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I just don’t understand how Askey’s mind works. Ok, so she’s decided to double down on Russ being guilty bc she’s too insecure to admit she was wrong. I’ve known people like that who will cling to the most outlandish theories bc they absolutely will never say they made a mistake. But here’s where it gets weird: She’s had an easy “out” with Dateline. She could easily just stick with the story that the evil “Big Media” show exaggerated everything to attack a successful woman trying to fight for another woman and that only she “knows the full story” and plenty of people would believe that and think she was the victim here. Sure, there’s be some renewed interest in the case with the tv show but no one will be thinking of it three months later. But instead, she accepts the invite to come on this show, where she KNOWS they are going to go after her AND they have edit control. How did she think this would ever be a situation that would be good for her? (And yes, that’s more of a rhetorical question bc clearly she’s not shown any kind of sharp critical thinking skills.)

Just starting this show now, and I pretty much watch all of the Gordon Ramsey shows. The overall premise here just sounds like an extended Masterchef challenge, not a unique concept, and I’m not surprised that interest levels are low. It feels simultaneously too much high concept and not enough at the same time. I’ll finish out this season but it’s going to be one of my filler shows that I watch when nothing new is on rather than anything I care about. In contrast I love HK and MC and make more of an effort to keep up to date with them. Im finding that the whole conceit of the show (ie the different levels of equipment and food choices) feels like a less creative Cutthroat Kitchen. We don’t have anything beyond the “random” key card choices to decide what kitchen each team is assigned to, so no fun moments of sudden setbacks or boosts. The contestants seem to be evenly divided between home cooks, social media cooks and working chefs, but the skill levels seem pretty close, so there’s no advantages to the chefs backgrounds—initially I thought that the home chefs might actually do better with the limited equipment in the basement than the pros for example. My impression from the ads was that contestants would work their way up the levels and try not to get sent back down. I don’t know exactly what that would look like in practice but the current setup ain’t it lollll.

How is there not a single comment about the guy salvaging the steak off the floor who wasn’t going to wash it at all??!! I’ve been on enough sets to know it can’t possibly be that clean around the lifts!!

I’m just starting to watch this, and Holly’s intro sounded like she was going to kill on Last Dance but oooof, that performance was cringetastic. I feel so bad for her bc she’s a much better singer than that sounded. Not shocked by Wendy’s injuries—you could see when she went down that she was very dazed at first. I was more shocked when she seemed fine later on.

I’ve never read any of the source comics, so I’m going only by the movie canon, but Hawkeye has always bothered me as written bc they both want him to be this ultra dedicated family man, but then they also constantly have him ignoring his family as he forges deep emotional connections with these other women. I liked the small touch here of having his wife reference the situation he was dealing with to indicate he’s told her pretty much everything, but I find the whole setup gets in the way of me enjoying his scenes with Black Widow/Kate because like here, he’s being this “dad” figure to Kate as he ditches his own daughter who, last time we saw her was practicing herself to get good at archery. I’d much rather he’d initially turned to being Ronin bc he’d permanently lost his wife/family or something, bc I wouldn’t feel as conflicted about the connections he forges with his female coworkers. In general, I feel like the pacing of the series is a bit weird. Some things are taking waaay too long, and other things are going by too fast. But I do like some nods to reality, like Clint having lost his hearing or Kate not being instantly skilled and having to flail around a bit in her fights. I also am enjoying the snarky confidence of the Track Suit Mafia, and think they’re the perfect foils for a show like this—challenging but not so overpowered that they feel unbeatable. And Lucky/Pizza Dog seems like he will be fun!

Did anyone else notice that besides the whole “Where is Stephen Curry?” open and the joke press conference, they didn’t mention him in relation to season 4? It all makes me wonder if they’ll go solo without him or if they’ll replace him.

I think the difference between LLR and other big MLMs (think MK, Pampered Chef, Tastefully Simple, Lia Sophia, etc) is that FB really took off as a marketplace at the same time they were taking off as a company. It escalated the expansion way beyond what they were able to handle and their greed wouldn’t let them say no or pull back at all. With in person shows, you could easily see the work involved watching the consultants set up and run their parties, and it was clear that only 1-2 people could host follow up parties before everyone in a circle of friends had bought what they wanted and it became unproductive. On FB, there wasn’t any sense of how much work it must have been for the retailers so it made it a more attractive prospect. Besides, there was so much deception, they couldn’t even begin to touch upon these cultural factors that really contributed to the situation!

I’ve seen this speculation in a few places but what makes more sense to me is him being a Thor variant. He’s invested in the rules and order of the TVA until he realizes that it’s hurting people, and he has that kind of brotherly concern about what all the Lokis are up to.

I had the same thought! 😳

My completely uneducated guess is that when ANW was relatively new, you just had fringe athletes doing it, so the bar to entry was more about awareness than skill. Over the past 5 years or so, it’s shifted to technique and experience. Now we’re seeing the first generation raised on practicing those skills from an early age, so they’ve built up that experience and muscle memory at the peak ages for developing it. We’ll get a few years where the teens seem to take over bc they are raising the bar in terms of what an elite ninja needs to know/do, and then it will settle down to where there’ll probably be a 75-25 split between veterans and young rookies.

My guess is that the whole Alaskan concept was because of the pandemic. If you visit towns of less than 1000 people in the middle of winter, you’re less likely to have unmanageable crowds. Consider some of the earlier seasons when they would have hundreds of people lined up to this season where the lines were rarely more than 20-30 people at most. I’m not familiar with Alaskan regulations either, but that may have played a role too in this set up.

I’m only one episode in to the show but yes, it’s being added to my “hate-watching” list of shows. Anyone who puts more than a half second of thought into it knows that an investment is a better use of your funds than a party, no matter how meaningful the party is. So the attraction of this show is seeing couples who have already completely made up their minds about what they want act like they’re open to persuasion on a reality show to get a few freebies thrown into whatever they’ve already going to do. Or more accurately, the attraction for me is shaking my head at how extravagantly over-engineered Pinterest makes everything—obviously with all the extras on the wedding side (Trolleys! Food trucks!!) but also on the home buying side too (Man caves! Dressing salons!!!) It’s not that these things aren’t fun, but rather the way these shows present them as almost non-negotiable components that leaves it wide open for me to mock. And in that sense there’s TONS here for me to work with haha!

Husband clarified that he was talking about Eric’s bloody hands, not Brian. But when I looked up, it looked like Brian had a bloody nose or something, and then a shot or two later it was gone. So I still think that was intended to be the explanation of why he was cloned but no one else was, even if it got cut for time.

When they first came to town, Brian seemed to have a tiny amount of blood on him that was never explained (and also had bad continuity). I was only half watching at the beginning, and I asked my husband what I’d missed about the blood, and he had no clue either despite paying attention. So my guess is that the blood was the key to the clones, and that Fionola realized that him doing his job was the “least important” thing to him, which is why she quizzed him afterwards. Overall, we like the moody, weird stuff with the debris, but we hate-watch the dialogue, lol.

I thought Melissa showed a lot more growth through the series than Robert did, so I was sorry to see that she didn't win. Here's to hoping she gets brought on anyway!