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  1. The ending made me think of the “monster from the id” in Forbidden Planet.
  2. Completely agree on that! There are lots of other things she could have been shown doing.
  3. I’ll grant you that all the weeping and wailing about being a failure as a mother because she wasn’t producing enough milk was making it all about her. (I had the same problem when I had my daughter and I was disappointed, but I didn’t feel like a total failure or freak out over it.) But taking a break and relaxing with a glass of wine? That’s not “making it all about her”, it’s being a human being. The idea that she shouldn’t be allowed to do that sounds pretty misogynistic to me. Waiting to breastfeed until there is no alcohol in your system is not going to harm the baby. The CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/breastfeeding-special-circumstances/vaccinations-medications-drugs/alcohol.html) says: Nobody’s saying she should go out and get trashed every night. But a new mom is not a robot and needs some self-care or she’s going to burn out and that will be far more harmful to the baby than an occasional glass of wine.
  4. I think the idea is that you continue giving formula until the alcohol is out of your system.
  5. Unpopular opinion: I’m surprised so many commenters seem to like Charlie. I found her annoying as hell. Is the show trying to imply that a person with ASD who’s obviously very smart could not have learned by her age that running her mouth constantly is something to avoid? You don’t even have to be able to read the social cues of the people around you to grasp the concept that talking too much is not a good thing. I couldn’t help thinking that someone who (compulsively?) spills the beans at the first opportunity (after invading the daughter’s privacy) is going to make a lousy doctor who violates HIPAA frequently. As to the brain operation: seriously? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: why does this hospital have general surgeons doing neurosurgery? That makes no sense! Was Glassman the only actual neurosurgeon in the entire hospital?
  6. Putting on my “knitter annoyed with stupid stereotypes about knitters” hat: when the heck are TV writers going to get with the times and realize hardly anyone knits with straight needles anymore because circulars are so much easier to handle? (This is right up there with the outdated “10 and 2” advice whenever they show someone learning to drive. 10 and 2 stopped being recommended when airbags started breaking arms. 9 and 3 is safer.) Yeah, I know, it had to be a straight needle to be the murder weapon because a circular would have had the weight of the project on its cable, and the pointed tips would only be 4-5 inches long so wouldn’t have worked as well. But they could have had the murder weapon be sharp scissors or something. Knitters usually have a pair of scissors handy.
  7. I just wish TV writers would get with the damn times and knock off the “10 and 2” crap already. That was before airbags, so it’s very outdated. The current advice is 9 and 3 to avoid arm fractures if the airbag deploys. Funniest part: Ebun and Dottie on men getting older.
  8. Hell yes! “YOU KILLED MY CAT!!!” would be the first thing to come out of my mouth. I see why they wrote it the way they did since the reveal of the other Smiths coming after them occurred late in the episode, but it didn’t make any sense except to serve the plot. (BTW I actually have a cat named Max—except he’s black and longhaired—and if anyone hurt him I’d lose my freaking mind.) Cat tax: I sure hope John disabled the tripwire bomb before Denise went back home! I kept thinking that although they didn’t come out and say so, the baby or babies would be for after they quit being spies—though they’d end up on the run and hiding out like Alex Skarsgård and his Jane at the beginning of episode 1.
  9. I’m thinking Beatrice is the most likely to have killed Daniel. Besides seeming plenty murderous enough what with encouraging the other kids to try to drown Harper, she was obviously jealous and just comes across generally evil. BTW, just how fucking stupid is Sarah? She can hold her head up and go back to business as usual if she wants to, but sending Harper back to school was criminally dumb. I’m almost 50 years out of high school and I still remember just how cruel high school kids can be. Why the hell doesn’t she? Second most likely is the brat (whose name I forget) whose dad is a cop. Same jealousy motive. Either of them would be more than happy to see Harper ultimately blamed and neither seems to care about the death penalty she’d get. Third possibility: a twist that it really was an accident and all this vitriol was for nothing. Fourth possibility: even bigger twist that Harper somehow was late getting her powers and really did kill Daniel. I really want to see both Abigail and Beatrice get their just deserts for being heinous bitches.
  10. So Sam pulls a panel off and it’s immediately sucked into the engine exhaust and incinerated. As soon as she had to use her tether to hold the handle open I was sure the same thing was going to happen to her. It seems pretty unbelievable that when Palmer sent her flying it didn’t happen, especially after her earlier comment that she felt like she was being pulled off the ship. And what’s supposed to have happened to Sam in the aftermath? Not to mention Dev, Ed, and company? While we watched this my husband kept saying “they’re all going to prison”… though Dev is definitely not in prison in 2012. (Also, we never got to see what happened when Kelly inevitably found out about Alex’s part in the Great Discriminator Heist.) How did Ilya know where Miles was being held? Did he follow Bishop there? Margo was lucky the Soviets withdrew immunity. Any US prison can’t be as bad as whatever Soviet gulag she’d be sent to if she went back to Russia. And her involvement with the asteroid caper seemed almost as much of a screw-you to Irina as an attempt to keep the Mars program going. (I suppose Sergei’s death might explain why it was so easy for Margo to meet up with him. The Soviets probably figured he would try to contact her and followed her so she’d lead them to him.)
  11. When Sergei headed into his motel room I said to my husband “I bet there’s a Russian agent waiting in there for him” and then assumed I was wrong because he wasn’t immediately shot. Of course they waited until he settled in to eat his Big Mac… RIP Sergei. I feel bad for Margo but even worse for his wife, who’ll probably never even know what happened to him.
  12. Black Mirror managed to create futuristic looking cars, why not this show?
  13. But the cars in this series are more advanced than IRL. They already had electric cars well before we did. So an era-correct car is kind of disappointing to me. I can’t wait to see what happens when Kelly finds out about Ed using Alex to steal from the secure storeroom! I was wondering that too. Didn’t notice anyone keeping watch outside her hotel room door when she got room service, but it doesn’t make sense. ETA: Was anyone else expecting Ed to shave the beard after Alex said he looked like a bear?
  14. I’m assuming it because it seems most likely Luke’s home was provided by the church and would go to whoever replaces him as pastor. And now that Ada is single again, she would probably want to go back to living with Agnes and Marian. Really loved the sudden realization that Ada would be the one in charge now! And here’s hoping she doesn’t allow Oscar any access to her money, even though he’s probably learned his lesson. I like the Marian/Larry pairing, but it feels way too soon after his affair with that woman in Newport he seemed to have fallen in love with. Also wondering how Agnes would react to Marian getting engaged to him. Will she call that strike 3?
  15. I was thinking Foghorn Leghorn or Colonel Sanders!
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