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He's only 39 now, but the weight gain, bad 'stache, and the styling make him look much older on this show.

The cat thing was awful. Not funny. I expect more from this show.

The nurses' uniforms and whatever the hell the doctor was wearing was hilarious. I love how the show blends retro and modern in ways that are so stylish and anachronistic. Yay, Dylan McKay lives! I got seriously creepy pedo vibes when Veronica's dad insisted she come kiss him. I thought he was gonna tell her to sit on his lap while he stroked her hair or something. I missed hot Skeet, and continue to crush inappropriately on Jughead.

This episode was riveting to me, but yeah, Gretchen has levels of fucked-up-ed-ness we didn't even realize. It's shocking she even bothered to go home for the birth of a niece/nephew, and also shocking is that her family seems perfectly nice and normal, with a really nice house and a sweet, terribly old cat who Gretchen didn't even realize was still alive. How do you not know your old family pet is alive or dead? Or the chick you thought was your old BFF, even if she really never was? How do you never ask those questions of your family? What happened to make Gretchen this way? Loved seeing Zosia, tho it's so weird that Heidi sounded absolutely not a thing like Shoshanna. I didn't really get Heidi's remembrance of Gretchen that 'everyone liked you, or wanted you'....because why? She was pretty, sure, and obviously sexual early, so there's that, but Gretchen as a girl everyone liked is incomprehensible. I think Heidi was just a little bored, a little interested, as they HAD been friends a long time ago...but ultimately, found Gretchen just...creepy and crazy. I wanted Gretchen to have a few repercussions for her actions too...not just emotional ones...getting busted for, I dunno, statutory rape might have had a lingering effect on her. Or not. She's SO fucked up.

Right? Brooklyn 99, The Mick, Blackish, The Mayor, old Xfiles repeats, and This is Us all at the same time. I DVR This is Us.

I most definitely ate salads and drank wine while sitting on outdoor patios 20 years ago. That was only the 90s, not the 50s. Fern bars and outdoor seating and booze and salads have kinda been around forever. However, I do sometimes get an anachronistic feeling with the flashback scenes, where I'm shocked that it's the 90s and not the 70s or something. When Jack brought up "My So-Called Life", it jolted me, cuz it seemed too modern a reference, but then I remembered that that show is now 20+ years old, and ack! I'm old. Young Kate defintely dresses like the era, which was my fave fashion era, tho that's a controversial stance, I know. I love Kevin, but man, do I not want an addiction storyline, and they could not be telegraphing it harder if they tried. I don't care for Stallone, but his scenes were nice enough. Him being Jack's hero is baffling, cuz why is he anyone's hero, or fave movie star, but whatever. The cute dog being named rocky or rambo seems like a safe bet, tho I'd think Kate would have mentioned that to Sly when she was fangirling. Randall and Beth's little girls are adorable. I just don't care about the foster storyline, tho.

I'm afraid if I keep watching this show, it will be hate watching, which I generally think is a waste of time. I adore Freddie, he's the only reason I'm still hanging on, and I sure hope Shaun gets his cat. That was one pretty cat. But everything else is so heavy handed and obvious and unsubtle and sledgehammery, and I could not possibly care less about any of the other characters. But I really do love Freddie. Maybe I'll just go binge-watch Bates Motel again.

Walton Goggins is everything, seriously. Breeda Wool also played the Christian virgin lesbian on UnReal.

To call it 'a little over the top' that Ivy joined a murderous cult cuz she hates her wife is kind of an understatement. I didn't get that she was so into WInter before either, but Kai sure picked up on it. I want only bad things for Ivy now. I loved Mare, I was so sorry to see her offed so quickly. She should have at least taken ONE of those freaking clowns down before they got her. Evan has become such a fine actor. It's like we've seen him hone his craft from the first season to this one. I will always love Ryan Murphy for seeing that he was special.

that's insane. I do believe the BMI is a fairly controversial thing these days. I want bread and cake and ice cream all the time, so no, we don't dream differently. I mean, I don't eat them all the time, but I always want to. this was the pic I saw of the Drop Dead Diva chick, and this barely looks overweight to me, let alone obese, but then again, when a size 10 is considered obese...yikes, who

Bread and carbs are way more fattening than butter. If the Drop Dead Diva chick is OBESE, I'm gonna be over here jumping off a cliff.

I adore Deidrich Bader as Rich. What a great friend he is, and I loved his Shel Silverstein reference. The lack of sadness or reaction over the poor dead pooch from the older two girls was disturbing. Duke's sobbing over him was the only normal reaction...the little actress was very good there. The guy playing Sam's ex ALWAYS plays that kind of douche-y guy. I always kind of want to punch his face.

