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Yes, I am enjoying the whole Circle plot and the obvious jab at Scientology, although I hope the writers of the show have a really good security detail, those Scientologists are not people you want to cross, LOL. Fabian's reaction when Genevieve told him the book was boring was classic cult-member rage, going from sweetness and light to "well, that's because it's new and you're old." Absolutely typical! Evelyn and Genevieve continue to win every scene they're in ("I'm so beautiful I made him straight" or whatever she said, with that utterly straight face, hilarious). And I am definitely looking forward to the machinations that the two twisted minds of Zoila and Adrian will concoct. It's especially funny because Zoila hasn't revealed this kind of dark side before; clearly Adrian brings it out in her and it's a lot of fun to watch. I predict they'll come up with a scheme to win Evelyn back and expose the Circle. Another great moment. I have curly hair and if I could ever get it to look half as good as Evelyn's I'd throw my flat irons away. I hope Dani stays away and I wish she had taken Marisol with her. That said, I love the way Marisol dresses and styles herself. For a woman who's not naturally beautiful she always looks great. I just can't stand the character.

Hmm, did they really though? Darius is very much playing his own game on this show and they had, what, two weeks together and a couple of hours of conversation? Did he really develop a deep bond with her? I don't see that. I think Darius has been playing all of the contestants and the show itself. If Ruby really thought that there was love there, I can buy it; but I feel sorry for her. She was duped, by Darius or the show or her own romantic longings. Anybody who expects to find love in that kind of setting is deluding themselves, but I can also see how it would be easy to think you had developed real feellings in that weird, closed environment. I think once Ruby is out in the light of day she will breathe a sigh of relief that she got away from that madness.

I enjoyed this episode, it felt like a return to the fun of Season 1. There were a lot of twists and it was gripping to watch. I didn't rewatch the other episodes but am definitely going to watch this one again. It had some great moments and I could not tear myself away from the scene with Ruby and her father. Since I detest Coleman and Rachel both, and am on the Quinn Fan bench with Koala, I cheered at the party when Quinn completely owned those two pretentious, self-important little trolls. It was a thing of beauty. And of course, Quinn continues to be absolutely right about Rachel in every respect. She knew Rachel would give in and sell her soul for the sake of great television when it was crunch time. She knew it and she was right. You could see the shocked look on Coleman's face when Rachel muttered to the cameraman to get in there. Quinn is also right about Coleman, it's obvious that he's a user who is already tired of Rachel. I think he was planning to use her as his entrée with the TV bigwigs at that party, and when he realized that she's essentially a nobody to those people, and not the ticket to his success that me might have thought, he is ready to dump her. It's clear from their interaction in that last scene, and I think deep down Rachel probably knows it, too. Here's another thing Quinn knows: that "perfect life" that Rachel mocks her for not having, is a life that neither Rachel or Quinn wants. Quinn is much more self-aware than self-deluding Rachel, and she knows Rachel better than she (Rachel) knows herself. She is also a lot more honest. I agree with the poster above who said that this crew is like a big, dysfunctional family that fights all the time but has real love at its core. All in all, a really good episode and I am hopeful about the rest of the season. One thing I still don't like is that we haven't had enough insight into any of the contestants. Aside from Ruby and maybe Yael, they are just ciphers and tokens right now: the racist Southern girl, the rich Texas daddy's girl. The rest haven't even achieved that much status. It would be nice to get back some of that Season 1 touch that humanized them and made them interesting. I

When Quinn was talking about how she made Rachel, she bucks Rachel up and keeps Rachel from cracking, Rachel can't do it without her...I found myself nodding my head and saying "yup!" out loud. Nobody has had Rachel's back like Quinn, and their relationship has its dysfunctions certainly, but in Season 1 you saw a real affection and caring even if it was of a fucked-up variety. Quinn stepped in at every juncture to rescue Rachel, shield her from criticism, protect her against most of her stupidest impulses, and repeatedly assure her that she was not crazy despite what everyone else said. Now, that feeling that this was a real, if off-kilter, friendship is gone; and that's a big reason I find the season a big letdown. Now we have Quinn giving Rachel a big promotion and in return for this, and for everything else Quinn did, what she gets is a backstabbing bitch who tried to throw her under a bus. Quinn is also correct in everything she says to Coleman Le Douche. I'm rooting for Quinn and Chet (or whoever) to take Rachel and Coleman down, all the way, hard. That's the only reason I'm still watching. And speaking of Rachel, she seems to have lost that magical producing touch. Her attempted seduction of Darius's friend was amateurish and obvious. Her little speech promising Darius that she would protect him wouldn't have fooled a slow five-year-old. The "chemistry" she and Coleman have varies from nonesistent to repulsive; are we really supposed to buy it that they're into each other? Meanwhile, Madison has morphed into Super Producer who chortles like an evil child at her own clever producing ways mwah-hah-ha my pretty! But she still cries when bringing cornflakes to Quinn. WTF, show? Do you really think we're stupid, or not paying attention? As for Jeremy, I'm not one to weigh in (heh) on anybody's weight problem, lord knows, but if a female lead allowed herself to get that fat and dumpy-looking, they'd write her off the show. Make Chet fat and funny again, show, or get rid of him.

ribbon, your UO is much braver than mine. EVERYBODY loves Adrian and Evelyn!!

