vast wasteland

Hahahahhhhahahahaha, only the Kardashians could negate and ignore the fact that they are voluntarily followed by camera crews day and night. Seems that in of and of itself would attract attention. How lucky for them that they can create their own world where illusion rules.

Is a possibility that the helicopter accident was further retribution from the NYC cartel?

Fin looked hot, being a daddy must agree with him. Does it seem to anyone else that Noah leads a lonely life? Mom gone all day and all hours of the night, no family, and does Olympia have any friends to hang around with outside of work? Or any other interests than Noah and work? That said, this is a comfort show for me for some reason. Maybe because it has been on so long, maybe because the characters remain, maybe because the plots are predictable. I generally just let it flow over me, with few criticisms, though I have to admit the bruise storyline interrupted my flow, seemed to require a lot of overlooking.

So frightening. At first glance I thought this was a picture of Khloe (it's Beyonce). The frightening part being that, what with the common aims of plastic surgery (slanted eyes, cheekbones by cheek implants, balloon lips, unnaturally taut skin, chin enhancement or reduction and of course, the heavy overlay of makeup) someday will they be indistinguishable from one another?

Are The Kardashians Doing Women A Disservice By Hiding Their Nannies On KUWTK?

Surprisingly, none of the local plastic surgeon practices were sponsors for this program. Did it feel to anyone else like their collective altered appearances were the elephant in the room? reviews https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/09/25/why-you-still-cant-stop-watching-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-10-years-later/?utm_term=.ad590de1dad2 http://www.thedailybeast.com/why-we-still-keep-up-with-the-kardashians-ten-years-later https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/09/the-sadness-of-the-kardashians/540945/

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http://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a12456074/kylie-jenner-pregnant-kim-kardashian-surrogate/

This is what is called scathing humor. Brilliant on many levels.

Man, these people have made me so cynical. My first thought when I read that Kylie might be pregnant was to envision a family meeting with Kris saying, "Guys, we're fading, we need a big boost, a really big attention getter, to bring the ratings. I know: Kylie, you get pregnant, or at least we'll spread the rumor that you're pregnant. Kim, you talk about how they told you your baby was born dead, and Khloe...let's emphasize that you first heard that Lamar had died. And I'm counting on all of you to post some really skanky instagrams, lots of tits and ass and pouty implanted lips. We can pull this off, I know we can. We Will Be Relevant Again, trust Mommy on this." ETA: Can't forget this part. Mommy Kris: "You know, it may not be enough to just have family drama. Let me think...how about if someone comes into a DASH store with a gun? Hmm, might still not be enough. Let's have them come back later with a machete. Sound good? And probably they should threaten to kill some Kardashians, yeh, that should do it. You don't think it's too close to the new show, do you? Nah, the public will never put that together, it's all just too slick and believable."

Anybody else notice how Rob, even when having a conversation with someone, cannot stop chewing on his fingernails? That and his inability to look anyone in the eye for any length of time. And why does he try to speak with a ghetto inflection? I really think that his isn't very intelligent, or has been uber affected by all the dysfunction when he was growing up. He is very defensive, and doesn't seem to be capable of critical thinking (actually think that is a family trait). It breaks my heart when I see those family films of him running (I think it was in high school) and his Dad commenting as he filmed. It makes me wonder if his approach to life would have been different had his Dad lived. It must be hell for him to be in a family with such artificial, inflated (see what I did there??) ideas of beauty.

Is it just me or does Tyra look ghoulish tonight? Like bad makeup or bad lighting? And what is with her weird manner with the younger contestants? Extreme close talking, awkward hugging, uncomfortable to watch. Coming to really like Heidi, she seems real.

