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  1. No, he said it was Benji's baby. Sharona stayed home to help with the new grandchild. Later, Leland calls him "grandpa."
  2. I liked it (Tony Shalhoub could sit on a bare stage reading old Manimal scripts aloud and I would like it), but it wasn't what I expected. I don't want to talk about it in detail until more people have had a chance to see it, but it was darker than the original series, although there were a lot of funny moments. The death of Molly's fiance wasn't the main storyline; it was just the crime that he was solving. The main plot was about Adrian, and it was heartbreaking. One specific nit I'll pick now, though: the apartment was not the same. They tried to pass it off as the same and hide it with no wide shots (like, how am I supposed to count the lamps, Breckman???), but no.
  3. I just noticed that Brad Culpepper was omitted too, and he was F3 in Game Changers but lost to Sarah Lacina. Of course, he has a reputation for being a terrible lawyer, so no surprise there. For clients who like a little porn music with their representation, I guess.
  4. I think a lot of these shows alter the colors in post-production. I saw some Gordon Ramsay show recently that had an episode in Seattle filmed in winter and it was all vibrant technicolor blues and greens. We're not even that bright in the summer! November to April (give or take a month on each side), our best days are pale gray and our normal days are suicide gray. Yes, I thought the judge was mainly looking for them to hit all the steps and keep up with the other dancers. Steve and Joel, in particular, were a bit too bouncy and slouchy, but the judge (who was a hammy delight) didn't seem to care about that. Their flaws were things that could be drilled out of them, but not in the time they had, so it didn't seem to count against them. So happy for Rob and Corey that they finally got to be team number one. When Phil told them they won a trip to Fiji, I was half-afraid and half-hoping he would add "... to be contestants on the next season of Survivor." I've seen every season of TAR and this is by far the best F3. Just a lot of really great people with supportive, loving relationships. I'll be happy for whoever wins but also a little sad for the two teams that don't.
  5. Also Yul Kwon, Yale Law grad, winner of Cook Islands, all-around hot nerd. Jeff: Drew is through the obstacle course! Now he has to knock down the blocks! Drew:
  6. Every once in a while, we get an episode like this where almost everyone is playing like a moron. Emily, telling everyone she engineered the Bruce ouster instead of saving that information for after she's in the F3. Also drawing for a rock when she didn't want to go on the boat trip, then not playing the challenge when losing her vote would not have put her in a worse position, and also thinking that anyone would believe anything she said when she came back from the trip. Drew, telling Austin about the Julie vote, as if it's not obvious from space how inexplicably smitten Austin is. Austin, telling Dee about the Julie vote and then being stupid enough to believe Dee didn't tell Julie. And correspondingly not playing his idol when he would be Julie's obvious target. It only worked out for him because ... ... Julie was dumb enough to let Dee control her vote even after Dee was dumb enough to tell Julie Austin was her number one. Honest to God, when KATURAH is playing better than you, you should just quit. I hate them all. Except Jake. Jake FTW. When Austin and Dee were going on about how they're the new Boston Rob and Amber, I flashed back to Lloyd Bentsen telling Dan Quayle he was no Jack Kennedy. I wondered about that too, and thought that maybe it's possible that the amulet-turned-idol is not transferable. HIIs can be given away, but they've had other advantages in the past that were not, the one I'm thinking of specifically being whatever that advantage was that Sarah gave to Cirie that Cirie tried to play before Jeff shut her down. The alternative explanation is that Austin was just stupid.
  7. I was wondering if the diners ate any of the food. Because it was three courses, so if the racers had to wait for the diners to finish each course before they could serve the next one, a team could be slowed down if they had some particularly polite diners. *fondly remembers "Hump it, Teri, HUMP IT!"*
  8. All of this. The problem for Bruce and everyone who isn't in the Reba 4 is Katurah. She hates Bruce and, by extension, anyone who might even potentially work with Bruce so much that whenever she gets any information that will hurt him, she runs it back to Dee. The thing is, if she wants to kill her own game just to kill his, then that's a choice, I guess, but she actually thinks she's playing well. I was floored when she said last night that she had to win this game because of all the people who are not winning this game, she is currently not winning it the hardest. AFAIC, she's a bigger waste of a player space than Hannah, Brandon, and Sean were. Drew: We're having a boy's night. Bro-ing out. Austin: Ooh, pork is so fatty.