Yes, they seem to think that dark, gritty dramas give them artistic and/or street cred whereas lighthearted comedies do not. Isn't TNT's motto "very funny"? What the heck happened?? My reason for not liking Queen of the South (I also watched the premiere) is that I utterly adored the show it's based on, which is a Spanish-language telenovela of the same name. The original "Queen" was a huge-budget extravaganza with A-list Latin stars, gorgeous location scenery shot in several different countries, great writing and beautifully developed characters. It was a huge hit and the first telenovela ever put up for an Emmy nomination. It kills me that it's not available on DVD with English subtitles because I can assure you it is 1000 times better than the travesty I saw last night. What a disaster. I kept trying to find some spark of the original there but it was dead and buried. The original "Queen" is a sparkling gem; this was a depressing lump of coal (I haven't read the novel both are based on so I can't say which version is closer to the book). Isn't "Animal Kingdom" about a crime family or something? Then there's some new show I've seen previews of that looks like a cheap version of "Empire" and I just can't. Good God, have an ounce of originality.

My UO is that I love the character Carmen on Devious Maids. I think she's gorgeous and funny and I like her silly little plotlines. Running away and ducking behind a trash can now.

I still have two episodes of Empire in my DVR that I haven't watched yet, so I just deleted them. It's over, Empire. And the show that I was addicted to in its first season, Unreal, is three episodes in and I'm seriously considering pulling its plug too. And you know what, shows? It's not me. It's you.

Also, everything that Calamity Bo Peep said. I was rolling my eyes at the whole "Female Trump" thing. I detest oversimplified, self-congratulatory political "moments" anywhere but especially in my entertainment, and especially on a show that purports be more intelligent than the average. Play it in a more interesting way, or leave it out. And all of a sudden Madison has these mad producing skilz and doesn't cry anymore? OK. I don't trust Coleman, who I think is actually "producing" Rachel as much as she thinks she's producing him. I also think Darius is interesting and I'm curious as to what his physical injury might be. Or perhaps it' s going to be a head injury, since NFL head injuries are a huge issue for the sport now. But I can't really care that much either because the show has lost me on so many other levels that I can't muster the energy to care. The only time I perked up was in the last episode when Darius and Texas girl started talking about football and I thought, oh good, wow, a football conversation, but then it was over and I remembered a) it wasn't real and b) I do have the NFL channel. So yeah, if I'd rather watch a channel for a sport that's not even in season, Unreal, I don't see much hope for our future. Someone I worked with had a family member who was chosen for The Voice. They wisely decided to hire a lawyer to look at the contract before signing their daughter up. Apparently it is equally insane, so much so that the lawyer was flabbergasted, and they decided they'd pursue other avenues to help her singing career. I wish I knew the details!

Yeah, I'm not feeling this show at all this season. I was addicted to the first season and loved it even more on a binge re-watch but this season has really left me flat. I've hated what they did to Quinn's character from the first episode and I miss the old Chet. I completely agree. I am willing to give it one or two more episodes but I fear that Unreal may be joining my growing list of TV serials that I've had to fire.

I am just so happy that this show is back, I will take it all, the cheesy plots and the wild illogic and Rosie's revolting hair and even Carmen's horrible daughter! I am delighted that it has gone full-on soap this season. It also seems that it's much funnier this season, almost as if they have a whole new writing crew that's decided to focus on the humor. I've been laughing out loud at every episode. Also cannot stand Carmen's niece/daughter, although I know I'm one of the few people who actually likes Carmen. It seems they brought her on the show and then didn't know what to do with her, much like her unlamented predecessor Valentina, and now perhaps Josephina is coming to haul her away. Marisol can go away too, unless there's some plot involving her comeuppance. I

I love the flamingo one and this one. Meant to say, I adore the Lowe's boxing kangaroo!!! And they have been running a lot of great ads lately! I also have a soft spot for the International Delight ads. "Name my favorite International Delight flavor? That's like asking me to name my favorite child. Hazelnut, and Lucas." LOL LOL.

