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I was so glad that he finally stood up for himself and called her out on her nonsense, and specifically told her about how he had asked questions and that all he got was (sub-par) perfunctory answers. Preach!!! I think they were hoping for playful and attractive, like Woody and Imani. I thought his continued questioning regarding the (alleged) NY business opportunity, was to uncover whether there was any substance at all behind it, and of course there wasn't. I think that Juan is missing the sympathy and understanding portion, which Emem definitely wants. His handling of the Ikechi thing at dinner seemed a little tone-deaf.

Finally some new mysteries are here! The latest Jane Mystery, A Deadly Prescription, has already debuted, but it will be rebroadcast as follows (times are Eastern): Sun Jan 12 6:00 Fri Jan 17 8:00 Sat Jan 25 6:00 Thurs Feb 6 10:00 Sat Feb 22 8:00 Then on Feb. 6 at 8 will be Reality Bites: A Hannah Swensen Mystery.

Given that it's OK to discuss Signed, Sealed, Delivered here, I hope it's OK to post this comment. I saw that there was a new Christmas movie called Five Golden Rings, and the description of the two stars needing to find the owners of five gold rings before Christmas, had my hopes up that it would be in the vein of SSD, where the "mystery" is the focus, and the interpersonal development plot is important but secondary. But I was disappointed, because the amount of sleuthing to figure out the owners of the rings was minimal, and it was a typical Hallmark Christmas interpersonal plot otherwise. Also, I've never seen Nolan Gerard Funk before, and I found him very uncharismatic/bland and wooden.

What cracked me up about that, was how his accent (which was terrible to start with), would come and go. When he got on a roll of what he was talking about, the accent all but disappeared. With all his terribleness, the thing that actually stuck with me from the episode was that female who contracted with him at $7K/mo for some sort of consulting, and after having received literally zero product from him (and receiving lots of excuses), kept paying him $7k for many more months! She seemed intelligent, so I was just floored that she kept paying him. And it wasn't even a situation where she knew he did such good work that it was worth it in the hopes of the future good work, cause she simply hired him because of qualities in his resume. Oh yeah, there was one more thing that stuck with me, and that was the incredulity on the part of the detectives (?), that his wife was in on the whole con of pretending to be British and trying to escape justice for what he'd done.

Massively confused about this. In the link to the public record above, the record shown for David Trimble seems to indicate that the person is 58 years old. The MAFS David is in his 30s. So I don't get where all the lying and misrepresentation accusations are coming from.

While I agree with that After Party guest for the most part, and Michelle has been awful at times, I will say that if I were genuinely uncomfortable with sharing a bed with my brand new husband who in reality I barely knew, I'd be g--damned if someone is going to force me to share the bed with that person or guilt me into it. Fortunately I like how my husband looks in his around-the-house shorts/sweats clothes, so no complaints in that department. But there was one thing he wore when I first met him, that was just such a turn-off, and that was Birkenstock slide sandals. No they weren't worn with socks, but I still just couldn't, and thankfully he was wiling to stop wearing them.

Good point...I forgot about that...yes, dealbreaker.

Thank you, Elizzikra, for re-watching those excerpts! I agree about her perception of David's build. It does look he has an underlying muscle tone, but it sounds like he is still eating close to what he did when he competed, and he does not look fit. One other thing she said she did not like is men wearing flip-flops, and that seems to be a staple of David's look. I think that at the wedding, when his hair was up and he looked nice in his tux, she was attracted to him. But I think that most of the time he looks sloppy, and her seeing that is a turn-off, along with his not-fit look. I think those combined with the basement thing made it something she couldn't get past. He said on one of the After Party episodes that his glasses just have a generic lens...they are not prescription glasses. That means he is just wearing them for effect, which goes along with playing a role.

