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I sent Sarah where the Nolan-Weiss civil suit currently stands and she asked me to share it here (yay, unlimited Lexis use due to law school!) In 2014, Weiss sued Nolan and Buchbinder for assault, battery, slander and defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, medical malpractice, and negligence. The IIED charge was dismissed for being duplicative of the other claims. In December 2015, there was a family court order which found that Weiss proved, by a preponderance of evidence, that Buchbinder had conspired with Nolan to kill Weiss (this finding was made as part of a visitation decision - I will let people who have more experience with family courts than my one semester of family law comment on how binding this is on the civil court. From reading the 2017 opinions, it looks like it was very persuasive) In April 2016, the court granted partial summary judgement to Weiss on the assault and battery claims, so those are done and decided in Weiss's favor. In April 2017, Buchbinder tried to get punitive damages and attorney's fees off the table, and tried to undo the 2016 partial summary judgement for Weiss. Both motions were denied. And nothing since then, or at least nothing that involved a judicial opinion. Given the rate at which cases settle rather than go to a jury, I'm guessing that's where this is headed, especially if she is already thinking ahead to damages. Also, fun fact, one of the keywords for the 2014 opinion is "sledgehammer," which I guess means this comes up enough that Lexis felt the need to highlight it.

I am probably the only person appreciating that Tupelo Honey shoutout, because I am literally only watching the show at this point to see how many Chattanooga locations I recognize per episode

I really hope that was Xanthippe that they briefly showed - I'm guessing I was in a minority on this but I always liked that character (it was probably the German soccer joke she made). Also, as much as I love Netflix generally, the Lemonade references really do show the problem with the "drop it all at once" model; I'm sure it was timely when it was written, and Beyonce is forever, but Lemonade will be more than a year old by the time this drops.

I realize that my reaction to this should not have been "awww!" but I seriously couldn't help myself at seeing them in their little Ghostbuster jumpsuits.

I am very happy for this show to finally premiere so that Spotify will (hopefully) stop incessantly playing the promo for it.

Late Night's coverage of this has been both great and surreal because I'm currently in a health law class with a professor who looks a lot like Seth Meyers. Although I'm pretty sure Seth Meyers is just saying what my prof wants to say in class, so... (he did start yesterday with "The theme of this semester will be 'forget everything I said last class, because I have no idea anymore.'")

And the lazy thick-browed girls of the world celebrate that trend.

The Martha Stewart and Seth Meyers relationship is one of my favorite on tv.

I've been coming off a stomach bug, so looking at all those meat pies was ROUGH and I think I almost relapsed. Why couldn't it have been Very Plain Bread and Biscuits Week?

Ooh, I'm glad you're doing this! I'm halfway through the second season but stalled out, so this will inspire me to get back on it. I'm watching it for the first time (and was not the target audience when it came out - I think I was still in high school when it ended) and it's a weird little relic. You're right that most of it holds up, but there are so many "huh" moments.

That hair Bradley Cooper was rocking in the first season is really blooper enough.

One of my favorite shows as a kid was Adventures of Pete & Pete, which would hold up on the basis that it is still, 20 years later, ahead of its time. (This was a children's show that featured Patty Hearst as a guest star. And that was not even in the top 20 weird things on that show.)

Even though it has been done before in various media, I would love it if they did the Clutter family murder as memorialized in In Cold Blood. The book left out/changed a lot so there's new ground to cover, and I feel like so many of the people involved would be character types that Ryan Murphy is already obsessed with (Capote is the obvious one, but also the teenagers involved, the probably clinically depressed mother, the murders themselves) that he'd have a field day adapting it. (And obviously Connie Britton for Harper Lee even if she's the totally wrong age.)

Can we please discuss the reveal that Larry King was simultaneously dating a woman working for the prosecution and one for the defense? I actually yelled "NO" in the middle of a service station waiting room when I got to that part.

Sawyer's nicknaming always bugged me, but it was worth for that time he referred to Michael and Jin as "Han and Chewie" when they were building the boat.