Starchild

Ha if you're going to directly quote me please credit LOL Since last season I think? Clearly they want to put some of these actors into other shows. Otherwise they would have done the logical thing and made it 14-15 years later, instead of 7.

I'm holding out faint hope that PADRE is somehow dispensed with next week, so they have a chance of something better for the series finale. But yeah, I realize it's a pipe dream.

OMG who is writing this crapfest? Was this episode supposed to be one big fever dream from Grace's perspective? The scenes were not connected in any logical storytelling sense. Was it written by a bargain-basement AI trained on rejected scripts? And Grace took F-O-R-E-V-E-R to die! The only thing that would have justified that was her actually biting Mo afterwards. I never cared about either of them and that scene had no emotional heft for me at all. I was scrolling my phone as she breathed her last words, when I wasn't rolling my eyes. Why exactly was Kim Dickens so excited about returning for this season? She's been offscreen forever, and when she's onscreen the writing is so bad it's almost offensive. I can't find any more words to formulate my disgust, but trust me, there's more. Ugh.

I loathe Kandy but I have to admit she did pretty well. Good enough to win the challenge? No, but I could see her being safe. Good enough to win the lipsync? I think it was edited that way, and/or Angeria held back. Either way, the obligatory Kandy tongue bath was as predictable and nauseating as usual.

Presuming there wasn't a preexisting contractual obligation that would require them to work together regardless of how they felt about each other, of course.

Yeah we all know Kandy's a bully. I need to remember these are real people and give Alexis a break. I've been bullied too.

So you're saying game should recognize game? ;)

And this is the guy Madison wants to lead them to victory. In her defense, though, she doesn't know about his multiple breaks from reality.

Wait, so PADRE is close to where this all started? Didn't Morgan walk across the country?

Yeah it's not gonna go well for her, especially since Heidi is so popular. Weird that she may get more blowback than Kandy will.

Right? To me Alexis' spinelessness was the jaw-dropping disappointment of the episode, and no one is talking about it. I think her blatant lying is what pushed Heidi over the edge, and Alexis' crying right after Heidi left was her silent acknowledgement that it was her fault. Heidi knew about Kandy's duplicitousness, but Alexis' utter cowardice was a slap in the face.

I didn't really need another reason to dislike Kandy, but thanks anyway Heidi.

Easy for a man maybe. There are many women who have killed their abusive partners at a time they were not being directly threatened, simply because to wait until they were in danger from someone much stronger than them would be suicide. Most of them are still found guilty and sentenced to prison. If Gene got off for killing an unarmed man who wasn't threatening him at that moment, it would be pretty insulting to those women.

It would be nice to see mother and daughter alive and reunited at the end. I'm ambivalent on Alicia, but I would watch Madison on another WD show.

I figured they left it deliberately ambiguous so that they could bring her back if her other show failed. Which, has it? I don't know how (un)successful it's been.

Not bad, but I don't believe Gene ever felt that deeply for Barry, certainly didn't regard him like a son. He may not have felt that deeply for his own son, but that's ambiguous. I think he just didn't have any way to counter the accusations against him, other than his own word, which is naturally going to be suspect.

This wasn't just flakes, it was soapy water lol. It was dripping off fake trees, and they were trudging through muddy rivulets of the stuff. I'm specifically thinking of the 3rd season episode that was like Heidi (a blind orphan going to live with her gruff grandfather in the mountains.)

There's worse. You need to watch an episode of Bonanza set in winter. I swear they just used soap.

Regardless, he did kill an unarmed man who was no threat to him at that moment, presuming Tom told the truth at trial that Barry was going to give himself up for Janice's murder in order to help Gene. And without Barry there was no one to confirm that Gene didn't have Janice killed. If he'd just taken a moment to speak to Barry it could have all been different. Clearly he couldn't come back from that last bad decision. Re: Fuches getting away, I would have felt cheated about that, since he was so horrible, but at the end there he got that incredible epiphany about himself that was amazing to watch. Re: Hank, I also wonder what he saw that gave him such a strong, seemingly negative, emotion. Perhaps an interview will let us know. Re: Sally, that smile of hers in the car at the end seemed so desperate that I was expecting her to wrench the steering wheel and drive off a bridge or something.

Gene was 1 part manipulation, 2 parts equivocation, 3 parts ego, and 4 parts bad choices. Hard to feel sorry for him.

No, they are going to leave things unresolved so the actors who can still stand it will find themselves stumbling into NYC or France or something.

Odessa? I wish the writers could figure out how to tell the story with established characters we care about. And I don't mean Mo. Please, if there's anyone who arrived at the end of season 7 and said "gee, I really hope they center the next season of this show around Mo, because that kid is a great character", please step forward. I won't judge you, I just want to understand. It was nice to see Daniel return. I was expecting him to say that PADRE had a surgeon who determined that he had a brain tumour and operated to remove it, which is why he seems to be back to normal. I mean, we're not supposed to believe that he's spent the last 7 years drinking some mysterious organic tea or juice that's cured his dementia, are we? Daniel didn't come out and say that Charlie died. She better not have found a way to survive a terminal case of radiation poisoning. And if she did, Madison better kill her. And of course, Madison cedes her natural leadership to indecisive unstable Morgan. I hate these fucking writers.

Valid theory, but I think there's a couple of problems with it: She'll have to work a lot harder to be the worst (looking at you Charlie) The last thing someone who's an entertainer first would want to be is boring, and that's exactly what she is in these competitive lipsyncs I agree it's deliberate though. She has no problem being very physical in other formats, but she limits her physicality in these lipsyncs for some reason. She seems more tentative in lipsyncs. I do wonder if it's a physical limitation of some sort. Maybe the typical physical demands of a lipsync are actions she also does not do in other things, like sketches or talent performances. I'll have to watch more closely now.

She puts her all into other performance challenges, but she's oddly low-energy in lipsyncs. I get a distinct impression of holding back. Question is why. Does she consider this particular form of performance beneath her I wonder?

And she still beat Jimbo. Jimbo just can't lipsync to save her life.