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Shocked by the total meltdown of this team, as they did seem to work together and get along very well. I'm sure there were signs, but I completely overlooked them. Somehow I doubt that his "I'm done" meant he's dropping out - though you never know - or if it did, that Phil didn't Race Whisper him out of it. If they're still in it, I hope they get it together quickly. And with sincerity.

So it looks as if I was right when I thought the passport unpleasantness was a simple bump in the road. These two are back to running my kind of Race - enjoying everything, appreciating the adventure, but still trying to Race well. They took third place gracefully - surprised, but agreeing that it was worth it to have that extraordinary experience. My favorite moment may have been when Floyd said "It's like a rainbow" and Becca said, rapturously, "It is a rainbow!"

I think I'm developing a crush on Logan.

Me, too, my little magnolia!

This is actually an episode from the 80s version of TZ - "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon", starring Harry Morgan as the title character, the one responsible for the maintenance of the machine.

They've probably lost me, which is sad because I liked them so much in the opening episode. Oh well... assholes and bullies come and go in all shapes and sizes.

I haven't lost my liking for these two. I don't know how I'd react if my partner, at the mat, realized he'd lost his passport. I mean, obviously I'd like to think I'd be cool about it but... I can't say for sure. It would be a hell of a painful way to leave the Race. Plus they've been performing tasks well, so it have an extra sting. We'll see how they are next week.

Even if it does mean Dre gets thrown under another bus - Pops is really awful to him most of the time - it will be worth it because of Laurence M-F Fishburne!!!

They seem to be one of the most likable alpha-male teams I've seen on the Race. Warm, hard-working, focused. And I'm fascinated by Redmond's blade-like prosthesis, having seen it in competitions over the last couple of years.

I've always said that if I were lucky enough to run the Race I'd want to have as much fun as possible - given the very limited possibility of winning the million - so teams like this always appeal to me. They're getting along well, making decent decisions and standing by them and seem immune to what other teams are doing - running their own race. I'd love to see them do well.

I'm with Chyna - as soon as Jenn said she was going to use her looks, I wanted her gone. But she and Kevin - who seemed amiable enough - didn't get on my nerves that much and they exited with some grace - including congratulating the team that edged them out.

I watched a good chunk of the marathon with a friend who's a fellow TZ junkie, and I got the pleasure of watching her see - for the first time - two of my favorite episodes ("A World of His Own", where Keenan Wynn plays the successful playwright whose creations come to live as he dictates them into his tape recorder, and "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You"). She, like me and many of you, found Joe Mantell's performance well worth watching "Nervous Man..." and we were, throughout the marathon, moved by appearances by several fine actors no longer with us (Klugman, Wynn, Richard Long, Larry Blyden, etc.) I did not get to see "Changing of the Guard", another favorite, mainly for Donald Pleasance's beautiful, self-effacing performance.

We really enjoyed this. The score is so catchy and the cast had a great energy. I did applaud Jennifer Hudson on "I know Where I'm Going." Also Fierstein and Short on "You're Timeless To Me." And while I don't often like Martin Short, I thought he was great as Wilbur. James Marsden is my favorite Corny Collins, but I actually thought Derek Hough did a good job. I do wish Corny had been the one to declare the show "now and forever integrated." The actress playing Little Inez was adorable and she really could dance! Still glad Tracy won the title. The actor playing Seaweed was great, right up there with Elijah Kelley. Ariana Grande pleasantly surprised me. I thought she nailed it. Kristin Chenoweth is just so damn good in everything and so magnetic I hope NBC knows what they have in her and keep casting her in projects like this. I even tolerated "Miss Baltimore Crabs," my least favorite song in the show. i think this is probably the last time Fierstein will play Edna, and I'm glad he went out, excuse the pun, big.

Dolores: "So I'm trapped in your dream?" Maeve: "You're a terrible human being...I mean that as a compliment" Anthony Hopkins' entire final speech.

