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Pranking two girls who you are actively deceiving, even if no actual physical harm was meant to come to them, is, if not sociopathic, still awfully douchey. If I ever really imagined how M&S kid would turn out, it's not as a playa-wannabe. But whatever. The Pick Up Artist guy...I kept thinking I knew him from some previous X-file or other, but it was from Lost...he was the Dharma Initiative's training film host/narrator. Also was on an episode of Aquarius with DD. Did the same actors play the Van de Kamps as before? They definitely upgraded their living conditions.

I loved this film, and my pick for best actor is definitely Timothee C, (but he's likely going to lose to Gary Oldman). His was a really visceral performance, he used his face and body so eloquently. He deserves awards just for that final scene was the credits roll and the whole love affair and its end plays across his expressive face. I get some finding the whole scenario creepy, in this age of Roy Moores and Kevin Spacey. I did not. The age difference is supposed to be a mere 7 years, and the age of consent, whether we agree with it or not, being what it is in Italy--it's not criminal. not to mention that Elio is the passionate, adventure-hungry one who truly pushes the relationship forward. Armie, despite being ridiculously gorgeous, does look older even that his actual age, so I do think that is partly what gives some pause. but the Dirty Dancing comparison is pretty apt...maybe that wouldn't get greenlit now but I've not personally ever seen anyone object to THAT one being about a teenager and a 30 year old man. I definitely believe the parents knew. They were almost too good to be true...they're like manic pixie dream parents. His dad...yeah, I took that last scene to mean that he'd had a relationship with a man when he was younger that he wish he'd pursued...whether that means he's gay or bi, I don't know...I also wasn't sure if he was telling Elio he'd been living a lie in his marriage, that he'd never really loved his mom...I hope that's not the case, but it was ambiguous. I did feel bad for all the women in the movie...all wound up being fairly incidental to the men, who preferred the company, at least in this case, of other men. I did find it all very languid and lovely and literate and beautiful...true travel porn. I yearn for that house.

My only issue with this episode is...why make William such a little dick? Pick up Artist reader. Has 2 girlfriends, who he lies to, and then thinks it would be a fun 'prank' to invade their dreams, send them off to a scary, dangerous abandoned boat yard in the middle of the nite, and basically cause them to nearly murder one another? What is the purpose of all of this? I can hand wave a lot that being a teenager often means you're stupid or naïve or unformed, but that's some hateful shit. He DOES seem like a young sociopath. One of the girlfriends looked like a younger, blonde Sarah Hyland. Scully's morgue scene was affecting. GA can still bring it, even tho her voice distracts the hell out of me. DD is so yummy. Young William/Jackson and his floppy hair are cute, but he's no DD/Mulder.

I leave a blender, a toaster and a coffee maker plugged in at all times on my countertop. I'm probably courting disaster. I do think it would much more interesting if we saw that everyone is idealizing Jack because he died so young, which I understand, but saw more cracks in his armor than just his alcoholism. I wouldn't want it to go TOO dark, but the Deification of Saint Jack gets a little boring. I think the writers and show runners actually really do idealize him tho. I fully believe really good men and women exist in the world, I don't want it revealed that Jack was a cheater or was secretly embezzling work funds or had a second family somewhere, but just...acknowledge that his Band-Aid approach to problems didn't really work. That he sublimated issues instead of dealing with them. That he undercut his wife's ideas and opinions and discipline of their kids in order to make everybody 'happy'. I doubt that's going to happen tho.

I'm another who can only take Molly Shannon in very small doses, and preferably not in her underwear or flashing neighbors. I also can't possibly see what Becki Newton would see in Robert. He's loud and boorish and tho he looks a lot better without the pornstache, he's also nearly 20 years older than her, and, well, he's not especially appealing. (I think THC is cute, but Robert, no). And yeah, Frances would have wound up in jail if she showed up at my door at 1 am demanding to be let inside my apartment. Still, I like the bare bones of this storyline, with her discovering new talent and hoping to stage a show with the new artist.

