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Does it annoy anyone else when Toby lets his mouth hang open? Half his time on camera is spent like that. If he’s trying to project that he’s pondering a life issue or something, it’s not working.

Except that Beth said she was taking her to get BIRF control. I rewound three times to make sure that’s what I was hearing.

I don’t understand how that was a micro aggression. I’m the guy in charge of the line of kids and I see a white kid next to a white kid with a white adult male. Of course I’m going to think that the white kid and the black kid are with the white guy. NOT. The man in charge of the line used common sense, logic, deductible reasoning, call it what you will. calling it a micro aggression perpetuates the damage that is done in this pc culture when the man making an innocent presumption is now labeled the “attacker”. There is not always evil intent going on. Of course for the purposes of the writers having to create a scenario showing Randall as a “victim”, this is what they came up with. They could have done better.

I wonder if you all know that Amy has an ex. “I don’t want Chris to be friends with my ex”. I don’t want to go to the house of my ex’s girlfriend “. My ex, my ex, my ex. Omg enough woman. Did you also know that she has mixed feelings about the farm? That she used to live on the farm? She’s more annoying with Chris than she was with Matt.

Can someone tell me how Libby’s family have so much wealth? The dad is a dim bulb and has no balls. The rest of them are stage 5 clingers to keep up their lifestyles. I just don’t get it.

Don’t forget how meri fills about things.

I was a Gilmore Girls fan and it saddens me to see how Lauren Graham has aged. Her quirky nature worked well in GG but here it falls short. When she breaks into a big song and dance number, I’m always taken aback. I need to work my way into her performances. I wish Peter Gallagher would not stretch his eyes so wide open. It doesn’t look real and I find it unnecessary. He can communicate his inability to communicate without that. He’s got the skills. I thought they were going to reveal his friend and his wife being involved in a long painful attraction/relationship to/with one another. Simon has the sparkliest, most beautiful, expression-filled eyes and his sexy dance moves have me replaying the scene 10 times!

Dr Phil is a classic infantile narcissist. If the guests on stage don’t cow tow to his every word, he throws a hissy fit. Today he asked a guest if she wanted him to read further in his thoughts on her and she said “if you’d like to”. Perfectly lovely and appropriate reply. He got miffed, slammed his folder shut and cut to a commercial. So unprofessional. So often he demeans the family who are there for help. That should never happen. He should be as respectful of them as he demands they be to him. And the new nonsense at the beginning with the behind-the-scenes fakery? Omg who wants to watch him get his bald head powdered or see the blond boss lady behind the controls act like she’s bringing home Apollo from a space mission single handedly? Bunch of children running that show. Nothing like it once was.

Hannah’s mom looks like a cross between Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie and Georgia Engel. Anyone else as old as me? She played georgette on Mary Tyler Moore. More recently, she played Robert barone’s mother in law on Everybody Loves Raymond.

I loathe Dr Sophie.

When I settle in over the weekend to watch the shows I've recorded that week, Splitting Up Together is always the one I anticipate the most. I usually won't watch it first because then I feel a bit deflated that it's over, but I do replay it a few times because it simply makes me so happy. Everything about it, especially the core family. The peripheral characters are fine, but when it's just the five of them, or the two parents, I'm in heaven because the interactions are filled with humor and heart and that's not an easy thing to write and/or play where it hits just the right note. But it does here every time, and I am hoping that it will get another season. Another five seasons!!! Oliver Hudson is a remarkable mix of male brawn and sweet undertones.

It’s likely that it was arranged ahead of time for the “sick” mom to disclose her current state but no. Why was it necessary to do that except for the sake of adding more drama to the storyline? Let it be the bride’s day - her mother’s mysterious illness should have played no part in that visit. My narcissistic mother told me five minutes before my wedding ceremony that she had had a bad mammogram reading the day before so I’m a little prickly in this department as she made herself the focus of my day when it could have waited until at least the day after. And it turned out that there was no concern in the end. 😤 Rant over

Who dresses cate? When she first appeared I thought she was in a robe but when she walked outside in that hideously-fitting garment, I realized my error in thinking. She really does not know how to dress for her body shape or how to wear/color her hair (no pink). There’s some potential there but it’s untapped.

Stating the ridiculously obvious here, but one 5 minute event happens in each of these peoples’ lives per episode and then.....cue the lawn chairs, the sofa complete with the requisite blankets, the kitchen chairs, the bed, riding in the car for a change of pace, and then it’s nonstop blather while they all sit like lumps with no expression and monotone replies about that five minute event and that’s ALL of the show. One of Maci’s kids was actually standing upright in a scene and I thought I had the wrong damn show for a minute.

The girl who plays Claire had a starring role on the show “Greek” which was on ABC Family years ago. She is also the daughter of Shadoe Stevens, who was a radio host and tv personality from the 80’s or somewhere thereabouts.