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She calls them sexual assaults but then states "To be fair, I did go along with it out of fear of losing him". This is awfully murky. Having sex when you don't feel like but going along with it for fear of losing your partner is gross and sad and weird, but I'm not ready to call it rape. I've been raped. I always want to believe the women because we are so often NOT believed, but I'm really unclear on this one. I DO like Hardwick, and this shit gets harder when it's someone you like. I absolutely want to be fair. I'm just really unsure where the line begins between due process and innocent until proven guilty and the one that, outside of a courtroom, ruins someone's career and perhaps life due to one allegation. The rest of it sounds like a 50 shades of Grey thing gone wrong(er). I'd never let any guy dictate to me the way she's saying he did, and it's creepy, unless is some kind of consensual sub/dom thing (I don't get that kind of relationship, but if it works for two people, go for it), but I'm uncertain it's actionable or worthy of ruining someone's life.

I just hated Barbara in this episode. Cheating on nice Theo Huxtable for your cheating-with-your-SISTER ex??? Wtf? At least Theo's free now, I hope he doesn't take her back. Abby's house is big, but is it big enough to accommodate three more people? The daughters already don't along, and now they're going to have to share a room? And it wasn't a well thought, carefully considered plan...she's just being insecure about him working with his ex wife. Jo's a bitch. Delia suddenly having baby rabies is insulting. And I love Phoebe, for some reason. The red carpet panic and all the whispered, freaked-out-faced urgency was like Carrie dragging all her friends out of bed and the tub or whatever cuz she just HAD to tell them that she'd kissed Aidan the second after it happened. All these women are 40-50-ish...not 14-15, but you'd never know it. I hate to hate watch, but I guess when I find myself literally hating the characters most of the time, that's just what i'm doing.

yeah...I wasn't always a big girl, but I am now, and I have never had anyone harass me or insult me, let alone multiple people in a day. I can't even imagine this happening, tho I won't doubt anyone who says it's happened to them. I'm just saying I've never experienced it, or actually ever witnessed it either. Of course...I live in Kentucky. We're just fatter here than NYC. I don't think Plum seems all that huge, either. Her arms and legs are still relatively toned and proportional, and as noted, while she almost perpetually wears a 'hurt me' look on her face, she's still clearly well maintained and attractive. I kind of hate the whole notion that she's a virgin who's never had a love interest, too. Plenty of big chicks have plenty of sex and relationships and confidence. I loved the girl in the pilot episode who noped right on out of the weight watchers meeting. But..this is Plum's story, not hers. I also think Joy Nash's inherent sassiness comes thru a little too much for the mopey Plum...she appears to know how to flirt, tho it seems as if Plum would not. I know it's just as bad to skinny-shame as fat-shame (tho very few people really think it's a shame to be thin) but I literally did gasp when I saw Julianna Marguiles in her workout clothes.

Molly Shannon almost always gets on my nerves...her characters are almost, to the last one, grating and manic and irritating...but I actually quite liked her in this episode. She seemed so eager and happy to learn about her past and her history, and sure, some of it's stilted and scripted, but that's just the nature of this show. Her joy in finding her cousins seemed genuine, as did her emotional reactions. I had no idea of her tragic family past either.

I loved Trey. I wouldn't want to be married to him, certainly, he DID have a lot of family weirdness and baggage and dysfunction, but he was a good man, kind and sweet, if passive. I don't think he especially cared about getting married. He did it because Charlotte wanted it, and he loved her. I do think they DID love each other, but they were a bad fit. But, like you, I always wanted to know Trey was okay. Happy, in whatever and whomever he was...doing.

I think Evan Peters is beautiful. Like, he's serious crush material for me. Not as Stan, probably, but usually. I don't get creepy psycho killer vibes from him quite yet, but he's seriously fucked up and seriously possessive of Angel so quickly that nothing would surprise me. Inyda Moore is stunning.

I always related to Samantha's outlook on life, sexually, or, at least, after my divorce: the more the merrier, and no commitment, until, like Sam, I fell for a younger guy. Unlike Sam and Smith, we're still together. However...I was never a big Kim Cattrall fan, and I only rarely got glimpses of more than one note with her. I liked some of her more serious moments, when she dropped the arch Mae West act, but there weren't all that many of those, and even then, I didn't feel like she landed all of them. I don't see what so many others apparently do here. I don't dislike KC (although the feud with SJP is weird to me, and her final Instagram message to her seemed sort of outlandish, even taking grief into consideration).... I quite liked her on her episode of Who Do You Think You Are? I just don't think she's inordinately talented (and yes, I saw her in Ghost Writer, before I gave up Roman Polanski flicks). Of course, aside from Cynthia Nixon, I think all of these women are fine--as in sometimes good, sometimes meh--- but not great actors. I was often annoyed by Carrie, but it was only during this phase that I actively hated her.