"This whole serial killer plot made no sense. We have a serial killer killing the elderly. The serial killer was so bad that Henry had to show up at the police commissioner's office, interrupting a meeting, to tell him to catch the serial killer because someone they know was related to a victim. Why does this show always think people they know should get special policing? Did Henry think Frank wasn't trying to catch the serial killer? He had to actually make a special trip downtown to tell someone he lives with to do his job. Just stupid. (OK, maybe he had a point, as one-man-police-force Danny wasn't working the serial killer case, Frank really wasn't prioritizing the case.) Then the Mayor. He wants Frank to catch the serial killer. Frank's response is that it is hard because it is hard to know from looking at someone that they are serial killers. What!? Of course it is hard to catch a serial killer. It is always hard to catch a serial killer. No, can't tell someone is a serial killer just by looking at them. What are they even going on about? Apparently, that this one serial killer can't be discerned is motivation for the Mayor to resign immediately. The Mayor not showing up at the press conference announcing the capture is somehow a slight to Frank. In the past the Mayor showing up would have been considered taking undeserved credit from Frank and the PD. None of this made any sense to me, either. But, contrary to what Frank said, Jamie does know just by looking at the guy that he is a serial killer, which totally blows Frank's whole spiel about not being able to tell the bad guys from the good guys. Jamie, single-handedly, while off-duty no less, catches the serial killer and beyond a minor good job, nobody cares because Danny, Danny's cases, and the sufferings of Danny, are always more important then Jamie. How many times has Jamie saved the city for it all to be soon forgotten? My predictions for next season and beyond (some serious, some sarcastic): Danny and family move in with Frank and Henry, at least temporarily, while they find a new home. Henry and Linda get on each other's nerves as to housekeeping and cooking. The house next door to Frank becomes available and Danny and Linda buy it. Lauren Velez joins the cast, perhaps as Danny's new partner. Frank runs for Mayor. Reverend Potter runs against him. Race will be an issue. Erin runs for DA against the sitting DA Graham. (Thought she was going to do that before.) Civil liberties will be the campaign issue. Jamie continues to be a beat cop and disparaged by all for being a "lowly" beat cop while being shown to be too good to be a "lowly" beat cop. Frank, of course, wins. Erin also wins. Frank, as Mayor, then appoints Jamie as the new commissioner, bypassing Danny. Danny is OK with that as he wouldn't want to be in an office and have to deal with politics anyway. The media and public are freaked out by the nepotism of promoting a beat cop to commissioner, but Frank, who always despised the aura of nepotism when it came to Jamie, doesn't care because Jamie is a Reagan and a Reagan is the only one qualified to be police commissioner. Frank holds a press conference where he sneers at everyone and touts Jamie's Harvard law degree, his experience on the streets, and that there is nobody he trusts more, making him uniquely qualified for the job. The furor, of course, dies down, withered by Frank's self-righteousness. Danny continues to fight all crime in the city as a detective bending rules but doing the "right" thing. He will run into conflict with Erin the DA and Jamie the commissioner, but Danny will be right, as usual. Danny will look down upon Jamie, as usual, as he is no longer a street cop and is now out-of-touch. At the same time, Danny will chafe at Jamie being his boss and will compare him not favorably to Frank. Jamie will at times run into conflict with his dad the Mayor and Erin the DA. Frank will always be right. Frank will also have issues with the Governor, who will be female and someone with whom Frank had a relationship in the past. Eddie will be tempted to have an affair with her new male partner as Jamie is not paying enough attention to her as he is too busy with work as PC. Jamie marries Eddie, who remains a beat cop, so, since she is now a Reagan, we can still have beat cop stories. Eddie Janko (-Reagan-she will keep her maiden name on the job so nobody will know she is the commissioner's wife) will push for promotion but Jamie wont promote her as he too will fear the aura of nepotism. Jamie will also worry about his wife being in danger on the streets. Garrett works for Frank in the Mayor's office and Sid works for Jamie in the commissioner's office, where they come into conflict. Baker takes over for Garrett at One PP. Sid wanted the PC job but soon comes to realize Frank made the right choice in Jamie. If we get this far, Nicky graduates college and goes to law school. Unlike her mom, she will want to be a criminal defense attorney like her dad. Erin is unhappy about that and feels personally slighted. Danny's boys go to Columbia like Nicky, with the thought that they will enter the Academy to become cops like the rest of the Reagans. Nicky interns at the DAs office with her mom as DA. She then converts to the prosecution side of things. Further in the future, Nicky joins the DAs office and conflict ensues with her mom. Sean and Jack become rookie police officers and are trained by Renzulli and Eddie Janko(-Reagan). Eventually the Reagan boys become partners and Uncle Jamie refuses to promote them to detective though they deserve it because they too are great cops. They will butt heads with ADA cousin Nicky Reagan-Boyle, who will care more about people's civil liberties. Sunday dinners continue unabated. And so on and so forth. Blue Bloods forever!" Bazinga: This? Was amazing. You should write for the show. Great follow through on the story lines, love the snark. Just finished hate watching series 1 through 7 and agree so much with your takes on it. Still wondering about Danny's accent and why no one in this family has any friends or lovers, or any lovers that last anyway. Seems like a quicksand family, once you're sucked in you must swallow the the family brainwashing that "Reagans don't stand down" (and how pretentious is that?) and the only one allowed a spouse is Danny. Family rules, I guess. And does this family never just talk about Aunt Sally and her weird friend? Or how the neighbors pissed someone off? Or anything that any other family talks about at a dinner table? Why is Erin such a raging angry bitch to her daughter? Her first response always indicates to me that she considers her daughter one millisecond away from a life of slattery and crime. Why do those boys say they love their father when he is such an obvious absent angry man? Again, why don't the grandchildren at least have any friends? Who hasn't brought friends home to a family dinner? Elitist, white privileged, isolationist, self righteous, all of them, IMO. Disdain seems to be their fallback reaction. Non-Reagan = wrong by default. And yep, I plan to hate watch season 8, I'm crazy.

