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I could be wrong, but I thought it started in fall 2006 and ended up in the summer of 2007. The Cattons were rich, snobby, chaotic, and insular but harmless, really. They didn’t deserve their fate brought on by the arrival of Oliver. I particularly liked Elspeth, who seemed to be a filthy rich version of Edina Monsoon with great lines such as: ”I was a lesbian once, but it was too wet in the end. Men are so lovely and dry.” And her outfits SLAYED. I found the amount of smoking (especially indoors) revolting. Is it 1950? I find it odd that no one figured out that Oliver was up to no good. His sudden pivot to manipulative dom should have clued someone in. One of them should have let Sir James know so he could be discreetly thrown out into the night - for instance, Felix. Once it’s discovered that someone is crazy, confronting them directly is not the best option - you don’t engage. It just sets them off, and then people start dying in mazes and bathtubs and having ventilators ripped out. I think it was inferred that Sir James died by suicide, which can also be laid at Oliver’s feet.

This is exactly how my Egyptian stepmother sounds.

The only other things I can think of is that he may have been taught by Americans, or if he picked it up living in LA and being engaged to Kelly, who was from Kentucky. Otherwise, I've got nothing.

Her father was his best friend, and he bought her first baby carriage when she was born. When asked why he was unmarried, he answered that he was waiting for his future wife to grow up.

This was one of my favorite shows growing up. Oy. Aside from Linda's vocal gymnastics, the theme song(s) was/were weird. She made it sound like she was a bored housewife who took a job to empower herself, when in reality she had no choice because her husband (who was an asshole in the movie) died, followed by her car, which stranded their asses in Phoenix. She did, however, make it after all when she moved to Nashville. And speaking of that - talk about wrapping the show up in a neat little bow. How many celebrities showed up, did a number with Alice, and left her ass in Phoenix? Clearly they thought she was terrible. I could take Vera in small doses, Flo was cool and sassy, and I had to warm up to Mel. Word on the street is that Diane Ladd clashed with Linda, which is why Belle was abruptly written off (her last scene is of her on the phone on a separate set a la Chrissy from TC) and never shown in the retrospect. Apparently Polly Holiday clashed with Linda too, so there's that. IMO, it didn't hold up very well. Oh, and I just ordered one of these.

OMG, that nearly ruined the show for me. I really felt for Mitch, because damn.

There were lovely memories. He was a good man who was wonderful to (and put up with) my mother.

Mom has done these things, so hopefully there won't be any more BS. I doubt I will run into her here in Savannah (probably too many black people for her; SE GA and southern SC is full of white flight refugees who fled for this reason), but I really don't feel like expending the energy to read her for filth. It's just hard not to act when my mother was treated so shitty.

So I mentioned before that my stepfather died in April. The will was finally settled, and my mother got pretty much everything (and GA law is pretty firm about spousal inheritance). He had three children, and he left two of them and his grandson a gun each. His daughter sent my mother a shrieking text calling her a thief, a liar, a horrible person, and that she needs to repent. Never mind that my stepfather made out his will in his right mind, and that his decisions were entirely his. Never mind that his children were never around until he went into the care facility, and then they swooped in like vultures. Never mind that he probably liked me and my sister better than his own kids (he named me co-executor of his will if anything happened to my mother. I'm sure they loved that the gay may have been left in charge). I have no illusions about my mother. Is she extra as fuck? Yes. Are her decisions sometimes head-scratchers? Definitely. Is she borderline nuts? Absolutely. What she has never been, isn't, and will never be, is a thief. Once my stepfather went into care, his daughter started calling my mother and screaming at her on a regular basis. She called and hung up on numerous occasions. She's an immature, fake southern christian baptist conservative (husband is a deacon, kids went to christian school, etc.). And I can only imagine the trash she votes for. And I got side-eye from her, her husband, and her brother over the years, which is funny, because their grandma, Mammaw, welcomed me and my then-husband into the family with open arms. Once I ran into her at a drag show. She loved us, but didn't particulary care for her own "late" (meaning stupid) grandkids. Repent indeed. How dare she? Shrew.

In most ways I do, but it also smacks of getting the rug pulled out from under him just as things were going well.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. We shouldn't have to beg our employers to treat us decently. Hugs.

I have lived in Nashville for over a decade, and my mother lives outside Savannah. For so many years I saw her three or four times a year (it's a seven hour drive, and that's without getting stuck in Atlanta traffic). When she started having health problems, I took a leave from work and stayed with her for two months. I'm moving to Savannah next week to be closer. I will only be an hour from my mother, sister, and eventually my father. It's close enough and yet far enough. I just feel like it's the right thing to do.

