One Imaginary Girl

As a fan of efficiency, I haven't been enjoying the longer shows, so I hope they go back to 60-minute episodes with the next season.

OK, this is probably mean of me, but I chuckled that Danny went to the trouble of pronouncing Spanish with the accent but kept calling one of the Botero sculptures "Mujer con Esposa" (Woman with WIfe) instead of "Mujer con Espejo" (Woman with Mirror).

I think Carly Simon, via her grandmother, was descended from Cuban slaves.

OMG. I was thinking about stopping my Daily Show habit (which goes back to the Craig Kilborn days) if there wasn't going to be a host, but maybe I can put that off for a while.

They wouldn't show up as DNA matches, but when Valerie Bertinelli was on Who Do You Think You Are?, they traced her line to an English king way back (Edward something) who also was a remote ancestor of Cindy Crawford. Maybe England could have had Queen Valerie succeeded by King Wolfgang Van Halen. (I kid.) Since her grandfather kept his son's letters, I wonder if he ever wrote back. Such a sad story for the abandoned wife and son.

Oh no. You know what that would mean: S27's Justin and his arrogance and that hat.

David Muir gave the name of a woman whom Tina was known to hang out with in the cult. I think they said that she's dead now, but the investigators are hoping to get more information about her. I listened to the What about Holly? podcast, and I don't think she was mentioned, so this must be something new.

I never noticed it before, at least not as much as on Sunday's show, but there was too much shoehorning of current slang for my liking. I had to look up "snatched" and "zaddy," and "No notes" is a meaningless Twitter cliche. It was all so try-hard.

I love how there's a description of Halloween in Riverdale and we're told that teenagers aren't allowed to participate because of the fear that they'll "raise heck" or "raise Cain"--can't say "hell," but Veronica's sitting there in lingerie she wore to school. Not criticizing! It's so weirdly Riverdale.

Worth a watch just for the interview at the start of the doc, from The David Susskind Show in 1966. His comments about wives (using Laura Petrie as an unrealistic example of one) were so horribly misogynistic, and you could see that MTM was disturbed but had to answer tactfully.

I was wondering about this, too, and I found this page that explained some of the differences between the show and the real history: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/a-small-light/ It's rather disappointing to find out that so many liberties were taken when it's a good enough story on its own. In fact, what I think makes this series is that it portrays Miep not as saintly (which I always thought) but as a normal woman who did the right thing. That's a good message to convey, that you don't need to be perfect to do these things.

I wonder if that was Gary's last episode, with a little time jump in the finale. If so, we need to see Colin one last time--where has he been? I think he was the favorite character of everyone watching.

Nah, me too. I think they are ODing on the whimsicality.

Yes! It's easy now to make it look like Eddie should have followed Jon's order, but at the time he was married to someone else who didn't know about the affair until after (if I remember right), and they had a young kid, plus Delilah and especially Sophie and Danny would have still been dealing with Jon's death, and then Delilah's extended absence was a factor. No reason for Gary to get all mad about it. That being said, there were a couple of really good funny moments: when Eddie said that the midnight-blue paint didn't look much different from 11 PM blue, and the cut to Carter in the limo after the wedding. The wedding was very nice, and Katherine's outfit was spectacular.

It was surprising to see Eva wearing a lot of white in the Yucatan episode. I would never have the nerve, but maybe she's a more skilled taco eater than I am. It still must have been kind of messy, though, when a lot of the cooking there involves underground pits. I know she has a glamorous image to maintain, but from the Nuevo Leon episode, it looks like she can still be kind of practical. The important thing, however: all of the food (except grasshoppers--sorry) looks fantastic. It makes me laugh to think about if I hosted a show like this. Could England, Ireland, Poland, and Germany turn out anything like it?

Initially I was irked a bit that some of the girls were wearing pants at Riverdale High, because back then it would never be allowed. (In my public school in the northeast, we couldn't until the 1969-70 school year, and it was a big, and welcome, deal.) But then Veronica shows up in her way low-cut dress, and I think, well, it's crazy old Riverdale. No rules apply, and that's fine with me.

This is not really about Ted Lasso but is kind of related. In a review of a book about Manchester United, the reviewer recounts that the book says of Roy Keane, the guy whom Roy Kent is supposedly modeled after (he was a very intense player but lacks Roy Kent's marshmallowy center): "Keane in particular would test out new players by firing balls at them to appraise their first touch, a withering look enough to transmit the conclusion he'd drawn." Ha! We've seen that wordless glare from Roy Kent--there were definitely a few directed toward Trent Crimm in this episode.

Jim Acosta's diverse background sure created a great combination. *swims back out of the shallow end of the pool* I've been thinking lately about the opportunity to be on Finding Your Roots and regretting not submitting an entry, but I'm not photogenic, so that held me back. I wonder if they will compare the viewer's DNA results with everyone else's as they do with celebrities, or what if they found out that the viewer's tree overlaps with a celebrity's as they did with Van Jones and Sterling K. Brown?

I was basically watching it to compare it with Sofia Coppola's movie, which I love. This looks like it was trying to do a 180 from that. I think it's silly to use accents when the actors are speaking a translation of a foreign language anyway.

A little thing I liked was when the time was mentioned on screen as "About a week later."

I feel a little worried about this review's line that it seems like "the writers aren't sure where their true destination lies." Ugh. Please don't turn out like Lost, where it felt like they were just winging it. https://ew.com/tv/tv-reviews/yellowjackets-season-2-review-showtime/

Well, I was wrong about the baby's name. I wish we had had a chance to know Gary's father better. In the first episode, there was a sweet moment that really hit me, even before we knew that he died: he was with Gary at chemo and said to him, "I got you, mijo."

I hope that Jason Kelce makes a surprise appearance since I bet he's the funnier Kelce (which could be my Philadelphia bias showing), but he and his wife just had a baby, so he might not want to be away. NYC isn't that far away, though, so fingers crossed.

I cringed when Danny started talking about his BF and their plans for their anniversary, guessing where it was going to go, but I thought it ended up being a nice scene to show how the guys are acting as his surrogate fathers. However, considering Theo Harvard material? Just no. I mean, it's early, but he still seems so immature for whatever his age is supposed to be.

Jeh Johnson's DNA results look like they are from Ancestry (as have most this season from what I could discern), but the way Angela Davis's are divided up, it seems like they are from another company, maybe 23andme. I wonder why two companies were used. Anyhow, I think I remember from other episodes of this show and WDYTYA that Sally Field and Ashley Judd are also descended from William Brewster. Edit: I know this is shallow, but Angela's mother looked so pretty in that photo.