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10 hours ago, MaKaM said:
You can't paint new pressure treated wood, the paint won't take. Probably that is why it was unfinished--they are moving too fast on the flips for it to cure enough to be painted.
I think that on THIS house the time pressure was for getting it on the show. They only showed to realtors, instead of prospective buyers, so the house wasn't on the market. Now they might just leave the wood unpainted, but with this flip I felt that things were going to be finished before they actually put the house up for sale.
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On 6/20/2019 at 8:50 PM, ECM1231 said:
6 houses under construction in 10 months sounds like a lot of houses to flip. I'd think it would take at least 3 months from start to finish b/c they are basically rebuilding these houses; the aren't just cosmetic flips. Now, another question I'd always wondered about. On these shows, when then they say they have let's say a 150K renovation budget, does that include materials AND LABOR? I mean, I guess it would b/c laborers don't work for free. So I guess they aren't doing too badly, even without the television show's money. But Karen is an attorney. I'd think a law practice would generate a lot more income than flipping but maybe this is her passion.
BILGISTIC, that's nuts that the city expects the residents to kick in 15K to hook into a new water line!
On a few other flipping shows they talk about flipping different houses at the same time. so Tad, et al. demolish one house then move on to the next one, while the other contractors are working on this one.
I wonder if Mina and Karen owned the awful house next door. I noticed that by the time this one was being shown, it was being worked on. I can't imagine M&K would renovate this house unless they KNEW that the house next door was going to be renovated before they tried to sell.
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13 hours ago, lynxfx said:
So once all of the Atlanta episodes are aired is next up Vegas flippers?
Nashville is up next. I liked them so I'm okay with that.
Sadly, Vegas has already been renewed for another season and Atlanta has not. The Fort Worth one didn't even get a second season I hope Atlanta gets another because I'm not fond of the Vegas guys at all and I like Ken and Anita best of the flippers.
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2 hours ago, blackwing said:
The actor who plays Gabriel... eh. Couldn't stand this guy as Zzzzzzzende on Bold and the Beautiful so I have bias against him from there. Just seems like Wes 2.0. Eager young kid with possible connection to Annalise or Bonnie. Do the ages even fit for him to be Bonnie's kid? I think we were told she was multiple raped by her father's friends when she was 12? Maybe I am misremembering. He is a first semester 2L so he's about 23. Is she really only 35ish? She looks 45 to me.
The actress is 41. The multiple rapes started when she was 12, but she could have been14 or 15 when she had the baby. Basically its not that far off.
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8 hours ago, colorbars said:
The flashbacks of when Annalise was pregnant were only 10 years ago at the time it aired, so maybe 11/12 years now, so it's definitely not the son that was stillborn. There's obviously a chance she had a baby we don't know about pre-show, that she gave up for adoption or something, but I feel like that would make very little sense for her character. We saw how much Sam and Annalise struggled to conceive, and we saw how much the loss of her son informed her character and motivations for years after the fact; the idea that she carried a son to term and gave it away but it was never mentioned through all of that would be really bad storytelling to me. Which means it's not out of the question for HTGAWM but, I doubt it. Not to mention in one of those flashback episodes in S2, there was a scene of Bonnie giving Annalise advice on how to ease the pain in her back from the pregnancy and Annalise asked how she knew about that - which was both the first hint I remember them dropping about Bonnie having a kid, but also would suggest that was Annalise's first pregnancy.
We do know that Annalise was sexually abused by her uncle although I think a child of that relationship would be older. Basically, there are reasons that Annalise could have had an off screen child that she didn't want to think about ever again.
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On 9/28/2018 at 9:01 AM, darkestboy said:
It's the wedding and we know from the 5x02 Bonnie took Christopher and is about to suffocate the victim. Unless the victim stole Christopher, Bonnie got the baby back and fought off/finishes off the victim?
Either way, Bonnie strikes again.
Connor and Oliver are probably fine, so I'm not really concerned with them for now.
If they keep pointedly mentioning Michaela getting Simon deported, then I might suspect he's back for revenge against the K4 and Annalise but I think it could be the DA guy who's the dead body or Laurel's mother.
I'd be shocked if it's either Tegan, Emmett and/or Gabriel, especially as the latter two are still too new for viewers to care about yet. Then again, stranger things have happened on this show.
Although it looks like Bonnie suffocates the victim, it is also possible that she was trying to stop the bleeding and the muffled sounds were because whoever it was was dying with Bonnie trying to save them. The show loves misdirects and I would not like it if they redo Bonnie's the actual murderer story. The first time was enough. The gasps and groans sounded female to me, but I could be wrong. Maybe the victim is Laurel's mother, who was trying to kidnap Christopher? We've been told she's alive. I think they want Gabriel to stick around, maybe as a replacement for Wes, so he could be safe. Emmet and Tegan are less safe, although I am leaning toward a female victim.
