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Liamsmom617

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  1. I loved this documentary and have re- watched it three or four times already. Didn’t know Rupert Holmes had suffered such tragedy. I remembered that he wrote “Echo Valley 2-6809”, which is probably my favorite PF song ever, but I had forgotten that he also wrote the Jets’ “You’ve Got It All”. Had to laugh at the posters who said this doc is basically an extended “Time-Life AM Gold” commercial, b/c I love those and used to get such joy out of watching them too! Before I got rid of cable, I had one of them saved on my DVR. had tragedy
  2. Jan was being awful, but honestly, not much worse than most teenage girls at certain points especially when they have a boyfriend that parents don’t like. Yes, she was brainwashed, and this was an exaggerated situation- But, having raised teenage girls, I can tell you… This wasn’t that far off the mark. Hormones….they turn teenage girls into monsters at times! I was horrible to my own parents at that age, too. (It does get better, though,)
  3. This one was particularly heartbreaking. But I’m a little confused… It looks like Tony did return after a week as promised so why was Jeffrey pissed off at him? He didn’t seem to have an emotional attachment to many of the others he killed so I’m just curious as to what happened with this one.
  4. I feel guilty watching this, having just read the interview w/Conrad's Mom in "People"--the series is just renewing all the trauma for her and the family. But having read extensively about the case and watched the HBO documentary, I am just morbidly curious. Having two teenage daughters, both of whom have struggled with anxiety and depression, is making it difficult to watch for my own reasons, but I'm fascinated. Anyone out there watching?
  5. First two episodes weren’t doing much for me, but I love Amy Schumer so I hung in there with it and I’m glad. It gets a lot funnier around episode three, y’all.
  6. The girl who sang lead on that ballad they performed at the showcase, though (I guess it's called "I Wish I Didn't Love You"?) really COULD sing (as Tami said). I wonder if she made it in the music business w/another group? Anyone know?
  7. Yeah, each time we hear of Rachel and Sean having yet ANOTHER kid, I flash back to that conversation! Would be interested to see what her tattoo and her "navel sticker" look like now, after 9 kids...though, then again she and her asshole GOP husband can surely afford cosmetic surgery.
  8. OK, yes, Matt was the worst in many ways, but I can't believe no one here is hating on Kaia. She was irritating and performative on EVERY level. Walking around topless b/c "I'm comfortable with my body!" etc.; toward the end, suddenly, out of the blue, deciding she was hot for Matt of all people? WHAT?! Perhaps it was just editing, but to me it seemed that she decided she "wanted" Matt just b/c he was so obsessed w/Sara, Ruthie's sister. And did y'all notice that she (Kaia) was apparently stuffing her bra (?!) or else had had a boob job that no one talked about right during those final two episodes? Best/worst line: From Matt (when pontificating about how torn up he was over Ruthie and her drinking): "There are tears of pain in my gut, and they're jumping out of my eyes." (or something--I need to see if these are still on YT, b/c I haven't watched this season since it aired in '99!) Second best/worst line: From Kaia's poem (about Matt) at that talent night: "A green, terry-cloth shirt, brightening the room again, and again, and again..." OH YEAH--and Kaia snarking on naked Ruthie doing a back flip into the pool on that final episode with, "How can she just exploit her body like that?" and then a fake shudder. She, of the topless beach stroll in Episode 1! Shut up, Kaia.
  9. I'd actually be surprised if Rachel the camera whore DIDN'T appear. I hated her ass back then and I hate her even more now. It's like her eventual friendship with Pedro meant NOTHING to her. She's reprehensible.
  10. I remember crying watching the kids sob and say goodbye to the "volunteers", and then again when Kameelah, crying, hugged Montana goodbye at the airport. Just the way she said, "Bye, Montana" killed me...they hated each other at that time! I loved when Sean kissed Syrus on top of his bald head (can't deal with Sean and his bimbo wife now, but back then he seemed to have potential...)
