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Not out of line with other seasons of the Challenge. But they supersized each episode at 90 instead of 60 minutes. Trying to remember, were they 30 minutes before they went to 60 minutes? Of course they've had a lot of filler this season.

One of the few times I got to use miles for business class on Air France, they served these with the champagne. https://www.fauchon.com/fr/cheddar-crepes-320814/ I went to the store to buy some extra boxes of it. Overpriced but what can you do.

Organic cheese puffs sounded good. Whiskey too. Blanket? You would probably be dressed for hot weather so maybe air con would bother you. Rarely have needed it though for short flights unless you're able to sleep easily in the day.

"Economy Plus" is a specific brand name for just a bit more leg room, no other benefits, on United Air Lines: https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/products/travel-options/economy-plus.html Are you perhaps thinking of Premium Economy, which does come with even more space and some better food and drink options? United calls that product Premium Plus. I've never flown down to Mexico myself so maybe there are extra benefits for this flights, like flights to Hawaii. In any event, I doubt they serve genuine French Champagne for free.

I've heard Koppleman a few times. He doesn't seem like the type who'd come down and depict his main character negatively like the way David Chase did with Tony Soprano. So far though, they are making Axe look like an asshole this season.

Fact that she called her therapist from the beach, alone, meant she regretted the argument. If she didn't have the argument, the trip would be cast in an entirely different light instead of mainly being remembered for the beef.

That's true, in this day and age, that speech to the kids would have gone viral.

Episode was only 22-23 minutes and they spent a chunk of it on Laurel and Babe. Babe is flustered but this show is starving for secondary characters. Maybe they should have kept Fiona around a little longer. They’re milking the trust issues between Billy and Ruby. He should have known better than to give her his laptop — he could have sent her just the video he wanted her to see — but she looks at his emails? In any event she has a big tantrum and literally goes home. But Billy got out of her that Lawrence isn’t funny or kind and she said she was going to leave the hubby. After 7 episodes, still not clear why she bailed on her life so quickly or why she wavered about the kids. They must have reason to believe they will be renewed. Even then, not sure there’s enough of a story beyond another half dozen episodes or so. The potential murder plot shouldn’t have much left. Maybe they will show that she really was done with Lawrence.

Ok so Molly overreacting to the towel girl is suppose to be about her beef with Issa, displaced anger. Before leaving on the trip, she saw Issa avoiding her at the Ethiopian restaurant. Then during the trip, she saw that Issa was in the background of that FaceTime call with Nathan. She couldn’t properly enjoy herself, forget about work and Issa for a weekend. Even though they got champagne on Economy Plus, which doesn’t really happen. Prentice and Issa said on the Wine Down that this was the first time they filmed outside the country and one of the things they wanted was to show black people can travel. Well Mabel did and maybe Latoya, but Molly didn’t travel too well.

