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    On 10/21/2023 at 4:17 AM, JudyObscure said:

    One reason some of them seem to be looking older is the show is asking them to show a lot more skin than most women that age are used to doing.  Sleeveless gowns?  Shorts and little tennis dresses?  

    The ladies bring their own dresses, so if they chose that style of gown, that's on them. The tennis dresses are another matter, but I thought for the most part that those looked good on the women and didn't show all the age-y skin that the gowns do.

    On 10/20/2023 at 3:50 AM, dancingdreamer said:

    I liked Leslie , but Theresa drives me bonkers. In her mind, she has them set for life. I didn't  like Cathy, but some of what she said was true. 

    On 10/21/2023 at 4:17 AM, JudyObscure said:

    Did anyone notice Theresa interrupting  Trista while she was trying to do her set introduction to the group date?  Theresa actually lunged forward and put her hands on Trista to stop her talking so she could tell all about her one-on-one date with Gerry. What a strange little woman she is.

    On 10/20/2023 at 10:36 AM, Yogisbooboo64 said:

    I don’t get the ‘Theresa is a tattletale’….outside of looking like a busted up Melissa Gilbert, I truly believe her heart is in the right place.  And she made a good point of how everyone else that’s had a one-on-one with Gerry discusses their date with the other girls, so why is she enemy #1

    Totally agree about Cathy having some legitimate points about Theresa. And the appalling incident with Trista is a perfect example. (Trista was very gracious about appearing interested in Theresa's interruption.)  It's hard to believe her heart is in the right place with that interruption. Theresa has said that she says things about her time with Gerry because she's excited to share, but I don't buy it...I think she has a particular persona that includes some 'stealth' approaches, because she tries to come off otherwise as meek and mild.

    BTW, one of the things I disagreed with about Cathy, is that she kept talking about how what Theresa did/said made her feel insecure. Well, why is it Theresa's job to make Cathy not feel insecure?  Maybe Cathy also feels insecure when anyone says Gerry's name in the same sentence with someone else's name...should everyone start watching their sentences when they say Gerry's name, and not put any of the women's names in that sentence?  What Cathy was really getting at, that had validity as a warning to Theresa overall, is that it comes off as bragging, and as intentionally throwing it in the other women's faces at the expense of those who haven't had as much time with Gerry.

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    On 10/20/2023 at 9:32 AM, GeorgiaRai said:

    Susan got a rose. 

    I'll take "Things I Did Not See Coming" for $400, Alex.

    Neither did she!  The look on her face seemed like genuine surprise.

    On 10/20/2023 at 9:23 AM, TVMovieBuff said:

    For me there are plenty of guys over 70 who stayed schmexy. Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Leonard Cohen, Sam Elliott, Jeff Bridges, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Irons, to name a few. Three of them are now gone, but that will happen. 

    Everyone says Sean Connery but I never liked him because of his statements on hitting women to keep them in line. 

    My all-time tops for over 70 are Mark Harmon, Jack Hanna (the animal handler from David Letterman), General Wesley Clark. and former Philadelphia Eagles coach Dick Vermeil. And I'll begrudgingly add Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, even though I hate him for how he left star player Reggie Bush holding the bag (but not the Heisman Trophy, since they stripped it from him) for accepting money when Carroll was the USC football coach.

    On 10/22/2023 at 12:58 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:

    Then again, she got a bedside visit from Gerry, and apparently got a rose without having to endure a rose ceremony.  Maybe she calculated that some intestinal distress was worth it, in which case I'm changing my vote to, "Well played, Sandra."

    Just clarifying...her getting a rose wasn't related to her being sick; she had already gotten a rose on the group date when he felt bad that she missed her daughter's wedding.

    On 10/20/2023 at 11:05 PM, maggiemae said:

    During the facetime it looked like the couple were in normal clothes and nothing special was going on like dresses, tuxes, makeup etc.

    On 10/21/2023 at 9:19 PM, Irlandesa said:

    Didn't they say during the Face Time that they did it?--Getting married that is.  Not the other "it."

    Yes, they did say during the FaceTime that they did it, so the wedding had already occurred. But I don't think there's any reason to assume that the call she made to her daughter was actually at the wedding, so I don't think we can read anything in to where they were or what they were wearing during the call, in terms of interpreting how fancy a wedding it was or wasn't.