That too! And still don't understand why Danny and his wife are the only ones with the heavy Brooklyn accents. Is it a comment on higher education creating accent-less diction? Or that Danny is "street," and they convey that with his accent so we, the viewing public, don't miss the heavy handed over obvious stereotype? I unfortunately started watching this series in error, and just as unfortunately, my completist nature has taken over and insisted I watch all available episodes?. Haha, just read the correct term on another thread: "hate watching." Honestly, there is not a character I don't rail against. And are there no genes in common in this family except a self righteous law enforcement gene? If I had to guess I would say Tom Selleck's character adopted all his kids, talk about no family physical traits. Has ever a family ever been so infatuated with itself? Does the divide between Erin and the rest of the family have to be so insultingly defined as liberal versus, well, versus this self righteous, white privileged, friendless, laws are for the other people clan? Do these these people truly solve every single crime in New York City? Will anybody ever hold Danny responsible for his chauvinistic overbearing, bullying ways, especially that dotty doting wife of his? Doesn't anyone worry about the impact on his sons views about women? Will the family ever have a gay, black, transgender, Buddhist character? Is Jamie gay? If not, why not? Why doesn't anyone ever get to have a girlfriend/boyfriend who sticks around? Does anyone ever escape this family, or choose a different path, like, say, liberal arts professor? And again, why no friends? And what is with the predilection for heavyset jowly males (the DA, the investigator, the PCs two toadies)? And I find the Trump-Ivanka vibe from Frank and Erin disconcerting. And Danny is an bottomless ego asshole with the insight of a rock. Did I mention that? Yeh, by now you probably wish, as I do, that this completist part of my brain would go to sleep and leave me alone! And Erin must have taken acting as evinced by a gaping mouth lessons from Kristen Stewart. GAH! Can't stop!

Wishful thinking: That Tom Selleck's acting repertoire consisted of more than: 1. The Gaze. Short downward and long distance gazing. That about covers it. 2. Mouth Munching. 3. The everpresent coffee cup for sipping when The Gaze or Mouth Munching don't suffice.