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That was another really dumb plot point. The guy was going around sneakily slipping jewelry into his pockets. He’d have to be really stupid to then increase his risk of getting caught by holding up people for theirs. (Yeah, he’d been seen but he probably thought he was being stealthy.) I kept thinking since Seema’s drink was lousy and she had plenty left, that she’d throw it in his face so she and Carrie could get away from him, and yell for Security. The lighter gun was a nice touch though.

She never took a test. The whole “I have Covid” thing was a lie. And I thought that was completely ridiculous and spineless. Yes, she kept being told “this HAS to be in your own voice”, but in her shoes (ha!) I would have been upfront and told them, “Look, this is still way too painful for me to do. Either get an actress to do it or ask me again next year.” Hell, these days they could probably get a chatbot to read it in Carrie’s voice. I also thought the MILF list thing was stupid. I can believe kids that age would do that, but the list had the women’s actual names. Unless things have changed drastically in the last several years, there’s no way they’d put it that way. My daughter’s classmates called me “Kristen’s mom” all the way up through high school. And wow, in the PTA scenes Charlotte’s face looked more frozen than ever. Good grief, just how many Burberry accessories does Charlotte have?! Which reminds me of a trip to London where I remember passing a shop that had a handwritten sign in the window. I don’t recall the exact words but it was very close to “Absolutely NO fucking Burberry!”. “Fucking” was definitely in the wording, that much I do remember. I figured they must be getting too many chavs coming in. Shoplifting, maybe, who knows. Miranda and the phone. Yeah, saw that coming as soon as the “no phones” announcement was made. TBH I’ve always thought Miranda was kind of an asshole, even in the old series. This was such a Miranda thing to do. She could have texted Che and said something like “So sorry, I can’t come in. I need to keep my phone with me.Brady just called, his girlfriend dumped him and he’s in really bad shape”. But no, in classic Miranda mode she smuggles in her stupid phone and doesn’t turn the ringer off. And that part didn’t even make sense because Brady was saying “why did you FaceTime me” so she somehow butt-dialed him, so why would her phone even ring? And how do you use Apple’s FaceTime on an Android?

When Trevor first showed up I thought he was just a jerk with a grudge against Isabella, insinuating she’d done something terrible but really just lying to try to make her squirm. But somewhere during the conversation at the picnic table, couldn’t really put my finger on why, but I got the feeling Isabella was the bad guy. Maybe it was her tone or facial expression? And then when she talked about having been drunk I immediately thought, uh-oh, somebody died. I bet it was Lisa. (Either the writing is that transparent, or after 65 years on the planet I’ve seen and read so many murder mysteries that this stuff is becoming intuitive.) Speaking of that scene, when the other kids came over I initially thought the guy was Brent. Glad it wasn’t. What I’m curious about now: Megan confessed to having an interest in Luke. Unbeknownst to her, Isabella has just slept with him for the first time. And suddenly Isabella is ready to just hand him over to Megan on a silver platter? WTF, is Isabella Mother Theresa now?! That really, really does not seem like something a teenager would do, not even for a ride-or-die BFF. Hell, I wouldn’t have done it ever. And what weirdness is going on between Megan and ex-Apple guy? Is he just giving her hacking lessons or is there more?

I’ll grant you that the people actually from that time wouldn’t know, but Wendigo should have.

Loved the Richie episode. Initially I thought the restaurant was The Bear and that he was just having a dream about what it would be like after it opened. It took me a little while to realize that wasn’t the case. That was a terrific experience for him, and changed his attitude so much I actually started to like him. And he looked really sharp in the suit. The Christmas episode was so cringeworthy. Jamie Lee’s character seemed absolutely unhinged (even before the car) and had such a huge martyr complex. She says no every time someone offers to help in the kitchen and later bitches that no one helps her(!!!). And after seeing what a complete shit show the dinner was, especially with that uncle repeatedly telling Mikey “You are nothing” I thought it was no damn wonder he did drugs and ended up as he did. I think Carmy was being an idiot thinking he had to choose between Claire and the restaurant. There is such a thing as burnout and having downtime with her could actually benefit him. That said, I don’t really get what he sees in her.

Sydney’s dad tells her some relative can get her a job at Boeing and she says “I don’t want to go like this at the airport”, motioning like she’s directing an airplane on a jetway. The writers should get their facts straight. Boeing in Chicago is just executive offices; no airplanes are built there. (I worked for Boeing for 41 years. Don’t even get me started on that weasely exec move from Seattle to Chicago…) If she went there she’d probably work in the cafeteria, and even then she wouldn’t be working directly for Boeing because that’s contracted out to another company.

After that nonsense with the painting I think the show should have been titled Immature.

He’d have to have another gem on him for that to happen since the gems disintegrate. What kind of idiot lights a match near ether?!

The “poor little rich girl” aspect wasn’t so much about how she got the keyboard as the “poor little rich me, my surroundings are so devoid of meaning” type of song she wrote.

I think Charlotte will come around but first we’ll see a lot of handwringing and pearl clutching. Charlotte and AKA Mom both seem to have very definite opinions about How One Should Present Oneself. ROTFLMAO! $890 for a 3D-printed piece of plastic! And cheap plastic was exactly what it looked like on the show. When I first saw Carrie in that ugly outfit carrying this thing I thought she was headed to a costume party as a janitor. I can’t help imagining “Callie Torres” rather than Che marrying Oliver Hudson‘s character. A lot must have happened since then.

