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kirinan

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  1. Totally agree with seeing all three women back next season as recurring! Roz is a given, of course, but I've also been a fan of Julia Duffy's forever. My mom used to watch the soap opera The Doctors back in in the 70s, where I first saw her, but my favorite of her roles was in The Blue and the Gray Civil War mini-series in the early 80s. And @giovannif7, totally agree that Gigi Rice was an excellent choice for Christine's sister. BTW, I looked her up on IMDB last night and found out she's been married to Ted McGinley (from Revenge of the Nerds and The Love Boat since 1991). I never knew that!
  2. I love that if they gave Christine a never-before-heard-of sister, that it was Gigi Rice, who I enjoyed with John Larroquette on The John Larroquette Show. Kind of a full-circle thing. And I adore Dan and Roz scenes; they are so good together. Also great to see Julia Duffy again, and oh, that ending!
  3. Sometimes I get impatient with all the extra storylines in this show, but I really liked this episode. I love the friendship stories: Dan and Mike ice fishing; Mike standing behind Liv with her grandmother—and good for Liv for finally getting it all out, although I'm embarrassed to say I laughed out loud when Grandma dropped; Asta and D'Arcy and the passive-aggressive fight in the helicopter, which cracked me up (as did them arguing at the cabin, with Harry interjecting the occasional laugh-out-loud comments), and the way they were finally honest with each other. I was also happy to see Joseph again (can't help it, I really like Enver Gjokaj, even as a bad guy), and I loved the scene of him and Heather arguing the nuances of "niece." Oh, and of course Bridget! I can't wait to see what happens there...
  4. My husband was thrilled because he recognized him as Norman (the Harry Potter fanboy) in one of his favorite movies, Yes Man. I was so pleased to see Dave Foley. He has the nicest head of white hair now, just like John Larroquette! I'd love to see them both come back in a future episode.
  5. I never saw M. Spade, so I can't speak to that, but it did occur to me that Franks the detective is very much like "Mayhem." He always makes me laugh in those commercials, so I guess that's why I liked him so much in this show. And oh, wow, talk about a show I really mourned the loss of; I LOVED Battle Creek. I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers it fondly.
  6. Dean Winters is one of my favorite actors, and he didn’t disappoint. He and Skylar Astin were great together. I hope crazy Franks comes back. Loved the Lee sisters, too, and wouldn’t mind seeing them again. Also, I can’t quit laughing at “the Karen room.” So silly, SO funny.
  7. Some of these look kind of promising, and in a slightly different way from the usual Hallmark storylines (IVF single mom? A female mechanic? Okay, I'm interested). Plus, Tyler Hynes, Robert Buckley, and Sarah Drew are three of my favorites.
  8. I'm in complete agreement with this. As much as I liked the Duke, I knew there was no easy way to reconcile their lives so they could be together. In my case, I'm not giving up on the show because of the loss of the relationship; I thought Eliza was good with Nash, too. I just don't like the character of Eliza enough to watch a show where she carries even more of the story than she does now. The dumb things she does that endanger herself and other people, the selfish way she doesn't seem to care how what she does affects other people, even those she loves—I don't see how I can sit through another season without a main character I like to root for, which was the function the Duke fulfilled for me. Moses and Ivy and Fitzroy could, but they're not on screen enough (if at all, in Moses' case) to offset Eliza for me. It probably doesn't help that I'm so-so on mystery shows in the first place. I'll watch them occasionally, but for any show, I'm in it for the characters, not the plots.
  9. I think I am, too. I have all six episodes from this season on my DVR and I haven't watched it yet. I just haven't cared that much, since I know from hanging out here that Stuart Martin hasn't been in several of the episodes. He's always been the reason I watched the show, since Eliza annoys the heck out of me and has since day one. She's always reminded me of a Victorian Stephanie Plum; she never seems to learn or grow from her mistakes. JMHO, of course—other viewers, I'm sure, have a much different take on it.
  10. I didn't watch Sense and Sensibility last night, and after reading the reviews here I don't think I will. I want to leave my memories of my beloved Emma Thompson/Alan Rickman version intact. But I just discovered something related via Dan Jeannotte that surprised me. I was curious what part he played, so I looked it up on IMDB. I wasn't surprised to see he played Edward. What DID surprise me? He plays Sam Kirk, Jim Kirk's brother, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. I can't believe that, as much as I like the actor, I've been watching that show and didn't realize it was him!
  11. I had absolutely no idea who this guy was until I started to watch his monologue, stopped watching when it seemed he was going to make Down's Syndrome jokes, Googled him out of curiosity, and then watched Captain America: Civil War for the rest of the night. It appears from what I see here that I didn't miss much. Although I did get a kick out of that Limu Emu cut sketch @Galileo908 posted above.