This past episode was the only one that's ever made me cry, but that had more to do with the dogs than anything. Animals always make me cry. I did get a sense of foreboding, finally, as the house caught fire. I still like most of the characters, despite all the manipulations, so seeing Jack (FINALLY) die isn't pleasant, but if they were not trying so freaking hard all the time to make me cry til my nose clogs and I snot all over everything and I have to call in sick (which has never and will never ever happen), it would feel a lot sadder. Kevin and Randall were wearing tank tops, and they looked good, and I don't mind saying I appreciated it. I have no problem with folks, man or woman, being appreciated for looking good. I don't find that sexist or distasteful, in and of itself. I do think the balance of power shifts, tho, if it were several men sitting back and ogling a woman in a tank top...there's an inherent possible danger in that scenario that isn't really there the other way around. I don't know.

It was my first Donna Tartt novel, and, imo, her best. I had various issues with her others. Finished Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere; I thought it was...just spectacular. Now reading The Ghost Writer by Alessandra Torre. so far, intrigued.

Finally, Peter Krause got a chance to act here. The show is cheesy and heavy handed and nothing is new or original, but his 'help!' moment was well done. I actually teared up, to my own surprise. Clarence Weidman! Kurt Russell sure was a mouth watering white boy.

Am I the only one who used to (before I had a slow cooker with an insert) just put the whole thing in the fridge, if there were leftovers? probably. And I have most definitely now put the insert with leftovers in the fridge, and left the turn-off crockpot plugged in on the counter. And I wouldn't even notice if there was a dish towel near it. I'm a mess, I guess. I think Kevin and Charlotte both took advantage of one another, both with creepy results.

I think that EVERYTHING that anyone on this show does or feels is all about Jack, so I feel pretty certain Kate's dog issues are about him. I also do imagine she's told Toby, but they haven't let us see it, cuz, you know, they're making this very longest death in television history.

It wasn't there in the new place, for me, at first, but then I rebooted my computer and voila! Thanx. Everyone was nicer about Helen than she deserved, really.

Helen is the worst. Passive aggressive and whingeing, happy to dish it out but minutes later sure cannot take it. Plus she looks like a heroin addict, and I always suspect she smells a little. I didn't hate her dress--there were sure worse ones--but I was really hoping she'd go home. I liked Candice but her look was the worst of the nite, tho I'd have put Josh and Merline on the bottom as well. I like Amanda, unlike most, and I had just said 'Okay, I'd be falling down inside the bouncy castle, so I'd stay outside and pick up all the stuff that flew out" when she basically said the same thing, so that made me laugh. I wanted her dress to be better. Fabio, imo, really should have won. I can't 'like' any posts now. Anyone else?

Just the most handsome uber nerdy weirdo loner around.

My honey came in as I was watching and said 'I didn't know Dave Franco was on this show'. He actually did know it wasn't him, but the resemblance is clear, tho Chic looks like the twinkier, twitchier, tweakier, murdery-er version of Dave. I loved the Duran Duran song too. And any show that casually drops references to Foxcatcher and Snowpiercer is always going to be good with me. I love the show and Jughead's movie love. So Bad Betty is gonna be a cam-girl now? Seems about right and better than being, you know a killer.