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  3. On 10/19/2023 at 10:05 AM, kristen111 said:

    Then came Keisha with three of the girls talking nothing of value.  I didn’t even finish.  Total three hrs.

    Well, there were a few interesting things when they got to the guys (this was a 1-hour show, and she interviewed the girls first and then the guys):

    • Orion had a haircut, and although it was still long, it looked sooo much better.
    • Austin was wearing a freaking baseball cap...really, bro?
    • Brennan was wearing a t-shirt...and when women come on, they often overdress.
    • Orion told his story about having gone on a date with a guy, and Austin and Brennan had never heard that before. It makes me tend to agree with whoever said (either upthread or in a previous episode thread) that it doesn't seem like the guys got that close with each other this season.
    On 10/19/2023 at 12:00 PM, Crashcourse said:

    Also, Brennan kind of got on my nerves constantly talking about being married for life.  I kept thinking, "Just wait until you have to deal with drunken Emily for the rest of your life."

    It was ridiculous, especially given that when one of his guys asked about what he'd do if they were miserable (or something like that), he indicated he would still stick it out. Makes me think he'd be the type to stay married in name, but not at all in spirit.

    On 10/20/2023 at 4:28 PM, Meowwww said:

    So question. The opening scene of the guy getting ditched at the wedding. Was that before what we saw on the rest of the show?  Or was it a future scene then they went back to the beginning?  

    On 10/20/2023 at 6:02 PM, Crashcourse said:

    They showed the opening scene of the guy getting ditched, then they flashed back to 14 (I think) days earlier when they showed his introduction and getting dressed for the wedding. 

    Yes. On the screen, after the opening scene of the leaving at the altar, the screen showed "Two weeks earlier."

    On 10/19/2023 at 12:39 AM, LennieBriscoe said:

    Michael has zero self-awareness. The "experts" destroyed what little credibility  they had with this choice. Girth or no girth. 

    On 10/20/2023 at 6:49 PM, kikicat said:

    I woke up right in the middle of the girth reveal during the After Party apparently. Unless they'd mentioned it earlier? 

    On 10/20/2023 at 7:55 PM, Elizzikra said:

    In his limited defense, he said on AfterParty that he was so drunk that he didn't remember anything about the conversation. I'm hoping the producers prompted the guys to talk raunchy for that segment and he just exhibited really poor judgment. 

    Michael wasn't the girth guy...it was Orion.

    The main mention of the girth was during the bachelor party...they were re-discussing it on the After Party.

    And I don't believe for a second what Orion said on After Party that implied the "girth certificate" comment was a drunken on-the-spot comment. I think he's used that line many times before.

    On 10/19/2023 at 9:53 AM, suzeecat said:

    I think blonde got ghosted in the past because she drank too much.  

    On 10/21/2023 at 11:33 AM, JenE4 said:

    With Emily, I feel like the matchmakers should have observed her “in her natural habitat” on a date to see why no one has ever stuck around for more than 3 dates instead of just going by the daytime, sober interviews and thinking, well, she seems okay to me. Hell, had they spoken to her “best friends” they would have eagerly revealed all of her red flags in advance. 

    The 'experts' talked about Emily not having been in love before or been in a relationship, but they did not give near enough weight to the fact that every time she dated a guy, she never got past the third date and they ghosted her. And perhaps most importantly. in terms of her throng of red flags, is that she said she thought the relationships were going well and she doesn't know why they ghosted her!  When people you date choose to end the relationship after the third date AND it's 100% of the time AND they always choose to end it by ghosting AND you thought the relationships were going along well AND you have no idea why they did it, that should have warranted some serious consideration/discussion/dissection/examination by the 'experts'!

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  4. On 10/18/2023 at 12:26 PM, lightninggirl said:

    OK - I thought that Jackie had died months after giving birth to Angie? But now we find out that Jackie had two additional daughters and died a few weeks before Angie found her two sisters that Jackie had after her. I wonder when Jackie actually died.

    I don't recall them saying anything implying that Jackie died shortly after giving birth, but anyway, apparently Jackie died in 2015, according to this article https://starcasm.net/glenn-thore-ex-jackie-details/

    On 10/18/2023 at 12:26 PM, lightninggirl said:

    Also, do they not have seafood boils in Greensboro or something? Shitney was feigning confusion about the boil buffet like she was trying to make that a goober hillbilly thing. I mean, the crawdads in the pool was odd to me but everything else was pretty normal throughout the US to the best of my knowledge.