This episode doesn't make Bobby look any better than the other episodes this season. In the previouslies, they show Bobby bragging "I'm a fucking carnivore" about how he made his money. So it's another competition with Prince, this time for an Opportunity Zone redevelopment in Yonkers, where Axe grew up. He's telling the black kid now living in his old home that he was just like him. Even offers to bring his personal chef to have dinner with him and his mother. Wendy swears up a storm, first to Bobby and Taylor, then to fake Jackson Pollock, who's got "painter's block" since signing up to paint for Bobby on commission and then to some "fossil fuel CEO" that Taylor is trying to sell on going green. As Tanner, the painter notes, the coaching Wendy does for "aggro" traders sounds like bullshit to him. Wendy suggested he had imposter's syndrome. Gee, a highly-paid psychiatrist and all she comes up is some pop psychology out of magazines? She tells him he's afraid of success, just have to visualize and what do you know, Tanner comes up with some splotches on the canvas, which is upright rather than being on the floor. So how did he get his boots covered with paint? Chuck is all gassed up for his visiting lecture gig at Yale Law, ready to go all John Houseman out of Paper Chase on the students, who won't have any of it until professor "Cat" played by Julianna Marguiles channels Wendy and tells the kids to toughen the fuck up. Wouldn't you know it, Cat is thirsty for schlub Chuck, especially because he confessed his BDSM kink. Axe partners up with Katie Sacker's father Franklin to get a minority partner for the Yonkers bid. Chuck tells Prince how to beat Axe on the bid but he won't go there, says he won't let himself be corrupted. Either Prince will become corrupted by Chuck and Axe or he may stand out as the "good" deca-billionaire. If the latter happens, it would be surprising for them to make Axe so unsympathetic, unless they want to start setting up an endgame for the series. Axe was always skirting the law but he wasn't blatantly the asshole as when he decides to bail on the dinner with the good folks in Yonkers, saying he couldn't wait to get out of this "dipshit town" that he romanticized for the purpose of winning the bid. Most eye-rolling scene was Taylor and Wendy closing the deal with the "fossil fuel CEO" to make him go green. All it took was Wendy swearing up a storm about how much money he would make. OK, that's probably all it would take, a couple of meetings to make fossil fuel CEO abandon oil. Foul-mouth Wendy act is getting old. It was quaint at the beginning, to have a supposedly well-educated, well put together, professional woman like Wendy channel Bobby Knight here and there. But show us a new trick. Bobby and Wendy have dinner together, again prepared by chef Ryan, in his apartment, the one she's staying in temporarily. Bobby talks about Chuck not being around to interfere. Get over with it already. Wags finds out his son isn't what he expected so now he's going young wife shopping to have do over on children. OK, they can drop this story line, cuz it's dumb, cartoon like -- well uninteresting compared to the other cartoonish plots in the show.

The interview segment looked like he was in the studio, with good lighting and his hair and makeup lookin like it did when he was owing the regular shows. But he wasn’t cleaned up for the openin monologue? So he either goes into the studio for some segments or some of the production staff and equipment go out to him. Too bad they don’t try to get the panel working but some of the video from his guests look and sound poor.

But some billionaires are trying to impart lessons to their kids. Bobby gave some lip service about whether it would be good for the kid if his father "fixes" this situation. Wendy gave her advice, which he mostly ignored. I don't think we're suppose to conclude that all the people who attain the wealth and power of Axe will behave the same.

Would coastal areas like Seminyak be more expensive? Especially any place with a view? Some tourist workers commute down to coastal resorts from small villages up north. By scooter, over an hour each way, rain or shine.

She owned her own salon for 10 years in New Orleans so maybe they're living on her savings. I wonder if they can find comparable rental properties in Thailand itself. Even if she has to fly to Bangkok, assuming she has to do so several times a year. Would be a shorter flight plus not having to go through a lot of traffic on narrow roads to the Denspar Airport from Ubud.

They must have encouraged him. Cameras were set up to perfectly capture him doing it as he jumped in and as he swum a bit and the other two went up to him by the side of the pool. Only been to Bali once but Ubud is quite a distance from the airport. Traffic is bad so it might be at least an hour to get to the Bali airport. There may be direct flights to Bangkok though and the flight is probably not too long. Yeah I'm not down with the insects. Those buildings with tall roofs look nice but not sure it's best for dealing with pests. Because the weather is mild, you want that indoor/outdoor living which sounds good. But it means doors and windows may not be sealed. One place I stayed in had fences and a gate and it's own pool. The kitchen was outside and they'd bring food and drinks and leave it out there or in the fridge. They would bring you dinner if you ate there. But I didn't want to leave dirty dishes outside. At night, they'd come and spray around the villa and burn some incense or something. I don't recall if there was a big bug tent but in any event I got some kind of bite on my belly which produced a welt an inch-wide. 4 years afterwards, the area where the bite was is still discolored. Never gave me problems other than cosmetic though who knows what kind of virus mosquitoes there may carry. Even the modern options didn't look sealed enough for my taste. If I visit again, it's going to be in a proper modern hotel.