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On 9/11/2018 at 4:49 PM, Kathira said:
Maybe they think that Joan killed him where he was found. That she sustained her injuries fighting with him, then got a cab back home. We don't see how she got to the hospital, but presumably Sherlock came home, found her and called an ambulance. I suppose Joan could have gone downstairs and found her phone to call. I don't think either of them have cars. There's plenty of evidence of a fight at the brownstone, even with the clean-up work that Sherlock was doing (and the general mess of the crash debris), but I suppose they could claim that either she staged it, or that Sherlock did to protect her. Plus, the brownstone is in various states of disrepair on a regular basis, which they could force Marcus, etc. to attest to. I'm not saying it makes a whole lot of sense, but it could be theoretically possible. They could claim that Joan was frustrated with their inability to catch Michael, combined with the architect guy's suicide, and that drove her to confront him.
Except he bled all over the apartment when he ran away, so that's proof that he was stabbed in the apartment, just like Joan said. I really rolled my eyes at the idea that 5'3" Joan, suffering from 2-3 broken ribs was able to beat up 5'11" Michael and kill him. Yes, he was bleeding, but really? I understand them wanting a "Sherlock proves Joan innocent of murder" story line, but this is not a good way to go.
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On 9/1/2018 at 12:22 PM, iMonrey said:
Tarek and Christina's "fame" comes more from tabloids than TV though, and HGTV is really trying to exploit their notoriety. Which is pretty gross when you think about it. It's even grosser to think of T&C going along with it considering there are children involved. This is something I'd expect to see on the Bravo channel, not on HGTV.
They do seem to be set on keeping the kids out of it. I'll say again, this is what they have been told is necessary to keep their jobs. They are being asked to play out not the divorce of Tarek and Christina, but what HGTV thinks the viewers want to see as the divorce of T&C. People expect divorced exes to be jealous when the ex starts dating, so we get scenes of them being jealous of each other dating, even though they may be long past that point. People expect exes to fight over various things when they divorce and HGTV is giving us the cliched fights that they think people want. Eventually they will cover all the scenarios that are "expected" and (hopefully) move on and go back to flipping.
Hey, the narrative of "Tarek was a designing diamond in the rough, held back by Christina" schitck that has been being pushed all season makes me nuts, but HGTV gave Christina her own show as a designer, so they may think a little Tarek fluffing in in order.
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7 hours ago, Kenzie said:
I'm beginning to think I'm the only person in America that's doesn't like the great room/kitchen combo. The last thing I want my company to see when they walk in is my kitchen. A kitchen out of view of the front door that opens to the family room - fine. But I really don't want my fridge 4' away from my living room couch.
I have a roomy galley style kitchen that opens on one end to the kitchenette and to the formal dining at the other. Come into my house and you'll have to make a long left and then a right before you see a sink or a trash can.
You are not the only one to hate open concept. A writer named Kate Wagner just wrote The Case for Rooms
She also runs a wonderful blog McMansion Hell which critiques the huge, overpriced McMansions in America. I would love for her to critique some of Tarek and Christina's remodels, because I think she'd be hilarious about them. Sadly, it wouldn't pass the copyright test.
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3 hours ago, iMonrey said:
The format just doesn't work anymore. I mean, the original premise was this young, married couple with this cute little girl, starting out in the flipping business. It's all broken now. The marriage is over, there's no real reason for them to be business partners at this point except they still want the income from the TV show. It's so forced and fake.
Well, I'll be honest, I wouldn't give up a well paying job just because I got a divorce. Heck, if it was the way to keep my job, I would have tried really hard to work with my ex-husband.
Before the divorce, Tarek battled cancer, then Christina had a high risk pregnancy. Both of those can cost a LOT of money. Medical bills are the number one reason people go bankrupt. I don't think they were going bankrupt, but they did have bills outside of their ordinary spending.
HGTV told them they could keep the show, and they decided they could co-exist in order to keep working. I don't blame them at all for the decision. I DO blame HGTV for the uncomfortable "fighting" we see. They are in control of the final edit and some of the conflict scenes seem to have been shot at a different time from the flipping part of the episode, which makes me think HGTV asked for that to be inserted. The show has been schizophrenic this season with T&C fighting in one episode then doing a regular flip in the next. I suspect HGTV is trying to figure out if they can make the show work and what format works best. From what I know, the ratings have been good, because people like to watch a car wreck. HGTV may try to keep the show going if the ratings hold up. And why not? If people are watching, then the advertisers are getting their money's worth. I don't know if I will continue to watch, my life has gotten busy and there is only so much I can follow, but I don't blame T&C for keeping the show going.