Teddy, not William, is Dolores' true love, even if he is sort of a deadly doofus. I actually love him. Loved how Hector accepted Maeve's dismissal so amiably. Love his partnership with Arsenal. William/MiB turned out to be as much of a bastard as Logan, but Logan ended up with all the punishment. If William set him up to seem dangerously unstable and unfit to run Delos, I wonder what the rest of his life has been. So Bernard is back (yay!) but very dark. Every time Ford called him "old friend," it came across to me as very sincere. Speaking of Ford, Anthony Hopkins has been sensationally good all season, but never better than tonight. His farewell to Bernard, his big speech at the end...so good. I hope he's back next season i was hoping Stubbs was still alive, but I doubt that he is. Felix is soo in love wth Maeve, but who could blame him. Thrilled to see the sexually predatory tech died, now if only Charlotte and Sizemore would quickly follow suit. and I'm ready for Season Two already.

I have a lot of little questions after tonight's season finale, but only one really major question: What the hell are they going to do next season??

I've loved Kelly Bishop since her Tony-winning performance in "A Chorus Line", and she was one of the major reasons I watched "Gilmore Girls" from the beginning. I loved Emily, even at her most impossible, and ached for her as she tried fruitlessly to forge a closer relationship to Lorelei, who seemed almost willful in her inability to fully embrace her mother. She and Richard had a terrific marriage (another ache for my battered heart was during their separation, but I loved that Emily was angry at Richard for the way he treated someone she didn't even like, and considered a threat to her lifestyle and position as Richard's helpmate.) Bishop, amazingly, never got an Emmy nomination for six years of astonishingly good work. Maybe they'll make up for it with a 'supporting actress in a limited series' award this fall. But in my mind, she has all the prizes.

I was thinking that exact same thing during the episode. I didn't like him from the beginning with his pretentious snarkiness, and now I see no redeeming characteristics in him (yet I love Teddy, who kills people). Another example of my internal moral inconsistency is that I find William utterly boring (and he's turning a little smug,) and am interested in Logan, the douchebag. Maybe it's the relative chemistry/presence of the actors, maybe it's that I want Dolores with Teddy (I know, I know, they're not 'people', but isn't this show, in part, about how you don't have to be flesh to have feelings, to have some right to self-determination? I'm not putting this well...) Agree with everyone who has noted how kick-ass and awesome Maeve is, and how Thandie Newton is knocking it out of the park.

That was brilliant. I don't find the use of the word "fuck" all that egregious in context. Now, if Dolores starts using it a lot, I may not accept that, but as it is, I'm finding it believable. Between this show and John Oliver on "Last Week Tonight" (which usually precedes or follows "Westworld") HBO is serving up the fucks as if they didn't give one!

I take it Wes Bentley is gone for good?

For modern scares, the two "Conjuring" films and the Australian film "The Babadook" are incredibly disturbing. Most of the classics mentioned above are excellent. I would add "The Haunting" (the original, with Julie Harris and Claire Bloom), and "Diabolique".

I actually thought Sevigny was excellent in "Big Love." She played a troubled, difficult character well, and had me actually understanding her, to a large degree. Otherwise, though, I don't find her very interesting.

I would be very happy to have spent this season mostly with the Roanoke folk, delving even deeper into their mysteries. I mean, I love Lily Rabe forever, but she deserves to be more than a talking head. I don't dislike Sarah Paulson as much as I usually do (I know: heresy), but the changeable stupidity of the characters (we're staying, no we're leaving, no, we're staying, this house is haunted or possessed or just plain evil, but no, it's just the local hill folk messing with us...) makes me less and less interested in Matt. Shelby and Lee. I like Flora, though. Like most of you, I was sorry to lose Cricket and Elias (I'm always sorry at the thought of losing Denis O'Hare, and this is the most I've ever liked Leslie Jordan, who brought a great energy to his scenes.). I imagine they will be around as ghosts. Can you imagine what it was like for the actors, filming Cricket's horrible death? "Leslie, you're going to have to scream more than that... Kathy, you need more dirt and blood streaks... Wes, you'll take this hook and pull at some ribbon-like meat until Kathy snips it like an umbilical cord..."

A friend of mine is an American history buff with family connections to the Carolinas, and she says that Kathy Bates and Wes Bentley are handling the 'colonial' accent very well.

A true YMMV - I had become bored with Peters by Freak Show, but his Mr. March in Hotel completely won me over. I'm interested in what he does this season.