Me too, on everything you just said here. Christina Applegate's episode is the most compelling of all seasons to me...haunting and heartbreaking. I don't care much about the long ago historical stuff. Yay, I'm related to some royalty. Meh, whatever. I liked Megan Mullaley's for the same reason: it was personal, it felt relevant and actually important for her to know, like a piece of a puzzle. Those are the episodes I love.

I always loved the Wayans, all generations and iterations, and I don't blame Damon Wayans for anything that transpired here, but he's left a bad taste in my mouth ever since he defended Bill Cosby and said the women who'd accused him were 'un-rapeable.'. https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/07/entertainment/damon-wayans-bill-cosby-thr-feat/index.html That has no bearing in this particular instance, and I'm sure the twitter racists came out in droves, but I also don't view him as someone whose views or word are unimpeachable either. I actually like historical/period stuff in an anachronistic, modern setting, and I think Hailee Steinfeld is fantastic, so I might have to watch this.

I thought the house was perfectly lovely, and I love how Jeremiah tears up at the reveals, and poppy's adorable with the new baby, but mostly all I could focus on was seeing a cat run out the open front door of the house as they were loading furniture in. Why was the cat still there when there was construction going on? Did someone get it back inside? I'm so worried about it. Yeah, I'm that person.

That was hilarious. " Paul Rudd? He's a good get." Bye Bye Jason Dohring. This role was never good enough for you, but I'll miss your pretty face.

Finished Lie to Me, which held my interest throughout, tho I've already largely forgotten it. Then read Sophie Hannah's Keep Her Safe, which: meh. One of the most annoying protagonists in recent memory. Then read Molly Jong-Fast's memoir The Sex Doctors in the Basement, which was fast and fun, if facile. Then read two more books about women on the PCT: A Blistered Kind of Love by married couple Angela and Duffy Ballard ( he is pedantic, condescending and irritating, she is a vastly better writer) and Hikertrash, by Erin Miller (who also hiked with her husband), which I really enjoyed. Then Sunday's on the Phone to Monday, by Christine Reilly: lyrical, beautiful, sad....it's described on Goodreads as The Middlesteins meet The Virgin Suicides, which is apt, and should let you know if it's your kind of book or not. It was mine.. About to finish us Alifair Burke's The Wife, which has been fairly un-put-downable, and tho I'm nearly at the end, I still have no real idea where it's going. Which is a good thing, in a thriller.

I ADORE Bill Pullman and found Ambrose touching and fascinating and disturbing, so I'm happy about this.

dammit. This show was so gonzo and weird and charming. I am so sad.

I still like it too, and thought what happened on last nite's episode was inevitable, but that it doesn't mean a happy ending, necessarily. These two had issues and problems, and if they become a couple again, those things will still be there. But maybe they've learned their lesson and won't let it slide into apathy and resentment again. Whatever, I just love the leads. They're both quirky and a little weird and completely charming, and I just like watching them. I didn't miss the kids AT ALL. Did wonder why Lena's sis wasn't at the Pina Colada party. I nearly cried when the turtle came home. Yeah, I'm that person.

This wasn't the best episode to be sure, but 'He's not a house baby' made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Also: Jean Raphael! I hope he's back next season.

I'm sad. It was starting to find its groove, and i love zach. Boo.

I looked up Dre's pink graduation sweater, and it's evidently a cashmere Valentino, and its cost: $995. Which still doesn't make it kind of stupid. I'm baffled by the graduation gift to Junior. Sure, it was obviously an expensive watch, but it wasn't even purchased FOR him, and given grudgingly. Dre can afford 1000 dollar dumb sweaters and they can swing, apparently, two residences, and they gave Zoe a car AND a trip to Europe and he gets a hand me down. I think the acting has been pretty impeccable for these episodes, but they sure aren't fun to watch. And Dre is such an asshole that I just want Bow to cut bait and run screaming. I buy her being done with him., I just never really bought why she's with him in the first place.

I'm so sad. This AND Brooklyn 99. Bloodbath. They should recast Jimmy as the Martin Riggs/Clayne Crawford role in "Lethal Weapon".