I dislike him also, he's one of those actors whose voice and delivery make my skin crawl. Another is Joaquim (shudder) Phoenix. ,Michael Moriarty would agree with you. I don't recall the details but he left L&O after a big spat with "Wolf the Dick" as he memorably called him.

Thanks for the Sisters heads up! And also for sharing that Curb clip...now that's another show I never get tired of rewatching.

Even though I knew that once Riff disappeared and Luke was desperately looking for a fill-in, it was going to be Juliette, I still let out a whoop of joy when he announced her as his tour partner. Layla and Avery both looked like they'd been hit upside the head with a frypan, if for different reasons. I am going to love what happens next, unless the writers really piss me off and have Layla "win" somehow. The whole Maddie thing, while I agree that it's at least an unpredictable plot turn and an interesting one in terms of how it will affect Deacon and Rayna and their relationship, I am frustrated by their responses so far. As in, why the hell not call the police? Why the hell not have Cash arrested for harboring a minor? And so on. It just doesn't ring realistically to me. If I had run off at 16 to go and live with some creepy older lady--who btw my father had already warned off of me--my parents would have burnt her house down around her ears. And called the cops, the SWAT team and the FBI to haul my ass home and lock her up, after they beat her senseless with a crowbar. Maddie continues to act like a hellion because all they do is wring their hands and whimper. Will continues to be amazing. I loved his first failed foray into dating and am crossing my fingers that it's an omen of good things to come.

I'm getting to the point where I'm about ready to bail on Empire. And it's a shame because I have mostly loved every minute of this show even with its head-scratching moments. Lucious just becomes more and more hateful in every episode, he is utterly iredeemable at this point. And I am tired of the same old plot "twist' that is no longer a twist of Lucious being beaten/ousted and then, with the use of his awesome evil genius, managing to trounce his enemies every time. Are we supposed to side with him? Be awed by his superhuman brilliance? I am not. I'm completely bored by it. This episode was the last straw for me. Aside from the fact that I actually thought Hakeem was doing a good job running Empire (an unpopular opinion I know, but I appreciate the fact that Hakeem is smarter than most people give him credit for, and he never let his love of ambition trump his love of his family, unlike even Jamal when he had his chance), I just get tired of the same old plot yet again, and the same old "ohhh Lucious is sooooo bad" all over again. And as someone pointed out above, the writers have turned Cookie into a weak joke. And there just aren't any other characters I care about anymore. I hate what they did with Camilla's character, Jamal has become a side note. Andre and Rhonda are the only ones I have any interest in or respect for, and you just know that awful things are going to keep happening to them unless they get the hell away from everything to do with the Lyon family, but you also know that they won't. Because that would be an interesting plot turn and these writers don't seem capable of writing those. Instead it will be more Lucious up, Lucious down, Cookie desperately trying to be all "stand by your man" because "what your father and I have runs deep" and Jamal drifting around aimlessly and Andre and Rhonda getting destroyed. I don't think I want to stick around to watch any of it.

Betty Draper was one of my favorite characters on Mad Men, and I utterly detested Rachel, both the character and the actress (whom I also loathed in Sons of Anarchy). Breaking Bad is an awful show, utterly boring and turgidly written (that said, the Spanish-language Colombian remake of it is really good because it keeps the identical plot but takes out all the pretentious crap; if you can find it subtitled, which I think you can on Netflix, it's called Metastasi.) Oh and I hated Friends.

Becker, the TV show Ted Danson did after Cheers, about a misanthropic doctor working at a low-income clinic in Brooklyn. It came and went without much fanfare, but it was a really smart and funny show that's definitely worth a second look. Seconding and thirding the love for Malcolm in the Middle, ​a wonderfully subversive comedy that presaged Modern Family in many ways. And Sisters! I haven't rewatched it but that definitely goes on my list, what a perfect nugget of 90s perfection. All the girls with boys' names! The sister who married her sister's husband! I want to relive all of it!

My boyfriend hate-watches all the fixer upper/rehab shows and he was jeering at this the other night. The theme of the evening was "weird things that Chip likes to eat" ha ha ha oh so funny! Well, in one scene Mr. Sexy ATE A DEAD COCKROACH. The man picked a HUGE dead cockroach up off the floor and popped it in his mouth and crunched it. I felt sick for days just remembering that. Imagine KISSING him? Uggggggh.

