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When I spoke of fictionalized accounts deviating from reality, I wasn't talking about the ER/Hick relationship. Hick and Eleanor WERE pretty much living together during the time when Lorena Hickok had a room in the White House. After their relationship broke up, they remained friends for decades. I don't know what your "light" Google search turned up, but if you google "Eleanor and Hickok" you'll find dozens of hits with details about their relationship. And if you want to dig even deeper, try Susan Quinn's "Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady," a non-fiction account.

I hate when fictionalized accounts change the reality of what actually happened. It still would have been a good story to show that Eleanor brought this to the President's attention and lobbied for him to take action. FDR and the State Department did very little to save Jewish refugees, but in this situation he did help those on the Quanza.

Not much to draw on? As Maggiemae pointed out, it was HJUGE when the First Lady spoke publicly about her mastectomy. This wasn't talked about in public at the time and her speaking out saved many lives. We learned about her work on the ERA and how difficult it is for a first lady to have a voice of her own in the White House. Not that much to draw on? Her work with drug and alcohol rehabilitation had a tremendous impact. I'm sure they'll be talking about the Betty Ford Clinic, even though it was after her time in the White House. How many presidents and first ladies are never heard from again after once they leave office. Betty Ford did not disappear.

Come on, folks. They weren't going to kill a cute little puppy.

When we were sitting shiva for my dad, during a slow time when we weren't expecting anyone, we played Trivial Pursuit, which my dad loved to play. We were laughing and telling stories when the doorbell rang and who was at the door but his very Orthodox aunt in her 90s. We scrambled to get the game into another room. Glad it wasn't Randall at the door.

Dan made the alternative: Darlene and Ben elope without the family or they join the ridiculous triple wedding ceremony. There is no reason it has to be an either/or situation. If they want a small ceremony with the justice of the peace and a few family members, do it! No reason they have to join in the craziness.

I didn't see it as relief. I thought he was po'd that Kevin's plan won out. Also, Kevin and Kate both talked with their spouses about how to deal with their mother before presenting their ideas to the others, but Randall announced his decision and THEN told Beth that he had decided to bring Rebecca to live with them. Typical Randall.

I'm confused about where this is supposed to take place. They keep mentioning the kids on the base breaking into houses in Norfolk. They brought the partyers to NCIS headquarters in D.C. which is 200 miles away. Later, the girl snuck out of her home and went to a mall in Reston, which is around 25 miles from D.C., What's up?

Boogieburns, I think just the opposite. Chrissy mentioned in an interview that she was wearing prosthetics for filming. Chrissy is actually thinner than her character Kate is. (Thinner being relative.) I don't know if we'll see her weighing less on TIU, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Ariau wrote: "Finally, Sophie said that she wanted a relationship based on who they are now, but there is no way she saw something in the 24+ hours that leads her to reach that conclusion....we as viewers did not!" Sophie seemed quite taken with the way Kevin behaved with his kids as she watched him roasting marshmallows with them. Sophie and Kevin spent time and had a long conversation when they went shopping for clothes, etc. I'm sure she observed him with his mom and others at the wedding and reception. They had been very close for years, even if it was decades ago, and I'm sure she could tell the difference in him now. They weren't strangers she was meeting for the first time. He is no longer the messed up teen and young man that he was years earlier.

When Alice couldn't get the butcher to wait on her, Avis came along and got his attention. He asked Avis what she wanted and she told him she wanted all the sweetbread he had. I thought she was going to say -- and should have said -- "What I want is for you to pay attention to Alice and take her order. She is a supervisor of Julia's show."

I had to look up the pronunciation of Biyalistok, when Professor Gates kept saying Bee-a-LEE-stok, the town in the Pale where Damon Lindelof's ancestors came from. It drove me crazy, because I'd never heard it pronounced that way and they said it his way at least 10 times. I know it's not a big deal in the total scope of the story, but it kind of took away from the narrative for me. I remember Max Biyalistok from "The Producers." Pronounced Max Bee-a-lee-stock. I googled the pronunciation of the town and it came up bee·a·lee·stuhk. Neither the way it was pronounced on the show.

The general public may be more comfortable with lesbians, but gay male characters have been on TV for a long time, some even in major roles, such as the married couples on "Modern Family" or "Grace and Frankie" or Andre Braugher on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and many others in minor roles. (See link below.) The reason, however, that Kasie has a girlfriend on NCIS might be that the actress asked for them to give her one. Diana Reasonover (Kasie) is herself a lesbian and has been married to Patricia Villeto since 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gay_characters_in_television

I certainly get why Randall is opposed to Deja quitting high school to go and live with Malik, but why are the only choices 1) they living together or 2) they completely stop seeing each other? She only has a year left, they can keep in touch electronically and can get together at vacation time, etc. Randall thinks the kid is great. Why is he pushing them apart?

Bull, Will. Don't try and defend your toxic masculinity by excusing it as defending his wife. Come on. If every actor that was insulted on the stage by the hosts and presenters went on to clock the person that told the joke, the show would go on for hours.

