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All the characters were appealing/interesting in various ways and the story is fun. I've been burned before with genre shows that devolved into nonsense, but if worse comes to worst I stop watching. Nobody gets hurt.

This isn't meant to chide, either, but I believe the victim is still anonymous; it was never confirmed that she or he was one of the Willis kids.

I thought Kosta was okay for a first appearance, but a boner joke, really? (And another white male, really?) I watch online with no commercials, so the show went immediately from an erection joke to the interview with David Brown about criminality and policing in America. Even so, it was an interesting discussion with someone whose varied experience has given him a unique perspective.

I rewatched today and may have liked it even more the second time. This is a bit of the scene with Three and Android singing Dominique in French while she plays the ukulele. It looked like they were having a blast, and Lemke is pretty good at spoons! In the show, Two starts to enter the room, sees them, then walks away rolling her eyes.

I may be seeing through peevish colored glasses because I dislike the entire storyline, but all the Ishida actors are hamming it up SO BAD. The acting reminds me of cheap Saturday morning adventure series of the 50s. I almost expect the classic villain sound effect in every scene.

I've already sputtered about this in the Grantchester forum but will take any additional opportunity to decry the abomination that is Sidney and Amanda. The show is set in Cambridgeshire in the 50s and is ostensibly a murder mystery. Anglican Priest Sidney Chambers is an observant sort of person and falls in with the town's police inspector to help solve crimes. All well and good. Except there's Amanda. She's purportedly a friend but she and Sidney sure spend a lot of time together. Neither admits to any romantic feelings. She's posh and he's not. She then marries someone of whom her father approves and has a baby with him but decides she loves Sidney after all. Leaves her husband and runs back to Sidney, who is still, mind you, a priest who cannot marry a divorced woman. They're together, they're torn apart, they finally have sex. Sidney's going to leave the church for her, then he's not. They bring out the worst in each other and every bit of it is horrible and boring and can we please get back to the chummy crime solving?

Sidney is always a dick to Leonard! He ignores him, puts him down, sighs in exasperation, then eventually, eventually ekes out a bit of Christian kindness and tries being helpful. (Which, getting spiritual or life guidance from Sidney is pretty rich, but that's a different gripe.) He also acts quite dismissively towards Mrs. McGuire. I don't expect or need showrunners to react based on critical and viewer feedback, but honestly. The response to Amanda and Sidney has been almost universally reviled and yet their relationship has become even more prominent. So much soap opera, so little crime solving. Searching for something positive to say ... at least we're not being subject to Sidney's war flashbacks any more.

Watched Passengers (2016) yesterday and while I'm not sure its creators would call it a romcom, it was a romance and there were comedic elements. A mishap on a space ship that's on a 120 year trip to a new colony planet causes one of the passengers to be woken from hibernation 90 years early. Eventually, from sheer loneliness and against his better self, he decides to hack the pod of another passenger and wake her up as well. The story then becomes their relationship, falling in love and having the requisite breakup. There's a pretty fun action section where the ship starts to fail and they have to figure out how to fix things. I quite enjoyed it. Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star.

They used to have the canvases physically there during the judging, both to show the tattoos and answer questions about whether or not they liked the work. Was that only the first season? Maybe it ended up being just too long a day for the canvases to wait around for several hours during judging after already being tattooed for hours.

Have many of you bothered with this? It's currently on Netflix. Trailer. It's not that I can't enjoy a movie featuring children or that it wasn't expertly made, but I thought the environmental message was very heavy handed. Venal corporate conglomerate vs over-eager activists, got it. Some of the acting verged on caricature (I think deliberately.) The whole thing was a little off somehow, ungainly and weird.

I blame the Internet. Oh social media, how you bedevil me.

How can a person put something in the oven and not notice there isn't any heat? Jeez. (If contestants aren't in the habit of pre-heating their ovens, I don't know what to say.) I realize the camera crew needs a clear sight line around all the stations but I so want the ovens to be at normal height; it bothers me to see everyone constantly hunching down.

Also Android and Android.

My mother always bought whole wheat so it was a treat to occasionally have Wonder Bread served at a friend's house. My sister and I would sometimes buy a loaf with our allowance and mash small pieces into the shape of communion wafers so we could play Mass with the neighborhood kids. Kneel and receive this piece of bread I squashed with my grimy hands!

What kind of crackers? Sue me, AMA, but cheese and hard salami on Ritz is one of my favorite meals. I'm also currently on a kick of tuna salad on Chicken in a Biscuit crackers. A friend's coming over today to walk me through making her onion and olive pizza with white sauce. She brought it to a pot luck and I've become fixated.

Sheila, it's good you recognize that you can be vicious. Maybe ... trying doing something about it?

Kiss of death: "I'm making a thicker crust." It will never cook in time. Also, nobody cares what you like. Consider what Mary and Paul will like.

As much as the show, challenges, judges, tattoos and contestants all chap my hide, I'm even more annoyed that they took a week off.

It's nothing Trish has done, but I'm not 100% convinced she was raped just because the show is making a big deal out of the young detective being suspicious of her story. It seems a bit off that Hardy and Miller aren't open to at least hearing alternate theories.

I'm watching a movie from 2013 called Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery that stars Lemke. He's all cleaned up and looks quite sexy but beyond that, his detective character works for the Sûreté du Québec and he gets to trot out his French. Made me smile.

Ha! And no. She could have forgiven the housekeeping lapse but was mostly pissed about the customer service response. Giving the manager's name was pretty low.

RIP, Van. I'm not sure young people today derive the same sort of comfort from local news anchors the way many of us did in the 70s and 80s. It also puts me in mind of Joe Carcione the Greengrocer and his veja-tobbles. I think I sometimes watched the news just for his segments.

Everyone on TV who needs access to someone else's computer/phone is able to deduce passwords because "John likes apple pie! Try that!" They get a couple wrong at first, just to make it "realistic." Screw you, password hackers!

Potato salad for me, too, and watermelon. Grilled Italian sausage. Everybody likes their own potato salad version best, right? I've never had any in a restaurant or deli that I thought measured up.

I didn't expect to get emotional Wonder Woman, but Diana's belief in herself was moving. Loved the final scene in the here and now; it was uplifting to think that she's still around. Stupid as that is.