  11. Tee hee! Not sure, but though I couldn't stand Glen back in '93, I'm digging his snark now. I also loved him (or was it Jon?) reminding Dave (HA!) , "You used to call Dominic 'Dominique' all the time!" That always annoyed the beJesus out of me.
  12. Sad, but true on Beth S. I have always noticed, on the "blanket incident" episode, that after Tami locks herself in the bathroom and Beth is talking to her through the door, Beth looks at the camera for a second while saying "I'm gonna bring you something to put on, Tami. Hold on."
  13. That's the ultimate challenge though, right? I'm an MSW but still sometimes feel clueless as to best help my daughters w/their mental health issues without hovering or trying to make everything in their world perfect--which I already know isn't possible.
  14. YES! (And I am sorry to hear you are struggling with depression and anxiety, too.) I am still learning how best to proceed when my daughter appears to be struggling...am learning to just secure a promise from her that she won't self-harm, then to back off and let her know I am here if she wants/needs to talk, letting her come to me when she is ready. I too had read many accounts of trans adults recounting how they became suicidal when they hit puberty and their "assigned at birth" gender became undeniable. So who can blame Greg and Jeannette, who had plenty of resources and $$ and are very liberal, for trying to stay ahead of it for Jazz?
  15. Ditto on almost everything. Tami was WAY too rude and dismissive with both Jon and Beth. Come on, does she not remember how supportive Jon was of her in '93 when she decided to terminate her pregnancy? Granted, we only saw what was aired and weren't privy to every conversation, but Jon said at the time that he figured the best possible thing he could do was to be Tami's friend throughout the situation, b/c it was going to be difficult no matter what decision she made. This from an 18-year-old kid from the Bible Belt who was extremely against abortion in principle. I can never tell w/Tami (present-day, at least since BBW) how much of her behavior is just b/c she knows it'll make good TV and how much is genuine. And, forgive me, but my sister and I (both obsessed w/the first few seasons of RW, both then and now) have noticed that Tami speaks very differently since BBW than she did back in '93 on RW....even her Mom spoke differently when we saw her on the episode about Tami's abortion than she spoke on BBW. It's like they both affected different personas for each show. (I'll see myself out now...)
  16. Also, she's very young. When I set my mind to it, at that age, I could lose weight pretty quickly just by watching my calories and working out more days/week. Now, at over 50, it's more challenging (but still doable--luckily, I enjoy exercising and do it as much for stress relief as for fitness/weight management). RE: Jeannette---I agree 100% that she is wayyy too enmeshed w/Jazz and needs to find something else to focus on. And I actually wondered, when I saw the commercials for this new season and saw Jazz's weight gain, whether the hormones she is taking post-surgery might be contributing to it. Not sure if she takes more/different meds now than pre-surgery. I think Jeannette and Greg, as a previous poster said, did what they thought was right at the time for their child. It's easy to second-guess it now. The irony is that being so financially well-off made it possible for them to put Jazz on the hormone blockers, etc. much earlier than was probably advisable. But I can't fault them for doing what they thought was best. Finally---I found both Jeannette and Jazz less annoying on this 1st episode than I have in past seasons. I can actually relate to a lot of what Jeanette was saying about how hard it is to figure out what to do/how to help a teen with depression and anxiety. One of my daughters, 17, has been struggling w/that since last summer, and Jeannette hit the nail on the head about how frustrating it can be to find the right meds/cocktail of meds.
  17. I enjoyed this, overall, though Ghost Deb was snarkworthy. I too missed Dexter's VO and was pleased to her it/him return. My question, though: Are they doing the daytime soaps thing of making Harrison way older than he should be, chronologically? Wasn't he like 3 or 4 when the series ended? How the hell is he in his mid-to-late teens already?
