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I'm not anti-Miguel yet, tho he seemed a little skeevy about his secretary. But maybe that was just innocent flirting and not evidence that he was a cheating cheater who cheated. Obviously, the ambiguous nature of this show, with its propensity for twists and surprises, is lending itself to folks not liking him, as we project all kinds of plotlines and twists and characteristics to him: always in love with his best friend's wife, even while married to another. Maybe had an affair with best friend's wife, prior to best friend's death. Swooped in to snag the widow as soon as best friend WAS dead. etc. I'll hold out on hating him til I know if any of the above is true. His aging makeup IS bad, but at least he looks older. I might have a lousy TV but Rebecca/Mandy's face does not, on mine, even appear particularly aged. There should be SOME lining, some sagging, some slackness. If it's there, I'm missing it. She does not, to me, look like a very well preserved 66 year old. She looks like a 30something in a boring wig.

There is simply no resemblance between Aidan and Robert. None. Zilch. In any way.

I didn't grow up overweight. Like a lot of teen girls, probably, I thought I was, tho, so I fasted and toyed with bulimia and messed with my metabolism. Later, when I begin gaining weight due to age and inherent laziness---I hate to exercise, and never played any kind of sport--I did stupid fad diets and starved myself. And then later, when I was diagnosed with hypothryroidism, even tho I'm on meds for it, I find it very very hard to lose weight, no matter what I do. I am not a depressed eater--the only time I have ever really lost weight effortlessly was due to heartbreak or depression. After my divorce, I lost 40 lbs cuz I couldn't eat (nd of course , everyone was telling me how great I looked, even tho it was due to, you know, situational depression). it's when I'm happy that I gain weight...I'm a celebratory eater, it's all a part of good times and get togethers and pleasure. food is sexy. Anyway, the point of all that blather is that there is no one reason people get fat. It's not always about baggage and psychological issues or our moms didn't love us or the kindly old man next door abused us. There are a million reasons, and all the armchair psychology and judginess and 'concern' about their health doesn't mean we understand or an predict or fix it. I admire Chrissy Metz for putting herself out there for all the speculation and judgement she gets. Sure, it comes with the job, but it can't be easy.

I thought the dessert looked like a big smore'sy mess, which COULD look and be delicious, but Toby and the way he was glopping it into this mouth....that made it gross for me.

It's unbelievable that Robert ever worked on Wall Street; he seems to have utterly no business or social savvy or smarts. I don't get it. I also USED to have some sympathy for him, but his pissiness with the Starbucks girl was over the line. I'm so sick of men who think a female being nice (especially within in the context of her job) means she's flirting with him, and then getting outraged when he hits on her and it isn't met with enthusiasm. He was such a creep to her. Yeah, I can't find any reason or evidence that Frances was or ever would have been in love with him. Not that she's much better, she is not an especially nice person either. Still, her 'friend' Molly Shannon was being an insensitive jerk to her about her gallery space. I watch a few shows wherein the main characters are not likable: Always Sunny, You're the Worst, Seinfeld....so it's not a requirement for me to like them to enjoy the show, but this one is still teetering on the edge for me. I like it, sometimes, but it still feels so uneven.

I'm very rarely compelled to rewatch shows (at least, not right away...I can binge watch repeats of older series like Scrubs and Always Sunny and Friends, etc like a boss, and my obsession with Mads Mikkelsen means I've seen every episode of Hannibal 2-3 times) but I have seen every episode of Roanoke twice. Not entirely by choice, or rather, certain circumstances led to it: a DVR-less friend coming to our place to catch up on the episodes she missed. So, tho, I wouldn't have necessarily watched twice on my own, I did for this season, and I was never bored, or even close. I was still entertained/scared/interested. Coven was the season I most wanted and expected to love, as New Orleans fascinated me, and I loved the idea of the coven. And I did love it, at first, and remained interested, but it kind of lost focus and became too outlandish at times even for me. I kind of blame Emma Roberts for a lot of that, even tho she actually amuses me. Tangentially to this thread: I saw 'Moonlight' this weekend (it's a perfect, gorgeous, shattering film that everyone should see) and it took a full scene for me to be sure that one of the characters later in the film was played by Andre Holland. It was his voice that I recognized first; he doesn't look terribly different, but without the glasses and with shaggier hair, I didn't realize it was him at first. And I've liked Matt, but I have now fallen hopelessly in love with him after this film. He is brilliant and beautiful and heartbreaking.

