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I'm glad someone else noticed this. Elizabeth Ratliff is the name of the first woman that Michael Peterson definitely didn't murder just like he definitely didn't murder his wife (wink, wink). He and his late wife had guardianship of Elizabeth Ratliff's children after her "accident". I have to believe the name is intentional. Peterson also graduated from Duke and attended classes at UNC like the White Lotus Ratliffs. I'm an at-least seventh-generation North Carolinian, and I don't know what the hell the Ratliffs' accents are supposed to be. Literally no one sounds like that. Parker Posey's accent was bad but Jason Isaacs's was painful. He kept slipping in and out of whatever he was trying to do, and it mostly just sounded like a speech impediment.

Doesn't Elon have, like, three companies to run and THIRTEEN children? You'd think he'd have less time to be skipping around the White House with his BFF.🥴

LOL, no.

I laughed at the skateboard guys saying they are selling only to the education industry currently. Teachers have to buy basic supplies for their students as it is. There's no way they're buying a $300+ skateboard kit. It absolutely needs to be a consumer product. I can see it in a (well-funded) private school or maybe a non-profit child enrichment program like the YMCA has, but a public school classroom? Never.

I was yelling at the TV when Tanya told Dexter to draw blood. A random joe cannot just start drawing blood for a blood drive!

Them having a carnival is where is further falls apart for me. They planned ahead to have rides, carnival food and games? That seems like a bridge too far. Where do they store all of the rides and food trucks when the carnival isn't on the other 364 days of the year? (Or is it 51 weeks?) It would take YEARS to build just the essentials of the underground city (where they admittedly don't have enough medical equipment), but they had to include a carnival? I don't know, man.

Not Maddie in peril again...

Oh, my husband and I were heavily rolling our eyes and yelling at the TV the whole time.

I was yelling at the TV every time Harry told Dexter to find Deb. Look for her yourself, jackhole! You're her father! You're on the police force! Use your resources!

I assumed they were measuring the fetus's gestational age to see if they would have to do a surgical abortion, as Dr. Google tells me that a medication abortion (mifepristone and misoprostol) can be performed only up to ten weeks' gestation. That leaves me confused, since Dr. Robby fudged the age to 10.5 weeks and the girl said something like, "I made it by one day?!” I'm old and had my abortion just months before mifepristone was FDA approved (2000). It's one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life; I never wanted children. I was yelling at the girl to throw the pill down the hatch when her mother came in screaming. Imagine wanting your 17-year-old kid to have a baby.

I don't understand the Stanley cup craze AT ALL, but I'm old. Those charms and accessories are all over Amazon. "CharCharms" is not doing anything new or proprietary. I also don't understand how the baby names website is in any way investible. I guess I can see the value in the hose thing, but I have a detachable shower head wand. It works just fine for me, but then I don't have a kangaroo.

This and the possibly unhoused woman being told to come back for a checkup on her wound bothered me. My husband lived in Pittsburgh many, many years ago. I asked him, "Do they not have urgent care in Pittsburgh?" Several of the cases we've seen should be at urgent care or other facility. No wonder the hospital is so slammed. One wouldn't go back to the ER to have one's treated wound checked/have stitches removed; one would go to the GP or urgent care. (Though I realize that some people without insurance go to the ER because the ER can't turn away truly emergent patients without insurance.) Speaking from experience, one wouldn't go to the ER for an abortion (unless it was a emergency miscarriage, for example); one would go to a clinic that specializes in reproductive care. Even having gone to urgent care a few times over the years, they've always requested that I follow up with my GP. The ER is for emergencies.

I can't stop thinking about how the town "works", and it does my head in. There were plastic containers in the grocery store. Do they take them back and refill them? Do they grow cotton to harvest and weave to make more clothes? They established that dairy is plant based when they said the cheese on the cheese fries is nut cheese, but how do they get water for processing nuts into "dairy"? Do they have a power plant and water processing plant? Are the blue-collar workers paid living wages? Do they even use money in the town? Why do they want more babies to be born when there has to be finite resources? I CAN'T STOP THINKING!

Aired 1/27/2025.

Re: the abortion storyline, in the preview for the next episode, they mention (Spoiler-tagged in case you didn't watch the preview.)