ShellSeeker

I have been rewatching this on Amazon, and I remember now that I got to the point that I couldn't stand Lindsay, because she was so sanctimonious, self-righteous, and smug. And somehow her clients were ALWAYS innocent. I'm into S6. It's still good, but the quality of the show went down after Season 5.

I just finished binge-watching this. This is a really fun show, but I think next season should be the last one. The story has run its course. I want Liza to end up with Charles, because I think it's more realistic, and I think they're far more compatible than she and Josh are. I think they have really good chemistry, but based on many of the comments here I may be in the minority on that. I wasn't sure what to make of that last scene with them. I suppose there has to be some conflict in S6, but now that all the obstacles have been removed for them it will be hard for the writers to not make it seem contrived. I am fine with Claire being in S6, as long as we don't have to see Pauline. I think Jennifer Westfeldt is a terrible actress and every time she shows up I'm distracted by how bad she is. She seems to act with her voice and nothing else. I also think it was asinine to name Kelsey as the publisher. She's got good instincts, but she's way too immature. She is a party girl who sleeps with all of her male authors. It was a pattern established in S1 with the Swedish guy, although she did demonstrate a little maturity and awareness with the douchey speechwriter guy in recognizing it. It would have made much more sense to give that job to Diana. And speaking of Diana, I loved the corny rom-com moment with her and Enzo. I think he's really good for her. Some people have compared them to Miranda and Steve on SatC, but the remind me more of Charlotte and Harry, who were my favorite couple.

I laughed the hardest at Jackie bringing Russian dressing for the salad. Heh heh. I liked it so much more than I thought I would. Lecy was pretty stilted except for her interactions with Sara. It seems like those two clicked right back into their original chemistry.

I have liked this show more this season because it seems like they're at least trying to be more realistic -- like in the season premiere when Marissa was trying to get Bull to be more aware of expenses, and telling him how expensive his company is to operate. I think she also said something about how they'd blown through a $250K retainer from a client or something. Similarly, early in the episode where Cable told Bull her former roommate had reached out to her, I liked that they didn't go with the standard trope of Cable not coming clean and trying to prove the guy's innocence on her own. Then came that stupid flash drive twist. I also agree that there's no way that would have happened, that there wouldn't have been security alerts going off all over the place, and that there wouldn't have been backups available to restore the server. I did some contract work once years ago at a DoD facility in Alabama. I was not able to access their network with my own laptop, but I could plug in and get to get to my work emails and a few other basic things. One day I connected a network cable to my laptop, turned it on, and Yahoo Messenger fired up (this was a REALLY long time ago) and was running in the background -- I wasn't even using it. Their network detected an unauthorized application, and in about 5 minutes there was a swarm of security people at my desk, asking me what I was doing. And then they stood there and watched me uninstall Yahoo Messenger. That was in 2002 or 2003. So the idea that a virus on a thumb drive could completely wipe a server without anyone realizing what was going on is completely ridiculous.

My oldest daughter, bless her sweet little heart, got me one of Ree's cookbooks for Christmas. She doesn't know that I only watch her show to see what sort of new atrocities she's going to commit against food. I will read through it though, and see if there's anything worth trying. I will hand it to Ree -- I made her Cloverleaf Rolls for Thanksgiving, and they turned out very well. And the recipe on her blog had truly idiot proof instructions when it came to working with yeast, how long to let the dough rise, and so on. It was much appreciated as it was the first time I'd ever made bread. It was one of her old recipes though, before she started dumbing down for the masses on FN.

My husband's absolute favorite thing is a meatloaf I make with ground beef, ground buffalo, and ground pork. It also uses oatmeal rather than bread crumbs, although I've never chopped it up in the food processor first. It really soaks up the juices, and by the time it's fully cooked, it's pretty well incorporated. I also give it some zing with some hot sauce (I know, very Ree-like behavior). I got the recipe out of a cookbook put together by the food columnist for a now-defunct paper here, who did a feature called "Recipe Please" where people would ask for recipes from restaurants around town, and she would publish them. The first time I made that meatloaf, my husband told me it was better than his mom's. I've modified it a little bit (mostly by adding the hot sauce) because he really likes spicy food (as do I).

Well, I have to hand it to Ree. I made her Cloverleaf Rolls for Thanksgiving, and they were really, really good. I'd never made any kind of bread before, and I'd always wanted to give it a try, but my husband is diabetic, so we are a low carb house. I saw her make those on a Thanksgiving clip show, and I found the recipe on her blog from about 10 years ago. It looked simple enough for a beginner. The recipe came together just as expected, and made exactly 36 rolls. It's a no-knead recipe, which was nice. and my daughter helped me roll the dough into balls, which she thought was fun.

My husband grows watermelons in our garden, and we're in Colorado. Last year the were OK, but this year they were pretty tiny and sad.

Is Mateo supposed to be a spoiled, undisciplined brat, or do the writers of this show not have kids and think that's how all children his age behave?

For some reason, the description of Pa as a "prairie detective" made me laugh and laugh.

Spoilers mean not discussing episode content before the episode airs, but I don't think we need that here. Go ahead and discuss the episodes, and I'll try and figure out how to get rid of the no spoiler tag. It may mean closing this thread down and opening a new one, but one way or another I'll get it fixed.

I will admit to being a bit Ree-like in this regard. My husband grows peppers in the garden every year, and every year it's a pepper avalanche. I'm still working my way through a huge Ziploc bag in the freezer of the jalapenos from last summer, and over the weekend, he brought in the first 2 Santa Fe peppers from what he planted this year. Argh! I also have a huge bag of Tobasco peppers that I've been working on for awhile too -- those get used up more slowly because they're pretty potent. At least peppers freeze well.

Yes, my husband has a similar sense of humor too. We had an episode on last weekend, and my husband decided he was a Chip fan when he learned that they got a pig, and named it Bacon.

You're right, they did follow that formula early on. It feels more genuine to me in later episodes though. There's one where they thought there was an issue with the foundation, because they found empty space underneath it. They were flipping out wondering if it was a sinkhole. A specialist came and took a look and told Chip that it was actually a suspended foundation, designed to not be directly on top of the soil, which allows the soil to expand and contract without causing any damage. It's believable that you wouldn't run across something like that until you looked under the floor. Stuff like that doesn't bug me. It's the stuff like "OMG this addition built with plywood and duct tape isn't permitted! It's going to blow up the budget!! How did we not know this?? What are we going to do???" that makes me roll my eyes.