Does Miranda not know her own number either? She could at least have tried calling her phone to find it. Charlotte annoyed me with the “MY Chanel” crap. If you buy your child clothes, do those clothes not belong to the child? That reminded me way too much of my mother. Super controlling, especially with money—not like we could afford designer clothes, though. In her eyes, anything of “mine” that she paid for was really hers and she thought she had the right to dictate how it was used (or spent, in the case of my allowance). If I had ever sold anything she would’ve pitched a major fit and then either insisted I get it back or demanded the money. I’m old and had older parents. She was a teenager in the Great Depression and never got over that fear/scarcity mentality. She was also the breadwinner (my father was best described as a hobosexual). So I can sort of get why she was like that, oppressive as it was, but Charlotte with all her and Harry’s money? “I haven’t cheated on you… yet” and “let’s get a surrogate”?! What an insensitive asshole. I’m surprised she didn’t go full-on Waiting to Exhale and burn all his stuff. If I wasn’t happily married I’d be happy to take Franklyn off Carrie’s hands. How long until Anthony gets fixed up with Juan Jose?

Megan only had $900-something saved and the bill was $6000. My theory is that either Isabella betrayed her in some other way (other than possibly sleeping with Luke), or something happened that made it appear she did. IDK, maybe she even switched tapes and kept the original. Did she really create that situation, though? It seemed to me it was because of the argument at dinner. Although that did start with Debbie insisting on an apology from Brent, I think she would have done that regardless. I certainly would have, because that nasty little SOB owed everyone involved a HUGE apology and, frankly, some jail time. And calling out Steve for caring more about his family name than what’s right was justified. (BTW this and the previous season are interesting to me mainly for the mysteries but also because my own daughter was in the class of 2000, so I’m seeing things from the parents’ POV.) Brent seems sociopathic to me, so I’m starting to think maybe he’s the one who killed Luke. OTOH, Isabella seems shady and I wonder about Megan’s mental stability with her seesawing from hating Isabella to ride or die BFFs back to hating her. And Steve is so obsessed with his reputation he may have had a motive too.

Agree, that seemed way too easy. I wonder how the FBI got around the 4th Amendment when they started making these “predictive” arrests. “An AI says this person hasn’t committed a crime yet but is likely to” seems like a very loose and convenient interpretation of probable cause. And we’re to believe all the courts just went along with this?

Probably not much worse than the ones I sat through in engineering school!

Yes, that would make sense!

You’re not alone there! Pelia’s accent is annoying but I like her attitude. I really hated having so little of Pike and Una in this episode.

So we have 3 mysteries: who killed Luke; who shot the video; and how the hell Megan and Isabella became “ride or die” friends given their rocky start. That last one is what’s really mystifying to me.

Y2K was such a joke to me. As a software engineer I laughed my butt off about people thinking ludicrous things like planes would fall out of the sky. Why would any of the systems that keep a plane flying need to care about the date? Might need a timestamp for any errors that might occur, but lack of correct date wouldn’t do anything to the control systems. I even had to go in to work on New Year’s Eve to do testing, which was annoying AF because of course absolutely nothing happened. And the line about the guy with the gun being an early employee of Apple and thinking the world would end on Y2K was even more laughable because he should have known better. Probably showing my age here but I enjoyed the Private Practice reunion with KaDee Strickland and Paul Adelstein.

WTF, writers?! Nadia’s heartbeat is up to 350 beats per minute? 350, really?! I don’t think that’s humanly possible. And Dahlia turns out to be Mason’s mother… is this supposed to be a spy thriller or a soap?

Same! I didn’t think the jokes were really all that funny.

I won’t spoil it by saying why, but the books give a different reason.

I just finished reading the trilogy. I don’t recall Allison having as prominent a role in it as she does in the show. Tim Robbins is nothing like book Bernard who’s supposed to be short, pot-bellied and (if I recall correctly) sort of snaggle toothed. Also wondering where Lukas is. No character by that name listed in IMDB.

It made zero sense for Tayo to have his car parked outside his front door when his house was under guard. It would have made much more sense to be parked in the garage where he doesn’t have to be exposed to possible gunfire while getting to his car. Likewise it made no sense for his wife, who WAS parked in the garage, to walk around the long way outside to get in her car. Since when would that house not have garage access from inside? Speaking of his wife, I was pleasantly surprised when I was thinking “ram that guy with your car, already!” and she actually did it. Still fascinated with Poet’s apparently bionic eye. How odd that sometimes it looks normal and sometimes all black, and she left it that way when talking to Hour’s wife and child. Wouldn’t that freak a kid out? And how does she control what her eye looks like at any given time?

Oh, I was assuming it was a nickname for “III” — it just comes across as a snobbish old-money thing, which is what bugs me about it. Like Charlotte’s first husband Trey in Sex and the City.

I never thought I’d say this but I’m glad Helm is coming back. Also glad to see: 20-something Jules was the one teaching the old ladies to crochet; and it actually looked like it was crochet. I get so sick of shows showing a piece of knitting and calling it crochet and vice versa. (Like the “knitting her own death shroud” scene in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina when the character was plainly holding a crochet hook.) I was also pleasantly surprised that the doctors weren’t haranguing the aneurysm guy about his weight. Don’t care if Simone and Lucas ever get together, but I hope she doesn’t marry Trey because he’s such a jerk. Don’t even get me started on the name “Trey”. The Linc/Jo thing is getting dragged out waaaaaaay too long. USE YOUR WORDS, PEOPLE!