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It was mentioned very briefly that he always had anxiety. I think he began drinking as a young adult to cope with that. As I watched, I wondered how many other pilots are up there with a slight buzz on?

Kyle seems to be confusing her talking heads with acting auditions. Erika looked like a demented Joan Crawford in that atrocious white get-up.

I don't watch regularly, so I ask: do we know for sure that Denise and Aaron are legally married vs. having a fake wedding for TV? It's not odd that Denise fooled around with a woman. It's odd that she chose Brandi. Denise has a history of bad judgment. I think she's a different person underneath that Hollywood persona. Denise's distress is due to it dawning on her that Bravo has turned on her. As others have said, she's lost control of the narrative. And she may be living with a lunatic. He may have presented a different personality earlier in their relationship, and now she's panicked.

Every bunkhouse scene is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."

I'm wondering if she will attempt a lame-brained murder investigation on her own and get killed off. The actress is the weak link in this series. Hope they do a respectful job of showcasing the startling statistics on missing and murdered native women. In some cases the murder rates are more than 10 times the national average. Homicide is the third leading cause of death among native women between 10 and 24 years old. I watched a 1995 rerun of Prime Suspect, and a very young Kelly Reilly was featured in several episodes. The hair of the actor who plays Kelly's nemesis is a character in the series. He was swinging the back of it like teenage girls do with ponytails. Another weak acting link. I love the series' opening - the images and the haunting score. Kevin Costner was born to play Dutton.

It's selfish. And in the case of doing it for reality TV, greedy.

She's jonesing from loss of income and exposure-generating attention; she's addicted. She's a spectacular asshole.

Mina's and Karen's show on this series was simply a repeat of an episode from their own series. I recognized the lavender siding, conversations, pulling down the old add-on, etc. So Flipping Across America is nothing more than recycled, or never shown, episodes, with an obnoxious TV personality as host. I loved the Houston flipped house and neighborhood. Very charming.

I love the Boise boys' work. The design guy has great taste, and that house was fabulous.

I watched Flipping Across America and the Boise dudes painted an entire bedroom in a muted kind of brownish rose and the kitchen cabinets a muted dark green, Stunning compared to the more garish colors Mina uses sometimes. I think it's a matter of experience and taste.

I hated the house. An ugly monstrosity out of proportion to the other neighborhood homes. And too much gray is depressing, especially during the winter. But Jack continues to be adorable.

Andrew the interventionist reminds me of a big shambling comedian. Up on the stage to deliver his weary monologue. That isn't a criticism. I really like him and know he's effective, but I had that random thought while watching the episode. Every time Melanie picked up her kid and manically tossed him around, goosed him, ran across the room with him, I wanted to hose her down with cold water. The adults seemed clueless that a little child was in their midst, listening, during their terse arguments and complaining. I'm pretty sure he's facing a lifetime of relationship problems. Hopefully not addiction.

Haven't watched much of this season but they clearly are trying to turn things around after last season's disaster. Competent female bosun, pleasant Alex and Rob, a cheerful chef, and Hannah clearly on her scripted way out. Too bad we have to see desperate Sandy, ambitious Bugs and Pete the Tool.

All I could think about the wall o' marble was getting up there to clean. I liked this house more than some of the others. I enjoyed the discussion about setbacks and firewalls because those are real-world urban code issues. Agree with the gentrification discussion; that's really what's going on in many of these shows. They rave about saving old homes but the developers are really seeking wealth. My neighborhood was working-class whites when I bought, which I did to be near a subway stop. Now the homes (not mine) sell for $1 - 2 million. Older people who've been here forever struggle with affording property taxes. If they want to downsize they have to move far away because they can't afford one-bedroom condos in their current neighborhoods. My county has an affordable housing program and recently established a middle-income housing initiative as a way to try to balance things out.

All I could think about was Elvis in "Jail House Rock." Has Karen had a face lift? If so it's a good one because she just looks refreshed, not stretched. Karen sometimes wears the most scrumptious colors: cornflower blue, aqua, peach. Tad's scripted shenanigans dumb down the show.

But her lip liner does.

Thanks SueBee12 for posting the link. I like all four people and look forward to their shows. Interesting to note that the homeowners must have at least $75K to pay for the renovations. I always wondered how much they have to kick in on these shows. That's a good bench mark.

Been to Wetumpka a few times; a college roommate is from there and thrilled about Home Town coming to HER town. Small-town lovers rejoice. Good for Erin and Ben. The vets at Heartland Docs are attempting something similar - they want to rejuvenate their small Nebraska town and are renovating an old hotel to start. They also appear to live in an old restored car barn-type building in town.

I loved the cowboy's realistic asides about bison: "They're just MEAN." I think the family raises beef cows. Interesting that they downplay it. I think Dr. Oakley may be a hunter but they downplay it on her show too.

I think one reason employers check social media is because of worries about litigation by a protected class. If Bubba works for ACME Corporation and is posting racist, homophobic or sexist content as a private citizen on social media, they worry about another employee seeing it and filing a complaint. Tied to a Bubba with questionable workplace behavior, it can rise to being actionable. And some of that stuff is hate speech and specifically illegal. And they don't want that mind-set in their workplace.

I use my wood-burning fireplace in the winter. It's cozy and uplifting and warms my living room on cold windy days that defeat my drafty old windows. WB FPs began to go out of style when it became understood how much energy they waste. So I understand the reason for not using them. It's just weird to leave them in as a design feature. I assume it's cheaper to do that than cover or convert them.

I agree and I believe this is true for several of the women on the Housewives shows. While some are stupid, vain, greedy, etc., there are others who utterly lack integrity, a conscience, empathy...any shred of decency in how they live their lives. They are black holes covered by skin.

One thing that always bothered me about the show was the tendency of the three hosts to chuckle and make snide remarks about people who live lives in severe distress. Dan Abrams is the King of Smug and Smirky Smiles. I'm not talking about the obnoxious suspects, the mouthy families, the people acting up for camera time. I'm talking about the fact that many of the people on the show came out of racism, poverty, and abuse, the ones with mental illness. Sticks and Tom were less obvious about it but still participated. I do understand how police officers, medical personnel, teachers and social workers form biases because they see the same patterns over and over for years. Historically it has been very bad on Indian reservations. The current statistics on brutality against native women are shocking, with many complaints of being dismissed by law enforcement. Several years ago a high-ranking police officer in Atlanta whistleblew that the APD was purposefully destroying evidence of rape in order to bolster the city's profile. As a southerner who grew up seeing unbelievable racism, and who has a relative who is a racist police officer, even I have been surprised by how pervasive racism and brutality are across the police NOW. I didn't expect to see so many instances of it across America with the cameras rolling to record it.

Perhaps June's next appearance will be on Intervention. On that show you can't get away with conning production or the audience, because the interventionists (former addicts and alchoholics) will spot's June's behavior from a mile away.

I have the same issues - I'm surrounded on all sides by close-by houses. I love top-down bottom-up blinds for this reason. Regarding the bowling alley look in the former shotgun house - my relatives and I lived in shotguns in Louisiana and Mississippi, and they are small but very charming. All of that appeal disappeared when Mina created the bowling alley. In brief photos of Mina's home, it appears she built up and back and she towers over her neighbors' small houses. I bet they were not happy. My home's in the shadow of a McMansion and I had to re-do my garden there thanks to going from blazing sun to shade. No more fresh veggies. My house's interior is slightly darker now, too, and I lost my sight line to the sunset.