    22 hours ago, Lurk said:

    Just a quick google search for "seafood boil, Greensboro, NC":

    Red Crab

    The Juicy Crab

    Seafood Destiny

    Crazy Crab Seafood & Grill

    Crab Du Jour

    Hmmmmm........no seafood boils in Greensboro, NC *allegedly 5 show up on Yelp with reviews on their seafood boils.

    As much as it pains me to defend Shitney, I have lived my whole life in North Carolina and Virginia and have never come across or heard of something like that boil buffet. I have been to all-you-can-eat crab feasts, and it was people sitting down at picnic tables and eating the crab that they put in front of them. And the seafood boils at restaurants, in which you order by the pound, do not appear to be at all the same thing as that everybody-stand-up-and-eat-over-the-food spectacle.

    On 10/18/2023 at 1:29 PM, monagatuna said:

    Someone explain something to me. How is it that Whitney thinks she won more competitions overall than Jaime? She "won" that ridiculous "dance-off" and then "won" getting out of the water (??) last on the first day, right? A competition she declared herself winner of when Jaime was already getting out, and had no idea about? How is sitting in water a competition? And Jaime won the beer pong and cornhole games. So by my count that would make them, at most, even. And for my money, Jaime is the winner by one, because sitting in water is not a competition, one that Jaime didn't even know she was "competing" in.

    Whitney declared herself not a sore loser, which may be true...what we saw of how she handled the corn hole loss appeared to be just fine.  However...what she is, is much much much worse, and that is a sore winner. It's actually understandable when someone is a sore loser...after all, they just lost. But there is no excuse for being such a miserable winner as Shitney is...you already won, so stop bleating about your fantastic accomplishment and rubbing the 'victory' in people's faces.

    But I have to say I was mystified by that line dancing competition, which is what they called it. Whitney was actually the only one who did line dancing, and from their comments, it appeared they had never actually seen line dancing. What Shitney did was very very basic line dancing, but she was so damn proud of it, as though she was Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader-level dancing.

    And excuse my snark, but Jamie took quite a chance on trying that flying leap into her boyfriend's (?) arms. Yes, she's thinner than Shitney, but she's no Jennifer Grey!

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  5. On 10/1/2023 at 9:46 PM, Irlandesa said:

    I also liked Harmony in G Major and hope we get more of those.  Ireland was gorgeous and the ghost was fun.  Plus, I thought she had a lot of chemistry with the Irish cop--which likely means the person she had less chem with IMO, the teacher, is the main love interest.

    Finally watched it, and I have a question. Clearly I missed something, because at the end, I think she was in a graveyard, and she called someone's phone to prove who the killer was, and it was the lady doctor with the crush on the ghost guy. How did she solve the mystery and how did she know the doctor was at the graveyard when she was? 

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    On 10/12/2023 at 9:50 PM, DEL901 said:

    Rachel looked confident that Tyler was picking her….wish they had shown her reaction when he picked Mercedes.  

    Yes, and that was so odd.  HIs last experience with her was being dumped by her, so did she really think that he was that heartbroken, and still so, such that he would want to choose her above all other (new) women on the beach?

    On 10/12/2023 at 10:36 PM, Riplet68 said:

    i don’t like Rachel, so loved when Tyler joked about her being chill

    OMG that was great!  And surprising, because in a Bach/ette season, we rarely hear any contestants say anything negative about the lead...and if they do, they are wrong-reason-shamed by the other contestants. So it was great to hear a negative quality ascribed by a former contestant to a lead.

    On 10/13/2023 at 4:52 PM, Sweet-tea said:

    Kat was a jerk. She didn't even acknowledge him when she was going on the date with Tanner. 

    It was actually worse than just not acknowledging him, because as she walked past him, he complimented her, and IIRC, she literally did not even respond.

    On 10/13/2023 at 4:52 PM, Sweet-tea said:

    On a similar note, Mercedes is playing Will. Doesn't look like he will last through the rose ceremony. 

