew was genetic even in the 60s). And that seeing her sister with the baby made her throw them out, which didn't warm my heart as much as some. Also, as for Beryl rearranging her life to make sure her sister could safely raise a child (who might also be blind) I think in the 60's women just stopped working when they got married, I guess the assumption being they would have children and then be forced to stop anyway. But then if Beryl has decided to toss her birth control, she might have her own baby to raise.

They kind of slipped that in there, among all the other crap going on. Also, did anyone else find the breakways with the 3 actresses distracting? Didn't add anything for me, and since I don't watch Mean Girls...

Although I know the current zeitgeist is to let people grieve as long as they need to, haven't you known people who choose never to move on? And excuse a lifetime of poor behavior and bad choices ( and the folks I'm thinking of are way worse than Simon) by pointing to the fact that they have lost someone. Zoey might not have been particularly kind in her word choice, but was she really that wrong?

I remember Sounds of Silence was being played on the radio - it is plural not singular. That duet was gorgeous. Since I am so old, I obviously didn't recognize Fight Song but I knew I would find it here. I don't know the lyrics or story behind the song, and although I understand the directorial reason for making it a wordless sign dance, and I could get the general gist of what the daughter was communicating, I did feel like I was left out for few minutes there. Are there any women on this writing team? Ava is another terrifying woman who made the <sarcasm>horrible mistake</end sarcasm> of being in a position of authority. And the stereotypical Asian wife, who happily we don't see too much. I can only imagine a room full of young men who aren't too - what is the word? - woke.

Poor Lauren Graham. Her character is every cliche that men have about women in charge. A woman boss who ended up with her job because she was once married to a technocrat, is a Bitch on Wheels who really shouldn't have employees left because they would all quit, and is ready to dump it all for a fool with a penis. The only thing that seems out of character for this character is giving the promotion to Zoe. Having said that, the Mark Zuckerberg character that everyone was fawning over was even more of cliche.

Mary Steenburgen is tone deaf, but that was definitely her voice, because why would they dub something that bad. I wasn't sure that it was Lauren Graham singing, and she had a lot of numbers in last night's episode. Do they claim that no one is dubbed?

Two things. Yes, I agree with the folks that said this is a one season show, and I'm okay with that. And. It has been more than a decade since Gilmore Girls ended. I learned from dealing with my aging parents, and from looking in the mirror at myself, you don't notice someone getting older when you see them every day. When they leave your life for more than ten years, and then return, it is a shock to your system. Yes she still looks just fine. But she doesn't look like Lorelai anymore, and on some level that takes some getting used to. I'll wait for everyone who can't understand the thing about the words and the reading to attack me for being judgemental about all the older women in the world.

Hansel and Gretel

While I agree that both guests are likable (and there have been a couple that weren't) I didn't find anything about their stories interesting or unusual. Except for new information about types of clowns. Who knew?