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I could eat brownies even if I was barfing up a lung. ETA: it's a joke. mostly.

I'm not saying it shouldn't have been a priority and does likely indicate indifference or not enough interest in Kevin's dealings and life than she should have had. But it's not like she could just impulsively go, either. I don't know. My mom hates to travel and won't get on a plane. If I had a show in LA, chances are, she'd never make it. Not to say that's the reason behind Rebecca's not showing up, but there are other reasons. I do think it's weird we haven't seen Kate go to a doctor too, but even if she has, even if she has a thyroid issue and is taking meds for it, losing weight is still super difficult. I'm on thyroid meds and still find it nearly impossible to lose weight unless I'm doing 1000 calories a day and working out for three hours every day. And I'm....not doing that.

But it was Beth's stash, right? Not medical weed. And she suggested the brownies because he was sick and had no appetite from the chemo. Spouses do cheat all the time but plenty don't, too. It would be nice to be able to root for Jack and Rebecca and believe in the love story til his death. The cheating would tarnish all that came before and render the more romantic stuff sort of hollow. I'm not even a die hard romantic, but I'd like to see this one be real. Rebecca not going to a taping of Kevin's show might indicate estrangement, but it WAS filmed in LA, across the country from her. Maybe they always meant to go but just never got around to the trip.

It really struck me in last nite's episode that Chrissy Metz carries almost all her excess weight in her mid section. Her legs are actually pretty shapely, and her arms are large but not inordinately so. Her bulk is really all from neck to knees. The teen actress hired to play her at 15 isn't at all fat, but she looks so much like Metz that it was crazy. Great casting.

I didn't get the impression that Jack was cheating with the handsy secretary, but that maybe Miguel was (we also aren't sure that Miguel is still married at this point, I suppose). I hope not. I would really like for neither Rebecca or Jack to actually cheat, it'd be refreshing. I loved the scenes between grownup Kevin and Randall, which went a long way to explaining both sides of their issues. Adult Kevin seems so much more charming than teen Kevin, who just seems like a bully, but bullies often are charming. I don't see Kevin as one now, tho, he's just someone who coasts on charm and glibness. The fight scene (hey, seth Meyers) was very funny. Justin Hartley and Sterling Brown are both just so beautiful and awesome. I laughed out loud at Kevin's 'wow, someone's high' as they walk into the house and see William and Beth. The weed brownies scenes were hilarious. Teen Kate looked so very much like Chrissy Metz that it was remarkable, even tho teen Kate wasn't really at all overweight. I hope we're not supposed to think she is. As some have already said, Kate's storyline continues to be the weakest, for me. Kate often comes off as unlikable. What Toby eats is honestly none of her business. He didn't have to explain his 'food mistress' to her, and her disappointment and anger over it seemed really controlling and selfish. I get it..it's hard to maintain a diet when someone is eating junk around you. But that's not up to her to police. And I had thought that her 'I cant' date a fat man' in that first episode was her way of being saucy, but she seemed serious about it tonite...'you said you'd lose the weight for me'. What? So she really won't date Toby if he stays overweight? She thinks he should lose weight for HER, instead of himself? That just all struck me as bizarre. I get her frustration over only losing a pound after trying so hard, believe me, I do. And Toby was trying, eating well in front of her, he's not trying to sabotage her. Tangentially, how is it possible that that gooey, smore's-y dessert looked so simultaneously yummy and repulsive? Just cuz Toby was eating it? I agree that I'd rather watch Kate at work than at love, and I'd really love to see weight not be her only focus.

Rape isn't about attraction. What Negan does with his 'harem' is about power and fear and subjugation, not chemistry and hormones and thinking someone's pretty. It's rape. I hate Negan possibly more than any other 'villian' around and I'm not remotely enjoying this storyline. I am not a huge JDM fan, and he played this same lip smacking, verbose, gleefully evil, morally bankrupt, scenery chewing bad guy in 'Salvation', where he made the mistake of going after my love, Mads Mikkelsen (who knows how to play a bad guy with subtlety, unlike Morgan, apparently). I am flummoxed by anyone who could find Negan entertaining or charming at this point. But I've been flummoxed by a lot of people's choices and preferences this past week.

I don't think it is the point that Gemma, a teenager, couldn't get around by uber or lyft or walked alone or whatever. Clearly, she could and did. It's that Kate was instructed by her employer to give Gemma a lift. She put her out of the car cuz she didn't like the kid's attitude, which I get. However, IMO, not her call to make. Yeah, take her back to the house, tell the mom--her boss---what the deal was. You can treat your own kid that way, but not someone else's. Obviously, in this case, it turned out fine, but most moms would fire Kate. Or sue her. or something.