    I have found it interesting that they are appearing to pull back the curtain about the timeframe of the show. We already had a comment from Kylee when she dumped Will, where she said, "I can't think of anyone I would have rather spent yesterday with than you", after someone else had said something about it being day 2.  And now, someone was talking to Will while Mercedes was on the date, and said something like, "You haven't had a day yet without drama", implying that it is now day 3. Ordinarily, this franchise tries to make us think it's been a full week each time they switch which gender gets to give out the roses. That's part of what made is so funny when Will was talking about how Mercedes was really there for him when he was going through the heartbreak about Kylee...you mean that 3-hour period when you were distraught? 

    On 10/12/2023 at 10:43 PM, Kiss my mutt said:

    Has Jess always been that voluptuous up top? Maybe it’s just because I haven’t seen her in a bathing suit. She is a cutie.

    Jess must be hugely insecure, because the first thing she said to both of the new guys when they pulled her for the get-acquainted chat, was, "I'm bloated today, so I'm wearing a one-piece bathing suit." WTAF?  First of all, there is no need whatsoever to be apologetic for wearing a very attractive one-piece bathing suit. And more importantly, second, why would you EVER start a conversation with a hot stranger by saying you are bloated?!?! 

    12 hours ago, ljenkins782 said:

    Tanner seemed like an overly mannered doofus on that date. Something about him doesn't seem quite genuine. 

    What struck me was how odd it was when he said that horses are like dogs; they're intimated by us. Really? I think all horses, no matter how well-mannered, know deep down that at any second, they could throw us off, and behaving well is a choice they make. Likewise, I think dogs know they could bite the hell out of us, but choose not to because they like the relationships they have with us. But being intimidated by humans?  I think not!

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  7. In the recent Buried in the Backyard episode, "Secrets in the Snow", a guy is rescued in -25 degree weather.  The guy had just committed two murders that night he was rescued, and the murders/disappearances were never solved.  Fast forward to 40 years later when DNA linked him to the murders through genetic genealogy, but DNA alone won't be enough for a conviction. How on earth could they prove that the guy was in that part of Colorado at that time, since he didn't live there, and further that he was in that area where the crime occurred 40 years earlier?  Well, his rescue was very very unusual, and it had made the local newspaper, so there was the proof. He probably thought that freezing night rescue saved his life. Turns out it was partially what cost him his freedom about 40 years later. Karma is great!

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  8. On 10/5/2023 at 9:31 PM, JenE4 said:

    I don’t, either. But, there are not enough men to go around at this point. Now Aven, on the other hand?! I’d be pushing women into the pool to get to him.

    I've seen his body, but I am still waiting for Aven's personality to show up!

    On 10/6/2023 at 1:29 AM, tinkerbell said:

    Yes, Hannah brown was the Bachelorette,  but why do these women treat her like she's  Beyonce?

    Preach!

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  9. On 10/6/2023 at 1:14 AM, Irlandesa said:

    I feel for the mom.  She knew he was bad news but her daughter was too young and inexperienced to realize just how bad her situation was.

    I do too, and I'm not blaming the mom...but what mom in this day and age could possibly think that you can simply forbid away a relationship that involves a young adult male?  It's going to backfire, in big ways or small. Speaking from some quasi-related experience, you just tell the daughter that you don't like it, and why, but you aren't going to forbid it because you know they will do it anyway, and you love her a lot, and are always there for her if she gets scared or something goes wrong and she needs help. By outright forbidding it, you are now removed from being a source that could actually help her navigate things if she needed a shoulder, or more.

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  10. On 10/6/2023 at 5:59 PM, bequialife said:

    My bit on Faith in as nice as a way possible.  I think she was too eager to stand out the first episode.  She pulls up on a motorcycle, ok she's the 'cool youthful chick'.   Later she pulls out the guitar.  Ok, a talent!  But then, she sings a song to him. A singer and a musician!  Perhaps she could have saved some of these actions for a later episode, you know, leave some mystery?  

    As a result in the 2nd episode, she was worried he had forgotten about her and kept saying, "I had the first impression rose, what happened?" It was a bit eye-rolling.  

    I called such BS on her little woe-is-me speech in the 2nd episode, when she was saying something about how everyone else is so fancy and she's just a jeans-and-tshirt kind of gal. It's such false modesty, and is actually veiled (or not so veiled) humble bragging.

    On 9/28/2023 at 9:37 PM, archer1267 said:

    But damn if he didn't get frosting on his lips and get Teresa (?) to lick it off. 

    I thought that whole thing was truly weird. It's not that he got Teresa to lick the icing off...it's that Teresa gave him the cake and she intentionally chose to go in for a kiss while he still had the cake in his mouth!

