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I was so excited to hear local band Houndmouth (I'm in Louisville, they originated across the river in Indiana, and play here often, and my honey's bandmate tours with them occasionally) played during this episode!! I found this episode okay, tho the whole 'bachelor/ette' party in vegas thing is so played out, and so expensive, and half these people don't seem to have jobs, but whatever. I was really close to one of my sisters in law when my bro was married, but the subsequent one: no. Plus, they never lived in the same city, did they? So Kate and Beth never actually bonding or getting to know each other all that well seemed pretty realistic to me. Randall and Beth's fight was ugly and it was selfish of them to do that right in the middle of Kate's party, so when Kate was trying to calm them down, I was rooting for her, until the 'he likes you more than me!!' moment. Ugh, Kate. Beth telling her to butt out cuz it was none of her business pissed me off too--you made it her business when you decide to have a screeching fight right in front of her at her own bachelorette party. Ugh, Beth. And is Randall just never NOT morose? Ugh, Randall.

I'm not analyzing any of it, and yeah, some of the 'no talking' concept was a little tortured, but I thought it was a lot of fun. I don't really care if they live together or not, cuz they're a forever couple no matter what, and I can handwave the inconsistencies with Scully calling Mulder's house 'our home' cuz she lived there for a long time, etc, but I did think it was awfully sleek and cold and high tech for Scully. I laughed at Mulder's 'why is your house so much nicer than mine?'. I laughed at his bemused reaction to her having a vibrator in her pocket. I'm a huge proponent of tipping and hate people who don't, but they had no actual servers or people in that weird little blobfish restaurant, so I ain't hating on Mulder for this one. Also, DD looked exceptionally fine this episode. Loved the hand holding at the end. Sweet.

Rio is an evil lying mean-girl wench. I was so rooting for her to go home. I think they usually like to bring down the obvious front runner down a peg or two for one episode, so this was that for Khrystyana, I hope. She's so adorable, and even tho she wasn't feeling this challenge, I still thought she looked gorgeous in her photos. Kyla's pic was FIERCE. I never noticed just how very....huge...Erin's forehead is. It's a five-head. Maybe a seven-head. Is her hair receding? I was also annoyed by her 'i'm too old to know about social media' schtick.

Okay, I just loathe Greg. He's a big, whiny, screamy, profane baby-man; literally everything he does bugs me, including his overreaction to a bee sting. He seems developmentally challenged...sort of Gump-y. And so he needs his little blue pill to perform, and runs out, in part, I guess because he's been using them with his sex worker, or maybe he doesn't need them with her, I don't know. But when they find he's out of pills, it's didn't seem to occur to him that he could help his WIFE out and see that thru, like if no dick was involved, then it didn't count as sex or wasn't worth pursuing, and once he DID find his little friend was working after all, he immediately abandoned giving her oral sex so he could get HIS rocks off. Ugh, I hate him. Even douchey hot model guy can't pull off tighty whities, let alone when he's scratching his balls thru them. Just gross. The donut boy-romper was hilarious.

I loved Avery declaring himself done with Juliette, and tho I'm sadly positive it won't stick, I hope it does. No matter her history or circumstances, she's so much work, and so undeserving of Avery. JJ looked especially pretty this episode too. But damn, with all the women in the world who would love to be with him, could it NOT be the one Gunnar is sleeping with? Haven't they shared enough chicks? Even if it was just Scarlett (I can't remember), it's really unnecessary. I'd still be all for Avery and...what's her name, who takes care of Cadence? I hate the steroid storyline too, but hope Will is fine.

Hated the poor dead raccoon, and that it was played for laughs. Seriously, if it had just gotten in and died of natural causes or something, that's one thing...but what had happened to it? It did look like some psychopath is practicing his murder techniques in that house. It was disturbing and very not funny. I didn't find Faux-Mr.Big even remotely attractive. I did find it odd that that Frances regifted such an expensive piece. I also didn't really understand the break up with the Andrew, but whatever. Her conversation with him reminded me of Carrie and Berger, who was so distressed over his last cheating girlfriend, and Carrie had also been a cheater.

