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I'm not sure if I'll keep watching this show. The wives all seem to think they're better than the others because their husband is a better driver, which is crazy. Plus, the way Samantha treated Amber was pretty crazy - but apparently racing is more conservative than almost anything else - I couldn't believe the flack she got for taking a single shot. The other wives also clearly look down on Whitney and Mariel, and it's not comfortable to watch.

The team meetings at the beginning were so infuriating to me. After repeatedly talking over Renee in the team meeting, when she starts to talk, Sam then comes in with "let's talk one at a time." I don't blame Renee for her reaction. That was just total asshole right there. Plus, I'm sure he thought he was being reasonable and calm to the hysterical woman. I couldn't figure out why Bri kept deferring to Sam and Nick, since it didn't seem like Sam has done so hot in recent challenges.

I'm a bit sad there isn't more action on this forum. I love this show. I'm glad they were able to take the rescued baby sea otters but I wondered about the boy - he was separated in a storm from his mom and the water was too rough to get him back to her. I wondered why they couldn't just wait until the storm was over? It's also nice to see people who have such affection for the non- "cute and fluffy" variety of animals.

I have to say that this cast is far more attractive than the last season's cast. Nary a funny-looking person in the bunch. It was a fairly exhausting episode, but I feel most first episodes are that way because there's so many people to try and learn names and such. It's going to be much harder this way to figure out all the matches. It will be amazing if they somehow figure it all out

Isn't it Rachel and not Vanessa? Vanessa is the hairdresser hung up on Max, and Rachel is the blonde who hooked up with Barrett, I believe. I'm sad that this was the fall out of the "cheating scandal." I was expecting them to hook up on the trip (which is probably what the previews wanted me to think) and instead it was something that happened before they started dating.

I find a show like this highly entertaining for no reason I can explain. Maybe watching these people makes me feel better about my life? I don't know. The scenery is pretty, these people are idiots but so far no one is so bad that you feel bad for watching the trainwreck happen. I can't wait for next week when apparently the cheating scandal happens. I have to say that I really don't like Rachel. I can't put my finger on it, but she doesn't seem as tied in with the rest of the group, and it seems a bit maybe like she thinks she's better than the others? I don't know, but I've found her super annoying so far.

I'm still catching up on this show (clearly) but I couldn't believe when TRAV offered Kathryn a drink when they got to the house. He, more than anyone, knows she can't be drinking and I was surprised by how well she handled it. That was a seriously messed up thing for him to do, and if she had gotten mad about it, he probably would have used it as one more piece of evidence of how unfit Kathryn is. I mean, who offers a drink to someone they know is a recovering alcoholic?

It always annoys me that Lorraine takes such tiny bites of the desserts that you can barely see any on the fork (much like Giada on Food Network Star). I love that Duff takes big bites and his looking up at the ceiling expression while he's tasting it. At least on this one, even the home bakers seem somewhat competent, and the outrageous characters weren't quite as outrageous as the Halloween baking championship. At the very least, no one instantly annoyed me like a few contestants on Halloween.

So she is based in Haines Junction, which is in Canada. It's partway between Haines, AK, and Whitehorse, YT. There is no vet in Haines. Also, because the nearest city to Haines (Juneau) is only accessibly by boat or plane, there are times (especially in winter) where it is not feasible to get to Juneau and so driving from Haines Junction is more reliable. I know in general that the Yukon Territory is sparsely populated, but I wonder when she goes to places in Alaska like Anchorage or Fairbanks why she's there and not a local Alaska vet. There probably aren't that many wildlife vet specialists out there, but I would imagine there are some in Alaska (I live in Alaska and feel like I should know this but have never had a reason to wonder if there are wildlife vets around here).

Didn't Victoria say something like "I'm uncomfortable with the situation I've been put in". I mean, no one forced you to gain weight at training camp, and she more than anyone should know that weight is a huge issue for the DCC. I'm sure she's normal person skinny, but this isn't a normal person job. There are weight standards, and she had to know she was very heavy for a DCC. Gaining weight seems even worse than starting heavy and just not losing any. Plus, can someone please fix her makeup? It seems so heavy and her lashes are so thick that it ages her terribly. She's 18, and Kashara looked more fresh-faced than Victoria!

Henson was on fire last episode. I loved how he decided he was scared of Lyndsy, complete with "if I'm murdered Lyndsy did it." Also liked him saying Cicely had "resting chef face." I have to say, the scarecrows in the second challenge were basically all underwhelming and downright bad. Most creative is Lyndsy for deciding her zombie pumpkins ate the scarecrow.

I just loved when Shane was trashing Jozea's single and then said "it's probably actually a good single but I hate him so I can't be nice to him" or something like that. That made me laugh more than I should have. Shane is certainly playing a part to some degree, but when it's not clever, it's just him being a dick and whether it's for show or for real, he's still being a dick and not an entertaining one.

Man, the best actress in a drama category was stacked, and since The Americans had won a couple other big ones, I thought maybe Keri Russell had a chance. But, I basically thought there was a chance anyone could win, except for whatever reason, I thought "Claire Foy is the only one who is not going to win" and then she won! I don't have anything against her (I just haven't watched The Crown), I just thought it was funny that the one nominee I thought was the one without a chance was the one that won. I love award shows, so I thought this one was fine. I think it's a fact of tv today that awards shows just aren't going to garner the viewers they used to. Also, with teh rise of streaming services producing original content, I wonder when the "movie made for tv" will get hard. I mean, at what point is a netflix movie a regular movie or a made for tv movie?

