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I quit my job. I could not do my job remotely because I worked for social services taking care of a disabled child. The schools shut down last March here and I stayed home with my 9-year-old son. Now it is going on what, a year, and I am broke AF and using my credit line to buy groceries.

I have a ten year old son and I was nearly forty when I had him so I feel like I come from a couple generations removed from his. In my generation (or at least in my family and this has been the same for most of the people I have met from my generation) parents didn't play with their children. We were told to go outside and we went. We played with other kids, or for kids like me who lived in very isolated places, perhaps we played with rocks, or dogs, or sticks, or cows. Whatever we did, we didn't play with our parents, nobody did. Because things have changed in the last forty years and now you have to actually supervise your children, my son ended up playing a lot with me in his early years. This was fine and it was fun. We also had dogs and goats and chickens and it was fun. My son loved school and I also arranged a lot of play dates to make sure my super social son had a lot of time to play with other kids. I already felt that kids these days, well my kid at least, and most kids I know, have no unsupervised parent-free play. Then came Covid and no school and no play dates. I quit my job and stayed home and for the last 5-6 months it has been just me and my son all day every day (until my husband gets home from work). Poor kid. Recess? With mom. Math? With mom. Lunch? With mom. Phys Ed? With mom. Summer vacation? With mom. Good grief. I wonder what is going to happen in September.

Until Love on the Spectrum, Please Like Me was my favourite show ever on Netflix. Now they are tied for the top. What a grrrrrrrreat show! Love on the Spectrum made me so happy 🥰 A few of the Love on the Spectrum cast members are heaps and piles more watchable (and interesting) than some of the best actors or personalities in the business. I would absolutely watch a show just about Maddi or Michael. Maddi is super cool and quirky and naturally funny. And the way Michael expresses himself is thoughtful and funny and unique. I want to hear what Maddi and Michael think about things. So many of the loudest or most retweeted or amplified voices are not the ones I want to hear; I want to hear more from Michael or Maddi. I hope we get a second season. A couple of them (Kelvin, Andrew) stressed me out a little bit, because they seemed stressed I guess. The Detectorists is my favourite show on Amazon Prime, not that anybody is asking.

Totally. I think maybe she was in love with him too. The way they looked at each other.....

Wow there is sure a lot of value put on being tall.

I have no idea why I am enjoying this show so much. When that mother was showing the marriage jewelry (well 20% of it!) she was planning to present to her future daughter-in-law, I couldn't imagine what I would say if it were presented to me. Thanks? I have never worn jewelry and I couldn't give two craps about jewelry, but it seems like a personal thing. How do you choose jewelry for somebody you have never met and don't know their style? I have been married for many years with no ring, there never was a ring. My husband never offered me one and I never offered him one either. My husband is Finnish and maybe wedding rings are not such a common thing in that culture? I can't remember if my mother-in-law wears one. Akshay's mother has babied him and controlled him all his life and now suddenly she is demanding that he get married at 25. He IS young at 25 but he seems even younger. He seems like a boy. A sweet boy, but still a boy. I love Rashi (the vet). I would like to be friends with her. She seems fun. And what about her brother????? I was surprised how much I enjoyed the previously intolerable Aparna on the goat yoga date. She was down right likeable and bonus points because the goats obviously liked her and with animals it is all about energy -- you can't fake that I think. I think even she was surprised that she enjoyed the date. Ha!

Oh! And I want to get a job as a "face reader". Look at photo on a cellphone and declare "she will give birth to twins!" But probably you have to be born with the caul or something to qualify.

So watching this (and knowing nothing at all about Indian culture), what happens if you are gay or asexual? Do your parents just expect you to enter into a heterosexual marriage anyway?

Their kitchen was pink with a cupcakes wallpaper border! So glad to see a dog getting walked on the daily on this show.

Yeah, that was a big beautiful head of hair! Salt n pepper, yes, thank you. Beard, good. Glasses, good. Chubbbby, good. Sweet and kind....I like it a lot. Back in the day I probably would have brought this one home 🙂

I'm obviously alone in my opinion here but I really like Dominic. James meanwhile, gross, no thank you. While I was watching the show I was thinking, "I've got a spare room for this guy". I'm kind of surprised that he doesn't have one of those enabler wives who overfeeds him just because he is gentle and kind and doesn't beat her. I'm kind of surprised it isn't me. I don't know how I ended up with the husband I've got who goes to work everyday cuz I so easily could have had a Dominic sitting around my house 😉 . I love to cook and I love people to enjoy eating what I cook. Me and Dom would be quite the match. He really is living in slow motion though. Every thought or motion or impulse to action seems to take months to bubble to the surface. It is all based in depression I think. I really loved his blue and black buffalo check shirt. Nice! He looked really good in that. I'm not snarking, I thought he looked really good. I did spend most of this episode wondering how bad that van smelled.

This! Drives me NUTS. That dog seemed so patient and sweet and hopeful. I just want to grab that dog and take it for a run. I hope somebody (Beth is probably my only hope and she is already doing everything) is walking that dog on the daily.

I am a home sewer (which looks like I am part of the septic system) but I have never made a gentleman's waistcoat and I hope I never will. And I was worried (perhaps unnecessarily?) that Riccardo would struggle with the 12 pages of written instructions for the waistcoat. Sometimes people speak English as a second language better than they can read it. It looked like a lot, especially for a time crunch. I have thoroughly enjoyed every season of this show so much and I am very pleased with Juliet winning this season. I agree with a previous poster who said Juliet could have a career as a designer. Also, I adored Claudia but I was super excited to see that Joe was her replacement. I have loved him for a few years already. Unexpectedly, I have a bit of a crush on Patrick. And Riccardo. What a lovely man. What lovely men.

Yay Minju! I like Daniel's collection and I like Minju's collection but I LOVE Minju's wedding dress/final piece/showstopper. I think Daniel picked the wrong look for his final piece and it wasn't true to his brand. His fabulous rowing outfit from the activewear challenge was more of a showstopper and more representative of his brand. I know he couldn't do that look again for the finale but he clearly has it in him to do something amazing. Daniel's final piece looked like one of the 80s prom dresses from my senior year in high school. A few girls had rich parents who really flashed out for prom at my school. Not me, I sewed my prom dress myself and it cost me 11 bucks. Ha! But I still like it. I realize Daniel wasn't even born at the time of my prom but I can say with authority that we don't need any more shiny 80s prom dresses. I loved this show and my only real gripe is the timeline of the finale. Ten looks in 3 days? This show is a real opportunity for these designers to show the world what they can do -- never mind the cash prize and the online sales, but the Netflix exposure of their name and brand too -- so why rush the design and construction into 3 days? That is bananas. Why wouldn't they want to give the designers enough time to do great work? Obviously this is a reality show but for these designers, this is also their name, their brand, their business, their reputation. I would hate to have to show rushed, incomplete, ill-conceived or just not my best work to the world. I think they each had to have a couple throw away looks just to get to 10. If TPTB said ten looks in ten days it would still be a hard push and a great challenge....but 3? Come on. Maybe it was editing shenanigans and they had a lot more than 3 days in reality?

There was definitely a high school Home Ec vibe going down that runway. I didn't love any of it. I adore both Angel and Minju but I didn't like Angel's splatter paint or Minju's blocky menswear. Ashton's looks were okay but forgettable. I liked Daniel's the best of the lot so I'm glad he won a spot in the finale. The level of workmanship and design throughout the entire competition up to the semi-final was super impressive and amazing, but this was the first time I was like, Yikes, this shit hurts my eyes.