Empire, Sleepy Hollow and The Walking Dead seem to be heading most people's personal cancellation lists--and mine too. I canceled TwD after last season and haven't missed it. Only watched 1 episode of Sleepy and could not get into it. I drop-kicked Game of Thrones three seasons ago and should have done so earlier. I actually thought I would miss it but what it taught me was to pull the flush cord immediately with no questions asked and no looking back. I don't miss it at all. I don't miss TWD either, and I am about to give Empire the same heave-ho. There are too many good shows on to waste any more time on overly paid TV writers who insist on feeding me garbage,

I wish the Nashville writers had just let Avery and Juliette have their happy ending, like they did with Rayna and Deacon. They were able to make that storyline dramatic and up-and-down for a long time, so why couldn't they do the same for what was the best couple on the show? I am tired of seeing bedraggled, mournful Avery and messed-up Juliette. I want them together, happy and successful--but I don't see how the show can get back to that now. I have the same mixed feelings about this show that I do Downton Abbey; it drives me up the wall in so many ways and yet I'm always happy to step into its world. I like Nashville better because it truly embraces its own soapiness at times. That said, I was a total sucker for the wedding. Nicely done!

I was not sure I'd be able to watch this show because I thought it would be too awful to relive the whole saga...but the only part I truly could not watch, because it was just too vivid, was the glove scene. It's the only scene I had to fast-forward through. That was the defining moment, not only of the defense and O.J.'s duplicity, but of the prosecution's rank incompetence.

I think this is the kind of case that haunts people precisely because we hear so much, and are so justly outraged, at seeing innocent people convicted, that we think, good lord, all that prosecutorial zeal should have been directed at this person who is clearly guilty. I think of cases like the McMartin and other daycare "sex abuse" prosecutions, and some of the cases the rest of you have mentioned. All that energy, money, resources and time directed at innocent people...if half of it had been directed at, say, O.J., the outcome might have been different. I know some people feel that way about Casey Anthony, although from what I've read--and I admit I did not follow it that closely--there really was not enough evidence to convict her. During that barroom scene, where Marcia Clark did a brilliant job showing in plain terms how ludicrous the "framing" conspiracy was, I kept thinking, "you're doing a great job; why didn't you do that when it counted, in front of the jury?"

Just want to chime in to join the MAMA'S love! I started watching this show almost by accident (of course I knew it from the Carol Burnett show but just assumed the spinoff wouldn't be any good). It used to come on every morning as I was getting ready for work and I just became hooked. I don't know where it's showing on my local cable but I will have to find it...right now I could use a good laugh or two! And "thousand year old hush puppies" is a classic.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to go too far afield here, but you really need to read some better sources on the Knox case. In fact, it closely parallels the OJ case in many ways: A clearly guilty defendant (actually 3) with MOUNTAINS of physical evidence pointing to their guilt (yes, the actual perp left tons of DNA behind --that DNA was Amanda's, whose blood was found all over the knife and the blanket), who were let free and whose innocence is still blindly believed in by a small segment of the population. In this case, the American public that was fed a steady stream of misinformation by the U.S. news media, backed by Amanda's family who hired an expensive PR team to refurbish their daughter's image (successfully, as the lying murderess even has her own newspaper column now). Amanda is as guilty as O.J., the prosecutors had overwhelming eyewitness and physical testimony proving her and her boyfriend's guilt. Not that you would know that from reading any American coverage of the case. As to your remarks about Italy being made a laughingstock by this case, you could not be more wrong. The ONLY people who believe Amanda and her killer boyfriend are innocent are Americans. The rest of the world knows that Italy--which by the way has a model judicial system, one of the best in the world and one that is also far more defendant-friendly than ours--did the right thing prosecuting these evil scumbags, and in the rest of the world regards Americans the way we regard the O.J. jury. I notice you left out (or don't know) that Dear Amanda, in her initial and subsequent interviews with the police, placed the blame for the murder on her boss, a black man named Diya Lumumba who had never hurt a soul in his life or had so much as a traffic ticket. Yup, the lying murderous bitch fingered the scary African man, not once but repeatedly -- he was arrested and held in prison for weeks and lost his business, all because of a lying, evil shitheel named Amanda. He was not released until a man who happened to be in his bar on the night in question, and remembered talking to him, flew in from SWEDEN to testify on his behalf. Amanda would have happily let the poor man rot in jail forever. (Lumumba later won a suit for slander against Knox). Hmmm, wonder if Amanda is still looking for the real killer? By the way, Knox's defense team tried the exact same tactics as OJ's did, claiming the DNA evidence was poorly handled and contaminated. It was not. There are some very good sources out there on the Knox case and I would strongly suggest you read them. Meredith Kircher was killed by three people, and only one of them is in prison -- oh and guess what, he also happens to be black, and unlike Amanda and her psychopath boyfriend, he did not have a wealthy family, or a credulous American public, to bail him out. It's utterly revolting, but most of all it's utterly heartbreaking for Meredith's family, who know full well who murdered their daughter but can't do anything about it.