The problem with the Oscars show is that it doesn't celebrate film, the way the Grammy's celebrate songs or the Tony's celebrate theater. Where are the film clips of current or past movies? Where are the actors making presentations, not snowboarders? How about less time on lame "comic" routines and phony baloney fan polls and more on celebrating the nominated films? How about just showing clips of the nominated songs rather than staging them (and adding a song that wasn't even nominated).

Instead of a written message about aiding Ukraine, having an actor speak who has a connection to that country - like Mila Kunis - might have been more moving. Someone mentioned messages about donating crypto currency. I didn't see any of those messages.

Can you imagine what the reaction would have been if it had been a man patting down two women?

15.5 Love or Money It was good to see Effie and George together and happy. We've seen George's aunts in a few episodes. We know they were prostitutes, but I don't recall Zinna or any of the others conning unsuspecting women out of large sums of money. Her lying repeatedly to George and Murdock and running off was calculatingly criminal, not cute, like the aunts behavior previously. Why does Julia stay at that hospital with all the incompetent male doctors and why does she put up with administration that is anti-female? Haven't we seen a women's hospital in Toronto in a previous episode? (It was run by women doctors for women and children.)

I get that Raikes came to the realization he had better prospects than Marian and that he didn't want to marry her. What I don't get is why he kept pursuing her and even proposed they elope, just days before they were to go away. He clearly came to the realization the night before that he didn't want to go through with the marriage, but he didn't have the balls to tell Marian in person that he had changed his mind. And poor, feckless Marian didn't have the backbone to tell him off when she saw him at the ball.

15.4 Blood on the Tracks I really enjoyed this episode. On the train, we got to see a different location than the usual police station and Toronto, plus members of the volleyball team and their coach interacting with each other. It wasn't just police officers doing their policing or Julia at the hospital. And William interacting with Baby Jordan was hysterical. That kid is quite a challenge and he really had his hands full.

It makes no sense that McAllister would have set up Bertha. How would that have benefited him if Mrs. Astor had found Bertha in her home? She would have seen McAllister's carriage parked in clear view and would know he was the one who brought Bertha there. (Not to mention that her chief butler had let them in, which was another mess.) McAllister and Astor were related and with her social standing and support, he was able to work with her as gatekeepers to The 400. He wouldn't ruin his working reputation with her if she was likely to find out he had snuck someone into her mansion that she didn't find socially acceptable. (Mrs. Astor knew Ward and his other visitor, so that wouldn't have upset her to find them there.) ETA: Rewatching just the clip of Mrs. Astor's arrival, her butler says "She's arrived early!" So McAllister didn't know Mrs. Astor was arriving a day before she was expected. (Neither did her butler.)

What's with hopping between Philadelphia and D.C. as if they are right around the corner from each other? Parker runs up to confront Billy. Billy comes to D.C. to get info from NCIS. Back and forth and forth and back. They're something like 140 miles away, more than a couple of hours. It's like when they run to Norfolk all the time as if it's a Washington suburb.

15.3 - Manhunt Yes, it was good to get back to the old school story lines - Julia being consulted for her medical knowledge, Brackenreid coaching a women's sports team, escaped former inspector Gilies being helped by Murdock to track down a killer ... I particularly liked Murdock sympathizing with Gilies and letting him escape and then getting his gun returned in a package from out West. Brackenreid and the women getting the hang of and enjoying playing this new game. "Play ball!" I know no plot lines are ever over on MM, but it was time to give the Anna Fullford and her son being chased by the Black Hand story a rest for now. Looking forward to viewing all the shows you've already seen in Canada this season.

I don't think the fact that McAllister and his wife often lived apart would make people suspicious that he was gay. As mentioned, Mrs. Astor's husband spent more of his time on his yacht than with her. (And with mistresses, drinking, horse-racing, and otherwise amusing himself.) His lack of interest in New York Society was fine with Mrs. Astor, as long as her husband funded her social aspirations.) The same was true for McAllister, who came from a socially prominent Georgia family, but lived on his wife's fortune, while she was content to stay home with their children. McAllister was related to the Astor family through the marriage of his cousin Samuel Cutler Ward to Mrs. Astor's husband's sister. McAllister may have seemed gay - or just pretentious - but he was spending much of his adult life aspiring to be accepted in Newport and New York society. As for Lane's accent, I can't say whether it is over the top or not, but the real life McAllister spent over 50 years -- after growing up in Georgia -- in California, Europe, Newport and New York, so his accent could have been less than authentic after all that time away from the South. And, I don't think McAllister knew Mrs. Astor was coming back a day earlier than expected. Mrs. Russell was one of the many monied New Families he helped gain access to The 400. If Mrs. Astor found out he bribed her butler to give Bertha a tour of the mansion and she found Bertha there, that wouldn't have helped all the work Ward was doing to get her to accept Bertha.