The scene between Method Man and Maggie was riveting, and so interestingly staged. Rodney was terrifying in the way he could toggle back and forth between nurturing and concerned to threatening and abusive so EASILY. So is Rodney right...Candy's dad was sexually abusive or something? Its maybe cliched and condescending to try to figure out WHY a sex worker is a sex worker, but it definitely seems strange in Candy's middle class, obviously smart, should-have-had-other-choices life. I feel for Candy, but I don't always necessarily like her. The storyline with the new beau will likely wind up with him being shocked and betrayed to find she's a hooker, and we'll be supposed to think he's an asshole for not wanting to be with her for it, but I do think most men would react that way. She's very emotionally damaged, and her interactions with the new guy are all a little skewed and edgy--she has no idea how to be with a nice, regular guy, and probably doesn't believe they actually exist (understandably enough). i did like his reaction to her masturbation...I figured he'd get huffy and upset and threatened (also, dudes, if you have to ask if a woman came, she didn't) but he kind of sweetly just let her do her thing while rubbing her back...that was nice. and THEN him asking if she came that time...that was perfect, and funny. Watching Candy get the shit beat out of her was horrifying. This episode changed the way I feel about Darlene. I'd thought she was a sweet girl, who wanted more for herself, eventually, but her willingness to take Abby's bus ticket to go home and pimp for her pimp, without being at all honest with these girls who had been her friends...that was pretty despicable. I'm not supposing that Vinnie's sister is gonna know her hubby has taken on a new career in pimpdom. I did like that VInce said he had respect for those women and didn't want to hurt them...so at least the girls at the new massage place will be, I hope, treated better than the norm. I don't know how I feel about Abby. Her superior ennui with most everything in life is boring, but I like the actress, and I kind of GET Abby in ways I can't quite elucidate. I kind of WAS an Abby when I was that age...i didn't really think i was better or knew more than anyone, and I wasn't really bored by everything and everyone, but that was kind of my defense mechanism--I was really insecure almost all the time, so I put on this shield to hide it. I'm just not sure Abby's is a shield, or if she really does think she's better than everyone else in the world. Her fasicnation with the underbelly of things is interesting...I just hope she doesn't wind up becoming a hooker herself. I keep getting the uneasy feeling that's where she's headed.

Yeah, the Drop Dead Diva chick is a little overweight. She's nowhere near Kate's size, and so her storyline would be...not the same, at all.

I never watched Drop Dead Diva and don't really know what the actress looks like these days, but in photos I've seen she barely looks overweight to me. That's part of the problem: that's considered fat in Hollywood when she's really a perfectly normal size, imo.

Ugh, tangentially to this topic: just read on Facebook that the comedian Ralphie May died. He was only 45, and he was a very big man. So there are all these comments on the thread, along with sincere expressions of sadness and RIPs, about how it's not surprising and what did he expect and he deserved it and who could be shocked, it was only a matter of time. It's those kind of comments that make me lose all hope for the world.

I do agree it comes with the territory, it's something famous people just should have to get used to, I guess. But I completely understand them being annoyed by it too. They still deserve some privacy and some sensitivity to their feelings. . Yeah, Chrissy's storyline is about weight, so it stands to reason that the conversations will extend to her in real life too. But random people and fans asking her if she's going to get weight loss surgery? That seems fucking rude to me. It's nobody else's business. We can all speculate and talk about it all we want but I can't imagine actually thinking I had the right to say something to her about it, even if it was out of concern. She's bound to have doctors, she knows she's fat, and she probably knows more about nutrition and weight loss and exercise then thin folks do. Most fat people do. And yeah, in other places and maybe even here, I've seen people speculate about possible abuse in her past or something like that to try to figure out why she's the size she is. That seems incredibly invasive and hateful to me. I might be really callous, and I mean, I wish her well and everything, but I don't actually feel any concern for her, and can't pretend if I make a comment about her weight it has anything to do with that. It's a statement of fact, she's big. But I don't know her, so her personal welfare really isn't my concern. And I assume she's doing her best. And if she isn't, I figure it's not my business, no matter how public her life is. There's a lot of mean-spirited fat haters out there, so maybe I just assume somrtimes that when people are expressing concern, it is actually veiled bigotry. It's probably my hang up.

I wasn't referring to it here, but to her comment about people on the internet trying to diagnose her. I don't assume she reads this board, tho I guess it's possible.

I don't hate her for that comment. I took at as 'I've got real doctors, so if there's something wrong with my health, I'll let them handle things, not viewers, thanx'. Of course we talk about her weight, but it's the faux-concern that's really just more fat-shaming/bigotry that gets on my nerves. I doubt she's trying to argue that she's as healthy as a 110-lb person. I bet she gets all kinds of unsolicited 'advice' that she's already perfectly well aware of.

