[Seasons 1-3: High School Years]

10 hours ago, nkotb said:

She really does. In the specific scene, where they eat brains, & Brenda politely spits it out, while Donna just opens her mouth & lets it fall to her plate (not knocking, that was an awesome Tori Spelling scene), she is so strikingly beautiful that the camera just kinda stays on her, taking it in. I say that as a Kelly fan, Brenda was stunningly beautiful at that time. Season 4, not so much, but in the summer of deception, she was gorgeous. 

I haven't watched a whole episode of 90210 in years, but a couple years ago I caught the season two episode where Brenda gets held up at the Peach Pit. In the scene where she's kneeling on the floor sobbing and Dylan and Brandon come back in from taking out the trash, I remember thinking, "Wow, Shannen looks gorgeous, even when she's sobbing on the ground." I also thought she had the best wardrobe of all the girls in the high school years.

I also agree with you about season 4. It was sad to see how deflated she was after Dylan broke up with her. Her hair didn't look as good (though that may have had to do with real life health issues) and personally I think she looks better with bangs. Even her clothing wasn't as good as it had been in high school. 

[S17.E03: All the Rage]

I do not care for Hester or Tessa individually, but their odd couple, minimalist/maximalist friendship is kind of endearing.

I'm glad Kovid redeemed himself this week. His personality could be a lot with some people, but he manages to not be grating.

I felt for Nadine last week but was turned off by her behavior this week (like what happened with Frankie from episode one to episode two). Only a weak designer blames their model for their shitty design. And she threw her under the bus right away without any prompting. Loved Brandon for calling her out on being rude. I wasn't super familiar with him before this show, but I'm really loving him. I'm glad she was eliminated after saying she wanted to go home. It would be awful for someone who actually wanted to be there to be sent home instead of her.

How are they deciding which model goes home each week? All they mention is the winning designer can pick a model and then the designers just randomly grab a model card. 

[Season Ten Talk]

13 hours ago, CurlyATX said:

But heaven help those first season episodes.

The only storyline I remember from the first season is Michael and Billy fight because Billy took out student loans for college because he wanted extra money and didn't actually need they loans and Michael is upset because he actually really needed his loans. Booooooring. Thank God Amanda and Sydney eventually arrive.

[S17.E02: The Future Is Here]

Tessa and Hester suuuuuuck. So Hester puts back her teammate's (can't remember her name) fabric so she can get all of her tulle, decides she doesn't want to use all of the tulle, takes that same teammate's fabric, leaving her with even less fabric, cuts it up, then decides to go back to using the tulle. I would have been super pissed too.

And then Tessa inserting herself into that team's drama and trying to mediate and get the teammate to give up some of her fabric. I probably would have told her to go fuck herself. Though I did like that she gave Sebastian proper credit for helping with her skirt.

It was time for Frankie to go. I felt bad for her last episode, but soured on her when she refused to help Kovid and gave him attitude. Like how many people helped you last week?

[Past Contestants: Ins and Outs]

Rewatching season one 15(?) years after I first watched it is weird because I was a college student back then and now I'm in my mid-30's, two years younger than Wendy was when she was on the show. Wendy was constantly saying Project Runway was her last chance and it's like, "Girl, you're 39, not 89." I think concepts of age have changed over time and being 40 isn't the same as it was 20, 30, 40 years ago (or maybe I just feel that way because I'm getting older), but I definitely don't feel like I couldn't change careers or become super successful just because I haven't accomplished that before age 40.

[Beyond 90210: Cast members in the media and other roles]

3 hours ago, KLJ said:

Didn't the producers originally want to have a double wedding with David/Donna and Dylan/Kelly and Tori refused?  

Yes. I cannot remember where I read that, but whoever gave up that piece of information also talked about how Tori wore terrible brown leggings in between finale scenes. No idea why I specifically remember that part 🙂 Maybe it was on TWOP?

[Past Seasons Talk: The Stew Room]

3 hours ago, Mellowyellow said:

S2 was so full of these angry, hostile nutters. They could combine the nutjobs in S2 with Josie, the Texas mean girls, Mike Izzabella and host a season of Top Chef Villains for train wreck reality TV.

Honestly, I would totally watch this. 

