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It's really not a mystery. Reagan and Jeff met in 2009 -- he was a Saints player during what was arguably their finest season that ended in a Superbowl win. Saints football is a religion in New Orleans, she was gonna lock that down. I think it was less about the money and more about the prestige. This article is over the top and ridiculous but I think it captures what Reagan thought she could get out of a relationship with Jeff..."She would soon find that with the NFL, came team and community obligation. She embraced the responsibility and the opportunity to contribute to New Orleans Philanthropic efforts, her favorite being the LA/SPCA. It was the first time in her life she let passion lead her and it opened her eyes to a world and instinct that she had been stifling."

Plantation: A plantation is the large-scale estate meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, rubber trees, and fruits. Unless the Limehouses are still growing cash crops, CALL IT A FARM.

I wanted to die laughing when Jon Moody took Jeff to Perlis for his makeover. Perlis is pretty traditional preppy Southern clothing...think seersucker and polos with crawfish on them. I used to buy my dad's birthday and Father's Day presents there and he loved them, but he was 60-something! There had to be some better options! I know Jon does not shop at Perlis. Looking at some old photos, it looks like Reagan got quite a nice engagement ring from Jeff that he probably paid for himself. You can see it in this shot. Reece needed that family ring. Unrelated but I really hate Reagan's jewelry.

I've been to that "vineyard" (and I live in Northern California so I use that word lightly). They do have wine without the muscadine grapes, they import grapes from California. But also, it's right next door to the Firefly Distillery, which is a much more fun tasting experience!

My faves by character: Rebecca: You Stupid Bitch or I'm Just a Girl in Love Paula: Paula's Turn Darryl: Gettin' Bi Josh: Ping Pong Girl or I've Got My Head in the Clouds Valencia: Women Gotta Stick Together Heather: The Moment is Me Nathaniel: I Go to the Zoo Greg: Tie between Settle for Me and I Could If I Wanted To...oh and It was a Shit Show too. Dang, Greg had some good ones! And honorable mention goes to Josh Groban for The End of the Movie!

My dad was military. We moved all the time, including in the middle of 7th grade and again right before I started high school. Did it suck? Yeah, kinda. Did I survive and in fact thrive? Yes. Moving makes kids resilient and I'm sure they would rather relocate than have their parents divorce or have Randall constantly driving back and forth to Philly and missing all the little things in their lives.

I'm going to guess that the visit to "her" (who in my mind is Rebecca and no one else) is on the Big Three's birthday and that she has Alzheimers. She has been talking about planning a party for the kids. That's why they have the game and the chalk -- because Rebecca is picturing the Big Three as kids and remembering the kind of activities they did at parties then. Kate may in fact be dead by then, which would make birthdays harder for Kevin and Randall. The show's premiere episode centered around their birthdays, it would only make sense that it ends (whenever it may end) on a birthday.

I thought it was strange that the first episode, with the animations and all of Hae's diary excerpts, felt so different than the rest of the series. It almost could have been two entirely different productions -- one about Hae and Adnan and their relationship and her murder, and then an entirely different one about Adnan's conviction and his family and his fight for justice and Rabia. Every time they mentioned Hae after the first ep kind of felt like a throw-away.

Was Stephanie questioned by the police, or did she testify? I'm sure that the Serial folks and these documentary makers and others have probably tracked her down and its clear that she just has no interest in participating. I see what you all are saying about before/after an event. It's just the one thing I've never been able to reconcile about Adnan's story and I'm not sure I ever will. But my opinion of his innocence or guilt shifts constantly.

I still can never get over the fact that Adnan has no idea, no memory, seemingly no recollection of what happened that day, that he thinks it was just an ordinary day. The police called him that night about Hae being missing! I know he was high, but wouldn't you stop and think, when DID I last see her? At that point it had only been a few hours and he should be able to remember that he asked her for a ride and she said no, or he didn't see her after school because he went to the library. I realize there were a few days in there where no one was at school and people weren't really sure if she was missing or had run away. But once he had fixed in his mind when he last saw her, wouldn't he hold on to that memory? When I was in high school -- 25 years ago -- a classmate was killed at school during lunch. I didn't witness it, I barely knew him but I have very crystallized memories from that day. I couldn't tell you everything I said and did, but that event suddenly made a regular day very abnormal and it sticks out. We went to Taco Bell after we were dismissed. I can't tell you about any regular day I went to get fast food after school but I remember that one. It just seems like Adnan has no reference for the last day that he ever saw Hae, even though a lot of other people do. So I come back to he's lying or he has some sort of psychological block on those memories because of PTSD.

I'm always surprised there hasn't been an Atlanta season yet, and think it's a natural choice. That said, 3 of the last 6 seasons have been in the South so they may need to hold off another couple years. Philly and Portland would be good picks and I would love to see them go back to the Midwest -- Detroit, Minneapolis or Kansas City could be interesting. For Michigan the logo could just be a giant oven mitt!

The cheftestants don't have access to a computer or google and I think they can only use phones to contact their families. So I don't know if Justin would have had any idea where in Maine that town is, or how far away from the ocean is it, unless it was specifically in the dossier. That was all he had to go on, they can't research.

