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Ah, but you can. The outside pieces are those that don't have roads running outside the puzzle. It has to depict a closed loop. All of the clueless contestants were trying "solutions" that showed the road running off the border of the frame, or into a wall. That shows they didn't even grasp the premise of the puzzle. Shelisa understands the pressure of the race very well, and she was appalled by Derek's failure, too. (She was kind about it, though -- credit to her as a supportive spouse.) Of course it's harder in real life than on the couch. This is what the show is about. These contestants were shockingly terrible at a typical task (doing an easy puzzle under physical and time pressure) on a game show in its 36th season. I will root against such contestants and complain about the casting choices that put them on my TV. Not every season has so many hapless contestants left in the game by episode 6. I am really bad at basketball, but I can still judge when an NBA player fails at the fundamentals of their job. If your free throw percentage is 25%, I don't want to watch you play the game. That's true even if my percentage would be 1%.

I'm not opposed to alliances. But I am opposed to people who can't do 9-piece jigsaw puzzles succeeding on the race. Insofar as the first leads to the second, I'm against it. I'm glad, at least, that the team that went home failed fair and square. I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall in the control room for some of these challenges. You know that even with all the prep work they do, sometimes the contestants must shock them by doing much better or much worse than expected.

A nine-piece jigsaw puzzle, people. NINE! I would give that puzzle to a kindergartener. You do the outside edges first, and then you move on to the -- no, you don't move on to the inside, because there's only one piece in the middle, because there are only NINE!! For the love of Mike. When cops, firefighters, and nurses can't do any better than football trophy wives, you know you picked a stupid cast.

I'll take the lip sync battles over a reunion show any day. I don't really care about the backstage drama. I care about the drag, and this format gives us drag.

It's nice to think that when family members miss Garrison, they can hug his cats and feel like they are able to put that love somewhere that he would value.

Shoot, I'm out of the country and can't stream from here! I'll have to catch up when I get back. I'm coming, Pounders! You won't be watching alone!

I gave the donation in the hope that we could all give a little comfort to Janelle. It's good to learn that she knows how many people cared about Garrison.

I cannot bear to think about what Janelle is going through. Sadly, there are far too many suicide deaths among military veterans. Guns in the house are a major risk factor for suicide completion. Thousands of families are dealing with tragedies like this. It's the worst disaster imaginable. I came to the site today looking to snark about the Survivor premiere and found this instead. Very sobering. Thank you to all the snarkers who shared about your losses. May Garrison's memory be a blessing.

I've been limping along with my husband, watching the show for the battle sequences but not loving it, until Episode 6. This is what I was waiting for! Characters I can keep track of. Watching relationships develop. Writing that shows some respect for the audience. Bel Powley is fantastic. This became a different show when she was on screen. I thought they were going to hint that she's a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, but now they're hinting that she's a Nazi spy? Did I read the teaser right?

And the father and daughter were interviewed in front of a pretty nice motor home. I wonder if that's where they have to live now.

Don't miss Jon tearing up Tucker Carlson. The classics never go out of style.

I see a bright spot in the character of Crosby and the actor. He and Barry Keoghan are the only characters I don't have to work to distinguish from the others. You have all these generic good-looking actor types; throw in the oxygen masks, and I'm lost. They're also cutting between the different planes all the time. It would help if there were some kind of banner on the screen: "Meanwhile, back at the Memphis Belle...."

The LDS church does not allow a non-chaste couple to be sealed in the temple. They have to wait a year after their civil marriage to be sealed.

Agreed. The main character is a teetotaling, self-sacrificing angel with no apparent damage from being an alcoholic gambling addict's son? Another part of the problem, for me, is casting someone who looks like Austin Butler in the lead. I get that Hollywood productions are going to feature better-looking guys than actual units of draftees, but he's wrecking my suspension of disbelief. All I can see when he's on screen is a movie star. They've cast Cary Grant in a role meant for Jimmy Stewart. That said, the planes etc. are amazing to watch. I coincidentally saw one of the best-preserved B-17s in the world at the Palm Springs Air Museum just last week. I saw "Memphis Belle" like 10 times in my teens, but I did not appreciate the scale of the plane until I was standing underneath it. Gigantic propellers aside, it does not look like 80-year-old technology.

OMG. I feel better about living in the world for the next 10 months knowing that Jon will be there to help us.