    On 10/7/2023 at 7:44 AM, JenE4 said:

    Even the “dinner dates” you’ll notice that they’ll have a plate of food in front of them, but they won’t actually let them eat the food on camera. They feed them off camera first so it doesn’t mess with the audio and editing continuity. So, for instance on some of the longer dates you’ll see them do some activity during the daytime, then after dark they walk into a fancy dinner in different outfits and sit in front of plates of prepared food they do not touch. It’s during that off-camera time while they’re getting ready for dinner that they’ll actually eat dinner.

    Not only that about the food, but also if they are having a dinner of any kind, they will be the only ones in the restaurant, or it will be in a secluded place where they are the only ones (unless the whole point is to be in a fun public place). When they went to the diner, with all those other people, I immediately wondered what was up. I used to wonder why they did that, with the not-eating and no one else around, until I watched Love is Blind and Married at First Sight, both of which had couples and family/friends eating in public restaurants, and it was genuinely distracting, between the sounds of all the other patrons and the spectacle of watching someone eat and try to carry on a TV-worthy conversation at the same time!

    On 9/29/2023 at 11:09 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:

    I was gonna say "me too" but realized you said you have gray hair at the roots.  How does that work? 

    Or, wait.  Are you joking?  The gray hair you have is whatever has grown out since the last time it was dyed?

    Sorry for my confusion.  But I'm 66, too.  I've never dyed my hair and I have very little gray hair, just barely sprinkled around. 

    Yes, the gray comes in at the roots some number of weeks after you've dyed it, and the rest of your hair stays roughly the color that it was dyed for much longer.

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  11. On 10/7/2023 at 1:35 AM, UsernameFatigue said:

    Also their whole closing argument that Moore followed Emily to the woods between 8:45 and 9:30 I think it was in the evening and killed her? It would be getting dark then, that makes no sense. And what then were the $5,000 payments for then? 

    Good point! 

    On 10/7/2023 at 1:36 AM, Annber03 said:

    At the same time, I also think there's valid reason for people to believe Emily could've killed herself. All that tragedy in her past, and then the fact that one of her own friends stated that she'd told her sister that she would never kill herself on her birthday. I mean...the fact she would even say something like that would indicate to me that the idea is something she has at least considered before. 

    That is actually the one thing that really leads me to believe it was suicide.  Who says something like that? And the fact that the sister didn't say anything in response like "What on earth are you talking about?", leads me to believe that those who knew her well did indeed believe that suicide was possible.

    On 10/7/2023 at 1:36 AM, Annber03 said:

    I also feel like there wasn't enough made of the fact that that wooded area did not look like an easy one to walk through. I would think that'd be a factor in helping to figure out where she was killed, 'cause if she was killed in the house and taken out there at night...I mean, carrying a dead body through that tough terrain at night would not be an easy thing to do. 

    Another good point!  Plus, if he had killed her and then dragged her through all that, then there would have been serious scratches on him, even if he was wearing long sleeves and pants, but IIRC they checked and he had none.

    On 10/7/2023 at 12:02 PM, iMonrey said:

    I'm surprised more wasn't made of that water bottle filled with vodka. Surely it was tested for prints? If only Emily's were found on it that really does point to her state of mind.

    And yet another good point!

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  12. 9 hours ago, leocadia said:

    Uche, Lydia, Stacy and even somewhat Izzy all seem unbalanced and not ready for a mature relationship.

    Uche is def an asshole, but Stacy is just mentally unstable. I think Lydia is just all over the place. And Izzy is a contradiction, because he's very patient when it comes to dealing with Stacy, and he's very aware and explanatory of his own feelings, but he was sooo not that with Johni.  I hope that if Stacy and Izzy watch the show, that they are appalled at how they treated her.

    I also hope that Chris was just kind of frozen in shock, because it took him hella long to step in and defend Johni from Stacy and Izzy's attacks. I really wish that he or Johni had just walked away, saying to both of them, "You are abusive, you are bullies, and you two deserve each other."

    Actually, I wish in some parallel universe that Stacy and Uche were together. They each have this same way of talking in an argument, which they think is calm and rational, and they are very superior about it, but in actuality they are so one-sided and derogatory and not concerned at all about what the other person is trying to really say and explain.

