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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.

Do we know why Madison was in the wedding party and Savanah wasn't? My honest guess is that Savanah just preferred to be a guest and not have the extra attention given to bridesmaids, but I don't know if that was ever stated anywhere.

WTF is the point of a stay-at-home mom who doesn't cook and has a nanny? Whatever Kody is picky about, it can't be that he expects pheasant under glass. Make some chili mac using Campbell's soup and he'll be in hog heaven. If Robyn can't manage that, she is a genuine idiot.

YES. For women in their 50s? YES. And rural Utah is not a good place to look, especially if you're not LDS.

There still are. But I'm sure the show would have mentioned it if the father candidate had been married to Wes's mom.

There is no possible way LeVar was actually surprised to have white ancestry. Naming a specific Confederate soldier is a different ball of wax, emotionally. But come on. White ancestors are damn close to universal for African-Americans. You have to wonder if rape (or commercial sex) was part of the story for Wes Studi's mom, too. She goes to the length of naming some other guy (who knows he's not the dad) to throw her kid off the scent. And none of her relatives know who the real dad is, either? That doesn't suggest a fling. There's something shameful there.

I wish we could have seen something like this on Christine, fitted as it is on the plus-size model here. Give those girls some support and then let your belly float free! https://www.davidsbridal.com/product/lace-illusion-back-chiffon-wedding-dress-wg4011db?defining_size_family=316&defining_extra_length=1&defining_size_dress=315&defining_color=361

Me and the rest of the Emmy/Golden Globe audience: IT'S NOT A COMEDY. It's a fantastic show that deserves all kinds of awards. But there's a reason we don't put good comedies up against good dramas: the dramas suck up all the oxygen. This is so unfair to the actual comedies and the actual comedic actors, who are achieving in their own (IMHO, more difficult) art form.

They aren't supposed to show. If you follow this rule, it will ensure that you dress modestly, with no shorts or skirts above the knee, etc. I suspect that David's mom is used to temple weddings and has no experience with this sort of fancy reception, and didn't really know how to dress. Much like Christine. But as everyone has said, the entire family nailed the emotional parts of the wedding that really matter. Hard to say. I wonder if the eager daughter figured out that Christine was on the dating site, or prompted her dad to look on different sites to see if Christine turned up? Or maybe Christine's I-pursued-him story happened after David nudged her somehow. This is how I met my husband -- I liked one of his pictures on OKCupid, and that prompted him to write to me.

I don't think there is a lot of emphasis on this any more. But the reason we ought to emphasize it is that informal dialects work great inside of communities, but poorly across communities. It's a positive thing to have a standardized version of a language that people from all regions can speak and understand. This is essential in a written language. It's inevitable, though, that some nonstandard versions will be stigmatized (like New Jersey=violent mobster or Appalachian=ignorant hayseed). David Woolley does drywall, so his nonstandard grammar won't hurt his business. But if he tried to sell luxury real estate, he would hit a wall. If you want kids to have the freedom to do any job in any region, they need to speak/write the standard dialect in addition to whatever they speak at home.

I'm a huge nerd about mechanics in written English, but spoken dialects are a different story. My linguistics professor would say that it is impossible for native speakers to say something wrong -- if it feels right to them, then it's correct in their dialect. This is not a well educated group of adults. Sounds like maybe David didn't grow up middle class.

All of this is well speculated. He was healthy for most of the time that Robyn and his kids have been in the public eye. A tabloid would pay him real money for a truth-about-Robyn interview with supporting evidence. Why hasn't he done that? The best explanations are (1) he's already been paid somehow to lay low (2) he's actually an unselfish parent who won't publicly humiliate his kids by smearing their mother, even at the cost of being labeled an abuser on national TV.