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While Tonya did get shafted by the sport as a whole (figure skating has always had a problem with the less "feminine" and "graceful" skaters who excel at the more athletic parts) and her upbringing left a lot to be desired and led to her latching onto Jeff, she was still ultimately responsible for her actions. Tonya liked to blame everyone else but her. One part of the movie I always get a laugh at is her smoking a cigarette while telling her interviewer all of her woes to get back to the Olympic in 94. That cigarette detail really just shows how Tonya was unable to take responsibility.

It also never occurred to Dan that being a Housewife is a different type of game. Just because there's no winner crowned at the end, does not mean that the various housewives are sitting by and the camera just happens to document their lives. Phaedra, Tamra, Sheree, and Larsa all have agendas when the Bravo TVs show up. They plan, plot, and scheme to further their goals whatever they may be--promote their business, take down their rival, or tell their side of a story to sway public opinion. I do find it amusing that the contestants here all know about Dan and how he approached Big Brother, and they know all about Parvarti and Sandra in Survivor, but no one watched a season or two of RHOA in preparation for this show. I can see writing off Kevin or Bergie, their shows are total fluff; but, the Housewives have always been a force.

The only thing she could have done is call in to have an on duty unit tail the van and run its plates. The van was reported stolen in Rhode Island (the show would have to handwave how the NYPD had immediate access to this), so there was cause for the NYPD to pull it over. Olivia was off-duty, been drinking, and had Noah with her. She personally could not have pulled over the van.

I'm a bit too young for a Joni performance to hit me in the feels. I respect her as an artist and have a couple of her songs on my playlist, but she does not move me the way other artists do. The Luke Combs-Tracy Chapman performance, OTOH, got me.

Same. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, the thought of a season long crusade by St. Olivia to bring back Maddie. She's the most stereotypical "perfect" victim that I cannot root for her even though I know I should. If the show really wanted to do a season long arc of Olivia and the squad looking for a single victim, why not make her/him/they a more imperfect victim--non-white, from a bad background, drug addict, etc.

I love Ray pulling out the map of the greater tri-state area to show Debra where they needed to look for housing. "This is the hot zone" meaning anywhere that Marie could deliver a lasagna and it would still be hot was out of the question.

The answer to your first question is training and entering in a lot of prescriptions. A fulltime technician at a busy store is typing a thousand or more prescriptions into your employer's proprietary computer software. The software contains medication databases that tell you the different available doses of different drugs. You learn what drugs are most commonly prescribed and how those drugs are dosed. Medications have documented standard doses. And these software have built in safeguards to stop wildly incorrect prescriptions from being filled. The pharmacist would have to override in order to dispense which forces the pharmacist to sign off on it. Then the insurance companies you submit to also do their own checks. Insurance companies have their own pharmacists and doctors on staff who help them decide the hows and whys of them paying for any prescription. You also learn your local doctors' handwriting quirks. When you encounter something unusual, you stop and get clarification. You also have access to the patient's profile of everything you have filled for them plus the old originals. And any time a pharmacist calls for clarification, they annotate the doctor's response because their license and livelihood are on the line.

Olivia is not wearing Maddie's bracelet. That would be evidence. It's worse, Olivia is wearing a bracelet from one of the Maddie sex dolls.

I was a pharmacy technician for over a decade working in multiple states, I never worked with a pharmacist who did not clarify the illegible prescriptions before dispensing. Pharmacists have their own licensing boards and are just as liable as a physician when mistakes are made. Deciphering the illegible handwriting was part of the fun we had, but we never dispensed our guesses even the one pharmacist I worked with who needed his license suspended for other reasons. He was negligent in other ways.

I know enough engineers, and can just imagine different scenarios which necessitated that sign.

Current workplace pet peeve--people who bring tuna fish to work and eat it in the breakroom. I do not care about the health benefits of fish, or how economical it is as a protein source, or how easy Starkist has made the packaging for you to bring it to work. It stinks, and the smell lingers. The only saving grace is my co-worker did not microwave it.

I get the character motivations for not definitively proving the footage. It works in universe, and for the story the show wants to tell. I think what I am struggling with is the show choosing to leave it open ended for the viewers. Better writers would be able to keep the ambiguity within the work while also letting the viewer know the truth. Or tweak the script so that Red Herring Suspect #1 did not encounter the victim in view of that camera.

