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On Day 2, Simone only did one vault, not two. (She had very slightly injured an ankle on Day 1 and they were trying to take it easy on the ankle, so no second vault.) In order to get a vault medal, you have to throw two different vaults. I think Jocelyn was the only gymnast who did so by default, she got the top vault placement.

Oh, I love anything set on Coruscant! *Sigh.* "I really hate that man..." That was beyond creepy and dehumanizing.

WTH was up with that? I wanted to see the whole thing. And--don't get me wrong, I quite like Jordan--but if she needs to do the whole "air drums" or dancing for fun or whatever for her nerves, I get it but I felt bad for Simone Day 1 when she was doing that right next to Simone. She has to know if she acts that way around Simone, it's irresistible to the camera people, and poor Simone looked like the last thing she wanted was another camera stuck in her face.

I would've loved to have been able to watch it--but I don't have Peacock. Tomorrow... ETA: USAG posted the full feed:

Effing incredible. SIMONE BILES Y'ALLLLLLLL!!!!!!

THIS. We don't care about Che, MPK. Stop trying to make them happen. Post the link! I love monogrammed anything.

Another one--when she and Charlotte were at that forum where the speaker was all "If you're just positive, you will find yourself in a relationship" and when Charlotte tried to voice her doubts, the speaker kind of shamed her by saying you're being negative, you're not putting yourself out there. Blaming Charlotte for why she hadn't found the right relationship yet. And Carrie stood up and firmly refuted what the speaker was saying. "No. She's putting herself out there." I always liked that moment. I like Carrie too. Stuff like Carrie expecting Miranda to show up at the dinner after Che crapped on her--I'm going to blame that on the typists, who clearly do NOT understand these characters the way we do.

Just wook at those precious wee beasties! IIRC it's the way Aidan remembered Kathy, was that she wasn't as hands-on as Aidan. What we saw was that Kathy flew to New York to have a quiet conversation about drawing boundaries around her boys, which greatly impressed me.

Maybe not, Herbert seems to be a wonderful husband. I loved his telling LTW "Get that thought out of your beautiful head." They are relationship goals. Dear God, no, not in New York! My closing took 4-5 months. (Boring explanatory side note, feel free to skip: Admittedly I was in special circumstances--I had steady though small income streams but my credit score was high enough that I qualified for various grants, but I had to jump through quite a few hoops to get the money. That added time but it was worth it.) In NYC there is an insane amount of paperwork and regulations and COs, etc. etc. etc.--someone always has their hand out for yet another requirement to fulfill. "Nope, nope, see the plumbing isn't sound, we have to fix this before the CO can be issued..." Buying an apartment in NYC is never a one-two month thing.

ALL OF THIS. Miranda and Charlotte should be right next to her. Che and Jackie shouldn't even be there. Cats go to bed when you do (if they like you). You turn the light off, crawl under the sheets and a few minutes later, you feel the thump at the foot of the bed and then the padding of the feet towards you. (And then the heaviness against your head--or your face!--if you're lucky.) They don't have a "bedtime," although it was sweet that Carrie seemed so attached. Because in every wide shot they showed the door standing open. You weren't the only one worried! They've got Steve talking like he's got dementia again. MPK just doesn't want him to have any dignity. F*ck you, MPK. Team Steve all the way! God, do I love that movie, no matter how wildly inappropriate it is for its target audience in retrospect. The first to lose...the first to lose...

That's exactly what Miranda was with Che--needy, a passive puppy dog trailing after them, desperate for attention. She became a completely different (and pathetic) person around them.

I've been to a lot of "novice stand up comic" sets (a friend went through that phase). There actually are a fair amount of stand up comics who are just angry and ranty and not funny at all. They're almost always white men, and new to comedy. (IOW they don't have a NeTfLiX sPeCiAl like Che does.) This felt like one of those painful sets to sit through. (God, they're excruciating, especially when the comic gets mad because nobody's laughing at their "jokes.") And I wonder if AJLT was trying to signal that? I was listening to the audience--there were a few reactions here and there, a reactive giggle, etc., but none of those nauseatingly over the top audience reactions we were seeing in the first season. (Also excruciating.) Mmmm, hot dogs and clams and beer...

I didn't feel one bit sorry for her. Not one bit. Now you know what Steve felt like, Miranda. I didn't feel sorry for Miranda--and I also loved that Che was so painfully unfunny at their set. And apparently they've never been funny! WORD. Luna Park is fun but the boardwalk is shabby and the beach itself is absolutely disgusting. The sand is full of cigarette butts. Brighton Beach and Far Rockaway are much nicer beaches. That was adorable!

Absolutely! I noticed that in this episode as well. Something about their mouths. And yes, I see Jamie as becoming PC as well. He thinks long-term.

Charlotte got her apartment, a classic six, from her divorce agreement with Trey, who had promised the apartment to her. Bunny fought her because the apartment had been in the family but in the end she had to back down. So Harry didn't have to pay for it. Not sure what a classic six on Park Avenue (?) goes for but they certainly aren't cheap.