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  13. On 9/30/2023 at 12:20 PM, iMonrey said:

    I knew the wife was involved immediately because they showed her interrogation video.

    Well I can name that tune in only one note!  Seriously, as soon as Lester Holt said, "Tonight, on the season premiere of Dateline" and the voiceover said "a man was out walking his dog with his wife, and he was gunned down", I knew that the wife was in on it.  Having seen enough of these cases, we've seen that if such a brazen shooting takes place at a home, during a daily routine event, with the spouse conspicuously present yet unharmed, it's very likely to have been something planned by the unharmed spouse.  I also couldn't help but notice her almost Chacey-Poynter-like levels of gasping speech in her interrogation.

    Kind of mystified me as to why law enforcement professionals would seriously develop a theory of robbery for a shooting in the morning when people were out walking their dog. Short of a cell phone -- and this couple didn't look like the kind that would have a cutting edge cell phone worth murdering for -- people don't usually even bring anything else with them on a walk!

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  14. On 10/3/2023 at 10:00 AM, DearEvette said:

    See, I was gratified to see that Milton did no cave to Lydia.  I was SURE he'd give in and wear those black shorts.  She was so insistent and he looked like he'd do it just to shut her up. But no, dude was like an oak!  He wore those grey shorts.  I feel like a similar convo happened, where she was trying to get him to be more dressed up for the little party and he was like 'Nah, I'm good' and rolled up in his grey hoodie.  

    Loved it!  The problem to me seems to be that she starts by telling him what she wants him to do or not do, rather than asking. So when she backs down and asks, he still won't do it.  Unfortunately, by having so many preferences/requests for him, she minimizes the chance that he will do/not do something that actually means something to her.

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  15. So I swear I heard one of the girls talking to Taylor at one point, and said something about JT being a player.  Does anyone else remember that?  And holy hell, if JP is a player, then it must be at something like D&D or WoW!

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  16. Am I really the only one on Team Uche?  I think Aaliyah seems very nice, but she is a hot mess of insecurity and poor decision-making. Don't get me wrong...Uche is no prize. But he had every right to be really angry and hurt, especially after Aaliyah started trying to defend herself by saying she didn't have time to write a letter.  Huh?  Her leaving was on her own timeframe...she could have delayed it as much as she wanted, so as to not leave Uche completely in the dark, even if it was to just say she was confused and needed to get away. 

    What makes no sense is her lack of having a reason for leaving. It wasn't simply that she was pissed that he didn't tell her earlier about Lydia. It seems to have had something to do with what Lydia was saying to her, and he is entirely right that that's beside the point and outside the scope of their relationship, especially since Lydia didn't say anything problematic or conflicting.

    On 9/29/2023 at 11:27 AM, ally8620000 said:

    Honestly, they should have just scrapped this whole season.

    Really makes me wonder if this year they did like they have in previous years where there were other engagements in the pods and for whatever reason they chose not to keep following those couples, or whether there were just only 3 total engagements this season. I can't imagine if there really were more engaged couples, that they wouldn't have them come along on the couples getaway too, since more couples to follow equals more potential drama leading up to marriage day.

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  17. Lots of thoughts about the recent People Magazine Investigates episode, "Manhunt":