I still like it too. I agree it's meandering and hasn't quite managed to nail the tone it's going for, but the cast is fun, and Oliver and Jenna are so sparkly. It makes me laugh, fairly often. Has it been established what Martin does for a living? anything? How does one afford that nice house in (where? California?) on the salary of someone who runs/owns(?) a paint your own pottery store?

I loved that Dylan immediately knew that Andy's Laker girl scraped barnacles off boats. I love Dylan. I also liked that, tho they showed up for her, neither Dylan nor Andy were panting to get back with Haley. (I couldn't really tell about Rainer). I thought it was odd that both Hailey and Andy were hiding that they were seeing other people from one another...for one thing, why? They broke up. And Haley's been with Rainer Shine since Andy, so Andy's 'I'm the one that came before him' (the professor) was incorrect, but apparently he didn't know that. We know Haley is the queen of social media; there's no way she wouldn't have posted about both those other guys. I'm thinking about this too hard. It is just so hard for me to not think of Chris Geere as acerbic, sociopathic Jimmy Shive-Overly. I always feel like Arvin is an assumed identity. I had to laugh with the nurse...."what am I doing wrong?'. Indeed. Haley's cute and all but so was the nurse, it IS kind of inexplicable...I don't know how many of us would have all our former beaus show up at the hospital for us. Sarah Hyland did a good job Gumby-ing from the toxins in the NERP stickers...she sold that scene. Loved her blue coat, too. Have we ever heard of Jay's older sis before?

I'm sad, tho. It was problematic and uneven, but I got invested in it, and I really did want to know where the hell it was all going. Plus: no more Daniel Zavatto on my tv is sad news.

I think it's improving. The first couple episodes were shaky, but I have outright laughed several times at later shows, and I though both of last nite's were good. Not great, but solid. I am firmly and unapologetically a Zach Braff fan, and he's eased into this role more comfortably now, and maybe it's coasting, for me, on his charm, and the fact that Alex suddenly seems more JD-like, but whatever, I like it. The gradual grudging respect and friendship between Diedre and Eddie is kind of endearing. Still not that sold on the kids tho. They're very...sitcommy kids. And oddly, I've liked Tiya Sircar a lot in other things, especially The Good Place, but she's not really working for me here. Too smiley, too superficial, no real characterization so far, tho I guess these two episodes were trying to flesh her out more.

I often am bored by kid actors, but those girls playing Ruth are fabulous. I LOVE Ruth. Nick mentioned last nite that Winston was married to the love of his life and about to become a father really soon. Are hippie preschools with attendant chickens an actual thing? Lilypads looked almost exactly like Joe's preschool on Modern Family, complete with chickens and dirt.

Finished Jane Harper's The Dry. Really good. I'm not big on book series, (and so far, there are only two books in this particular series) but I'm likely to also read Forces of Nature, based on how much I enjoyed this one. Also read: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J Sullivan. Quirky, dark and really nicely written. Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel by Nicolaia Rips. I have a minor obsession with all things Chelsea Hotel, and tho this memoirist is still a teenager, I was also minorly obsessed with this little book. Funny, sad, charming, artistic, bohemian, weird....delightful. Keeper of Lost Things, by Ruth Hogan. lovely but just way too twee and precious and sentimental for me, ultimately. Today Will be Different, by Maria Semple. I loved Where'd you go Bernadette? but if that one bugged or frustrated you, you'll probably find this one especially maddening. I relate to chaotic, scattered heroines, which Semple specializes in, but I can understand those who find her characters baffling and irritating. I liked it, tho not nearly so much as Bernadette. Thru Hiking Will Break Your Heart by Carrot Quinn. I'm the laziest couch potato on earth, but I love to read about hiking the PCT or climbing Everest. These books in no way inspire me to follow suit, nor do I read them aspirationally or enviously or even vicariously, there's no part of me that want to DO these things, but still, I'm wild (ha, see what I did there?) about reading them. Quinn is someone with a lot of emotional baggage (tho she knows how to pack light for the trail) and her maturity levels, especially when it comes to relationships, reads more like a teenager than a 30 year old woman, but I still just loved this one. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Slim and compelling and it sent me scouring lots of sites to help interpret the ending. Still not sure I've got it nailed down. Fascinating, in a very dry, elegant way. Currently reading Lie to Me by J. T .Ellison. A little too literally 'Gone Girl' so far, but very readable.