Judi Evans just has a mumsy vibe, always has. She's actually only 6 or 7 years older than brian datillo. I only watch this show anymore for Steve Nichols the scenes between he and Kayla--who looked great today, and seemed especially giggly--and Adrienne (why was she wearing white pantyhose? Just no.) were really sweet and fun.

I don't either. Not sure what one has to do with the other, exactly. She signed the contract, she says she's fine with it and happy to try to lose weight, I believe her. Part of her job. I never intimated that I thought otherwise. I do wonder about how TPTB will react if she DOESN'T lose weight, or is unable to, for whatever reason, or not fast enough, or whatever, but I don't think the weight stipulation is evil or wrong. People in the acting industry are generally paid to look a certain way and know it's part of the job.

I hear that. Generally, tho I like a few shows that have been around for years and still catch big ratings, the shows I truly love get cancelled in a couple, three seasons (Hannibal, Veronica Mars, My so called life, Aquarius, on and on and on), and the shows I don't have interest in, like all the ones you just mentioned, live forever. I have no idea what makes a show a huge hit with fans and what doesn't. It very often has very little to do with actual quality or inventiveness or originality. So while it seems a little strange to me that Roanoke, the reality show, would be a sensation, I think it's almost impossible to know what will catch an audience's fevered attention.

I actually liked Erin's dress and also found it charming, tho up close, the blue flounce looked cheap and weird. But I loved the sparkly pink tweedy fabric. I also thought Dexter's was sort of cool, tho yeah, in a beach cover up way, tho the Mickey Mouse eared jacket was silly, both times. He should have made the undergarments tho, too. I thought the construction of Cornelius' dress was interesting and the color choices fun, but I in no way see how that's an 'editorial' dress.

I would speculate that they have at least a trainer/gym for her, and maybe a nutritionist, but I have no real idea, of course. Maybe, sure, she's paid well enough to hire those things on her own, but if it's a condition of the job to lose weight, I'd think they might help out. I also imagine she's tried millions of diets herself over the years, like most of us, and obviously not been successful. I hope she is this time, if she wants to be. I've found that nothing much works for me anymore, due to thyroid issues and inherent laziness...the only thing that ever seems to work is a calorie count so low that I can't sustain it, and working out for hours daily, which I also can't and don't maintain, so, you know, here I am. People like to say 'oh, she's so big that if she really diets, she'd be losing weight really fast at first', but it's bullshit to think we know anything about her metabolism or health or whatever. It's different for everyone. I would draw the line at surgery as a requirement tho...I mean, if she wants that, good on her, but for it to be a job requirement seems really Draconian.

I went around singing this all day yesterday: tho it seemed like an awfully literary, smart thing for Lindsay to say, or know. She has hidden depths, maybe.

That's some crazy good plastic surgery then, cuz Lana, at least according to some Wiki article I read, should be 85 or thereabouts. I've seen some good nip n tucks but this Lana looked no older than what, 60, if that? That's some fountain of youth plastic surgery there! I hate torture porn too, but this season only truly devolved into that, for me, in an episode or two, like when Shelby bashed Matt's head in. Mostly, I found it campy good scary fun, and I liked the reality tv devices. I get that a lot didn't, but it all worked for me. This was probably my second fave season, after Murder house, or maybe Asylum came just before it. Asylum was a great season, but it was all just so abysmally dark for me, and bleak. Tho the 'name game' did save that.

I don't think you stand alone...lots of us liked it.

I'm not 100% certain this secret even needs to come out. Obviously it's going to, but I'd just as soon it not be an issue. Rebecca was doing her best, as far as this particular situation was concerned, or at least, doing what she thought best. She had good reasons to believe it, even if it perhaps ultimately WASN'T the best thing. What purpose is served for it to come out now? Who does it benefit? I'd hate to be in Beth's position, knowing such a rather large secret about her husband's mother, but I'm not altogether clear if I'd do anything with the information. It's perhaps best left alone. Or not, I don't know. ETA: I do believe I read somewhere that Rebecca and William's paths may have crossed more than once, but that might have been just speculation.