  9. Unpopular, but I agree. I like most of the remaining racers, but 90 minutes is too long for this show. I find myself hitting the clock display to see how much time is left and it's always too much. It seems to me that TAR has always depended on the racing itself to provide drama rather than individual personalities as other reality shows do, so in general the racers are nicer but blander than the players on, say, Survivor or Big Brother. But since a lot of the tasks themselves aren't necessarily that interesting to watch, the show has also relied on tight editing. With the extra half hour, we end up watching a lot more of the task and, for me anyway, watching people try and fail to pick up rice paper or carry heavy mattresses up stairs isn't that riveting. (I will say, though, that I could have watched another hour of them getting Thai massages and looking into the camera with "help me" faces.) The other problem for me is that the tasks, especially the detours, don't seem as well thought out as they used to be. Phil has long since stopped giving the, "a detour is a choice between two tasks each with its own pros and cons" because while in the past they worked hard to make one side of the detour be more complicated/difficult but potentially fast if teams figured it out and the other option straightforward but grueling and inevitably slower, now they just throw up two pretty equal options like make marionettes or complete a mural, and teams just pick whichever one seems easier or closer. There's very little strategy involved in their choice. Greg and John talking about how doing the mussels and the buoys was a good choice for them because they were in first feels like the first time in ages I've heard anyone weigh out the pros/cons.
  10. If you don't have Peacock yet, the Black Friday Deal for new subscribers is on right now. $1.99/month for 12 months, or one year for $19.99. The deal is good through Cyber Monday (11/27). https://www.peacocktv.com/offer/blackfriday 16 more sleeps to Mr. Monk's Last Case!
  11. Cancer survivor Ethan Zohn has a milestone birthday.
  12. I can't remember where I read it, but Breckman said that while John Turturro isn't in this movie, he hoped to have another Monk movie at some point where Ambrose will appear. No idea if that's wishful thinking or if he's really planning future installments.
  13. Calling himself Sifu reminds me of how Coach went on that rant about how even his parents call him "Coach" after Stacey called him Benjamin. (She also, hilariously and nonsensically referred to him as "Chuckie the Cheese," which is how I now think of him.) No idea how Sifu feels about it, but I assume he's this decade's Coach or possibly Seinfeld's Maestro.
  14. There is. Whether it's effective or not ... yeah, we've seen people who shouldn't have been there. But if there were no screening, I'm sure we would have seen far more heinous shit than we've seen. Survivor Casting Call Eligibility Requirements : "All semi-finalists must undertake physical and psychological examinations and testing (to be conducted in Los Angeles by medical personnel selected by the Producers) and meet all physical and psychological requirements." 2022 Interview with Dr. Ronald Stolberg: "I'm a psychologist who helped cast 'Survivor' for years. I weeded out people who might be dangerous or unstable under pressure — here's what I looked for in contestants." Recent Reddit thread started by applicant who says he was ghosted after he did the psych eval and is looking for insight from other applicants. He described the applications process as, "Applied first week of August, got called ~10 days later. Filled out the long pdf app and then silence for a couple of weeks. Had my calls with Matt/Jeff around the second week of September, and then psych ~3 weeks after that." One other person in the thread says he failed the psych eval. Neither person said what the psych testing consisted of, but it seems it does exist. Also, seems like Jeff was ticked off enough after Hanna quit to talk to casting and the staff psychologist. "And the first call I made was to [casting director] Jesse Tanenbaum and Dr. Liza, our head psychologist, to say, 'Add this into our data, because we got it wrong. We missed something with Hannah. She shouldn't have been on the show.'"
  15. I don't think Jake is fainting; it looks more like he's having seizures. If he were fainting due to low blood pressure as Kellie was claiming, then he wouldn't be popping right back up and being fine immediately. It takes at least a few minutes for BP to come up to a normal level. I also think it's a huge mistake for someone with an eating disorder, even one they have under control, to go on this show. Contestants in the past have talked about how after the show was over, they had problems with food, both with binge-eating and hoarding. Based on Hannah and Sean quitting and Brandon weeping his way through his four days, it seems the psychological evaluations this season were likely inadequate or inept, so I hope for his own sake that Jake either gets voted out soon or is pulled from the game. Sifu is crazy, but I love him. I've never seen anyone use Tai Chi to threaten someone 😄 Austin played his two advantages right. He could have used immunity on Drew, but then he'd have only that vote-cancel canceller or WTFever it was, and how often is that useful? This way, he extended the immunity idol and kept his vote. That said, I have no recollection of him getting those advantages, and I think he said he and Drew had another one too, in addition to the three-part amulets? Crazy. He should have just started eating a sandwich while J. and Kellie were debating.