This was the first episode that ever made me cry, but it was mostly about the cutest doggo alive. When Kate was talking to little Audio, he absolutely seemed to understand her every word and react accordingly and appropriately. best puppy actor ever! when she left him sitting there all alone in his chair, I was straight up weeping. So glad she went back for him. I generally am not fond of Kate, and think Chrissy Metz is overrated, but she sold that scene and her fairly complicated emotions about having a pup really well. I didn't cry when Kevin got his Jack-necklace back, but I was really glad the doctor took a little pity on him. I don't think she owed him anything more than that, but it was the kind thing to do. And I am not one who thinks Justin Hartley is a weak link...I thought he was excellent in this scene. I am nearly alone, I think, in liking Sofie, and I hope she's not gone, tho that goodbye seemed pretty definitive. I think they have drawn out Jack's death so much that I eyeroll over it, but the foreboding as the house caught fire did make me feel more than I thought I would. I like Jack, and Milo, but am not nearly as invested in the death due to the melodrama and 'you MUST feel the feels!!!' hype of this show, but a house fire is one of my great fears, and knowing that someone doesn't make it out alive from this one is truly sad. Yeah, good thing Kevin wasn't home--they'd have never remembered him. If I didn't know the dog got out alive, I'd be freaking out about that right now too. PS: Randall and Kevin near-shirtless is never not a good thing. I loved the neighbor ladies lining up to watch Kevin pound down that wall. That totally went up on social media.

Well, I just loved it. I felt like it goes down in the annals of great, fun, incisive X-files episodes. There were too many moments I loved to even mention, and Duchovny seemed to be having a spectacularly good time. I'm Fox Freaking Mulder! and I want to listen to him talk about Squatchin' all day too. His little tantrum upon finding in the alien's big book of answers that Big Foot isn't real--kicking his feet after he'd thrown himself on the ground--I laughed out loud. I also laughed at the Elvis-cape wearing Trump alien portentously announcing 'Ladies and gentleman of Earth'...and then slowly and anticlimatically descending the stairs from the spaceship, hopping on his little Segway to go ten feet--before speaking again. And I loved that we actually saw Reggie's face/file in 'This', leading to more speculation and what ifs', along with Skinner's 'where the hell are they taking Reggie??". And the garish and weird ambulance to Spotnitz asylum, which definitely gave off Clyde Bruckman vibes, and Darin Morgan making sure he got in on the flashbacks as Eddie Van Blundht. or...hell, just all of it. Scully definitely would know what lawn darts are, but I also loved that 123 Jello stuff (tho I certainly never had Goop-O ABC). Foxy and Skulls!

I completely agree that body shaming, whether fat or thin, is creepy and wrong. I also mentioned this model's thinness, but in no way meant to body shame. If this is the model's natural, healthy, default build, then cool. she's clearly in the right industry, where thinness always trumps NOT being thin. It did not, to me, look as if it were natural, it did look scary-skinny, but I could be way off base there. All the people in the example you gave, tho, look really healthy and fit. Also agree about Ken...I kind of used to hate him, but he does seem kind of sweet and laid back this time around. he also seems to have gotten more handsome. Josh is loathsome.

Boyd Crowder on Big Bang Theory. I never thought I'd see that. My love for Walton Goggins knows literally no bounds. I did love him and Raj bonding at the end.

I didn't want Candice to go home, but Merline's dress was the hottest of messes. Ari has done a lot of good stuff, and hers and Melissa's both looked impeccably sewn, if not stellar. Completely agreed with the top two pairings tho, they were beautiful. And I love Anthony. His little scream as he painted his fabric and then said 'it'so beautiful!'...he's adorable. I've never noticed her before, but his model for this week is disturbingly thin.

There's no way teen Kate is a size 11. She's small and well proportioned. I wore a 7 back then too, tho more often a 9. I was sad when I couldn't fit into a 7, tho. Teen girls (and hell, most women of all ages) are hard on themselves, and tho I never hated myself and don't identify with Kate needing a mean little voice inside to tell her bad things, I get how vulnerable a dressing room can make one feel.

