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She's an idiot because she finally believed Lucy, but she got on Stephen's computer and deleted pictures of Macy that proved he was involved with her at the time of the accident. She's so protective of him for no good reason at all.

Diana is SO DUMB.

Speaking as someone who was raised by a narcissistic mother who was still very loving at times, it took me DECADES to unpack the damage she did. One's parents are supposed to be one's protectors, and as children, we have no other notion but to trust them. I have no doubt that while Gypsy may have questioned internally or aloud what was going on, she would've been silenced by her mother. There's no excusing murder, but we can't possibly understand the conditions under which Gypsy was raised. The fact that Dee Dee tricked many actual medical professionals into performing surgeries blows my mind. If she had that hold over them, imagine what she was doing to her child.

Mina, there's the saying that if you run into an asshole in the morning, you've run into an asshole; if you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole. Wasn't there supposed to be a "final episode"?

I was on the fence about the show until she showed up. We're big fans!

This is happening all over the U.S., and it should be illegal.

When we were looking last year, there was an actual burned-out husk of a house on the market in Charlotte for $200K. They called it "an investor's special".🙄

"Karen's Beach Bungalow"

I live in NC. Compared to other places in NC other than the Charlotte and Raleigh areas, it's more expensive. I can see it being less expensive than other medium- to large-sized cities in the U.S. though. Karen said she paid $71K for that falling down dump. I actually gasped at that. The market has been WILD here. We bought our home in March, and were lucky to find our 2BR/2BA 30 minutes outside of Charlotte for $190K. Our mortgage interest rate is 7.6%.😭😭😭

I watched Karen's episode yesterday. She's retiring in Wilmington. I figured out where her house is. My in-laws live in Wilmington and Kure Beach. It's an expensive place to live. She has split with Roger, her FOURTH husband.🥴 I had to look that up because she kept saying the house was "her" dream and she would be "alone" there. I was so worried about the contractor's skin. He has so much sun damage; his face was almost purple.

Literally none of the show made sense. She said she'd scaled down to renovating "a couple" houses a year. There's no way a family of four is surviving on that little income while also having an employee. (Steve is a "personal trainer". By the way, WHAT is up with his hair?) IIRC, HQ was on the market for a long time. Suddenly having a buyer that "fell through" seemed awfully convenient for the show. Mina comes off as very entitled about how she's been "wronged". Any time I glance at her Instagram account, she's always pissed about something or another and feels the need to explain why she's pissed. She was talking this week about how people didn't get correct permits or some such and it cost her $5,000. Like??? If you don't trust people to do their jobs or the people who you hired to do something didn't do it, just do it yourself. You'll be happier in the long run. I don't know. I'm actually shocked Austin helped her with the house. I know he's working with Tad on his home reno business. Austin's a better person than I am because Mina's used her podcast to trash-talk everyone to whom she's related and with whom she's ever worked. I just don't get it. I came away thinking that she'd gotten in WAY over her head with everything she did with Two Chicks and turned around and blamed everyone and everything else for it.

We finished this last night. I almost cried at the end. The person I predicted to win did win. Everyone was so kind and supportive of one another, and it was lovely to see. I hope this show comes back for another season or five. It felt like a Food Network show that was sold to Netflix for some reason. I kept trying to figure out if it was a real fair or just built/set up for the baking show. I'm leaning toward the latter. Sandra's outfits got crazier every episode.😂 I would've eaten every single thing made in the last episode.

My stepdad is a Vietnam War combat veteran who voted for Trump. I don't get it at all.

What I would have given to have free period hygiene products when I was in ELEMENTARY, middle and high school! The criticism coming from a former president who dodged the draft is what gets me.

We're in the middle of this and enjoying it so far. Where are all my Food Network baking championship folks?? Sandra Lee's outfits are INSANE.

TITLE*: Blue Ribbon Baking Championship CATEGORY*: Reality Competition NETWORK: Netflix RELEASE DATE: August 9, 2024 SYNOPSIS: Blue ribbon-winning bakers from state fairs across the US face off for the first time in an epic baking showdown to win top honours and $100,000. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Hosted by Jason Biggs and Sandra Lee HEADER: Blue Ribbon Baking Championship - General Discussion

This was the epitome of "the confidence of a medicre white man". It never ceases to amaze me what people will believe and buy into.

TITLE*: Breaking New Ground CATEGORY*: Reality NETWORK: Max RELEASE DATE: June 27, 2024 (new episodes released weekly) SYNOPSIS: Robert Hartwell takes on the challenge of transforming a 200-year-old house with a complicated history into a home filled with love. It's a renovation story that celebrates the resilience of Robert's journey, as well as those who came before him. HEADER: Breaking New Ground - General Discussion

My guide says September 8 is Season 14, Episode 14.

@oceanblue, would you mind spoiler tagging your post since it refers to the movie? It goes against the spoiler rules for this forum. Thank you!

I think they get $15–20 per hour for rehearsals. The $500 per game is excluded from that and works out to a higher hourly rate. I think they also get paid a higher flat rate for appearances. They definitely aren't making $75K a year, or none of them would need second jobs. It's more like $25K. The article author either made a typo or was misinformed.

They struck me as the "we got married so we could have sex" kind of religious youth. Source: I grew up being forced to go to strict Baptist church and was shamed about sex. Victoria and Sam are supposedly best friends, and it seems that VK was in Sam's wedding party. TK was definitely at the wedding as well. I hate that I know this, but I've been lurking on Victoria's IG. I have such mixed feelings about Victoria. I see her as some others do--that she's been sheltered and fed a bunch of extremely biased garbage from her mother (who is also her "best friend") whose greatest accomplishment was being a DCC, so it was everything for VK to live up to. When she faltered (not making the team initially and then taking a year off), she felt herself to be a complete failure, and that message kept playing over and over in her head, as another poster mentioned. However, that birthday video--both the TikTok and the deliberate refilming of it on the Netflix show--is pure cringe. VK is never going to grow unless she steps out of mommy's shadow, but will TK ever allow that? In truth, she's a really beautiful dancer (and I will die on this hill) who I think would thrive under the right circumstances with the right encouragement. She works so hard, is so eager, and is a people pleaser. The right people will appreciate and develop those qualities.

Kelli is deluding herself. I have eyeballs, and anyone can see in this People Magazine article alone that the shorts have been bigger in the past. They barely cover the ladies' behinds now.

We can trashtalk everyone but the religious folks?

He is from England and the accent. He's on The Handmaid's Tale, and he has a perfect generic American accent on there. I don't know what's going on with him on this show, but yeah, it's odd.