[Beyond 90210: Cast members in the media and other roles]

2 hours ago, Asp Burger said:

For most of Luke's interview, he was maintaining that aloof, too-cool-for-school public persona his fans associated with him in the era, very much like Dylan. But when Arsenio started to tease this male fan (it was a kind of humor that today we would more readily label homophobic), he said, "Leave that guy alone." It's something that always stayed in my mind about him. I think it showed how forward-thinking and essentially sweet he was.  He knew he was a heartthrob for all kinds of people.

This reminded me of something I saw on Instagram today (sorry it embedded so large):

[Season Ten Talk]

When David played the toilet-flushing sound and people hooted, this is the first thing I thought of.

I forgot what a massive POS (rather than just the regular POS he was the other 9 seasons) David was in the last season.

[House Hunters International - General Discussion]

Totally agree with your whole post @Mrs. Hanson. I missed the first five minutes of the episode and thought they had covered all of your questions because I had the same questions, but apparently not. 

I've had friends (without kids) who have moved across the country because they've visited a place on vacation and they loved it. But the whole reason the loved it was because they were on vacation. Once they moved in and started their jobs, they were just as unhappy as they were in their old city because they fell back into the same habits as before. Point being, if she doesn't change her habits, she'll have just as much time, or lack there of, with her kids even if they are in Iceland.

[Murder, She Wrote - General Discussion]

That video was hilarious, VCRTracking! I remember making a joke about that episode because they show a close up of the meat thermometer when the cook put it in the drawer, which I called Chekhov's meat thermometer.

As much as I love Murder, She Wrote - and got all 264 episodes on DVD for Christmas because I was salty about Hallmark Movies and Mysteries only showing Christmas movies for two months - the show really had an odd tone, which was especially on display in the wedding episode. In other episodes it's less obvious, but it's like these characters just lost a daughter/son/mother/father/sister/brother/wife/husband/friend to murder and then by the end of the episode they're back to normal. But I'm probably overthinking it...

[S16.E10: Hoop Dreams]

1 hour ago, vb68 said:

Oh yeah, has anybody ever gotten immunity and didn't even have to cook like Eddie before?  It was a little awkward.  He looked lost for much of the episode.

There was one episode in the Miami season where Dale won the QF and got to go to dinner with a well-known chef (can't remember who) while everyone else had to cook in food trucks for a bunch of drunk people.

I had so many feelings after watching this episode and then the forums were down! I was sad that Michelle was eliminated. Once they started showing her more I really started to like her. It seems like  this season there have been a lot of people who win an elimination challenge one episode and are then eliminated the next episode - Michelle, Nini, and the woman who was eliminated the second episode.

I was so hoping Sara would be eliminated for the baking mix alone. Never buy baking mixes! Especially when the mix consists of like only three ingredients that you could just as easily combine yourself. I understand why she was upset about getting heckled, but I do think she was being dramatic when she was saying things like, "This isn't how we compete," and when she started blaming Adrienne in the stew room. You chose to buy the mix. Stand behind your decision and if you didn't think you did anything wrong, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. Why couldn't she have been the one eliminated?!

[Tidying Up With Marie Kondo - General Discussion]

12 hours ago, Mystery said:

I also wondered why the kids weren't helping; I assume she didn't want them to, but I would have liked to hear her say so if that was the case. 

I wondered about that too. I could understand her not wanting Marie to help with the husband's stuff since Marie is a stranger, but I would think she wouldn't mind the kids helping. I started thinking about what if my mom had to clear out my dad's stuff by herself (they're both healthy - knock on wood - but it's still something I think about once in a while) and it made me angry at the kids. But like you said, maybe she didn't want them to and I'm being unfair to them.

 

A friend of a friend's dad passed away and she, and some friends who helped, had to clean out his house because he was unmarried. He had one ton of pornography in his home (they rented a two ton dumpster and the porn took up half the dumpster, so that's how they know). They think he was planning on selling it because I guess no one told him porn is free on the internet. I've already told my parents they better clear out any potentially embarrassing stuff before they die.

[S01.E10: Bluebeard's Castle]

Since Chicago is currently an arctic hellscape, I binged all of season 1 today. It kind of reminded me of Dirty John, in that obviously the psychotic criminal is the worst one, but every other character is so damn unlikable you're not really rooting for anyone.

Having said that, I'm still sad that Beck died in the end. So many women in real life are hurt or killed by their partners - and so many men in real life are abusive stalkers - that I would never be happy to see the abusive asshole survive over the girlfriend/wife.

[S01.E08: This Young Woman Fought Like Hell]

1 hour ago, newyawk said:

Why should she stop? Liz Taylor didn't stop after 7 marriages.  Other than money and power, the desire for love is the most driving force there is.