    • Usually it's parents blindly sticking by their little snookums who I just know couldn't have done it. This time we get the adult son blindly believing his super daddy couldn't have committed the credit union robbery and murder, even though the father had apparently robbed a bank before!  The son insisted that dad is the greatest man I know, and I'm proud to be his son...but, oh yeah, he killed a guy and left many others traumatized.  Try as he did, that umbrella with dad's fingerprints can't be just wished away.
    • Also, the son seemed to have willful ignorance about the true nature behind those trips to Japan, and I do believe the friend about the trips being to sell marijuana. IIRC, the father's job at Xerox was fairly mundane and blue collar, and he didn't have a lot of seniority or experience or anything. So, son, how do you think dad could afford to go repeatedly to Japan?  And why did dad go 7 times to apparently the same place?  And why did he bring along his random male friend (who wasn't a "special friend")? And what do you think all that interacting with the local people was about, rather than doing sight-seeing stuff across the country? 
    • And in the son's own words, there was "never a shortage of money". Plus the dad found a way to pay the $9K parental share for the private school tuition. Yet the dad couldn't hire a teenager to watch the son after school in 5th and 6th grade, so he could stay at work for his full shifts?
    • But the son isn't the only one who deserves scorn in this episode. WTAF was wrong with the people who did the initial investigating?  They mentioned having compiled a list of 600 suspicious (that wasn't their word, but I can't remember what they said) Xerox Black employees ('cause they knew the perp was Black).  But apparently they did not do anything AT ALL to narrow down this huge list, like, oh, filter it on people with a prior conviction, or maybe people with multiple prior convictions, or maybe even people with multiple prior convictions that include BANK ROBBERY!  Oh, here's maybe possibly another silly idea for that filter...PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUED XEROX!!! I"m guessing that the people who appear on both lists might be a good place to start!  SMH
    • The dad was clearly not a rocket scientist. Having an open umbrella on a day with no rain is not a good way to go unnoticed by potential witnesses!  One of the talking heads speculated that he did it to avoid the external cameras, but, uh, there were going to be internal cameras inside the credit union that would get a far better pic of his face, even with the weird disguise.
    • The dad also had some nerve, or idiocy, to try to claim racial discrimination for habitually coming in late and leaving early (supposedly due to the child care issue, which I think they only mentioned being a problem after school). The son said something about how, yeah, my dad will choose his kid every time. Seems like the only way it would be racial discrimination (since time cards will prove that the absenteeism did occur), is if a White co-worker was allowed to have chronic absenteeism over a period of 1-2 years, while he wasn't, and it doesn't sound like that was the case. But we already know the dad had balls, because 3 weeks after going into the credit union with the FBI jacket and pretending to the manager that he was there on FBI business, and then committing the credit union robbery and murder, he calls the FBI hotline about the fraud he was experiencing in another area of his life! 
    • Finally, the idea to give him potato chips in the interrogation room to get him thirsty enough to drink the water from the bottle to leave fingerprints, was brilliant...but too bad he had the baby with him who also got thirsty and needed to drink from the bottle.

     

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  18. We've got three weeks in a row of new mysteries! Building off of this past weekend's Mystery Island, we've got a Hannah Swensen movie this coming weekend, "A Zest for Death". And then the next weekend it's a Curious Caterer movie, "Fatal Vows".  Not really sure why they wait to release a bunch in a row, with looong stretches without new ones. But I'm glad that they're at least still making them!

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  19. On 9/27/2023 at 9:05 PM, DearEvette said:

    Is it me or are they showing more interaction amongst all the pod-mates in their separate sections than they have in the last few seasons?  It just seems we are getting more time amongst all the women and guys showing them cooking, drinking, talking, playing etc.  felt more like season 1.

    I took a look at the previous seasons, and in seasons 1 and 3, they were already on the couples getaway by episode 3, and for seasons 2 and 4 it was season 4. This season, it's season 5, so, yes, they have spent longer in the pods.

  20. On 9/4/2023 at 5:21 PM, LuvMyShows said:

    Apparently, there will be a new September mystery called Mystery Island, starring Elizabeth Henstridge and Charlie Weber, on Friday, September 29 at 9pm EST. Plot summary: When a visit to a mystery themed resort goes wrong, a local detective and a vacationing British criminal psychiatrist team up to solve a real murder.

    Quoting myself, since I watched the new mystery. The ending was clever, but ultimately a disappointment in my opinion. I wasn't wild about the format...I guess I like one with more a 'naturalistic' premise. Also, I'm uncertain how the police were able to corroborate that the other woman died as the result of an accident. All they had to go on was the word of the other woman who was with her.  I don't recall the details of how she said the woman fell, but it was on a beach, so it's unlikely that she fell just from having slipped.  And I don't recall there being any rocks big enough to have done enough damage to kill her, so that would mean it wouldn't have been accidental.

  21. On 9/28/2023 at 11:22 AM, WhatsUpDummy said:

    Even when she and Kody had their ridiculous 11 day honeymoon...

    ...and yet she mystifyingly wonders how it all fell apart!

    On 9/28/2023 at 2:35 PM, Roslyn said:

    She may have pushed back, moved out for a bit, butted heads with him, but in the end she always went back and followed him, until now.

    I think Kodouche had an inkling that this time may be different, or at least that this time is serious, when he saw her at lunch and she didn't stand up and hug him on her own, and he said something about "you didn't think I'd come in and kiss you on the mouth?" It's like he was making a big deal that he had done that, because he needed to show her some (in his mind) grand gesture.

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