Miss Bones

Re: Eddie, I totally agree, and I think that Kath could give him SOMEWHAT of the “benefit of the doubt”. It sucks that he lied to her AGAIN, but he is in a wheelchair, and should have taken some pain meds responsibly from the beginning! I haven’t even finished the episode yet, but I think that Kate’s mother telling her that her father wasn’t perfect either might help her to come to terms with it. I think that marriage should mean that you don’t give up on someone for some mistakes. Otherwise, why make it legally binding? Hopefully Eddy hasn’t run out of chances, what with the prior substance-abuses and love child indiscretions!

I am an avid non-Gary/Maggie shipper, since they broke up. In fact, if someone else hasn’t already suggested it—it seems so obvious—can we agree to “Gaggy”(as in 🤢) as their couple name? I liked them okay, in the beginning of the show, as a couple, but then got over them pretty quickly. PLUS, I like Darcy and Jamie! That being said, I hate to admit that I did enjoy Gaggy’s interaction tonight. I liked when he got the ring from his drawer, and then jokingly said “Last chance!”. And then, when she started going on about if that had been the last year of her life, she would have considered it a great year— the scene really worked for me! It surprised me that I had any enthusiasm left for their relationship at all, honestly. But I did, for whatever reason. I’m sure good ole Mags will go back to the bottom of my shit list soon, making her irrelevant podcasts, that nobody could possibly care about, and dancing to “hold music”. And Gary will make a few more jokes about how short she is, while calling her by her last name. For now, I will give the show the tiniest of compliments.

That little Liam dweeb made the Theo actor look Oscar-worthy. My, was he terrible!

Also, I wanted to add that this episode confirmed that the writers do think that we viewers are morons, because when Theo dropped the pills, they had to do a flashback to the moment--FROM THIS SAME EPSIODE--of Eddie giving Kath the aspirin. I yelled at the TV "Yes, we know!! We were there!" As I already mentioned in one of my previous posts, it is not like they were subtle about the whole aspirin situation in the beginning of the episode, so they really didn't need to beat us over the head with it. Then again, there were so many problematic things packed in that one little scene. 1) Theo says it is his first time making this special lemonade, so what are the chances that they have special lemonade glasses, and that he knew exactly where to find them? 2) Where are the contrived lemonade glasses located? Behind a bunch of pill bottles, of course! Why not just store them in the medicine cabinet? 3) The safety cap on a narcotic would have prevented the pill bottle from popping open, IRL. Ugh, this effing show.

And don’t get me started on the GIANT Target bags, and Darcy’s casual: “Gary loves the APP and CONTACTLESS PICKUP”. I can’t believe it didn’t lead to our learning that Colin actually died, and us meeting Gary’s new dog, Spot.

OMFG. So I just started this episode and, I just have to say, the bullshit reaction Eddie just had to Katherine’s looking for aspirin could have been avoided by a simple: “Aw babe, sorry, I took all the aspirin...you know, because I’m in a wheelchair...and I’m like totes sober, so I took the aspirin for pain relief.” But this is AMLT so, instead, it was “Err, umm, eh, erm— not sure what happened there... umm “ *K leaves room to look, while Eddie acts like a spaz, grabbing his claw thing to get the pill bottle down secretly before she returns*. “Oop, just casually actually just found the—umm, err—VERY last 2 convenient aspirins. It was causal and breezy though! Nothing noteworthy, really.” And Katherine, the smart and educated attorney—none the wiser—thanks her ex-addict husband, finding nothing abnormal about the situation. Oh, AMLT...never change!

I actually looked up the actress who played the airplane lady, because--though it was difficult to tell, with the mask--I thought for sure that she was the actress who played Mrs. Grubman on Nip/Tuck, but I was surprised that that actress would play such a bit part, since I have seen her in other roles before. Anywho, she was the actress that I thought she was (Ruth Williamson), and the character is credited as Ellen on IMDb, not Sally.

Just started the episode, and declare to myself aloud: “Why does Jack have to corrupt our Uncle Nicky episode??”

Why are these idiots playing a Fall movie on the second day of Spring? And next up, a Summer movie, which features a July 4th celebration. I mean...

Ugh it was so ugly! The frills reminded me of romaine lettuce. He is a big dull dud! I preferred Martin, even though they always seemed to have put so much makeup on the actor, and I found it as distracting as Ro’s bad wigs!

Totally! On more than one occasion, I've said out loud to myself "Seriously, HOW is Grey's Anatomy STILL a thing?!"

No, nothing else happened-- it was just a montage of the gang doing a read-through of Rome's script, over some music. And, surprisingly, I don't believe the song was a terrible cover of an 80s or 90s song, as it usually is. P.S. I also have to endure about 5 minutes of the end of Grey's Anatomy on all my AMLT recordings, which I find annoying. RE: the bolded part, I thought the same thing! Rome couldn't even change the names?! Talk about intrusive. With this show's dramatics, the movie will get made, and then someone in the script will try to sue Rome for defamation of character, and he will have to get Katherine on the case.