I wound up mostly loving it, but I get that. It's sort of the This is Us syndrome. Or The Help. or a billion more books where that seems to be the overall theme. Patchett's prose draws me in, even when I have reservations about her content. I did like the family dynamic, and all the siblings/kids really came to life for me. I loved Sullivan, who was the actual biological son of the father, but still the least loved.

I'm disliking Kate more and more too. But I did think she sang 'Landslide' nicely. Yeah, the Jack punching out his demons thing was a little facile, but then again, it clearly didn't actually work. Not everyone DOES go to AA, I do know a couple people who just managed to stop drinking on their own. But Jack isn't one of them, obviously, as we saw him going to a meeting in the later years.

I just finally watched...I felt so sad for Kevin when practically his whole family, most of whom had flown halfway across the country, ostensibly to see him, bailed on his show. Tho perhaps he was relieved that less folks were there to see him in a diaper. Poor Kevin. Tho...the only face he truly sought out was Sophie's, so maybe he didn't even realize it. I really liked the scene between him and Beth in the trailer. I'm not sure it's a minority opinion or not, but I find Justin Hartley eminently watchable and easy and charming and funny in this role. Kate remains my least favorite. I have had a prickly relationship with my mom at times, and goddess knows nobody else pushes my buttons like she does, but Rebecca just can't win with Kate. Yeah, she can be passive aggressive and picky, like a lot of moms, and like a lot of kids, Kate reverts back to being 8 every time they're together. I don't know...at some point, I just said 'well, my mom is never going to change, so I'll have to' and I just let that stuff slide. I complain about it to my significant other or my BFF, but I don't engage in fighting and sniping with my mom anymore. It leads nowhere, and never will. I'm usually not one to just suck things up, but in this case, it's the path of least resistance and I actually manage to find it all kind of funny. Maybe it's not healthy. But at any rate, Kate needs massive amounts of therapy to deal with all of her issues. I did find the young-Kate-holding-Jacks-face thing kind of squicky, but in no way do I see this going down any kinds of inappropriate, gross, abuse avenues. It's not The Wire. I don't see Kate becoming a professional singer, but singing at wedding gigs and clubs...she's good enuf for that. I thought her singing 'Landslide' was nice. I do wonder what she's actually doing for money these days.

I am never good at seeing when someone has had plastic surgery, apparently, unless they come out looking like the joker. Neither Claire nor Haley look any different to me. I saw Vanessa Williams on a New York street after she'd performed on Broadway once many years ago and thought she was practically the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen in real life. Ah well. Time sucks. She looks a little rough, but then again, so do I. Nobody actually set the kitchen of fire on purpose, and I think even when Mitch was speculating, he didn't believe Cam had done it deliberately, just subconsciously. Do they still have Larry the Cat? (or whatever iteration of Larry they were on last). First thing that I thought of was how terrible this family is to pets (Stella aside, tho Gloria would still hit her with a shovel if she never got caught at it, I fear). I'd run screaming if Manny was my roommate too.

This was almost too much for me. Between the gimp (My fave all time flick is Pulp Fiction, but the gimp still skeeves me out) and the torture porn with the nail gun, I was watching thru my fingers half the episode. These folks are WHACK. So, yeah, how is that Ivy and Winter and Chaz are all coexisting peacefully? I get that Kai motivates and seduces each one individually, based on their own weaknesses and neuroses, but how does he get the Trump zealot who was tied up in a basement and cut off his own hand to work together with the Hilary chicks who left him there? I have a hard time seeing how these folks are finding a common endgame...is is just anarchy in general they're hoping for? How does Ivy see Oz fitting into her helping to burn the world down? So Dermot keeps a gimp in the attic, like you do, and licks his bloody gloved fingers as he goes downstairs for ice cream in his pristine boxer briefs. Okay. I kept thinking we'd see the gimp's face, but no. Ivy/Billie looks better with dark hair. Kai's backstory is bizarro and sad but I'm uncertain still how he got from point A to point B, and I'm unsure who is batshit craziest in that family. Altho Beverly might be batshit craziest overall.

Finished Into the Water, which I apparently liked more than most. A lot of characters to keep track of at first, but otherwise I thought it was a fast, interesting read. Then read Jami Attenberg's The Melting Season. Quirky and weird and intriguing. Next was 2000's A Death in White Bear Lake....I'm a true crime reader, and this one is generally, I gather, is really well regarded in the genre. It's pretty brutal and sad, and exhaustively (some will say TOO exhaustively) researched. It wants to be In Cold Blood, and isn't, but it's well done, and tragic. Now reading Ann Patchett's Run.