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Has anyone seen or read anything about any new HMM mystery series in the pipeline? Seems like they used to have way more, what with Aurora, Hailey Dean, Morning Show, Mystery 101, etc. And they made a big to-do about rebranding to just 'Mysteries' but those sure seem fewer and farther between. Feels like they've put a ton of push behind the streaming platform and kinda left their broadcast channels floundering.

I kept waiting for someone to bring the entire Mariachi band into the morgue to provide more light with their hats, so Kevin could see better to help Caroline. Yeah, the episode title was just one of many puns the guys were doing while trying to carry the generator upstairs. I loved how they immediately started hustling that thing when Faith told them Caroline had been stabbed. I really want them to figure out how to keep Rafael around. If Amanda is really gonna start raising Sunny, he needs to stay in the mix for that. They've shown Rafael to be intelligent, maybe he can figure out a way to take his business legitimate and get out of the street gang life and into the corporate gang life since it's really all the same anyway. Maybe that lawyer/drag queen from season 2 could come back and be Rafael's lawyer to help him go legit. I think they would be super fun together.

It was Faith's too! I loved her doing the clap on/clap off thing for the hats and then the guy telling her to stop it lol! 😂

Yes, it was Caroline's birthday. Amanda planned a surprise party for her, even including the Mariachi band from Caroline's favorite restaurant. I love how much Amanda loves her. 🥹 Rafael, I'm praying for you. I like you and I love that Will has somebody besides Angie who knows him so well. I really hope you see the error of your ways before it's too late and the show figures out a way to keep you around. I did enjoy this episode and the tension. I was one who thought the brother-in-law was guilty but when the attorney stopped him in the hall and talked about them going to school together, I realized the fake-out. I am concerned about the lack of Faith in the main storyline. I feel like they're about to turn this show into 'Will Trent and Angie Polaski' and I am so not down for that. They've taken the Will and Angie relationship drama and elevated it to the top and now it's infecting every single storyline. I preferred Season 1 when they were more separate and Will and Faith had their own cases that had nothing to do with Angie and/or the APD. I am NOT on board with Faith being sidelined so Angie's bullshit can be explored. I. DON'T. CARE. ABOUT. THAT. HEFFA. LIKE. THAT. 😒 May Erika Christensen get cast in a movie that takes her away for a long time and Angie commits herself to a live-in facility to finally deal with her many, MANY issues, amen. 🙏🏽

I just watched this episode so I may have a few answers, if I can explain correctly... During the first interview BadBro did after GoodBro started giving away his wealth, the financial reporter asked him specifically about how the board was taking it, if they still had confidence that he alone could continue and that the company stock had been affected. In the next scenes with BadBro and his DoucheBro cronies playing golf in the office, even though the DoucheBros were talking about the GoodBro being a saint, GoodBro was still considered kinda wacky by the finance world for giving up all his money, and it was reflecting badly on BadBro within the finance world. It wasn't until he was in GoodBro's neighborhood where folks started thanking BadBro because they thought he was the other one. So at least storywise, part of BadBro's reasoning involved his personal and the company's business reputation taking a hit and being considered a laughingstock in the business world. That part then plays into BadBro's jealousy when he keeps getting thanked by folks GoodBro helped. BadBro has to deal with being made fun of in his world and then hear how beloved GoodBro is in his world. So it was a twofold thing. OMG that was Michael Park as Van Ness! Michael played Jack Snyder for many years on As the World Turns. I haven't seen him in a long time, he looks good with the gray.

Hunter King has landed a series role. I wonder if she'll continue to do any HM Xmas movies. https://tvline.com/lists/the-neighborhood-spinoff-cast-release-date-trailer-cbs/

Heavy sigh. There were some parts I really liked in this episode but mostly I hated it. Sorry y'all, rant incoming...... Fuckin Angie, man. The show takes her to the extreme and then has her act like a bitch because nobody trusts her anymore. Girl, please. 7 BODIES. SEVEN. BODIES. On your fucking head. And they got her running around fucking shit up again, and we're supposed to what? Sympathize with this delusional, self-involved heifer? I think the fuck not. Plus all her drama is taking screen time away from Faith and Faith and Will's partnership. I never liked Angie enough to be down with that, ever. There's enough story material with regular cases, Amanda and Sunny, and now Rafael in the mix, we did not need this extra serial killer storyline for Angie. Really, show? ANOTHER serial killer for the special snowflake? I'm getting ready to root for the murderer. 😒 And, who doesn't know the brother-in-law is the real killer? Like, that was so fucking clunky. As soon as he mentioned he knew the first dead girl, and that John has a credit score at all, it had to be someone close to him. While I will always stan for Cricket, I don't hate Marion like others do. She's honest about her attraction, she doesn't appear to be playing any games with Will, and I think what we're seeing is the real her. It doesn't look like she's weighed down by any childhood trauma so her more positive personality could make her look suspect, but I don't think she is. Among our main cast of characters, she's really the only one who appears to be just a normal person. I actually kinda like that. Not every character has to have some kind of damage driving them. 🤷🏽‍♀️

The preview. Ugh. I'm really starting to resent Angie and these same situations the writers keep putting her in. I wish I'd turned the channel before seeing it because I really liked this episode and I absolutely adored the final scene between Faith and Evie, and then they had to go and fuck up all those tender feelings I was having. I may have to skip next week to maintain my love for everything else on this show besides the train wreck named Angie. I am SO TIRED of her drama. 😒

Full disclosure up top: I'm only watching this for the messy soap opera dynamics, I have no dog in this fight whatsoever. Now on to the show.....I did like the discussion between Christina and Tarek when she was telling him about breaking up with Josh. And for the messy - my eyes still saw a lot of sparks between the two. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference, and neither is indifferent to the other. I don't know if it was for filming sake's but, Tarek did move closer to Christina on the couch as they were talking. I was waiting for him to hug her when she started crying, and it really looked like he wanted to. Heather is an empty vessel to me. I look at her and think of that meme 'Ho, why is you here?' 🤷🏽‍♀️ It looks like Tarek has had some tightening done to his face. I don't like it, makes him look plastic.