  18. Agreed...for the most part. But I don't understand how Bill proposes that we deal with, for example, the Greg Abbotts and Ron DeSantises (and their supporters) of this country. Sorry, but I DO hate them. I live in a blue state which could at any time turn back into a red state, and I have two teenage daughters whom I will be goddamned if I'll have living in a state where a $10,000 bounty can be put on their heads if they seek to terminate a pregnancy. What, we're supposed to come at people in favor of that, or the 1/6 insurrectionists, with love? GTFOH with that. I'm all about us dividing this country into a red "side" and a blue "side". No red siders get to visit the blue side w/o a negative COVID test, and all firearms have to be left at the border. I know it seems pessimistic, but we are NOT a "United States" at this point, and may never be again. And I am done having to live in danger of school shootings and ever-more-virulent COVID variants because the red-staters keep ruining things for the rest of us. Bill's pretty safe in his rich-guy bubble. It's relatively easy for him to preach "not hating" the other side, b/c he can have conservatives (and the likes of Steven Bannon) on the show or play footsie with Ann Coulter, and then act like, "Can't we all get along?" No, Bill. No, we can't.
  19. OK, can anyone help me w/this? There are two songs from the "Happy New Year" episode (Season 4) I am trying to figure out the artist and song titles for: The first is the one where everyone is dancing (right after they moved the furniture to free up dancing space) and Hope comes downstairs and says, "What is this? Dancing? In my house? Whose idea was this!?", and the second is like a slow-jam where Elliot dances with Patsy, Melody's Mom and Peter's friend. I've tried pausing during the end credits, looking on IMDB, etc. all to no avail and really want to try to find those two songs on Spotify or Apple Music, but have no idea who the artist (I think they are both the same artist) or titles are. Anyone?
  20. SO MANY! 1. Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend 2. SmartLess (Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes) 3. Armchair Expert (Dax Shepherd and Monica Padman) 4. WTF (Marc Maron) 5. The Rewatchables 6. Totally 80s 7. You Made It Weird With Pete Holmes 8. Tig and Cheryl: True Story 9. The Square Peg Podcast with Andrew Lawrence 10. Literally! With Rob Lowe 11. Pretty Lies and Alibis 12. Good For You (Whitney Cummings) 13. TV Literate 14. Pod Save America
  21. To be fair I remember as far back as 1984 the accusation that Olympic gymnastics coverage here in the US was “xenophobic “at best.
  22. Not sure if anyone else here is old enough to remember a magazine called Gymnastics World…It was out in the late 70s through I guess early 80s. Anyway, for a while, they had an ongoing fictional series about a girl named Dinah who becomes the first British gymnast to medal in the Olympics. I probably still have some copies of the magazine around somewhere. Anyway, I totally thought of that when Great Britain medaled today. Anyone else out there remember this?
  23. I'm SUPER old...there was a Japanese gymnast (male) in '76 who competed on a broken leg. There is a famous clip of him landing his horizontal bar dismount on that leg and then grimacing in agony.
  24. I've been on Twitter going back and forth with a-holes whose stance is "If she can't handle pressure, she's not a true champion/she's not really the best" BS. Simone did the right thing for her own health, and good for her. Kerri Strug should NEVER have been vaulting on that broken ankle (?foot?) and is held up as a heroine for doing so. (Not taking ANYTHING away from her...just saying she could have caused permanent damage to her body in doing so.) Whether physical OR mental health, if an athlete opts to pull out rather than risk permanent damage, no one should be shaming them. Anyone else on here old enough to remember when Nadia fell off the bars at the 1978 World Championships in Strosberg? I will never forget that jerkoff Jim McKay being so overly dramatic and negative (I remember what he said WORD FOR WORD: "Well, there you have it...the changing of the guard. Nadia Comaneci COMPLETELY FALLING APART on the uneven bars, where she thrilled the world in Montreal!") I cried. OK, I was 10, but Nadia was my girl and I was heartbroken for her b/c of how the media was spinning it. All to say, I hope no one shames Simone for the decision she made, nor the team for "only" winning silver. A silver medal at the freaking Olympic Games is nothing to be ashamed of.
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