I think we all know it's just a dying Carl's utopian wish for the world, because if Negan is tamed, he's not a threat to those Carl loves anymore. I didn't take it literally or as a vision of the real future. But the sight of that man's stupid face is enough to make me see red; he hasn't singlehandedly killed the show for me, but his fingerprints are sure all over the body. On an episode in which we lose a core character, a CHILD we watched grow up, the last thing we need to see is Negan's terrible face. And he somehow even managed to overact and scenery chew thru his one line. If Rick DOESN'T actually kill him, there is no balance or justice left in Zombieland.

It was Conor Oberst, of Bright Eyes. At the Bottom of Everything. He's one of my faves, and I love that song. This was my last TWD episode. I watched to see Carl/Chandler off, and yeah, it made me cry. It was agonizing. He deserved so much better. I was almost sorrowful over the idea of not continuing to watch, until fucking Negan and his stupid cornpone accent showed up in the hazy dreamy future tending to tomatoes, and greeting Judith. FUCK THAT GUY. I will only watch again when I read a spoiler that he is going to DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH. I'll come back for that.

I wanted to love this one more, as it's so well reviewed, and it's well written and intriguing...but I think i'm at maximum capacity with zombies, which I used to be a real sucker for. I'm giving up Walking Dead too. But anyway. It's a really good book, and I WAS fascinated by the whole Cordyceps thing, but ultimately, I was just glad I was finished with it. i'm unlikely to read the prequel that came after (which seems like a counterintuitive sentence). I liked The Good Daughter a lot, even tho it definitely got batshit crazy, but I think all of Karin Slaughter's books do. Also read Adam Croft's Tell Me I'm Wrong, which I was completely underwhelmed by. Great premise, poor execution. Currently reading Nathan Hill's The Nix, which I am completely loving.

I think he's RIDICULOUSLY beautiful. I did not know that...cool. Go, Alan. he's quite attractive, and has this quiet gravitas onscreen that I like.

this was literally the first episode that I found Robert attractive. I have often found THC attractive, even hot, but never Robert, who has been, also pretty much up until this episode, a crass buffoon. I approve this new Robert and hope he sticks around.

Wait, I thought he went to school with Kristen? Or am I mistaking another kid in her class for him? I did laugh a little that the parents were not quite clear on whether it's gender fluid or gender queer, or what. They're trying to be supportive, but sometimes the labels get confusing. I'm also curious about just what Audrey's occupation/career/business is, exactly. I do think there's going to an ugly fall out from the "White Kids' movement group. That boy who Audrey clearly believed she had gotten thru to....I'm pretty sure she did not.

Oh please no. I liked Kristen/Bacon-daughter a little better this week...she's just really young, and impulsive, and thoughtless (re: not realizing that the whole cop experience was different for her sister than her). I just hate Tim Robbins' character. And he looks so...unattractive. Bad 'do. I was also confused by Duc's supposed celibacy when he was banging everyone he could (except the Asian woman, which: man, Duc, you got issues) in Vancouver. Do we know WHY he's insistent on being--or anyway, SAYING he's celibate? I liked seeing the shrink's family too...also recognized Necar Zedagen (it always shocks me that she's only 35) from Girlfriend's Guide, and am interested in that family as well. Also intrigued by Ramon's story and the link to the doctor's family. Also, damn, that boy is pretty.

I liked this episode, and for literally the first time, Robert didn't seem like just a buffoon to me. He seemed more relatable and funny, and he even looks much better. How much time has passed between this episode and last? I was surprised by how fast the relationship with Frances' new guy progressed. Too much Molly Shannon, so I had to laugh when she gumbied down the steps. Yeah, I can't run in the best athletic shoes as well as SJP can run in heels, tho I did appreciate how winded she was so fast.

The only happy ending I want for Avery, at this point, is for him to be finally done with Juliette. I don't even care if she's brainwashed by a cult. Let her stay there, Avery. Go home, take care of your kid, and find somebody worthy of you. (Just not Scarlett, plz). Jonathan Jackson can sure bring the tears. Pretty pretty boy. I like Twig, he's adorable and geeky and smart and clearly a better choice for a boyfriend ('shroom shaming notwithstanding) than the guy Maddie is with, but he deserves better than Maddie. I can't believe the people behind thirtysomething and my so called life are the showrunners for all this.