I think it's a combination of that plus not wanting to pay residuals. Even if it's peanuts, the execs are notoriously greedy. Sometimes Hallmark Family channel shows the older movies. They should actually just play them all the time instead of the endless Waltons episodes. Speaking of programming, I noticed this week that my guide was showing the Heartland series from 3-6pm, but the channel has been showing movies instead. I'm glad, I think the viewership probably dropped off a cliff. I know I wasn't watching, I tried it's so damn boring.

Regarding the recruitment, I could easily see him looking for folks talking about conventions. Folks reveal a lot of information when they talk about traveling to those. If Sunny is at the same school, I'm guessing it was the publicity and media surrounding the whole ordeal. If it came out that she had been abducted, her relationship to Rafael would be revealed and the mean girls would know she's the daughter of a gang lord. Never mind that both she and her father are probably smarter than the mean girls and their parents. Little Regina George assholes. And yes, and office-wide Floor is Lava competition would be amazing. I feel like Franklin would be particularly competitive. I don't why lol. Didn't Ormewood always only have 2 kids? I'm only remembering the teen boy and the girl, was there another? Not that I mind at all that one of them has been yeeted from the show. And now that y'all have put Faith and Ormewood out there, I can't unsee it. Makes me feel kinda funny, I might like it. Don't tell nobody. 🫣

In some pics I've seen of Lowndes, the lighting sometimes makes me think she may have some skin issues. Like it appears she may have some scars or pockmarks from bad acne. That may be why they slather on the eye makeup, to help distract. I could also be completely wrong, just my eyes playing tricks. If she's not trying to cover up issues, she definitely needs to put the spackle down. Less is more.

See, I'm not getting any pain or self-loathing from Angie, like at all. The only things she's actually said are that she didn't want to forget murder teen and that she deserved to be working as a security guard. Nothing else she has done or said has shown me that she's feeling any responsibility or the weight of carrying around the fact that it is on her for everything that happened after she covered up murder teen's first murder. Maybe this is a storyline choice but I don't see any real remorse from Angie. The amount of anger she spewed at Will, if she's actually feeling remorse and is just taking things out on him, then her judgment is still majorly fucked up and she shouldn't have a badge. I'll say this til I'm blue in the face, I can only ship Angie and a really good psychiatrist. Preferably an older woman, someone she can't bullshit (like she bullshits Franklin that she's working her program) or sleep with and blackmail (like her doctor). Her actions and mentality are showing me she's not using but she's still making all the excuses and not looking at her own actions that brought them to this. And Wilbur deserves better.

Fuck you, Angie. I loved Faith immediately recognizing they had to play 'the floor is lava' and saying she's good at it. And she was lol. I can get with a comic relief, goblin energy Ormewood, he's fun. Fuck you, Angie. I also kinda enjoyed Will and Marion. As said above, she's no Cricket but she's definitely no Angie either and that's a good thing. I liked her telling Will he had been nothing but kind to her. I think he really needed to hear that. I hope this means Will and Angie's trauma bond is broken, set on fire, and the ashes salted. Fuck you, Angie. Amanda was so sincere about Sunny not eating til she told the truth. I loved her laying that guy out and then Ormewood getting salty cuz he didn't get to take him down lol. Oh Angie. Everything you said to Will in the restaurant is exactly what I expected from your trifling ass. 6 people are dead, 7 if you count murder teen murdering the pedo. That's a LOT of bodies on YOUR head, girl. And you mad Will didn't choose you. Well fuck, you didn't choose him either, you had a big ass fucking LIE hanging over your relationship and that's YOUR fault. If you had told Will what you did, I guarantee he would've done everything in his power to help get it set right. But no, your fucked up ass set it all in motion but takes no responsibility. Fuck you, Angie. 🤷🏽‍♀️

He looks in his 30s to me, but he does have kind of a boyish air about him so I can understand. I know I've seen the actress in something else but I can't think what at this moment. And agreed, they had nice chemistry. I'm glad there wasn't a huge misunderstanding between them, a trope I'd like to see taken out back and dealt with. The new movies do appear to be different story wise, I hope they're good. I love Lacey and really liked the preview they showed, it looks like it might be fun and have some good humor. I'm also a Rachel Leigh Cook fan so I hope hers is good as well. I like seeing actors I recognize and actually like. The holiday movies were very short on that. They should look at actors who were in prior tv series that are no longer on the air, or who maybe had some buzz but didn't quite break through. I'm thinking of women like Candice Patton or Britt Robertson or any of the other canceled scifi shows that had some decent actors. There's talent out there, they've just gotta quit being lazy and choosing from the low hanging fruit.