IrishPirate

Thanks for the link, CousinAmy. Questions answered in one fell swoop!

The dates for the Christmas specials, parts one and two, are incorrect. They should reference 2017, and not 2016.

Can we recognize that Delilah is not "confined to a wheelchair," please? She uses a wheelchair, she's good at her job, she's quite capable. The only thing she doesn't do is walk. She's not "confined."

Speaking of dropped storylines, whatever happened to McGee being a successful writer? This is what happens when I run across old episodes.

Thought we got a whole lot more information than we sometimes get when Rachel does an extended set-up, asks questions for three minutes that just goes over the set-up, and then she gets to speculating. This was far more focused.

The British version featured Francis and Claire Urqhart. American version kept the initial, because who wants to give up the sparkly cuff links marked FU?

I do not understand why they interview people in the van. Looks cheap, for one thing. And while I might meet with a team in a public place, no way would I get into any vehicle with them!

"That damn Bushie," was my mom's response to the president question during the Alzheimer's questioning. Childcare: April was moping at the hospital that she didn't want to go home because Harriet wasn't there. Same night, Jackson's having dinner with the family and there's no Harriet anywhere. Where's the kid?

Travel time to get back to NYC.

I think Randall is at least a few days older than Kate and Kevin. William dropped him off at the fire station and he was more than hours old. I had the impression the parents might have tried to hold things together but quickly gave up. Also telling is that there was no effort to find the birth parents.

Does Tim Gunn still have the option to save someone? This was the first time this season where I thought of that option... On the other hand there are still too many people in the mix to use it just yet.

Braised in the South: About that pecan challenge. You are wearing aprons, for gawd's sake. Why did you not use the apron to transport the nuts? Crowing that your pecan carrier had huge arms and could therefore carry more than the competition was idiotic. Or did I miss something in the instructions?

The producers have no clue about housing prisoners. Maybe the author doesn't either. If Cora hasn't been sentenced yet, she should still be sitting in jail. No way she's in prison. And when she goes to prison, there's placement in the transitional unit while she gets assessed and classified. (Same issues drive me nuts with Orange Is the New Black.)

Owls. What is it with OWLS as spokes-birds for certain companies? I give you: 1. The Trip Advisor owl. 2. The America's Best owl selling prescription glasses. 3. The drug-pushing Xyzal owl. 4. And our very own local (Pacific NW) owl shilling for WGU, the Western Governors University. I'm sure there are others, but I am not googling. I am not. No. I mean it. Damn.

All that drama and I'm here to register my annoyance with production people who staged the final scene in a wind tunnel. What a mess. In the history of this show, there has NEVER been a woman whose hair wasn't flying around or drooping on the camera side of her face. And now the wait begins. Will they make it to an actual wedding?

The podcast saved me time and brain damage. What a train wreck of a season.

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BEST COMMERCIAL EVER even though they didn't do it on purpose. Xfinity/Comcast is rolling out their "new experience" that includes being able to talk to your remote. Two commercials ran back to back on a local station, in the middle a batch of other commercials. They ran without sound. I almost like them.

I think Cody trashed his marriage all the way back with the "let's be friends" bit in the honeymoon. And then he woudn't shut up about it. Instead of taking some initiative and finding some things they could experience together but not in the bedroom, he just whined. Shut up, already. Apologize. Ask for a do-over. Do you think Ashley ever told the story to Anthony about the break up she never saw coming? I don't think we ever saw her that vulnerable in previous shows. Sheila and Nate out to get a year's worth of counseling and anger management classes for making it this far. And the producers should learn a lesson about just how public the taping gets. I think Sheila has a public job that requires her to be calm and collected. What happens to her credibility with clients when they see her raging on the street? Now I'm wondering if the Dream Team would ever dare to match up a couple of 60-somethings.

There have been so many Friday news dumps (as opposed to Friday-night-of-a-three-day-weekend news dumps) that Rachel has dropped her cocktail shaker...

Why oh why was Mike Lee of Utah labeled a Democrat on MSNBC tonight? He very clearly said he was one of those working on the health care disaster, "But don't ask me what's in it. I haven't seen it."

"Call the Midwife" is almost a decade ahead of "Grantchester." No crossover, unless someone does some time travel!

"Unreliable Narrator" more for her skewed perception of other people's ability to be helpful at any given time rather than how she remembered events. I may have to watch this again to understand the timing. When Clay took Courtney to the cemetery, Hannah's grave looked maybe a week old.

There was talk elsewhere about Hannah being an "unreliable narrator" and not just by her peers claiming she lied about events. All the adults at the school were portrayed as uniformly clueless--and yet at any given school, there's someone who is an ally, a safe person to talk to. That's a weakness in making the book into a series, I think. Characters aren't well fleshed out (and that was a problem in the book as well) but if we really only know what Hannah knows, then our information is incomplete. I had a hard time with the present day storyline. Clay's initial injury never looked any better than the second day after it happened, yet there is time to file a lawsuit and get depositions? Even "Law and Order" doesn't work that fast. As a former high school teacher, much of the story rang true, except I missed the pockets of places, like choir or drama club, where teens have a chance to express emotions and learn to listen to others.

Info about Keri Russell in a movie can go in "The Cast in Other Roles." Posting something new in that thread will bump it up toward the top of the list.