Right? Why couldn't Mason look after Priscilla? And can ghosts do one another harm? I can't remember. But if so, watch out, Lee. And yeah, Lee's wedding gown and veil were gorgeous, and she looked gorgeous. Adina Porter can look downright weird to downright ugly to downright beautiful, all within an hour's episode.

Mads Mikkelsen should be in EVERY show. And if he's a bot, we'd get to see him naked.

She was the one who gave Lee the heart, but we didn't see her last nite, or really get any more info on just how the heart affected Lee--you know, beyond murder-- or what else it requires of her. She was altogether absent from last nite's show, unless I missed her. Also, that found footage stuff SHOWED her feeding Lee the heart, but nobody--the authorities, the prosecutor, Lana--asked her about it?

I'm guessing this is not-so-loosely based on Adlon's real life, and I imagine in her real life, she has some pretty nice things. She's worked steadily since she was a kid, and her family was in show biz and had some money as well. I think the show is probably fairly reflective of her real life, with the British mom and three daughters and nice but not palatial house. I love Sam, and find her instantly relatable, and kids being brutal to their parents is fairly typical, but man---and I did not come from a home that ever featured corporal punishment--I woulda gotten a rap in the mouth if I'd ever talked to my parents the way her kids talk to her. Is that real? I don't have kids, and this show makes me happy every second that I do not.

This was one of my fave seasons too, tho I know a lot hated it. The formats of the reality shows amused and intrigued me, tho others found it offputting or dull, I guess. I mostly loved it. I would like to have had some unresolved questions answered as well. After all the footage, of Rory and Dominic and the Instagram kids being brutally murdered by SOMEONE/SOMETHING, there was only talk of Lee killing the Polks and Monet, etc? Who do the authorities, and the world at large, believe actually killed all those people? How does 86 year old or whatever Lana look about 60? Is she part alien? Loved the Paleyfest stuff, and the rabidity of the fans. Poor Cricket.

Gretchen and Jimmy are wretched people who should never be in a relationship, let alone married (tho at least that keeps them from inflicting themselves on other folks) and I knew, as probably did everyone, the instant Jimmy left to go get a hoodie out of the car that he would leave Gretchen there on the hill, but I STILL got a sick feeling in the pit in my stomach over it. Creepily, me too. When he leaned in and said 'lawyer up, bitch' and lit a cig, I was all like: hmm, Paul. Who knew? I immediately felt dirty after. Also, Lindsay, in those same scenes, with her bed tumbled hair and braless flannel shirt and smudgy slept in eye makeup, looked crazy-sexy. Lindsay is a terrible, stupid person, but she just cracks me the hell up.

Sutton Foster's comic timing as she was getting on the bike and adjusting and tucking her little dress was impeccable and hilarious and true. Her ex is a pill and I'm hating this tortured, dumb device of Liza talking to him thinking he's Charles that's going to keep him around longer. Charles is so handsome but there is just something creepy and stiff and weird about him to me. He just seems like he'd be really terrible in bed. Like, one position and keep the jammies on. Weird, cuz I've always found Peter Hermann really attractive.

I really think it could be a combination of factors. Food addictions, flagging will power AND health issues, which all tend to be exacerbated by one another. Vicious cycles.

How does the Conchord guy keep getting all these married chicks into bed? He seems charmless and pathetic. Not a lot stood out for me, in particular, in this episode, but I really liked it. It felt a little more relatable, in a real life way, than previous episodes, or maybe I'm just getting used to the weird blend of comedic styles. Robert/THC is becoming more of a person than a sitcommy caricature. I do hope Dean Winters manages to get him to shave that stupid 'stache. Yeah, I do think he 'admitted' to the affair for just the reason he said: he'd rather be seen as a cheater than a cheat-ee. Speaking of, I like seeing SATC folks show up here and sort of hope for more. So far, we have Carrie's publisher and her hot-but-dumb fuckbuddy.

Maybe, but I thought last night's episode was legitimately hilarious. I laughed a lot.