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It wasn't quite as gross as that, lol...he pooped (homemade fertilizer), the seeds were in it, he covered it over with soil, he watered it, tomatoes started to grow (and he was witty enough to give a talking-head about moving N&A beyond the hunter-gather stage into fixed agriculture, lol). I thought it was fairly brilliant. As for Alone, in addition to the dyed hair for fishing, I also thought using the grommets from the tarp as weights on a fishing line was great repurposing from materials on-hand.

Well, the comments around the table are certainly making it sound like it's Buddha's in a landslide (with Evelyn trailing in second).

It looked like a Zoom background to me and I wondered if they filmed all the talking heads after they went home, so they gave them all the same Zoom image to use to make it look uniform? (In the before times this would have been much less obvious, lol.)

This is the gear list they can choose from for this season...if you go to the menu above that and choose "cast," you can click on each individual person to see what they brought. edited to add: Two people bringing salt looks like the only thing vaguely out of the norm from past seasons...

I'm with you, Blakeston. It also made me particularly mad at Ava, who in theory knows this audience better (since Deb admitted she's always kind of ignored this group because she presumed they would and did hate her) and didn't point this out to Deb, write some new material that played off what they've been doing, focusing at all on, you know, her JOB. The one she's been going on and on about being better about. I guess she was too busy enjoying the free cruise and being so un-self-aware that she was likely attracted to the well-known, big deal lesbian couple for the same reasons she cited for being attracted to the wrong men that she didn't have time to...work. I get that it's a comedy and Deb bombing (and Ava's awkwardness) was played for laughs, but something about it just didn't ring true to me -- for many of the reasons y'all noted above. *shrugs*

I swear, "Paint It Black" is her theme song -- it's all I hear in my head every time she says she has a great idea for some fabulous architectural or antique piece (or frankly, just junk she overpaid for at some "vintage" store) that I just know she's going to ruin...

I used to watch on the History website -- caught up on the old seasons there, and they used to have the new ones on a delay of about a day, if I recall correctly. Presume they'll do the same for the new season.

I'm with you on this one, LittleIggy...it feels pretty unfair to come in with nets at this point (I also agree they should've had them from the start). Both of Steven's partners seemed of the mind that the bugs were doing them in (they couldn't sleep at all) and since that was one thing that they couldn't make better, they might as well cut their losses. I was disappointed because I really liked Cajun gal on her first go-round.

heh...There's one theory down, lol.

In this episode, she was the woman Russell was interviewing with about his documentary...he presumed she'd think producing a cooking show was frivolous, and then she proceeded to fawn over The French Chef (also a telling bit). I don't think we heard enough about her personal life to know if she was married, but I could be wrong.

I found it interesting that they included both the pointed remarks from the male French chef to Julia and the scene of the employed-full-time, very busy, African American woman saying she had made all of Julia's recipes as a sharp contrast to fauxBetty's comments. Granted, the only other portrayals of Friedan I've seen are also fictionalized (see Mrs. America), but I have little difficulty believing she'd think or share these exact ideas, but I do wonder at Julia's not having a swift comeback for such comments (especially since fictionalized Julia said she'd bought Friedan's book -- presumably knowing exactly what it was about). *shrugs* I will add to the chorus of folks who instantly knew Mr. Rogers as soon as the actor invoked that voice and teared up upon hearing a phrase from him that will likely always turn us Gen-Xers into a sappy mess, "I like you just the way you are." *sniff*

Chekhov's broken glass from last week...we all wondered what the point of that was.

Please, Ressler doesn't want to admit that she's a better shot than he is 😉

They actually just ran an ad featuring her godforsaken black painting of the antique cabinet in which she waxes on about how brilliant a choice it was. You can't make me understand it.

Another recurrent idea this season, I think...reminded me of episode 1 -- when the white guidance counselor pops in and speaks over the Black principal (who is, presumably, her boss).

I know she probably presumes no one there subscribes to her philosophy, but Joyce and a few cases of magazines needed to walk down to sorority row. I'm with you, DoctorAtomic -- still loving the sister, she's a highlight of every episode she's in.

I like that the show is managing to both use traditional sitcom tropes and be subversive about expectations at the same time. That's a difficult balancing act. <shallow> Do we think that was a prosthetic? That was probably a prosthetic, but still...woo, lordy.</shallow>

Agree with all y'all -- really liking all of the characters. Love the sister. Love that the sister didn't belittle the porn folks, talked them like normal people, and made friends. Like that Joyce (and really, in addition to the clothes being 70s on-point, let's take a moment to appreciate the era-appropriateness of the name Joyce) is learning to extend her feminism to Bambi and other folks in the porn-workplace. Glad that they put the white-lady racism out there at the start instead of ignoring it. Even though it became a longstanding, time-honored joke (I only read the articles!), I have to think it was some kind of copyright issue that nobody mentioned the Pulitzer winning reporting, interviews, etc. done by Playboy writers, given the time frame. Hope it stays this good moving forward!

Thanks, Cetacean -- that makes sense. I couldn't figure out how they were getting area without building on, but I forgot there was porch space there.

Is it wrong that I wanted a team to buy something big and bulky, paint it black, and lie to her that it was an antique ...just to get her vote? Granted, I wasn't paying much attention, but I thought the big draw of the sisters' closet was that they added square footage without losing it elsewhere (I missed how they did that) -- so, while the laundry got (strangely) fawned on, it was the bonus sq footage that added value.

I forgot how much I've missed Diane Sawyer's specials -- SO detailed. I really liked this; for once, it felt like they actually got new interviews/materials that I hadn't seen before, so I thought it added to the story. Creepy as hell, though. [And, yeah, mostlylurking, they had some serious Vaseline on the lens for Diane's appearances -- pretty sure the distance between her and the interviewee was because of COVID, but the blur was a different matter, lol.]

I liked the overly complicated game because, to me, it felt like they wanted to find a way to escape the problem that often arises (and we all inevitably bitch about) of the single worst dish being on the winning team, and, thus, not up for elimination (and vice versa -- especially when something fairly good by comparison leads to the boot because of being on a losing team). The odds of one team getting enough points to reach the end zone for an outright win was low with individual judge's picks counting, and if a team did manage it, the odds of them having the worst dish were nearly impossible.

First trailer is dropping everywhere... https://tvline.com/2022/03/10/bosch-legacy-release-date-teaser-imdb-tv-video/

I watched! She was awesome: "This is still some crazy white people shit. Luckily, a lot of my best friends are crazy white people." Frankly, she was one of those folks who almost seemed better off without her partner; I think body heat was all he was bringing to the table. That was one sad looking shelter, though.

He's definitely got a whiff of GoT Joffrey-ness about him that makes you want to punch him in the face.