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22 hours ago, PhoneCop said:
So yeah, annoyed with this "twist." Which I'm assuming is the result of Fox continually chopping the show down; when Nigel said he wanted to return to a Top 20, I would imagine he meant it in the traditional sense. Unless I'm giving him too much credit.
I'm pretty positive Nigel wants to return to a top 20. I'm also sure he really wants to keep the show on the air, so he keeps bowing to Fox's demands. They are foolish demands, because the tricks don't work, but it's the only way to bring the show back, so what else can he do. I do love the dancing and there really isn't anything else like it that I know of, so I cope with the loss of the contestants dancing together.
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That was much better than the last one. It really does look like HGTV wanted to show them "fighting" for one episode, probably since the world knew about the divorce, so they inserted some extra scenes. Now that they covered that part, they are willing to go back to flipping houses and Tarek and Christina acting like adults who have a civil relationship for the sake of the kids and their business. Others noted that in the "fight" scenes Tarek's hair and clothing were so different that those had been shot at a different time. It's like HGTV went "OMG people know they are divorced we have to SHOW the conflict or the audience won't get it."
I did like the flip. It was a cute little house and the outside was actually really interesting. I can't imaging paying $450K for it, but then I don't live in California.
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20 hours ago, iMonrey said:
This felt absurdly scripted and contrived to me. Here's what I suspect based solely on conjecture:
The last batch of new episodes aired almost a year ago and no mention was made in them of their relationship status. They cut out references to them being married in the opening credits but otherwise acted like everything was the same between them. I bet that's how they filmed the next batch last summer. But then HGTV stepped in and decided to exploit their tabloid-heavy divorce so they went back and filmed a bunch of talking heads and "fight" scenes to insert into these episodes. That's why it's taken so long to get this new season on the air.
Notice the variations in Tarek's hair length and facial scrub. He starts out in his car, his hair buzzed really short, telling Christina he has a date; they meet up at the house "the next day" and his hair is visibly longer. In the big "fight" scene where they have it out on the street his hair is buzzed again but it's back to a normal length during the open house. That's why I think a lot of these "let's bicker and highlight our divorce" segments were filmed and inserted later.
I did like the house, though, except that the floor plan seemed very scattered - I couldn't get a handle on what was where in that place. At the end of the day I'd still rather buy a house done by T&C than one by Aubrey and Bristol.
It felt really scripted to me as well. It was interesting that they decided to go with Christina being "jealous" about Tarek dating, when all the interviews and Internet sites talked about Christina starting to date first. IIR reports were that before the divorce it was Tarek who was being verbally abusive towards Christina on set. I'm just fascinated that HGTV has decided that they want to give the impression that Tarek is the guy moving on, while Christina is the whiny witch who can't let go.
I know that both Tarek and Christina have said that they are working hard at being civil to one another and working professionally together for the sake of the children. I was hoping to see that in the show, not them bickering. In any case it was really, really uncomfortable. I'll watch a couple of more episodes, but if they keep up the "drama" I'm out.
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The first trailer
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20 hours ago, chessiegal said:
I don't think it was the divorce - the Nashville flippers were already divorced when their show started.
Actually, the Nashville flippers were never married. If you look closer, they dated for about five years, decided they didn't work romantically, but managed to stay friends and work together.
I really liked them as hosts and am glad their show got renewed.
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So You Think You Can Dance, 4 Others Get Summer Premiere Dates at Fox
Fox is putting its dancing shoes back on this summer: So You Think You Can Dance will return for Season 15 on Monday, June 4 at 8/7c, the network announced Tuesday.
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27 minutes ago, UsernameFatigue said:
Does NBC really read and approve every script of every show they air? Really? I would have thought that once a show is picked up, and especially if it is the hit that This Is Us is, that the show's producers would have the freedom to do whatever they want. But what do I know.
I think Fogelman should remember that the show is a hit because of his "superstar cast" , and the fact that the show's audience is vested in them. To tell this "important story" near the end of the season seems like a vanity project to me, and I don't feel bad in the least that I feel that way.
They probably don't read every script, however, if you are going to do an episode that is wildly different from your usual format, it's probably a good idea to run it past the people who are paying you to make the show. Fogelman knew this would be a controversial story to tell because it didn't involve the main characters, so he did the smart thing and ran it by the suits.
Personally, I loved the episode. I thought it tied Deja into the fabric of the show. I'm glad they did this episode.