Same. My father dragged us from Miami to rural Georgia when I was young, and we grew up without family except for the grandparents, aunt, and cousin who followed us. I don't know most of my relatives, and the ones I do know I rarely see. My sister was born in Georgia and knows even less. My mother has always lamented this - she didn't want to move to begin with (my father told her he was going with or without her) and she grew up around most of her family. Many of them even lived next door or down the street from each other. It's been well over 40 years, and the other day, she actually started to cry over it.

I honestly don't think it's me. There's always room for improvement (something that applies to everyone), but I don't think I repel people or anything. I'm fine being on my own, to be honest.

Either.

I guess it's the latter. I get nothing. Ever. And I honestly either 1) don't understand it, because I'm not at all unattractive, and 2) I'm a pretty cool guy, considering. I've just learned to live with it. And it's not just in Nashville - it happens everywhere I go. Or, more accurately, nothing does. At any rate, I'm trying. Maybe moving states will help, or it won't. If it doesn't? I'm good, I guess. But, it doesn't help the depression and the wondering if there is something horribly wrong with me and what not. On one hand, I'm great. On another...I don't know.

Gawd. Don’t get me started on being a 51 year old gay man trying, unsuccessfully, to date. Which literally never happens.

As long as I showed up, they didn't care. Plus, I only lived 10 minutes away. I've taken longer bathroom breaks than it took me to get home.

I get it. I'm going to be 100% remote since I'm moving, but when they asked us to come into the office two days a week, I bolted by 11am. None of my coworkers were there anyway, and I just didn't see the point. It seems so weird now that we actually went to an office five days a week at one time.

Thank you all. I really appreciate it. There is going to be a celebration of life at Lipstick Lounge in Nashville (where we hung out and where I met him) toward the end of August. I'll be moved by then. It's probably just as well, because I'd probably bring it all down. Why did he have to die? Why does any deity or whatever think it's ok? Why did he have to die at 49? Why didn't we get to say goodbye? The last text I got from him the day before he died? "I'm so happy". I seriously feel like M'Lynn from Steel Magnolias. I want to know why.

I've been diagnosed with ADHD, bi-polar, and anxiety. I'm in the middle of moving to Savannah, GA from Nashville. My place is a wreck, and I can't stand it. And then yesterday I found out that one of my closest friends died in a car accident. I don't know how to deal with it. Right now, my mental health is shaky at best. This is just throwing me off a bridge. Not only that, I have to find new providers in Savannah. I've had the same doctors in Nashville for nearly 12 years. I'll be ok, but my friend's death plus the move is pushing me over the edge.

My mother's husband passed away in April, and she's been going through the grieving process since. She's never lived on her own before, and she's having health problems even though she's only 68. I took a leave of absence and drove back and forth between TN and GA to help her and take care of her. She's grateful, but she's...a lot. Even when she's well. I've been assisting with the life insurance and the bills. She refuses to do anything technological, and she sends everything through the mail, which is usually wrong. Then she gets frustrated with the person on the phone and stresses out. I usually then get on the phone and have it handled over email in five minutes. She put me on her bank account, but she refuses to enroll in online banking. She makes everything more difficult than it has to be. Plus, she's ornery, entitled, and demanding. My sister and I have become her parents, which she doesn't like because she's proud and has always been active. I am now in the process of moving to GA to be closer (an hour away; I'm not stupid), so there's that. The role reversal is real, and I'm not here for it. I miss the mother I knew, and...I know there's no way to be ready for this, but, I'm not ready.

She wasn't allowed to attend the Atlanta premier at all. Clark Gable apparently threw a huge fit about it, but they wouldn't budge.

She eventually did. They didn't speak for the last five years or so of Joan's life.

Even Christina admitted in MD that she was a difficult person when she was young, which is understandable given her upbringing. According to MD (especially the unabridged version), if Christina was hired for a role, and the same studio had hired Joan for one, Joan would back out. Also, Joan was so off the rails with her drinking by that time that she would call her friends drunk and screaming about Christina in the middle of the night. Between Joan blacklisting Christina and the "night raids" on the phone, no one wanted to piss Joan off or be associated with that insanity, so the offers stopped coming in. Then there was the whole Secret Storm debacle. Christina had an active role in the CBS soap opera, and when she fell ill (it was life-threatening), Joan took her place. Joan was a 60-something woman playing a 28 year-old character, and if that wasn't bad enough, she was so drunk through most of it that they had to splice takes together to make it coherent. Christina said that Joan took her part almost literally over her dead body. She also predicted that since her character no longer had any credibility, that she would be written out soon. She was. Of course, Christina could have been a mediocre actress anyway.