What bugs me about the video is the show already established that the wannabe rapper/drug dealer was at the scene when the victim was shot and that he stole the victim's wallet and watch. The police know this, but the British partner maybe would not have known. Why would the police not ask for the next ten minutes of footage? That would establish whether or not it's a deep fake.

At least this storyline is more organic than those get rich quick schemes. The actor has been diagnosed with hearing loss and may already be wearing hearing aids these past few seasons. They made it a plot point for his character in And Just Like That, doing it here makes sense.

Mando is the men's version of Lume.

As much as I absolutely cringe when someone uses loose when they mean lose, she's not necessarily using incorrect grammar here. There are different types of curls that occur naturally and loose curls are one of them, so are tight ringlets. Abbie very well could have had her normally tight ringlets become looser over time due to her pregnancies and caring for her children. And now that she is spending time doing her hair, she now has her tight ringlets back. I am not going to credit Monat for this change. What changed is Abbie taking care of her curls. She's spending the 30-90 minutes necessary to wash, condition, detangle, coat her hair in gel, then coax her curls into shape using whatever brush or comb she prefers, drying her hair by whichever method she chooses (diffuser, plopping in an old tee shirt, airdrying, or another method I am currently blanking on), and finally breaking the cast with her hands and maybe an oil. She may have even sprung for a satin or silk bonnet to sleep in plus a matching pillowcase to extend the life of her curls. When it comes to curls, method trumps product.

Yeah, all Felix had to do was discreetly tell his father that Oliver is not who he says he is and he needs to leave. Then Sir James instructs the staff to pack his bags without Oliver even knowing. Or Felix could have just told Duncan, and Duncan would have handled Oliver. Duncan has been around the Cattons long enough to know how to handle someone like Oliver. And the party could have gone on without Oliver, and none of the guests would think anything is amiss. The Cattons are eccentric aristocrats, they can get away with throwing a birthday party without the birthday boy being present. Elspeth would have been disappointed for a few minutes before someone or something else appears to take her mind off of him.

NBC reaired this episode last night, and I saw the opening again. I know St. Olivia's whole thing is Taking!It!Personally!, but she had zero reason to stop the perp at the beginning. She's off-duty and had at least one glass of wine plus Noah is with her when she spots Maddie in the van. She cannot just pull the guy over based on her intuition and vibes, and would the Brooklyn cops take her seriously if she called in "there's something off about the girl in this delivery van?" I know she's St. Olivia in Manhattan, but I did not think that carried the same weight in another borough. Though it would be an interesting episode if she did pull the guy over and arrest him based on vibes alone.

Did I miss the show figuring out how Maddie became a sex doll complete with bracelet or is that still up in the air? Between St. Olivia pontificating and the victim's mom over-emoting and the shoehorning in of Rollins to set up the most basic next step in the investigation (seriously St. Olivia needs to see Rollins in order to figure out the next step is getting the list of buyers of said sex doll) I did tune out for a bit.

Same, and I was trying to figure out when exactly this episode was conceived and subsequently filmed. Some of those headlines the writers ripped their story from were from December. Did they go back and add the plagiarism by a university president after the episode was already written? Or did they shelve their original episode one for this mess?

It was a full-blown emotional affair on the verge of getting physical, and the old boyfriend is Vanessa's birth father who was pursuing Maggie hard. I hate that the show is trying to make Maggie sympathetic here.

I watched this over the weekend, and was bored. The plot does not support the runtime. Too many lingering shots of Saltburn and the Catton's possessions that did nothing to add to the plot. I wanted more scenes showing the class divide with Oliver bumbling through various interactions with the Cattons and staff instead. And the Oxford section dragged on far too long for a story that has been told so many times before. I also wanted more Rosamund Pike's Elspeth. She was the best part of the movie.

And if you entertain, you always have a need for containers you can give your guests. You can't be using your good containers for leftovers that leave your home unless you can afford to replace them.

And you can only hold one in for so long no matter your age. I'm not going to hold a fart in for 30 minutes or more just because I'm in a subway car or an airplane, though if I was sitting in the aisle seat I would make an attempt to use the lavatory at the back of the plane, middle or window is a different story.

She has found a new audience on Tik-Tok and she is Aunt Sandy there as well. Or at least her drink recipes have found a new audience.