Finished all 3 seasons. It does try to show a bit of the family lives of the soldiers but the main focus is the work, which is part undercover cop, part warrior. The members of this elite unit are drawn from other IDF units. The main character Doron knows all the Islamic traditions as well as being fluent in Arabic. Turns out he’s partly Arab and easily passes as one, so he’s always going undercover. As undercover, he gets close to some of the Palestinians in the West Bank. He can see their humanity, though if they knew he was an Israeli soldier, they’d curse him or kill him. Show doesn’t depict them as cartoon villains, slavishly loyal to the Resistance or the Movement. Even when they choose to become or are labeled as martyrs, trying to kill the Israelis but usually getting killed. Overall, they do try to develop some of the Arab characters, if not sympathetically at least depict their perspectives without vilifying them. Maybe one reason is that the show has an international audience, translated to several languages. The unit does suffer casualties and these of course take emotional toll on them. The third season is particularly brutal.

Maybe that's the reason Cam, Naomi and Chelsea quit, because Bravo cut their pay. Or they were basically going to let Bravo suffer with a large cast turnover and then probably come crawling back to them next season.

Nelson maybe but Cory always crumbles under pressure.

Bananas and Big T both cheated but still didn’t win the challenge. I think Jordan realized it was inevitable he’d be thrown in one way or another, without any alliances left. And maybe keep getting thrown in where his handicap would catch up with him. Fessy warned people against voting him in and then they voted him in. Nelson with the worst game of politicking, trying to butter up Kaylah and Aneesa after insulting them recently. Thing that’s shady is that the producers can decide at the last minute which elimination to set up. Pole fight doesn’t require much set up at all, literally just a pole. They could see who gets voted in, who are in the tribunal pool. You could say they wanted a lopsided match in favor of Fessy which is why they chose this particular elimination, especially double elimination day, to make them end quickly. Kaylah started up a fling with Bear and voted in Nelson, though she didn’t make a big deal when she voted. Nelson gets revenge?

I think he was always going to go after Axe, after a period of detente, since they had a common enemy at one point. Presumably him taking down Axe would boost or launch his political career for the governorship and beyond. But a lot of it is personal vendetta, probably Wendy but also being philosophically affronted by what Axe does and what he represents. We could ask the same question about Axe. His goal is always to be at war with someone. It's Prince for now but eventually he'll swing around to waging full-scale war with Chuck again. He thinks he's vanquished Taylor but the writers are probably keeping that in the back pocket.

It was already a relative bloodbath to the 2 seasons of Missing. I don't recall the exact outcomes but the body count of characters in this season of Baptiste seems much higher.

Really unfortunate the way he got hurt. Paget got hurt carrying that thing too. So the other BD yachts are better because they have winches to lower the jet skis from storage to the water. They don't have to deploy that floating deck for guests to go swimming from, because they have a big enough deck at the water level in the back and part of one side.

I only vaguely recall those previous scenes involving the kids. I guess you could say they kept the boys from being entitled pricks like Axe himself, at least so far. But the likely trajectory is that by the time they're 16 or 17, they will be cocky pricks, especially if they have pretty much unlimited access to money, cars, etc. The main evidence against them being good parents, especially Bobby, is that he didn't spend too much time with them when they were around and he had no problems letting them go to the other side of the continent, meaning he wasn't getting regular time with them. Maybe he FaceTimes every day with them but he seems to have a lot of other things taking up his time. In any event, I agree, this incident is going to make Gordie draw certain conclusions about what he can get away with, especially with money and the will to punch down on those without money.

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If she elicits a lot of social media reaction, even if mostly negative, that is incentive for Bravo to bring her back. "You're trying to put the KYBOSH on ... AFFECTION!" "I can't work in an environment where I can't hold hands" Glen's response: "You're being defensive about the indefensible."