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I know they made it look like a gritty neighborhood, but it’s actually pretty pricey full of restaurants and bars. The bar next door that they said had closed is actually one of Chicago’s oldest and most historic bars that was a speakeasy during Prohibition. But also to your point, fine dining actually turned a sparsely populated warehouse district into one of the hottest and most popular neighborhoods in Chicago for restaurants and hotels. It just takes one successful place to bring more in. The thing I really don’t understand is the money in the cans. Why borrow from Jimmy (the nickname Cicero means he’s most definitely mobbed up) and put it cans? Was he pushing Carmy to turn the beef place into a fine dining restaurant, because he knew he would never try to get the money to open one one his own? Even if that’s the case, Carmy still ends up owing a mob boss $300k. A benevolent one, but still. I’m interested to see where that goes in the (hopefully already greenlit) second season.

Clearly Craig must have made the food choice, because he is the worst. Who picks McDonalds over Bojangles?

If you have no children of your own, and your nieces give you the sacred task of bringing something to their grandfather's memorial, and you know all the baggage that comes along with the memorial for your brother, not to mention all the baggage you're carrying yourself, trust me, dollar store balloons are NOT cutting it. She's not in a bad mood. It's more about control in an uncontrollable situation. She clearly has all this baggage from Jack's death, and it's spilling over into her feelings about William's death, and the only thing she can do to help Randall is get those balloons. We've seen that Kate is a great administrative assistant, so you'd best believe that those balloons are going to be perfect. She might have been snippy to someone undeservedly, but I think we've all been there in times of stress and grief.

You should most definitely go!! Somehow, I ended up being there at the exact same time this was filmed, part of the time at a resort about 20 minutes from the town they were in. Sadly (or thankfully), we were totally unaware of Bachelor being there. But it is even more beautiful and fun than it looks. We started in Helsinki and worked our way to almost the top over the course of two weeks, and I would go back in a heartbeat. I think Nick likes strong women because of his mother - she definitely has what a friend calls the "I'd like to speak to the manager" vibe. I feel like they do that all the time, with almost all the dates. Last week I said to a friend that I thought the conversation that Nick and Raven had about ironing vs steaming was quite possibly the most real and interesting conversation I'd ever heard on the Bachelor.

I mean, I know that these kids don't know the vets are coming, but I knew there was zero chance that production was letting Jenna go home before Zach gets there.

Plus, if this tanks, maybe they'll bring back Lucifer sooner than May!

It's actually Finland, where I actually was, apparently at the same time the F3 and final rose were taking place. Leave it to The Bachelor to retroactively ruin my vacation. That said, it's a really beautiful place and I would go back there in a heartbeat!

Yeah, I'm not sure when this episode was written, but Theo would NEVER go for a trade like this, especially this past year. The very last thing the Cubs needed this year was another catcher (except maybe another outfielder), and they would never give up two great pitching prospects for a short term player that they didn't really need. Usually I don't get too caught up in the baseball details of this show, since I really like the story, but as a huge Cubs fan this really pulled me out of the story and made me all ranty at the TV.

If only Lester from Chuck had been wearing a Jeffster t-shirt instead of Def Leppard.

I just want to know why Nina was dressed like Kelly Taylor circa the college years.

This is EXACTLY what I was saying all last night!! I couldn't believe it when all the ladies were talking about how hot he was. *shudder*

THERE'S A FRENCH VERSION????!!!!!!!

Wait, no "groin in-ju-ry" rap?! A classic, if there ever was one.

AGREED. I've been looking forward to this recap since I binged last weekend (I mean, as much as one can look forward to reading something you know is going to make cry, and probably at work), and I feel like this is a pretty egregious disservice.

A friend and I have a dream reality show, which is Jeff Probst and Chris Harrison from The Bachelor, living together like a reality Odd Couple and teaching each other their tricks of the host trade. "No, Chris, the color of your shirt should ALWAYS match your eyes."

RIGHT??!! At the end, I was like, "But where's Maze?!" It seems extremely suspect that she wasn't with them at the end. If she is missing for most of the second season I will be very put out.

I think it's WhiteJoshFeather. ;)

I'm with you. And I know I'm in the shallow end, but this show could literally be Ellis reading the screenplays of the lesser Adam Sandler movies out loud, and I'd still tune in every week.

Last month I was watching an episode on the bus, and gasped so loud at something that like, 4 people turned around to look at me. Embarrassing, but I was so sucked in that I didn't even care.

Amber should have gotten booted just on not being able to place Indiana alone. She lives in Chicago! Indiana is literally on every weather map she's ever seen, and although I get the feeling she's not exactly watching the news every night, the weather in Chicago is an almost constant topic of conversation. She's seen a radar map on a weather app at least once a month since apps were invented.

I love this show so hard - can't wait for it to start up again!!

I had that plaid blazer of Brenda's - I wore it ALL the time.

So much this. At least he provided some comic relief, trading insults and "Shut up, Jeff" retorts with just about everyone. Who is going to be the bad boy we love to hate now?!

ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH - this!!!!! I mean, right?! This and the non-matching dresses at the Non-Spring dance. These are the details that people remember - if you're not going to get those things right, then why even bother?

Surely there must be something RPatz (the late Cedric Diggory) could do. A stint on Vampire Diaries wouldn't be a stretch for him.