None of Liz Taylor's husbands tried to murder one of her kids. 

The common denominator in all of Debra's failed marriages is Debra. Like others have said, she needs therapy to address the fact that she ignored SO MANY warning signs, that she chose a man over her kids, that she was ok with John threatening to shoot her daughter, that even after her junkie conman husband literally tried to murder her daughter she still wanted to know if their relationship was real ("He looks happy, right?" or whatever she said when she found the wedding photo). She needs to work on herself first. 

[S01.E08: This Young Woman Fought Like Hell]

I turned my head away when Terra started stabbing John because I'm squeamish and have a thing with eyes. The sound effects themselves were pretty gross.

Ronnie's "Even his organs sucked" made me laugh out loud. I've enjoyed this series, but I will not miss the vocal fries. Hopefully next season won't take place in SoCal.

[S09.E24: Dog's Best Friend]

I didn't realize it until you said the actor's name on the podcast, but Wayne is played by tan Dr. Dan from Days of Our Lives.

[S01.E07: Chivalry]

Eric Bana must be having so much fun with this role. I did laugh a couple times during this episode at just how awful John is. "The stress is making my MS act up." What a jagoff.

I didn't realize how much I missed Cyrus Bean until this episode.

[S16.E05: Restaurant Wars Part 2]

I thought Nini would go further in the competition based on her two wins in a row, but she deserved to be sent home tonight. 

There's something off-putting about Sara, which is why I was surprised she wanted to be FOH. She's neither charming nor warm, but she certainly wasn't worst FOH tonight.

[Current Plots Discussion: Actually Today's Episode]

So I just watched an episode of Days for the first time in a few years (I regularly watched from like 1993 to 2008 and then sporadically until about 2014) and I was struck by how all the young/young-ish men on this show have the same stubble, slicked hair, and too much chest hair peaking out from a not-buttoned-up-high-enough button down. Like there were four of them that were all kind of interchangeable and they all seemed like they smell like Axe body spray and would be kind of sticky if you touched them.

[Fact vs. Fiction: The Podcast and the Real People]

10 hours ago, JessePinkman said:

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Debra try to reconcile/reconnect with John after the incident in the last episode? I recall her visiting him in a house he owned out of state and one of them sleeping on the floor?

If I recall correctly, they don't get back together. But, her dumbass visits him at the house he's staying in in Nevada (that she owns) while she's trying to get a restraining order against him, so the judge didn't grant her the restraining order because the judge didn't think she really had anything to fear because she was willing to visit him at home.

[Bad Chefs: The worst of Top Chef]

I started watching Top Chef during season 2, so I didn't see season 1 until after season 2 ended. Compared to the assholes in season 2, Tiffani never came off that bad to me. I mean, she wasn't great but nothing compared to Cliff, Betty, Frank, Ilan, Elia, and Sam. 

Season 2 was like watching the Stanford Prison Experiment play out on a reality tv competition. All those people really brought out the worst in each other when it came to Marcel. He was annoying but my God, nobody deserves to be treated the way he was. I wish Tom had gotten his way and was able to disqualify Cliff, Ilan, Elia, and Sam.

[S16.E04: Surprise...It's Restaurant Wars]

Seriously? To be continued? They couldn't have just had a two hour episode instead of showing the same episode twice? Dumb.

[S01.E05: Lord High Executioner]

This might make me sound awful, but I really enjoyed seeing Debra get turned away from brunch. What did she think was going to happen when she chose her abusive scumbag lying addict husband over her kids? Has she met Ronnie? 

[S16.E03: Naughty and Nice]

I didn't watch the All-Star season, but Richard Blais annoys the shit out of me because of the way he talks about Season 4. He presents it as Stephanie only won because he choked during the last challenge, which is not true. He and Stephanie were basically tied the entire time; in fact she had one more elimination challenge win than him. His win was never a foregone conclusion and he needs to stop acting like it was. I'm just glad Stephanie continues to build her Chicago empire.

The cheftestant that was spazzing out over Blais really needed to calm the hell down. "I have Richard Blais' fork!" Show some dignity, dude. 

I love that Nini continues to kick ass. I thought it was odd the way everyone reacted when she said that if anyone touched her bowl (or whatever it was) in the freezer she would kill them. 1.) it's obviously a joke and 2.) I know how people talk in professional kitchens, so why'd they get all pearl-clutchy over that?