I've netflixed and Amazon'd and rented and purchased every single film of his that I can get my hands on. Obsessed. I do kind of hate that America only wants to cast him as a villain. He plays vulnerable and sweet and sexy so very well.

Yes, this. I'm very empathic and can cry over things that have absolutely nothing to do with my own life, AND I can also be 'made' to cry by situations in movies and tv that I find manipulative, just because I cry easily. I resent it and think it's cheap, but I'll sometimes still cry. This show, which I find well done, well acted and written and directed, I also find pretty manipulative, and it hasn't yet made me cry. Not to say it won't, OR to say that I don't like it. I do. But nothing has truly affected me that much, yet. It certainly could have something to do with the fact that I haven't lost either parent yet, or experienced the things that have made others cry here. If William's cat, who we haven't even met and might not ever, dies, I will cry, tho. I'm weird like that.

I have my tickets for tomorrow already and I cannot WAIT. I will see anything and everything Mads Mikkelsen ever does.

Wikipedia says "Jether" as well. Don't know where Cain came from on IMDB. Weird. I'm surprised Finn even came back for this role. With the incesty facial disfigurements and the weird camera work, he literally could have been anyone.

I think Hollywood and the fashion industry really does believe that anything over a size ten is morbidly obese. a 12, a 22, a 32....all the same in the entertainment world. Someone the size of, for instance, Katy Mixon, who stars in the new sitcom 'American Housewife'---i'm guessing she is, at this point, a 14, maybe a 16. But tho she's presented as mostly and attractive, which is nice, the show is really just one big fat joke. I think it's nice to see people of all sizes represented, but a little more perspective and realism about how people who DON'T live in Hollywoodland would be nice.

It was him!

Yeah, honestly, no matter how much of a brat the girl was being, Kate should have been fired over that, and expected to be. This show does that...takes situations that make you go 'wtf? that would never happen' and makes you believe them, til you think about it. It's what is best and worst about the program, really, for me. William, the magickal unicorn. Randall, the gifted kid going to private school. Manipulative. But it does it well, at least for the most part. Also, the girl IS a petulant brat, but she's just a little overweight. I do think, were I her, I'd be pretty pissed at my skinny mom foisting me off on the the new fat employee, as if she's just sure this is my future. Like Kate is a cautionary tale. I'd be pissed if I was Kate, too. Well, I guess she was. I do hope SHE doesn't wind up becoming this girl's magickal unicorn. The crying in front of strangers thing...yeah, I've done that too. I sobbed in a stranger's arms at a supermarket last thanksgiving when my cat was dying. I know, shouldn't compare the grief over a pet with the grief over a parent, but it was still real grief. I was wandering the aisles with tears streaming down my face and this woman just came up and hugged me, and I let her, and this is NOT characteristic behavior on my part at all. I'm not a hugger. So that part did not, anyway, strike me as unreal. I don't hate Miguel yet, but am not sure that just because he spoke admiringly of her to Jack that he was yearning after her all those years and couldn't wait to make his move when Jack died, or maybe even before. But there is a serious hotness differential between the two men.

Why does Ryan like hiding the pretty boys under ugly wigs, pig heads and inbred features this season? Glad to have Wes back, tho. I'm one of the few who, tho I thought he was a terrible OJ, liked Cuba this season, and I felt really bad for him when his former friend and co-star--he was even at her wedding--turned on him and forced him out into the hallway to get slaughtered by the Piggy Man (who presumably is NOT wes Bentley). I was rooting for cocksure Dominic to be the only survivor. Okay, I was honestly shocked at Lee's admission that she did, in fact, kill Mason. How did she rig his body up in that...whatever it was? She's a tough bitch, but I really never believed she could have done it for just that reason. Her finding Matt in the basement was fairly devastating. And I know a lot of women and men would love to do a love scene with Finn Wittrock, but ew, that was so gross. Audrey is the worst, but sort of hilarious. Managing to be pretentious and full of herself while trying to escape sure death is quite a feat. My honey went to the dentist yesterday and had some residual pain, so he was particularly queasy watching all the teeth pulling stuff. That was really hard to watch. I have no idea who the last man or woman standing is going to be this season. I had thought, like many, that it would be Lee too, but I'm not rooting for her now that we know she killed Mason. I guess she could survive...and wind up in prison.

