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  1. 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.

     

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  2. 21 hours ago, chaifan said:

    A few ideas I think would be fun for "special" seasons:

    Most legs won, but still lost:  Bring back the teams who won the most legs their season, but didn't win the final leg.

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

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  3. On 11/3/2023 at 11:16 PM, PsychoKlown said:

    Did anyone catch what this clue is?
     

    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.

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  4. 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.

  5. 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.   

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  6. 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.  

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  7. On 5/12/2023 at 3:01 AM, AllyB said:

    How much of the story we're seeing of the Gies is true? Did Jan really move a baby and help hide other families? Did they really help hide their landlady's grandchildren? Did Miep really have a gay brother who had friends arrested? Or is this all made up for the series? Maybe to soften the outcome of what happens in the annex? To make it appear that they had more positive outcomes than they did?

    I know that at some point they do hide someone in their apartment. But that's all a basic Google tells me. 

    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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 21 hours ago, tennisgurl said:

    I still cant believe that they are sticking with making Eddie and Delilah the endgame couple, especially because they're trying to retcon that Eddie has been carrying a torch for Delilah all this time. I'm sorry, but when he and Katherine were making it work again before the accident, I don't buy at all that he was still pining away for Delilah and her terrible hair. Its so rushed, like they just wanted everyone paired off by the end no matter if it made sense or not. 

    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.

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  10. 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?

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  11. 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. 

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  12. 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.

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  13. 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? 

     

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  14. 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.

    On 3/19/2023 at 7:28 PM, GHScorpiosRule said:

    This does look good. I'm intrigued.

    I think it's hilarious though, that the "go-to" accents the actors are using are English. Why not speak with a French accent?

    Then again, this has GOT to be better than the hideous movie that starred Kirsten Dunst, who, among the guy who played her husband, spoke in anachronistic American accents.

    I think it's silly to use accents when the actors are speaking a translation of a foreign language anyway. 

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  15. 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."

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  16. 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.

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  17. 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.

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  18. 16 hours ago, Brian Cronin said:

    There was a good Nash interview recently where the interviewer was, like, "So will the baby be named Javier?" which makes PERFECT sense, of course, and he sort of pooh-poohed it, which means that you're almost certainly correct. 

    It's because everything is about this group.  Holy moly.  Would anyone want a crowd, even if they're close, present at a medical appointment that could bring bad news?  I'd just share afterward.

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  19. The segment on being child-free couldn't have resonated so much or maybe even happened if there weren't a woman in the chair, so that has been a good thing about having this transitional phase of rotating hosts.

    That being said, I could do without the mentions of drugs. It's really not interesting and just seems like trying too hard.

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