Agreed, that house is gorgeous! The NYCPL no longer charges late fees.

😂😂😂 Half-joking? I don't think she was joking at all. Wasn't that room lined with sound proof cushioning? Wasn't it Andre's sound studio? She could put that back so she can sleep. Oh, for sure. As soon as I realized Lisette would need a new place to live, the bell went off. Respectfully disagree--her kids are her business. And knowing how much the kids of famous children's writers hated being written about--Christopher Robin Milne and the child who inspired Peter Pan--this makes sense. Imagine being the kid written about by a well-known sex columnist. Wyatt would be teased mercilessly. Gramercy Park. Carrie mentioned the key to the park--Gramercy Park is a private park and only residents of GP Square have keys to it. (Although occasionally they will open it up to the public.) The interior shot made it look as though the set was an actual GP apartment. Other thoughts: Miranda couldn't hide her contempt for the work Brady is doing at Scout. Taking of a year (a gap year) before college is a perfectly common practice in many parts of the world. And there's nothing wrong with restaurant work. I loved Miranda's green suit. And Charlotte looked gorgeous at the meet-and-greet. Loved the conversation between Cathy and Carrie.

Is Aidan pronouncing it correctly? In Virginia it's pronounced Naw-f'ck, with a non-rhotic R. There's no way Che owns that apartment. They never would've been approved for a mortgage--not anywhere, much less in NYC where closing can take up to six months. So they're stuck with an expensive lease. Because nicer buildings have policies against AirBNB. They don't want a bunch of random partying strangers running in and out of the building--it's not safe. It's likely a violation of Che's lease, so Carrie wants to pretend they're there legitimately. See my comment at the bottom of this post. Yes. See my comment at the end of this post. Yes to ALL of this. AirBNB is terrible. The company destroys housing markets. It is hard enough to find affordable housing in NYC and now we have people renting apartments they can't afford (like Che), because they figure they can count on AirBNB income. Which just incentivizes landlords to raise rents even higher, and withhold apartments from the market because they want to reserve them for AirBNB. Not to mention the insane greed on the part of the rentees, who have gone crazy the last year or so, adding on ridiculous cleaning fees that double or triple your total bill. To say nothing of the many chores--including cleaning--a renter is expected to do. I've never used the company (or Vrbo or any of them) but I've been watching them suspiciously because affordable living costs is important to me, and to most New Yorkers. Che is Not a Good Person here. YES. I'm starting to warm up to Miranda again, she's back in super-competent mode and has lost that cheesy hopeful grin ("I was cravin' me some Che" VOMIT) she always had around them. And Che when not around Miranda or in ONSTAGE mode, is quite likeable. And yes, the scene between Seema and Carrie was wonderfully written and acted. Because they're in their twenties. Yes, the in-front-of-Miranda texting was pissy and petty. But they're in their twenties. It's in the water at that age. I guess I'm a little surprised that everyone has taken Carrie's one utterance--and asking, not stating, "Was Big a mistake?"--as the harbinger of Big erasure via MPK. Yes, MPK sucks; yes, he tried to erase Steve-randa. (Ugh. Okay, I tried.) But a big part of that was Cynthia Nixon writing herself into the SATC universe, trying to make her fantasies canon. (Sure hope her wife was onboard...) Yes, Noth likely sucks. But Big doesn't (IMO). The character of Big had matured, had grown, had become the ideal husband in many ways by the time he died. Carrie asking that question is clearly another example of Carrie flailing, reeling, in the wake of her reunion with Aidan. He's there, the sex is good, they're in this idyllic fantasy environment. For the past 1-2 years Carrie has been in terrible pain. Aidan shows up and she can push the pain away for a bit. I really don't think Carrie is going to try to shut the door completely on her love for Big, or erase that history, or negate it. Her "I made a mistake" (and I loved that hug between them) I think was deliberately vague, and referred to her cheating.

Nastia doesn't usually commentate for the Classic, right? Doesn't Samantha (or someone else) usually cover that?

I suffer from insomnia--I tried a gummy to help with it but--just NO. I felt so dizzy and weird. Never again. Me too! I love Valentine's Day, all that gorgeous red in the middle of gloomy February. I thought Seema's rant was ridiculous. She had a point but she went on and on to the one person in the situation with no power.

Che is a 100 times more interesting when they're not on, mugging for attention so obnoxiously. Maybe it was the depression and maybe they were just being a good friend to Carrie but I liked their subdued mien at the WidowCon. Because now Miranda could play the victim and make Steve the bad guy. Agreed, the sudden jumps from the two of them screaming the most hateful things at each other (which Miranda absolutely deserved) to the tears (get the hell over yourself, Miranda) to the apology gave me whiplash. PREACH. It was unbelievably crass. I wasn't that crazy about Che from the start when they hotboxed Carrie in the elevator. That's incredibly rude. But yes, after that scene in Carrie's kitchen was when I really disliked them. It's completely unprofessional and skeevy. I would be seriously creeped out if some married dude cast me as his love interest--throwing aside originally laid plans for the storyline in the process--just so he could do sex scenes with me.