I'm fairly cynical but also cry easily. This show hasn't made me cry yet, tho sweet, precious little Randall, his face crumbling as he admitted he didn't want to seem different from his siblings so they won't hate him...that came close. That little boy kills me. I do think the show is richly, deeply cheesy and often manipulative, which are things I generally despise, but I also think the quality of the cheese, and the acting, direction and writing, elevate it from Velveeta. I like it. I keep coming back. I feel invested in these people. I agree that William is becoming a little too mystical. I too rolled my eyes at him playing with top musicians...tho, did he say FAMOUS, or TOP...what was his descriptor, I can't recall? He might have just played with really fine musicians who are not famous. I think Kate's description of Rebecca being the most beautiful who ever beautifuled and who still has men fall at her feet at age 66 or whatever is likely more her own vision of her, based on growing up and her own insecurities, than reality, tho I do think Mandy Moore is beautiful.

The little boy who plays Randall is completely adorable and heartbreaking. And I don't even much like kids. Kate in her element as organized event planner was nice to see. And she's working for Muffy Tepperman. Is she seriously climbing all those stairs daily? I'd be dead in a week. It's sad to hear that she and Rebecca are semi estranged. I wasn't sure if Kevin was going to hug or make out with the bereaved pickle widow. Is Toby

I do think Hector and Logan look quite a bit alike, and so does a lot of the interwebs. I found quite a bit of convo about it online. https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/56v3es/anyone_notice_the_similarities_between_hector_and/ I'm familiar with Rodrigo santoro from other things, so I don't have a problem telling them apart but I think they do LOOK really similar. Jimmi Simpson will always be a McPoyle to me, but I love him, and I think he's weirdly cute, and I too will HATE if he's the MIB. I have no idea if I believe in two timelines yet or not. I have no real theories on most of this show. I will be alternately riveted and exasperated, during the course of one episode, over and over. I think I'm going to give up on it, and then I think I can't wait to see what happens next.

Yeah, this was the first episode that kind of jelled, for me. I kind of liked it all. Robert, for all his stomach issues and talking about 'twosies', wasn't just a buffoon. He was great with the kids, telling them about the divorce, and then with Frances too, as he left. For the first time, I remembered that THC is a handsome guy, or would be, without the terrible 'stache. And I got Frances' absolute dismay over the moustache, and how it felt like a hostile act for him to grow it. Her weeping over the inexplicable, perpetual dampness (Ew) of it was both poignant and funny, tho SJP has never learned to cry on camera. The scene with her falling apart in front of the coworker eventually seemed over the top, but it began well. Going thru a divorce makes you a little crazy. You often do and say things and fall apart in front of people it's inappropriate to fall apart in front of. I got it. I liked it. The show's not about them reconciling. It's about them splitting. Tho I still wish I could believe that they were ever a couple, I did come closer with this episode, and eventually, I guess, it doesn't matter. They're done. When that happens, there is generally a lot of contempt and not much remembering the warm n fuzzy stuff. They are, in divorce parlance, irretrievably broken. I think I might wind up liking this show. maybe.

Love I'm a little frightened by those willingly choosing the Randall Flagg option.

Eh, I'm old, maybe older than carol, but she looks like a grandma to me. Cuz she COULD be one. No big deal. Her grey hair color is pretty (tho the cut is not, imo) but it IS aging. I'm not a huge Carol fan, one way or the other but her age, or mine, has nothing to do with that.

I'll take the ren faire Jimmy Carter any day over Trump. Oops, I mean Negan. Even if I wind up dead, I'm not ever going to align with evil. I feel fairly confident that Ezekiel also maybe has some strong survival skills, aside from being accompanied by a big tiger, but I guess we'll see.

Ew, no to the dophin smoove. The actor is attractive enuf but I was immediately less compelled by him with no hair and a bushy beard on TD. I dig the dreads. I LOVE jerry!

My first reaction to the Kingdom would be to run away screaming. The name, at first, seemed to harken to something religious, and then King Ezekiel, however cool he looks, appeared batshit crazy. But by the end of the episode, I completely love him. I get him. I'd live in the Kingdom, happily. Add a big gorgeous tiger and I'm all in. By the time Ezekiel was explaining his past to Carol and said that Shiva was the only thing left from his previous life that he'd loved, I was toast. It's Carol I'm kind of tired of. Oh, I'm a lone wolf, have to leave, whatever. Go. I no longer care. And she is undeserving of Sexy-Casual King Ezekiel leaning against her door bearing, um, fruit. I like Melissa McBride, but Carol has approximately zero sex appeal. I too would be delighted with cobbler for every meal.

Well, but she didn't. She ran screaming away and called the cops on lee and was outraged and freaked out. Only when she finally realized that Matt didn't know what had happened did she calm down. This time, tho Matt apparently was entranced, he told her that he was in LOVE with the witch and that's why he came back. That's when she went batshit. Plus, she'd been attacked by Agnes earlier. I also think the house or SOMETHING is literally posesssing all of them. They're under its influence and unable to really act the way they might normally. Oops, WhosThatGirl beat me to it.