Right????? It seems a significant number of shippers prefer the M&S of 'This" to "Plus one", tho I do like to see them snuggling in bed like the old married couple they essentially are. And you know, tho I bemoaned the lack of even letting us see them kiss, I don't NEED that. I don't need love scenes, as long as I feel that they are indeed partners in every way, even if they maintain separate homes, even if their romantic life is occasional. I'd be perfectly happy with no more TALK about the relationship....just let us assume/know there is one, let them seem contented together and not tortured, let us smile over the teasing and the sexy double entendres, and just get on with the monster of the week episodes. Throw us a scene of them napping on the couch or spending the night together in bed, a kiss here or there. It doesn't have to be made a POINT of, just...let it be. Or something, I don't know. They couldn't get back into their office cuz the Russian mobsters/subcontractors/whatever they were were after them. That's over, so they're able to go back to work at the office.

It was the nite of the guest stars! Fun. I'm assuming we'll see some of them again, namely Chris, Sarah and Mira, tho sadly probably not pretty Cheyenne. I was lol-ing because I had JUST said 'wait, Mitch and Cam were rooting for La La Land over Moonlight???' when Cheyenne basically said the same thing. It's a cliché that the geeky, brilliant professor would fall for the arm candy that is Haley instead of someone he actually has something in common with...like, you know, intelligence...but it's a cliché cuz it so often happens. I thought this was a really good episode. It felt like old times.

I also cared far more about Clooney than anything else that happened this episode. I was watching thru my fingers as that poor baby finessed his way thru city streets, narrowly escaping cars, kids and puppers. And for some reason, I thought Jesse now had Clooney, and I wish he had...but I was happy to see that he'd found a new home with a sweet little boy. I hated that Garrett Morris just hand waved away that the cat 'ran off'....that's not taking care of an animal. This was the first episode that I really thought teen Kevin and adult Kevin actually seemed like the same person.

M & S were my first real ship, the longest lasting, the most intense. So I loved some of this episode, but for me, last week's was more real and romantic and resonant. So much of this just didn't jibe with that one: last week, they sparred and innudendo'd sexily and appeared to be at least semi-cohabiting again....this week, Scully makes a fuss about separate hotel rooms and made disapproving faces at Mulder's innuendoes...up til she climbed into his bed. I think I would have loved THIS episode if someone besides CC had written it, with more finesse and more smarts and some damned consistency. Also, I have wanted a guy to put his arms around me a bunch of times in my life, and pretty much always got that to happen, but never once have I uttered the words 'would you hold me?' in any variation. And I do not believe Dana Fucking Scully would have either. She fucking knows Mulder will hold her, always, any time, she's not ever going to be reduced to that simpery, clichéd bit of dialogue. And the convo in bed is one they would have already had, over the years...they lived together for a decade or more, they broke up, they've reconnected...or not, according to CC. I can handwave that some--even the most long term couples can feel awkward with certain conversations--but it felt needless. We all know they're going to be there for each other. They ARE indeed each other's one in five freaking billion. And...the coyness. okay, they had sex, they've had sex, they'll continue to have sex, with or without handcuffs, but we can't even SEE a kiss between them here? Also, there's a lot of squeezing on FB and elsewhere, and that's cool, I squeeed too, despite my criticisms, but I see a lot of 'they finally did it!!' kind of stuff, and for Christ sakes, we KNOW they've been 'doing it' for years, why the shock and awe? Anyway. The episode itself was fun and creepy, and tho Mrs. Peacock played all her parts with extra huge helpings of ham and cheese, it was still fun to see her. "I just like the name Arkie!' made me laugh. I also agree that Scully being such a skeptic over things she's already seen over and over, and especially her not believing that evil exists, when, if anyone should know that there is evil in the world, it's M&S...that just defies comprehension. And yeah, what is up with Gillian's voice? did she damager her vocal chords at some point? It varies between sounding sultry and just sounding...old....but it's distracting. She doesn't sound like Dana Scully anymore. I did enjoy it, mostly, and the chemistry between the two of them is still so palpable...more worn and lived in and older, a little weary and sad...but so strong and deep. and this look at the end...I was already sitting down, but my knees caved in anyway:

Aww. I'm hopeful too. Hugh-baby's forehead is getting, um, wider. Will Graham without tousled curls? I don't even want to see that.