I've now re-watched both Season 5 and All Stars. I think Carla's biggest issue was always, always, not listening to her own instincts. She let other voices -- the judges, her fellow Cheftestants, Casey, drown out her gut. She did the best when she stayed true to who she was, i.e. the West African peanut soup in the tennis challenge or the dishes she did well in her own first finale. But when she doubted herself, that was when she got in trouble. And I just finished watching Restaurant Wars from Season 4. Lisa absolutely should have gone home over Dale.

Does Katherine really believe that Delilah and John -- who had a strained marriage in which at least one partner was cheating and two kids that were into their tween/teen years -- just up and decided to have another baby? Or that after all that time their birth control failed? That's what I can't figure out. Nothing about this couple's situation up until the moment John died screams, "Yes, we totally want another kid!" I assume everyone knows it's Eddie's baby but are just kind of looking the other way and letting her get away with saying that it's John's.

Wait, how is Paula graduating law school already? I know there was one significant time jump (from the beginning to the end of Heather's pregnancy) but there's no way that three years has passed since that whole plotline began.

I did a rewatch of All Stars this week on Hulu and yeahhhh, kind of squirmed when I got to the Paula Deen and John Besh episode, not to mention all the Mike Isabella stuff. I had kind of forgotten about Jen Carroll going OFF on the judges though, and just how stunned everyone was.

But I was. My point was that Toby said he contacted Kevin, who had photos of the stadium that Jack made for Kate, and that's how he had it recreated. I didn't say anything about Kevin's football photos.

The football stadium that Jack built Kate was a replica was whatever stadium the Steelers play in, though. It had Steelers players on the field. It wasn't Kevin's stadium. CrystalBlue, I suppose you're right that stuff could have been at the cabin, or just untouched. If so, it seems weird that Kate doesn't have any of it? But we probably shouldn't think too hard about these things.

How did Kate's football stadium not survive the fire, but Kevin had photos of the football stadium that did survive the fire? And while I'm at it, Kevin had a box of his dad's stuff that also made it through the fire, but Kate has nothing??

Ahh, that makes sense about the age difference...I couldn't remember. And you're right, dad kinda steamrolled that. I hope Jasmine's Dad and Will are very happy together. I agree, Luke's gig running speed dating events should have disqualified him. Too high a likelihood he would have crossed paths with someone before. I mean, if you're a realtor or a bartender or someone else in a service job, you're serving everyone -- single, married, men, women, gay, straight. He was organizing and hosting events that were specifically geared for men and women to meet...a very similar target audience to men and women who would want to apply to be on a show where you are instantly married to someone.

Oh, I have a question about the Lincoln University couple (Jasmine and...Will??). He said he went there, and then I thought she said SHE went there, and that her dad went there. But after that it seemed to be all about the dad having gone there and talking directly to Will about it..."oh, let's get a Lincoln U photo!" Wouldn't it have been more interesting for the two of them to talk about how they went there at the same timeframe? So then I thought maybe I had misheard and she didn't attend Lincoln U at all. When I meet people from my alma mater I'm usually curious about when they graduated and what they studied and oh, did you know this person or take this professor's class. But her dad seemed more enamored of her groom then she did at that point.

I think what will be the death of Luke and Kate will be her bland, giggly personality. She seems like a person who doesn't have strong opinions or a strong personality and I think it's going to bore/frustrate Luke.

I think someone else threw this out, but I'm wondering if "I can't believe she's gone" is about the woman who was getting chemo at the same time as Gary -- the actress was Marissa Jaret Winokur, who's fairly well-known, and it was kind of a weird, one-off role. Maybe Gary finds out, via the nurse at the chemo center, that she passed away? I think its a red herring, regardless, and isn't about Maggie. And I was glad to see that Constance Zimmer is going to come back and have an actual purpose and a plotline. When she showed up at the funeral I figured she was going to be a regular character and then I got confused that she never showed up again and promptly forgot about it. And then she popped up in the previews and I was all, "Yes! Who was she anyway??"

Not only does this friend group spend all their time together, the show also portrays Boston as the smallest city in the world. It seems to take no time for them to get from one location to another, or from (presumably) downtown to the suburbs. They are also driving constantly and parking right in front of wherever they're going. I've only been to Boston a couple times but I feel like there's absolutely nothing realistic in the way they portray it! I assume the "I can't believe she's gone" isn't about Maggie but another character we haven't met and it comes in a flashback and not in "present day." I agree that is also could be Ashley or Sophie. Why didn't they just say Delilah's ankle hurt or tailbone hurt after the fall and Eddie took her to get it checked out? Telling elaborate lies doesn't help anyone.

Someone up thread asked about how Olga came to the US the first time and why she couldn't do that again. Because she and Steven met in Ocean City, a huge tourist area, I'm betting she came on a short-termvisa for seasonal workers. Stores, restaurants, amusement parks, pools, etc. can use these to hire seasonal help during the summer. You'll see a flood of foreign young adults working, many from Eastern Europe, in tourist areas especially. There may be a time limit or she may just not want to work 12 hours a day at a mini-golf course or whatever she was doing.