  12. The scene of Harry and Joseph trash-talking about how each would beat the other one up, and then both of them getting involved in watching the pretend repairman of Harry's story drone on, and then Joseph leaving, is one of the funniest things I've seen on this (or any) show in ages. Maybe I just had a tough day at work yesterday and was overtired, but I couldn't stop laughing. I do hope Enver Gjokaj isn't gone for good, because I thought he and Alan Tudyk were absolutely great playing off each other. It takes some comic chops to hold your own onscreen with Alan Tudyk, IMO.
  13. Thank you, @AnimeMania! We couldn't make out the words (as much as I love Van Morrison's singing, he can be mush-mouthed). If we could, I would have realized this was Kermit's song. I can now tell my husband that's what he gets for making me turn off the closed-captioning, LOL.
  14. By the end of last season, I'd tired of the show and started skipping episodes. But my husband talked me into watching it with him last night, and I'm glad I did. This episode was back to the form that made me love it, for the reasons you cite, @possibilities. The "Asta is my Kryptonite" scene really got to me. One thing that's never changed for me is my love of the music they use. Was that last song by Van Morrison, does anyone know? It sounded like him, but we couldn't definitively say it was. I searched this morning but can't find any info on the music yet. Oh, and my trademark shallow observation: Wow, Enver Gjokaj is one good-looking man, especially in that uniform. He'll always be Daniel Sousa (Agent Carter) to me, but he is getting even better with age. I will definitely enjoy watching him until his inevitable bad-guy demise, LOL.
  15. I was disappointed in this, because I loved Alison and Ben together in The Chronicle Mysteries and was excited about seeing them again. It felt like this one misfired on so many levels. Mostly that I wish Alison's character would have acted like/been written as the 47-year-old woman she is and not like a ditzy teenybopper. Although Ben's character seemed more like an overgrown awkward teenage boy to me, so at least Alison wasn't alone in her miscasting. The best part of the movie for me, hands down, was Jane.
  16. My biggest disappointment with Murder at The Breakers is that we never saw The Breakers! I've wanted to see Newport for as long as I can remember, so my husband and I finally went there this past September, and we got to tour The Breakers. So I was excited that I would get to see The Breakers on TV after just having seen it in person. I should have remembered that this was Hallmark so I'd just get a big house in BC (which, don't get me wrong—the house and the sets were beautiful). I agree that I thought the main character was too modern (and I also didn't think she was a very good actress). But I liked the rest of the movie, and would watch a second installment.
  17. Agreed about the sister, but it was worth sitting through her to see Will Kemp and Mallory Jansen, who I thought were fabulous together. I just enjoyed the whole movie, and will definitely catch it again.
  18. This episode was the first time I liked the way they used Olivia; she made me laugh more than anyone else. It was a perfect plot for her drama-queen persona. And I loved the scenes with Dan and Flobert; they were great together. I hope we get more of that.
  19. Although I agree they handled it clumsily and unrealistically, I have to gently disagree with part of this. I was diagnosed with inoperable Stage 3B lung cancer in January 2022 (my treatment ended in April 2023 and although the cancer's not completely gone, it's stable and I'm doing and feeling very well), so I frequent a cancer discussion board through which I've come to know a lot of people with different types of cancer. There are a number of Stage 4 people out there living their lives, traveling, etc. even though they've been declared terminal—and surviving well beyond the average survival times for the various types. So while I know it happens way too often, it's not always an immediate death sentence. The human capacity to hold off death and accomplish the things you still want to do, even in the face of terminal illness, is a miraculous thing, I've come to discover. But I also agree that I wish they wouldn't have put a downer ending on the story; the disconnect between that and the rest of the move was jarring. But what I did enjoy about this movie? Erica Durance (one of my favorite actresses); all of the other actors, especially the adorable little guy who played Finn; the accents; the scenery; and the music, which I thought was fabulous. Even with the missteps, I'd watch this one again.
  20. I probably dislike football more than anyone else on earth (including Janel Parrish!), but this was AWESOME. Even if it didn't have Tyler Hynes in it, I would have laughed. Good job, KC!
  21. Ooh! I don't watch mysteries a lot, but my husband and I just visited The Breakers on our vacation in September, and I'm nuts for anything about the Gilded Age. So I definitely want to watch this. Thank you for posting about it, @EyewatchTV211; I'll make a note on my calendar.
  22. I would even settle for another, different movie with the three of them, they were so good together. I don't even need romances; just have them all as part of a buddy road comedy or something along those lines. P.S. @Trini, a little off topic, but I gave a little squeal when I saw your profile picture. I mourn the loss of Leonard Snart more than any other character on TV, so it made me happy to see him. Thanks for making my morning!
  23. Yay, Primetimer's back! I've missed you all. And to celebrate your return: ‘Get Ready to Never Stop Working’ - What Hallmark’s tenured holiday hunks have learned from a combined quarter-century in the feelings game It's a fabulous article. Happy Holidays, everyone!
  24. Hallmark is Paying Tribute to Jane Austen with February 2024 Movies I'm so glad to see that Mallory Jansen is coming back. And with Will Kemp, no less! Also glad to see Alison Sweeney and Benjamin Ayres back together on screen. I loved the Chronicles Mysteries.
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