Intuition

And Pete Holmes is 6'6", while Melissa is 4'11". I've seen photos of Melissa and her husband. He doesn't seem crazy tall next to her, (maybe because she's wearing heels in the photos), but Pete Holmes does, at least to me.

Same here. I think they could have picked a million other men that would be more believable as her love interest and in a word just funnier. This guy is a little bland. Even Howard on BBT was more believable, LOL. And not that very short women don't pair up with very tall men but I'm just a little tired of it on fictional shows where they could pick anyone. In real life that probably doesn't happen too often. They once paired a very short woman with a basketball player on "Married at First Sight" and although the relationship failed for other reasons I don't think the insane height difference helped!

It's a combination of her being lazy with it being doubly difficult for her to look presentable because of her size. She doesn't have the talent or the drive to do it on any kind of regular basis. I can just imagine how hot she must feel in the NC heat and humidity in the Summer. That can't help. I think the clothes are making her look bigger. Black spandex minimizes while all those bright splashy prints maximize. Alex Guarnaschelli, a well known TV chef on the Food Network is also being featured in a Walmart ad for food and they didn't mention her name either.

Another person here that once liked Brooke but has cooled on her in recent years. Something about her attitude has changed. She seems to think she's all that and like @mlp said, there's smugness about her now. I think she has become a little stuck on herself. Also, I keep hearing people say she does too much botox and fillers and it has altered her appearance for the worse.

I think both men are attractive but Max is more attractive than Oscar. I think Max is a little out of Mayim's league, but not by so much it looks unrealistic.

Did Lindsey prevent him from ordering? Mark is in his late 30's, he's capable of ordering for himself. He knows how to look at a menu and find cooked food on it, I'm sure. She's not his mommy. Besides, the producers probably made them order that.

No.

I agree. Him mentioning the loss of his taste and smell doesn't mean he also didn't tell them he'd had Covid. Also, since he mentioned it in a talking head, depending on when they film those at least the show producers, etc. would have to know. I doubt the camera people would allow that to go by without saying something. And I don't think he would have mentioned it to the camera at all if he hadn't already told someone about it. I don't see anything "dickish" about what he's doing so far. It's a competition and he wants to prove himself first so that people don't prejudge his ability based on what is actually a disability. If he can do well in spite of that they won't assume that he's going to fail because of it when he eventually reveals it. If he never reveals it I might reconsider that. In the end if he goes home it's going to be based on HIS performance. Even in the team challenges they are judged individually. He benefited from that in this episode but he might not have that advantage in a non-team challenge. I have watched cooking challenges with disabled people before. Even a blind chef can win MasterChef and this guy knows what things taste like so he has some memory of that. I feel sympathy for him because he's lost an essential sense for his profession. But of course the show is trying to make us see him as a "dick". I am sure the camera people put that word in his mouth. They must have said, "Don't you think that makes you a dick?" Whatever, show. I am done with this show doing its best to make every white American guy look like one. It's happened now too many times for me to think it's just coincidence. Meanwhile Gabe Erales' win is upheld despite the allegations against him and the show gets all mealy mouthed not to criticize him because he's a Hispanic immigrant.

I agree with you that Mark's style of communicating is very different from Lindsey's but I still think he's a wimp. It's not just that he doesn't handle conversations and disagreements the way she does, he just doesn't want to handle them at all. He wants to avoid confrontation and people not liking him. Lindsey does not avoid those things. She is a straight shooter and can be too direct and cruel. He is just the opposite. He wants to smooth everything over and not have to come out taking a stand on something if it means other people might not like him. He will throw Lindsey under the bus and not defend her in order to achieve that, which is in my opinion wimping out. It's nice to be a sensitive person but he needs to put his big boy pants on and grow a spine when the situation calls for it, too. He had no problem growing a spine and complaining to Lindsey about her comment which is ironic because she has busted her back for him already while he's just afraid of Katina so it's easy for him to take it out on Lindsey instead of the person responsible. No matter what Lindsey's role was in what happened before this she definitely didn't deserve having snide faces made when she was talking to the group. I think Lindsey deserves to be able to say something in response to Katina's snide faces and I think he should have supported her on that. I've read online that he's actually from Quincy.

For the most part parenting makes a huge difference in how a child turns out, but not in all cases. There are children that defy all odds and become decent people after being raised by wolves, and there are children that are raised by good, kind people that grow up to be horrible people. I don't think we'll ever know the true story about Alyssa. Her mother may be nice and kind, but may be screwed up in ways that are easy to hide on camera. All the psych. literature I have read says that narcissists and spoiled brats are made, not born. Even well-intended parents can raise a spoiled brat narcissist. Too much "niceness" is not good for a child. If in trying to be good to the child the parent over compliments them into thinking they are perfect and gives them everything they want without any question they don't also grow up to be nice people. Parents have to know when to compliment and when to challenge to create nice people. Alyssa's mother seems like a misguided nice person who thought that she should never criticize or say no to her daughter. Unfortunately she created a monster. I'll bet that even after all Alyssa did and said on the show her mother won't ever tell her straight out that she may have made a mistake. That's why Alyssa grew up thinking she could never be wrong.

OK, now this makes more sense. Thanks, I remember that and that's where I got the idea that he didn't have the dog just yet. It's possible that I didn't hear his dialogue with Alyssa after the wedding where he said he actually got the dog.

Yes, that's him! His photo on Linkedin is the same as on the Compass site. His Linkedin says he was previously with the PD in North Providence, RI. Good catch! https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-gannon-b605501a3/

I found this on the contact page of the website: "Christopher Group is a team of real estate agents affiliated with Compass. Compass Massachusetts, LLC d/b/a Compass is a licensed real estate broker and abides by equal housing opportunity laws." Yeah, Compass has groups of realtors that work together as a team. Alyssa should be so lucky to meet a guy that makes as much as he probably does! No offense to used car salesmen but he probably makes 10x what they do.....

He's with Compass Realty. They were my realtors. I think he heads up a group within the company, that's my take on it. It's not his own agency but being the head of a group within Compass is not small potatoes either. What an asshole Alyssa is.

I think it looks that way but the truth is that the show and in this case Keisha, is trying to manipulate him into revealing more about that situation than he wants to or thinks is appropriate. And they're succeeding! The questions are asked in such a way that he probably felt pressured to explain things or else it would it look bad and in the process he revealed too much.