I hate Karla, but...isn't spending $10-13/per day on juice almost the same as when people buy expensive coffees every day? I'm still not sure he understood, given that at the After Party, when the topic came up about what a pretty boy is, he said that he was like that. I actually do think there is more to discuss, and I put the blame on each of them for not delving into it. Clearly there is an aspect that bothers Michelle a ton, so when she brought it up a second time, he should have said something like, "Clearly this bothers you a lot. Could you talk a little more about what aspect is bothering you and how it is impacting you?" If she is reading all kinds of things into it, that would give him a chance to clarify and perhaps she would change her outlook. And likewise, when she brought it up a second time, she should have asked if they could discuss it further, and she should have really delved to understand what his living situation was before, why he decided to change it, what his timeline is, etc.

I've seen a variety of reality shows where the 'stars' sang and played an instrument, and I have never, ever seen anything even remotely close to being that horrible! His singing was absolutely atrocious, and his song was merely awful. He had weeks to compose a song, and that's the best he could do...making up a verse based on something he happened to see in the room? I finally decided that while Tom doesn't have Resting Bitch Face, he does have Resting Anxious/Concerned Face. Preach!

Watching the "To Have and to Kill" episode of the new Oxygen show A Plan to Kill, I was once again amazed (in a bad way) at how detectives are so clueless when it comes to ambush murders. I'm talking about the type of situation where just as the person returns to their house, they are ambushed and killed. Unless someone has a perfect view of your door and can afford to wait all day/night for you to show up, it's going to take insider help to time it right. Yet I have never seen that be something that detectives think of in a timely manner. And in this case, they had been fooled for over a year and a half that the victim's wife was not involved, until someone else spilled the beans. They had never, ever considered the timing of the murder vis the victim's return from going on a fast food run for everyone, to wonder how the killer knew the exact time to be at the door. And what a truly awfully atrocious piece of sh*t that woman was. She told her boyfriend that she had cancer and no health insurance, so he married her (ostensibly so she could get health insurance), and then she basically killed him for the life insurance not terribly long after...and of course, she never actually had cancer. And IIRC, she told the people who would do the killing for her, that he was an awful person that abused her, when he sooo didn't.

Seriously. He owned a strip club and also was convicted of the contractor-defrauding thing. But according to Joan, he was practically a saint. WTAF?

On The Afterparty, Karla explained that her extended family is very large, and they don't see each other all that often, so when they do, they jokingly ask each other "Are you in love?" So she said that she asked Juan that at the altar, to sort of let him be included on her family's joke. But she never explained it to him, so, uh, yeah. Also, the subject came up of Juan's wedding gift to Karla, which was a swim cap! Apparently he likes to swim, which she doesn't. I really wish Keisha had gone into more about that, and had also asked Karla what she gave Juan.

Yeah, my dislike of her went way up from watching the Afterparty, but it was already up pretty high after her sex-preference-oversharing at the b'ette party. And that b'ette party confessional made her "I'm-an-introvert" thing all the more infuriating. It's like by saying she's an introvert, she was looking for that "You go gurl!" admiration for stepping out of her supposed comfort zone. I don't know why, but Emem seems like someone trying very hard to summon her better angels all the time, in everything she says and does, maybe to overcompensate for what her true nature or upbringing are. Her overdoing it with the "my man, my man, may man", and how at the b'ette party she said she would do anything for her man, just give me a clingy/desperate vibe that she tries to keep at bay. Part of why I'm thinking that, may be that in one of the clips of the coming season, it looked like Emem was going off verbally in a manner very similar to the epic unhingement of Michaela (of Michaela and Zack in Houston). And that would fit with being the flip side of the other stuff I had seen for her.

I carefully watched their entrance. And I could be reading a lot into it, but looking at the micro-movements, it didn't look good: Obviously they would walk in holding hands, but when they sat down, Chock did not sit right beside her. He sat a bit away, and then moved to be closer to her. But as he was moving to be closer, she was oddly looking down at that space between them. Right when he settled himself down, he clasped his own hands together on his lap for just a moment, and then reached for Joan's hand. Her hands were clasped together on her lap, and as he reached to hold her hand, it looked like some awkward fumbling on her part before she actually took his hand. And then when Jesse immediately commented on her ring, she showed it to Jesse in what seemed like an eagerness to let Chock's hand go. So once her hand was gone, Chock immediately put his hand on her leg. And when she did take his hand after showing the ring, and put her other hand on top of her first hand, it just looked positioned, rather than organic. Genius!!!