Finally got around to watching this. I tend to start every season, and give up somewhere in the 4 - 6 episode range. Only season I watched all the way through was Coven. That said, I did think the opening scenes of the apocalypse were very well done. Also, Joan Collins! I hadn't heard she would be in this, so I quite liked that. I wondered whether at the beginning, the food cubes was just another way to torture the people (like, they had plenty of "real" food but only gave the guests food cubes) but with the appearance of the guy at the end stating that other bunkers had failed, this seemed less likely. If, however, they didn't have stores of other food, that seems like some poor apocalypse planning.

I like that we're getting to see models in all stages of their career, which is interesting. I couldn't believe the one girl (moved from LA to NY) showed up at a casting without her book or a card, and her agency let her do that. That basically just closed the door on that client and made her seem unprofessional. I've seen Yu Tsai on America's Next Top Model and I was never a fan. I'm surprised he's considered such a big deal photographer, given the ANTM connection.

I swear there were at least 5 - 6 rookie candidates who had interviews this week that I had never seen before, let alone heard their names. I just kept thinking "who is this girl and why have I never seen her before?" It seemed like someone might have given Victoria a makeup consult during makeovers because I thought it looked less caked-on and the fake eyelashes looked less like spider legs (at least to me). I always thought Dayton looked a little soft or round...like, not fat because she's clearly skinny, but just not super toned compared to some of the other girls. Then, she put on the uniform, and I was like holy cow! She really did look amazing in the uniform.

Anyone notice that the girl who was posing on the tile (Tasha?) they then showed her in a different position, and her knees looked all red and bruised? I get them being red from kneeling on a tile floor but they also looked super bruised to me. I don't know why that stood out so much to me, but it did. I don't really like Tasha. I got into this show only a few seasons ago and watched the reruns in the morning, so a lot of the girls blend together for me (especially the blonde ones) so I didn't remember Tasha at first. However, with her whole profile this episode, she just seems so fake. Like, she's living the cheerleader smile her whole life (if that makes any sense). Contrast with Malena, who has much the same look on her face a lot, but for whatever reason it feels very genuine to me. I felt so bad for her in the meeting. I'm sure the first training camp session is stressful and she's already nervous about remembering choreo, and I think she just started crying (I've done that once or twice and it's always at the worst time and you feel even more idiotic once you start crying...)

Is it me or is the cast this season wildly unattractive?? I don't normally comment on people's appearance, but these are people who signed up to be on a reality dating show, so all bets are off. There are only one or two who I think are really attractive, and most of them aren't even "normal person" attractive. It's just odd.

Oh man, if I had made arrangements for someone to care for a puppy while I was away, and my partner just up and took the puppy to his mom without even running it by me I would be so mad. If that kind of stuff happens all the time, I wouldn't be with said partner for very long. I never watched Laguna Beach/The Hills, so I don't know why I'm so into this show, but I am really enjoying it. I have to say that even though I find the name "Uncommon James" to be silly, I do like the logo for the company.

I was noticing this, and finally decided she was trying really hard not to cry and so her eyes just got wider and wider. Meredith's story was strange. Getting cut at every audition and then getting an email asking her to dance in a magic show in Guam. That story sounds a little like a prelude to being sold into trafficking or something. I mean, an out of the blue email to go to a foreign country? Maybe it wasn't that weird and we got the short cut version, but it was strange.

I kinda wonder about the timeline of Devin leaving. It seems like they had to know he was leaving before they buried everyone in the pits. Did they go ahead and bury Johnnie just for fun? If they knew his partner left, seems a little cruel to bury him anyway (even though I am in no way a Johnnie fan, I am claustrophobic so I would be pissed if the show did that to me...)

I was so excited this show was back, but for some reason these episodes didn't work for me. I'm not a huge Chenowith fan to start with but she really annoyed me here in a way JL didn't last season. I also don't like the stuff with the judge. It will be annoying if we have to hear him talking like this all season.

I'm not willing to judge the entire relationship between Tamica and her daughter based on that one interaction. I have known children who will cry for no real reason, and ones who will throw tantrums, and at a certain point, a parent is just going to ignore it or act a little cold about it because they're doing it for attention (or something along those lines). I mean, if she cries at every party they go to, there might be more going on than Tamica being a terrible mother. Also, the "family dinner" conversation rubbed me a little the wrong way. It may have been that Barry was just trying to get Tamica to prioritize family and make time for family dinner, but Tamica seemed to be responding in a way that he expected it every night (which may not necessarily be feasible). Also, there seemed to be an undercurrent that Tamica should be the one to be making the dinner, which I admit was never said and I may be reading too much into it, but it seemed a little like "you need to be home to cook dinner for us every night" and not "you need to make family a priority." Especially with Barry's mom there cooking for everyone, it just came off a little like Tamica was being shamed as a bad mother because she wasn't home to cook dinner for the family every night. That may not at all been what was going on, but that's the impression I got.

I never watched Laguna Beach or The Hills (except for clips on The Soup), so I knew very little about KC but ended up watching this after seeing an article about the ads for the show on Betches. I have found it more entertaining than I would have expected. Shannon is seriously annoying and entitled. She really does think the world and everyone in it revolve around her. Her boyfriend's cute and seems relatively normal, so I wonder how he ended up with her. I don't know anything about Jay Cutler except he used to play football (I'm a Seahawks fan), and while he does seem rather directionless on the show, it seems that he ends up doing a lot of stuff with the kids (KC said he was picking up the boys a few times). At any rate, I'm in for the foreseeable future.

I really liked that we saw Norma and her story. Also, it seemed to me that she was speaking from a rather privileged position (relatively speaking). While she was raised in that cult, she was allowed to go to college and then came back and picked who she married at a "normal" age. While yes, he does have a bunch of other wives, she doesn't appear to have been subjected to all the horrible things we know went on with very young girls. Interesting too that the practice we see in many cults where you have to disassociate with former members/non-members has become such a problem for the current members, since now they have lots their homes, jobs, etc.