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There is NO WAY Judy Parfitt is giving up that part. It's probably her most widely-seen role of a very long career. She is leaving the show feet first!

Yes. I thought that, too!

I'm falling on the side of the folks who think Ted is playing dumb about football/coaching/strategy. He didn't get to be a national championship winning American football coach on charm alone.

Just wanted to say that this episode was directed by APOLLO Creed! ;-) (I'll show myself out.)

Zava's getting older. He was said to have been with, what, 14 teams in 15 years. He's hearing footsteps. that's why Rebecca's tongue lashing at the urinal got to him. He's edging up on Roy Kent territory, while Jamie is a virtual whippersnapper. ETA: Shandy/Jamie. Yeah. ETA: Keeley's funders are venture capitalists. They liked the way she promoted Bantr, and decided to give her the money to start her own PR firm, though unlike some Silicon Valley types, they seem to keep a firm hand on the budget with a Corporate Flying Object.

What fascinated me is that Trent Crimm is in a completely different position now, where he's the one who has to ask for things at Richmond, instead of lobbing poisonous darts from the press gallery. The acting was great: very tentative, knowing he can't be the asshole he was known to be. But that transition started last season when he burned a source (and got fired) because of his admiration for Ted. (WILL he become one of the Diamond Dogs? I bet he will.) I kept thinking: Trent/Rebecca? Maybe. They kind of click. I think Roy & Keeley are going to get back together sooner rather than later, because once Roy diagnoses a problem he has, he gets over it! Also, the continual WHAT? when Roy reveals he broke up with Keeley was classic slow-burn comedy and hysterical. "I MADE A GOAL WITH MY FACE!" Also, you can tell the CFO is miserable as a venture capitalist footsoldier and would like to do anything other than take her grim crew around the world as a watchdog for the seed money her bosses throw at startups.

Y'know who should get that snazzy new scooter: Sister Julienne! She's been through the wringer for Nonnatus House, and could use a zippy motorbike to get around to the deliveries she loves so much. Second choice: Trixie, since she's by far the senior midwife.

Wow. That was one of their best episodes.

While I hope this show comes back, I hope Killian doesn't. Let him jet off with his suspiciously rich new employer. And WHAT is so bad about his ex-girlfriend taking money from her father? I don't like it when Jimmy Smits is a knucklehead, and Chief Suarez is a knucklehead. He will be used and thrown away, after his professional relationship with Regina is destroyed. The nice part of the story was how the two young girls stuck up for each other. I was worried they'd kill one or both of them, but maybe this show lets the kids live and learn from their mistakes.

Yeah, really dislike Sister Lazy Lungs. And she's a known liar: Mother Mildred could have given Sister Julienne a head's up. So now I don't believe anything she says. I also thought she was lying about having delivered babies. And asking the rich benefactor for a scooter on practically her first day was far more than a cute prank. She seems like the sort of nun who ends up embezzling convent funds and going to a casino. I hope it IS addressed, because I do not like con artists, especially ones who make a habit of it! ;-) I predicted Fred would end up a crossing guard...though I like Lollipop Man better.

Comin' to our local PBS station TONIGHT!!!

poo-PEH! Yes, I think that is a keeper. (Is that really the way Mancunians talk?) I admit I stayed up until midnight to watch the first episode. Overall, very pleased, except they had the kids do too much heavy lifting. Especially Phoebe...she was a charming, what, 8-year-old last season, and responds to the Keeley/Roy breakup like a little philosopher. (And is it an inside joke that they call her "Phoebs" and Keeley says they are "on a break?") And I'm torn about Ted's kid. He really is a chip off the old block, though also a bit too wise for his years. Nate is SO in search of a daddy figure, and Rupert will probably end up ripping his entrails out. And he still won't please his actual father. Wow. Even Leslie's 10-year-old thinks Richmond will finish last. I realize that's a plot convention, but the team finished strong the previous season AND they have both Jamie Tartt and Danny Rojas, along with Sam Obisanya...aren't they considered 3 of the rising stars in the sport? (But what do I know...I am an Orioles' fan.) Go, Doc Sharon.

Maybe I've watched too many tv shows, but wouldn't an autopsy have shown that the horrible woman was shot by someone from below? And would they have tested Joanna's hand for gunshot residue? (Or does her confession mean they don't have to?) And wouldn't any real police work have turned up the holes in the story? Or the phone records/location shown that the son went to the house (not to mention the Uber records?) I know what they were going for, but they didn't get there.

Anyone else find it funny that an alcoholic named her daughter Brandy? Also, Mom's still drinking or using, she doesn't have the place in Fall River and... don't care about the mamadrama. Maybe Killian will leave the force to work for the millionaire. One can hope.

He really was! I do like the actor, but Buck is a HUGE idiot, and needs to be followed around like a toddler. But since that drives most of the plots, that's the way he will likely continue to be. The things I liked about the dream world were that Hen was exactly the same, Chim met Maddie and loved her, that we got to see the older brother, and (yes) Coma Bobby. And the scene with Bobby and May was very well done and touching.

It had a battery and light in it...that might have been enough to penetrate Cliff's eye. Also, Luca is not an outstanding agent, but he hasn't lied to Charlie (except about being the guy's nephew at the assisted living home) and he acknowledges he owes her. It was smart of him to find that email she sent and bring down the guy who was exploiting children (and I liked that the crime that started the whole ball rolling was solved at the end of the season). He also brought Charlie's indestructible car back. I expect we'll see him next season.

That was a good call on Sheldon's part: he wasn't delivering a baby OR driving anyone to the hospital. Though in both Texas and Pasadena, they don't seem to have ambulances (remembering the episode of BBT where Sheldon has to drive Penny to the hospital.)

So glad the show is back. I'm just hoping that dumb-as-dirt Buck doesn't wake up from his coma as a genius or something.

For those who want to learn more about the new marijuana laws in NY, we had an interesting presentation last night at my Community Board meeting. It's a very humane plan: designed to get people who served time for selling weed to get licenses to sell it legally. In real life, the state legislature is still writing regulations on dispensaries, and it's like the Wild West out here with stores opening on every block, weed trucks, and no one really being sure how to enforce laws that haven't been written yet! https://cannabis.ny.gov/caurd

I can see this, but it's also essential. He's showing he was the right guy for Regina to pick as her chief of staff (so to speak), and he earned those captain's bars by knowing how to do his job.

I hope CBS renews it. It's by far my favorite procedural shot in NYC, and it's one of the few procedurals where POC are most of the leads and recurring cast.

All of those picky things...and YAY for Aunt Vi, nailing the bigoted appraiser. She's an equalizer, too.

Maybe he was a priest, like his brother! ;-) Also thought this was an excellent episode. The show is really finding itself, showing both what the people in the community need & want AND how the sausage gets made.

But he was still married to Laura, wasn't he? And as his spouse, she could say that she didn't want an autopsy, and have him buried or cremated right away. Cremated, probably, because then there'd be no body to exhume. And since ILM, I mean LAM, was a very profitable company, Laura stood to lose a lot of money if she and Max divorced. Arthur had heart trouble. Chances are, they wouldn't have autopsied him either. And it seemed like he had no next of kin. But Laura ended up taking her own life, and a very Poe-ike resolution. Well done, show!

Is Nick Nolte really having that kid of trouble with his voice and speech, or is it...ACTING?