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    The Bear Season 1-2 Talk

    in The Bear

    16 hours ago, Kiddvideo said:

    Spoilers….I was enjoying it well enough until the pre-order fiasco: Richie and Sydney when she had nothing except the condescending personal attacks like “oh, we’re just going to name professions? Because I can do that” and the “you’re a worthless loser and everyone knows it including your daughter and to top it off I’m going to pull a knife on you.” Richie’s an  ass who someone needed to tell to lower his temper, and he didn’t help the situation, but he was blaming her for the orders and questioning her motives for the ribs not trying to destroy her humanity. Marcus ignoring the tickets and working on his donut while trying to get facetime with Carmy rang false. (Yeah, I see the parallels between Carmy’s and Richie’s abusive family dynamics and the restaurant’s abusive “family” dynamics, but I felt it went too far for anyone to forgive and forget.)

    Also? Turn off the damn pre-order option when you realize what’s going on.

    Can someone explain the ending to me like I’m 5? I get the symbolism that by finally following Mikey’s “Family Recipe” Carmy was able to save the restaurant, but did Mikey know the money was in there and that’s really why he was buying the smaller cans? Which means someone at the tomato canning plant was running money through Mikey? Or did they just happen to get delivered some drug lord’s stash? And was it tied into the KSL (or whatever) payments Mikey made every month, and the money in the cans should’ve been paid to Jimmie? Which means Carmy is going to be even further in hoc to Jimmy when he spends the money on the new restaurant? But why wasn’t Jimmie demanding the tomato money if it were his? And if Mikey knew the money was in the cans but it wasn’t Jimmy’s, why couldn’t they afford napkins? Also, how much money is the staff going to extort regardless of its source?

    I don’t quite believe the premise that a struggling sandwich shop in what looked like a sparsely populated warehouse district could sustain itself long-term as a 5 star dining experience. Go once to check out the buzz and go again on your birthday. The residents aren’t going to be able to support it, but whatever, sometimes you just have to go with it.

    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.

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    S04.E10: The Hangover

    in Southern Charm

    On 6/6/2017 at 1:35 PM, robroy said:

    The McDonalds could have been the one at 17/526 but the Bojangles/Red Roof combo was really throwing me since there is really only 1 Bojangles in each portion of town.

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

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    S01.E17: What Now?

    in This Is Us

    · Edited by mspaul

    10 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:

    And I don't know why the angst over the balloons.   My local dollar store has them and you can get 50 within about 10 minutes.  No biggie.

    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. 

     

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    I agree, her snippy attitude on the phone seemed uncalled-for; no matter how her personal problems were affecting her.  Part of being a grown up is not making other people suffer when you're in a bad mood.

    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.

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    S21.E10: Week 10/S21.E11: The Women Tell All

    in The Bachelor

    · Edited by mspaul

    5 hours ago, b2H said:

    Dear hubby wants to go to Lapland, though, based on what we saw.

    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.

     

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     I wonder what this season would have looked like if the editors weren't so preoccupied with creating an air of mystery as opposed to just giving the viewers a more accurate and honest depiction of Nick and Vanessa's relationship. I still can't believe that it took for the penultimate episode of the season for me to finally understand them as a couple. I mean, I've still enjoyed the season and all but damn...the production decisions have been really strange and weird this time around lol. 

    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.

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    S21.E01: Season 21 Premiere

    in The Bachelor

    14 hours ago, Nedsdag said:

    So the final rose will be given out in Siberia? Or is it Antarctica? 

    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!

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    S01.E09: Scratched

    in Pitch [V]

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    The choice of the Cubs as the trade partner is a little off, to me, because yeah, the writers lucked out that the Cubs DID get the ring, but they got the ring because Theo Epstein probably would not go for a trade like that? 

    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.

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    S03.E02: Week 2, Night 1

    in Bachelor In Paradise

    54 minutes ago, olivia1 said:

    It was really bugging me as to who Josh reminded me of until I remembered this guy:

     

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    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*

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    S04.E12: The Animals

    in Orange Is The New Black

    · Edited by mspaul

    3 hours ago, Auntie Velvet said:

     

    Wait, is that really the sole recap that Previously is going with for THIS, of all episodes?

     

    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.

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    What If Jeff Probst Quit Survivor?

    in Survivor

    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."

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    S01.E13: Take Me Back To Hell

    in Lucifer [V]

    On 4/26/2016 at 1:59 AM, GaT said:

    MUM??????? I can't even imagine who that is, & does she have Maze?

    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.

    S01.E03: The Would-Be Prince Of Darkness

    in Lucifer [V]

     

    Yet and still, every line reading from Tom Ellis amuses the shit out of me, and I'd be here for that alone.

     

    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.

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    S20.E02: Week 2

    in The Bachelor

    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.  

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