When I finished binging “The Fosters”, a few months back, I enjoyed it enough, but I said I wasn’t going to watch “Good Trouble”, and then I saw Hulu had the first 2 seasons, and so I decided to watch the first episode. I ended up getting hooked in, and continued watching, and I am so glad that I did. I didn’t realize that the whole Adams-Foster family would make so many appearances, but also, I kind of didn’t want them to, but I’m so glad they do. A lot of the time, this show makes me think “Ohh, I see where they’re going with this”, and then they don’t go that way. I think this is a really good show, and good spinoff. This episode, I thought that they handled the “coming out” of Carter (who I didn’t think I gave fuck ONE about), to his Dad, in a pretty unpredictable way, based on how I felt when we first met his Dad... in the Fosters finale, and on this show. I do think that they can be a little ham-handed with the “comedy/hijinks” when Stef and Lena come around, and more so when it is the whole Adams-Foster family. Luckily Teri Polo is a decent enough actor, because they like to give her the “funny” lines and bits here, I’ve noticed, but she tends to pull them off.

RE: the face roller— Well, then I guess it’s a “don’t knock it till you’ve tried it” thing! And you’re so right about Lindsey’s perpetual stick up the ass. RE: Sumi— I’ve seen others asking this, and I don't know either. Before this episode, I still wasn’t sure that she had. I thought she was just always there as a friend of Alice, who like never goes home, but this episode, seeing Lindsey in the bathroom as a guest of Sumi, confirms it...so I guess a lot of us missed when that happened.

It is a face roller. I recently had to ask this myself, as I saw one being used on one of the other shows that I watch. From Google: "Face rolling tools are made typically from jade, rose quartz or another crystal, and are designed to be used to gently massage the face and stimulate the lymphatic system to get rid of toxins, ease muscle tension, decrease puffiness and stimulate blood-flow to increase your skin's glow." Sounds like horse shit to me. ETA- They are not cheap either!

Did the whole Tully miscarriage thing happen in the book? I do not remember.

This is what I gathered, also. Yess! Last week, I was going to post that everyone on this board is always commenting how insufferable Theo is, and how bad the actor is, whereas I find him to be a much stronger actor than the Danny actor, and far less grating. At least Danny's post-pubescent voice sounds less like a 3-pack-a-day smoker, but his acting is so poor, and they try to give him these heavy storylines. Don't get me wrong, Theo is annoying, but I don't think the kid is as bad an actor as some of you do-- I just think that they give him terrible lines, and they try so hard to make him "the overly precocious child", and it is getting really irritating now that he should be getting older, but he is a perpetual 5 year old. They are allowing Danny to age, however, the kid's acting has not improved. I cringe/eyeroll at most of the things he says, especially when they try to portray his and Gary's relationship like that of 2 peers.

That's funny you say that, because I said to myself "What year do the music people for this show think it is?" I asked the same question when Sophie smashed Eddy's guitars a season or two ago, to the soundtrack of Goo Goo Dolls "Iris".

Oh I know. They are shameless with that shit.

Hahahahaha! You guys are all cracking me up over here, but this is spot on. And wasn’t Sophie filming this “vow renewal”, all like “aww they’re so cute”? Yeah that’s realistic too.

Totally agree! When they kissed I think I said “Wow, Hallmark! Look at you!” out loud. I thought for sure that they were going to pussyfoot around it.

Has anyone else noticed that, in Hallmark movies, only people who use treadmills and are dedicated to their careers have Christmas trees that are white, red or silver tinsel? If it wasn’t cut down from a forest, it’s the villain’s tree. This person in The Christmas House is on the treadmill with a white tinsel tree in the background, so I know she is BAD NEWS! Clay from One Tree Hill is definitely getting with his old flame who likes Christmas, over treadmill girl, who likes artificial trees over the real thing! Funny it has only taken me like 10 yrs of watching this Hallmark nonsense to notice that only bad guys can have a fake tree. But i do enjoy watching these movies, for some reason! I will say that I am proud of this movie and Christmas with the Darlings (as HALLMARK movies! Rome wasn’t built in a day!) being lifestyle-y diverse in a not too heavy-handed way! As in, letting the Hallmark world know that it isn’t just straight folk out there! ETA: I’m probably overthinking what I said, but just want to make it clear that when I said “not too heavy handed”, I didn’t mean it like I don’t want to see other lifestyles embraced, I just meant that I wouldn’t like if they’d tried to overcompensate for all the time they haven’t been as diverse as one may have hoped, and made it less organic in its portrayal.

Just started A Timeless Christmas, and words I never thought I would hear uttered in a Hallmark movie: “Thanks, but I’m not really in a hot cocoa mood.” 😱

I must have missed this-- What happened? I only remember Kate telling her that her friend likes Bagel Bites, not Funyuns.

Another thing that I wanted to add re: Christmas Tree Lane is that I thought it was a nice change that both leads loved Christmas. Andrew Walker's "business man" character would normally be the character who is Scroogy about Christmas, because his dad died, and Santa didn't bring him rollerblades when he was a kid, and he found out Santa wasn't real, and it was actually that his mom couldn't make ends meet now that Dad passed, and couldn't afford to buy him the rollerblades; contrasting Alicia's character who loves! Christmas. It was refreshing that they were both allowed to like Christmas, even though he is a big business man, backed up with business projects!