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I think the other reason Child Services got called was because Deja was injured. Yes, she said she had cut herself opening a can, but how many abused women say they walked into a door? How many abused kids say they tripped and fell.Basically Deja came in alone, with a serious injury, her mother couldn't be contacted. She was being unsupervised when when was hurt. That's enough for a call to social services. Doctors are mandated reporters. If they suspect that there could be abuse, they HAVE to report. Once her mom turned up drunk, or possibly drunk and high, Child Services had to step in and assess the situation. Deja's mom was in bad enough shape that she needed to go into rehab to get off whatever she was using. I didn't find calling in Child Services to be a reach at all.
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‘Roswell’: Jeanine Mason Cast As the Lead Of the CW Reboot Pilot
I watched Roswell way back when. Great for Jeanine!
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The official announcement So You Think You Can Dance Renewed for Season 15 at Fox.
I'm really happy.
QuoteNigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Vanessa Hudgens will return as judges, and Cat Deely will be back as host.
I guess they thought Vanessa Hudgens brought something to the show.
QuoteLike last season, dancers who wow the judges during auditions will earn a spot at The Academy callback rounds in Los Angeles. Those who pass that round will then go on to compete live each week for America’s votes, with dancers eliminated each week until the winner is crowned.
Maybe they will use the same format as last season, but it's not spelled out?
Anyway, we're back!
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Vulture has a great article on all the HGTV flipping shows.
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1 hour ago, realdancemom said:
I agree that the whole production was too much. It was too flashy. A lot of numbers could cause seizures. I know Nappytabs was involved with judging the auditions. I don't know about anything else. I'll just say that somebody from one of the groups said that they knew that they were cast as fodder when they saw the other ones that made it.
This amuses the heck out of me. I watched a couple of episodes of WOD and saw one of the judges go on and on about how they never knew you could tell a story with hip hop and several people said that she must not have ever encountered Nappy Tabs.
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10 hours ago, Sd601 said:
Kiki has grown on me. I like his solos and I watched him more than Jenna last week. His turns are fast and crisp. But I don't think he's top 4 material at all.
So I think on paper, lex and Gabby should have had a great partnership. Both have that quality that makes me watch them in group routines. I wasn't a huge Gabby fan her season, but I like her quality of movement in big routines--it's not big and flashy like Allison or sexy smooth like Jenna. Just something draws my eye. Obviously choreographers feel similarly, as both are often featured up front. But together they fall flat. Lex seems so awkward around her. Well, he's just awkward in general. Personally, i find it endearing, but I'm sure it's uncomfortable for others. Sasha was clapping for them after their samba, but didn't look super enthusiastic. I liked lex in it (thought Gabby looked stiff. Koine looked better last week), but I'm not any kind of ballroom expert. I had fun watching lex.
Would Logan have benefited from waiting a year or two to audition for the show? Why does he seem so much younger? I like him in many routines, but I just wasn't compelled to watch him. I can't put my finger on why.
Was Kaylee off in the beginning dance? In a routine where one should blend in, I found her dancing stood out. I'm trying to decide what all-star I would have preferred with her: Joshua Allen? Twitch? Her dance style is unique, and I can't figure out who would best complement her. Definitely not Cyrus. I kinda liked Philip's routine tonight.
I'm thrilled Koine is in the final. I like her. Not sure who I'm voting for yet. Taylor is meh. Pretty. Decent. But that's all I can say. Her routine with Robert was odd. I thought they didn't go all together.
I'm still watching ?
I was thinking that of all the "street" dancers that have been on the show, Joshua would have made the best partner. However, I'm pretty sure he will never be brought back.
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7 minutes ago, WhineandCheez said:
WTF it means is that Nigel (like our President IMHO) doesn't do anything unless it helps him. Nigel must have a financial tie with DWTS. But Kiki is the least sexy Latin ballroom dancer I've ever seen, so why are they trying so hard.
Did Mark Kanemura gain weight or is it just because he’s older that he looks so different? He looks like someone’s Dad now.
Why is there no slow ballroom this year—Viennese Waltz, etc??
Lex sucked as a partner in the Samba and Disco. Sucked badly. His own personal performance in each of those dances were fine,b ut he has no partnering skills and also seems to have no interest in developing them. His wheelhouse is individual performance.
I hold hope for the fact that my beautiful/homely Logan will go far, since he's so young.
I always try to remember that this show is one long tryout for these dancers. They are getting a chance to showcase what they can do and how versatile they are over the course of the show. Even when they don't win, or even make top 4, they have gotten the attention of people in the dance world that they would have been hard pressed to reach. Logan is a talented dancer and I think he will do fine after the show.
Although I'm not a huge Kiki fan, I don't think he's awful. I also know that some dancers make in impact in person that doesn't come across on TV. It's possible that the judges are seeing something we don't in Kiki because they are watching live.
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Where Are They Now?: SYTYCD Alumni's Current Projects
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E!News is reporting it was a car accident