Her happy dance after her vault was adorable. The Queen is back!

He is my favorite eye-candy on Blue Bloods. *Rowr* And yes, Harry and Charlotte are the best. Loved their sotto voce conversation at the shoot. THIS!!!!!! What a colossally stupid move! An apartment in Hudson Yards? With such an uncertain future??? WTAF! What an unforced error! And co-sign the rest of it. What a selfish, selfish creature. As did I. In fact I too raised my hand... She definitely was, although her "frothy career girls having sexy fun" rhetoric was a little dated by the early '90s. Around that time, when people first started talking about sexual harassment at work and the idea entered the public consciousness for the first time, she issued this hideously tone-deaf editorial shaming women who had come forward as killjoys and harridans and shared a very strange anecdote about her days as an office girl. She talked about how the men in the office would chase the girls, corner them and pull up their skirts to see what color underpants they were wearing. (Mad Man shows this happening in an early episode, it might've been the pilot. I recognized the behavior immediately.) Pretty much everyone was like "uh, that's assault." But HGB thought it was just all sexy good times. Caarrie sliiiiiiding off the bed was hilarious, just eeling her way out of there. OMG, that was great, Seema turning up the volume. Cry more tears, manboy. Who the hell scolds someone over using a vibrator when they weren't able to get their partner off? You got your so fuck the rest of the world? Really? CN, please know that MIranda's stupid rant--which made even Che cringe--just makes us laugh harder at your self-insert fan-fiction. Che and the new lobotomized Miranda suck. I can't even wrap my brain around such juvenile behavior. How do they accomplish anything when they're sleeping until noon every day? They want to make their pilot a success, yes? The career of an actor takes discipline. You're getting headshots, submitting yourself, shooting reels, editing them--it's exhausting.

I cannot stand Mother Wexler. As someone posted--her shitty, toxic rants aren't fun. Or funny. That sitcom--the '80s called, they want their painfully theatrical, three-camera setup staging conventions back. Sitcoms in the '80s suuuuucked. Whoever broke down the shittiness of Che's behavior (the poster above says Penman 61 but that's not showing up on my drop-down menu when I try to ping them)--thank you. I mute the audio and cover up the video with my hands whenever Che Che Binks and Ayn Randa are doing anything sexual with each other, so I missed that. I would've been livid. Utterly disgusting behavior by Che. When someone expresses doubt or hesitation--listen to them. What a selfish, selfish person. WRT to weed--I don't care if people smoke weed on their own time. But the people who "do a lot of weed" (in Che Che's words) often turn out to be only about "doing a lot of weed." IOW that becomes their whole personality. So much so that they don't realize how atrociously rude it is to light up in an elevator. And Seema's constant smoking is also disgusting. It's a terrible habit to break, I get it. But she smokes everywhere--in hotels (which isn't plausible, most if not all hotels have a strict anti-smoking policy. No one wants to smell it in their rooms) and worst of all, in her car. This is against the law--the car is her driver's workplace and the crux of Bloomberg's anti-smoking ban was that you couldn't smoke in a workplace, because people aren't free to leave. Smoke at home if you must, Seema, but don't expose your driver to it. I loved Harry and Charlotte in that scene! I loved how excited Harry was when she made the offer: "But it's not even my birthday!" They're adorable together. Most actors know, you tend to have the best chemistry with people you haven't done anything with. In Season 2 of The X-Files, when Dana Scully was out for a few episodes because Gillian Anderson was having her baby, there was an interim episode called 3. The producers cast David Duchovny's GF to play a is-she-or-isn't-she vampire. The common consensus is that their chemistry (as actors) was nil. So now we're left to wonder if something isn't going on IRL with CN and SR. Because they have no chemistry. At all. Along with that beautiful, moving reunion scene on the Brooklyn Bridge in the first movie...it was so well shot, so well acted. All that beautiful character growth for nothing. Steve and Miranda moved to Brooklyn (which was shocking enough at the time. Brooklyn! The horror! But even now moving to the Bronx wouldn't be done, not for 2004-era Steve and Miranda). Truman Capote, disdainfully, about Jack Kerouac's stream of consciousness style: "That's not writing. That's typing." When Miranda claimed to the groupies "I'm the girlfriend," Che Che clearly wanted to say something and looked very dubious. Naturally the writers weren't going to expand on that opening--that would be characters having an important conversation and we can't have that. She doesn't deserve Steve. @luna1122again your avatar looks so much like my aunt and godmother but with brown hair instead of blonde. Every time I see your avatar I smile. She would've loved this community's snark--she was the original snarker!

Maybe if you were a better fucking producer, Chloe, your podcast wouldn't have tanked. Good luck getting another job with that mouth.