Honestly, if I'd never seen Angela before, I'd think she was a scenery chewing novice with no subtlety. I'd think Peter Krause (with one or two exceptions) was cardboard and merely average. It just goes to show how much good writing can really affect an actor's abilities. Only Connie Britton has, to me, been consistently good, even with the most stale material. I'm just hoping the batshit turn it took last week continues, cuz everyone shone a little more with it, for better or worse.

Well, that too.

DD looks great here. Love Scully's shorter, more Scully-ish 'do. No clue what it's about but it looks fun.

Oh, for sure. They say the opposite of love is not hate but indifference, and it's more hate you feel at first, for awhile, than indifference. Or if not hate (tho Frances and Robert have seemed to really hate each other), then, like, competition and hope that you're doing better than they are. Hell, I've been divorced for over 20 years, and been with my current love for nearly 14, and I don't actively wish my ex evil or anything, but I'd STILL prefer not to hear he's won any lotteries or prizes or achieved any great successes. I don't guess I really mean that I thought Frances wants Robert back, but that it perplexes me why she slept with him. I get the familiarity and all, especially in the situation they were in at the time, but I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to sleep with that guy.

I agree about Robert and wonder that too, but we see him in scenes to which Frances is not privy, so it's just him, I suspect. Which is odd, because Thomas Hayden Church CAN be attractive enough, like in 'Easy A'...he was totally the cool teacher I'd have had a crush on. Here, he just seems like a big buffoon, like you said, who likes to talk about bodily functions and make inappropriate and unfunny comments and tell stupid jokes. I can't see, in this, why anyone would ever be attracted to him.

Aw, I would not mind seeing him onscreen again. He's not Micheal Steadman anymore, but he's still cute in a bearish way.

It was definitely a power play for Jackie to mention to Frances that "Robbie" had told her they'd slept together. A little odd that he did, and that she seemed so okay with it, but the relationship is very new, so I guess she had no right, yet, to get too upset about that one. She was definitely territorially peeing on Robert's leg with that little convo, tho. I still don't understand what Jackie sees in Robert, or why on earth Frances is suddenly seeming to want him back. I don't really find that Frances reminds me too much of Carrie tho...well, maybe, if Carrie got really, really bitter and had kids and lost all interest in style, and all her bubbliness. Which I guess a bad marriage and kids and the 'burbs could do to a person. I don't think SJP or Molly Shannon are unattractive, but I do find Shannon hard to watch, in most anything. She's probably a lovely person, but she plays such nails-on-a-chalkboard characters in almost everything that I find I sort of hate her. Diane is unbearable.

I was intrigued enough to set up a series record, anyway. A lot of these folks are kind of unbearable, but the actors involved are going to get me back watching next week. I was telling my honey about it later, cuz he missed it, and yeah, I was saying, well, Kevin Bacon's daughter is Claire, basically, and there's a hot gay Nate hooking up with the almost-stranger, etc. I loved 6FU, but the characters were often just as unbearable, but still interesting, so I have hope. It's disconcerting for Holly Hunter to have no Southern accent. Hot model guy knowingly having sex with a virgin but not bothering to see her face or ascertain her age was pretty creepy. We all have our little kinks, but having sex with someone in a horse head seems odd for anyone. Daniel Zovatto/Ramon is ridiculously pretty, like a baby Timothy Olyphant, Costa Rican style. Dang. Sosie Bacon bugged me a little. She was very 'actory' and on, tho that COULD just be an acting choice in playing a melodramatic teenager. I didn't care abut Tim Robbins and his angst and his weekly hooker appointment either. I have absolutely no idea where the whole 11/11 thing or the hallucinations or the dream about his shrink's mom are going, which is kind of nice.

I'm a state employee too, with a so so health/vision plan, but my coworker with the same plan has about 12 pairs of glasses she rotates...mostly cuz she gets most of her frames from an online site called zenni. these are super duper cute frames too, and many of them she spent only $7 on. She said for all her glasses, she may have only spent $80 total. So...it's sure possible. I never noticed Abby having more than that one fugly pair before I googled. she looks like poor little Bernice in Hope Floats in these. I do like these tho, now that I see she's got more than those:

This pic does really show the prosthetics on her face...I cannot see those on my TV! :::need better TV:::: Aging is a bitch.