  16. My vote is for Worlds Apart. I can't imagine a more despicable group of people will ever play this game. This season's cast seems more pathetic to me than unlikable. If we get one or even two more players quitting, I wouldn't be that surprised.
  17. I wouldn't swear to it, but I believe it is the first time he's been in the intro only because I was so surprised when I saw him in this one.
  18. I feel bad for the teams who were on the third flight because they lost at least one more night of sleep than the other teams. The others got there the night before the boat task and had overnight to sleep, but the third flight teams only had what they could get on the plane and the bus. Unless there's some bunching at the beginning of the second half of this leg, they could be two nights in a row without decent sleep. I cracked up at "OUT OF TOWNERS! OUT OF TOWNERS!" Malaina seems exhausting, but fun. You can get it on Amazon (search for "Botan Rice Candy") but be sure to compare the different results because the prices vary wildly and some of them are insanely high. Cost Plus World Market sometimes has it. But your best bet is a Japanese grocery store, if there's one where you live; they always stock it.
  19. That sounds like Tomoe Ame from Japan. It used to come with a little toy in every box, usually a plastic car or foam animal or doll. Now it just includes a sticker. Funniest moment of the show for me was when Ashlie couldn't figure out how to pick up the rice paper and starting smacking it with the roller, while the Vietnamese woman glared at her.
  20. Nick Brown from Outback. I remember him because he's probably the best-looking guy ever to play, but also he's from the Seattle area, and Survivor was a big deal back then, so the local news kept mentioning him. He's currently running for State AG here. Paschal from Marquesas. Judge and dirtbag. Andrew Savage, who I later learned was disqualified from practicing for the dumbest possible reason to get oneself disqualified: he failed to pay his bar dues. Alex from ... Fiji? He of the FTC jury who asked questions and then screamed SHUT UP when the finalists tried to answer. Willard from Palau, who I think was the first person to lie about his profession, telling everyone he was a mailman. He's remembered for bearing an uncanny resemblance to that season's immunity idol.
  21. I was thinking about Naonka and Purple Kelly and how Hannah got a really good edit compared to both of them.We've all long speculated that the reason why Purple Kelly was invisible all season was because the show was punishing her for quitting, which they couldn't do with Naonka because she was central to so many of the game moves that happened. Not that Naonka wasn't a terrible person because she was, but they sometimes give the terribles a good edit, and they didn't with her. They showed Hannah being whiny, but it paled in comparison to Brandon. She said at TC that she cried more than anyone out there and no one disputed that, which means she cried more than Brandon and we never saw him do much of anything BUT cry. Someone else pointed out to me that she also looked impeccably groomed the entire time she was there, so she couldn't have been doing much of anything in terms of camp work. I don't know; maybe they gave her a decent edit because they wanted her quitting to be a surprise twist. It was for me; I was certain it would be either Brandon or Emily leaving, and Hannah didn't even seem like a possibility.
  22. Rolling Stone published this today, the 30th anniversary of the show's premiere. How ‘NYPD Blue’ Paved the Way for Tony Soprano and Walter White
  23. I'm just glad it's over. Of the final three, Grant would be my pick to win, but I don't think those three were necessarily the best of the season. We were repeatedly told how so many of the earlier boots were "middle-of-the-pack," but how would we know? They were flat out ignored until the judges decided it was time for them to go. A lot of weeks, we didn't even see what James, Kolby, MD, Charles, or Reagan were making. They were just used as background.
  24. Two more lamps in the dining room and a wall sconce in the hallway! This brings the total to 12 lamps and one sconce. I'm wondering if work on the reunion movie has shut down because of the writers strike. The director/EP Randy Zisk and at least two other executive producers (Breckman and Shalhoub) are in WGA and/or SAG-AFTRA, so they would have had to stop working. We know they started filming because there were photos from the set, but if they had to stop before they finished, I wonder if it will ever get done. Starting back up again has to be ridiculously expensive. IMDb still shows the movie as in preproduction, which would mean it's not filmed, but no idea how accurate that is. Of course, now that I've said that, I'll probably see promos and a release date tomorrow🤞
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