sempervivum

Madison, Wisconsin to Dublin- the usual list of demands, but what stood out was the weirdly flat affect of wifey. There was virtually no expression on her face, even when she commented that if she couldn't have brought their giant husky-looking dog along, she would have stayed behind.

2 (not new) ones that keep coming back: Hormel Pepperoni one man band guy-dude is so sweaty and desperate looking, it makes me uncomfortable VW Tiguan-idiots preparing to flee an incoming asteroid (meteorite?), who have SO MUCH ROOM in the back that they load up things like golf clubs, a giant beach ball and a huge flat screen TV

Thank you for that-I've seen quite of few of these shows, but I might not have checked out the Stone collaboration, since I didn't know who he is. They are wonderful together.

LOL. Cam is way better looking than DWS, though. I'm agreeing with so many comments here, I can't quote them all. However, I have a sinking feeling we'll get to a top 5 that will consist of Jonny, Garrett, Caleb, Cade and a girl, probably Jurnee, but more likely (shudder) Mara. Or Catie, ugh. Hope I'm wrong. BTW, rumor has it that Top 10 will be Disney songs and Top 7 will be Prince songs! Well, I doubt that there will be much attention when this happens (and I agree it will, pretty soon) as there hasn't been any great media attention paid to Ada yet. It's not like AI hasn't had gay contestants before, and I don't think Adam is trans (obviously).

For anyone interested in an alt history of 'JFK presidency without the assassination', see Stephen King's '11/22/63' (the ending). - Oops, forgot about the Ike coin; of course in addition to his personal popularity, he was also a military genius who won WW2.

thesupremediva1, I agree with everything you said. If it helps, according to mjs site, AI is being renewed for next year, and the next season will be longer.

The point of this was that there would never have been a JFK coin (in our reality) if he hadn't been a beloved personality who was also assassinated. Despite Lucy breathlessly telling him he was one of the greatest presidents, he isn't really regarded that way by historians, and it's unlikely he would have merited a coin under normal circumstances. The only 20th century president to get a coin was FDR. The coin turning to Nixon would have to mean that in the alt past, Nixon would have been 1) a great or at least very popular president and 2) assassinated. Writers didn't think this through very well, but I do agree that it was rather chilling on screen. On the romance front, I'd much rather see more of Rufus and Jiya than the other 2 (or 3!).

Wasn't Ron B. the guy whose family came from Africa and they were living in a car or something? I seem to remember a poverty sob story connected to him. Wondering how he can afford braces? Speaking of poverty, ugh on Shannon thinking she's got a prayer of saving her family finances; hopefully that's just pandering, since there's nothing else interesting about her. Ada needs to ditch the black lipstick and 2 inch lashes; also match your face and chest color, girl! She also should have gone on Caleb's diet, so she isn't forced to squeeze her rolls into a barrel shape via Spanx. So we're going to go from 24 to 14 tonight, then to 10, then to 5. Apparently nobody knows yet how many will go to the finale-2 or 3? 5 weeks isn't much time for the inexperienced ones to figure it all out.

LOL, I had the same reaction to the way she looked in her atrocious costume. I noticed she did this when Maddie started 'Brand New Key', and wondered if she knew the song, since as far as I could tell, Maddie performed pretty much the Melanie version. That octave leap in head voice (which seemed to be what provoked Katie's amazement) is nothing new or different from the original I actually thought the first group of 12 was better/more entertaining. There were a couple of real stinkers tonight (Shannon, Ron).

aw, I think he looks genuinely happy. I am kind of obsessed with the girl who looks to be a young teen, who has a normal size upper body, but little legs about 12 inches long; I've never heard of such a deformity.

Yes. At this point, and with such a drastically reduced number of episodes (compared to original flavor AI) , most viewers are still probably identifying the remaining crew with descriptions like 'Hair', 'Prison Coveralls', 'Peroxide Blonde', 'Latina', 'Tall Guy', etc.. In the old days it always used to take me until about Top 12 to start remembering everyone's name.

The really weird one is the one that starts with 'wittle' Alec/x. Then at the end of the parade of disabilities, we get to see pubescent Alec/x, who now looks just odd and has a gravelly voice. Personally, I watch the Shriners ones for the little AA kid with braids, who is so proud of himself because he can (slowly and painfully, it appears) 'climb the stairs'. I am not a sentimental person, but something about that kid just speaks of his brave spirit. I hope he's doing well.

Pretty sure it was $20K, not $200K. Re. plot holes: once again, as with the bandage story, it's like the writer can't be bothered to think about how this would work in real life. I can shrug away this kind of failure of logic after a show has been on for years and the writers are grasping at straws to come up with a twist, etc, but it's only been-what, 5 episodes? There are too many holes to ignore, for me. Definitely intrudes into my enjoyment of the acting.

The 'MVMT' watch ad bugs. The 2 bros-Jersey Shore looking dudes- who 'made a company' selling cheap knock offs of prestige watches; one of them says some nonsense like 'you know those nice watches that you can't afford? well, they only cost a fraction of the price to make.' Uh, Economics 101, goombas: things you buy pretty much always cost less to manufacture. That $ difference is called profit and it's really the only reason anybody makes stuff. If you want to make less money on your watch than Rolex does on the real deal, fine, but don't imply there's some chicanery involved.

HHI logic: The wife was actually complaining about that really nice furniture in apartment 2 (the one they picked at the end), but totally didn't comment on ZERO furniture in apartment 3. However, really cute family!

Why doesn't the show have nutritionists teach these people to take SMALL BITES and then TASTE each bite before gobbling it down? I was struck yet again last night watching Jennifer eat that first 'breakfast' that Marissa prepared for her: at least 8-10 (more?) eggs, what looked like half a pound of bacon, 3 enormous hockey-puck biscuits with at least a cup of cream gravy on each one! I don't think it took more than a minute for her to shovel it all in. She said after a few bites 'MMMMM Tastes so good', but honestly, how can she tell? The food isn't in her mouth for more than 2 seconds and then it's down the hatch. and even later in the show, every time we saw her eating she had huge spoons and/or took bites that were so big she could barely contain the food in her mouth. Why haven't these patients been taught to take small bites and then to savor each bite for, say 10 seconds before swallowing? I wonder how much of the addiction is simply to the act of 'filling up'. Maybe if the show would explore more behavioral issues, they could cut out all the naked shower/ 'bleach my folds' scenes. Then maybe they would be able to get some patients who aren't lower economic class- I think it's kind of shameful the way the show makes it seem as if this is a class issue.

Seattle to Berlin family- They could afford $4K rent, so apparently the radio station is willing to pay big bucks for this old dude to broadcast from Germany while pretending to be in Seattle? At least he gave in to the wife/kids needs, I guess. The first place was cool, but I could see her point about it not having a yard and being far from school.

Yes, it remains to be seen if he can do anything else. Can he pull off a 'Music of the Night' /David Cook or 'Mad World'/Adam Lambert? I don't care enough to do any research, but wonder if he does any songwriting, since he hasn't volunteered to perform an original. Of course he could be saving that for later.

He looked like a young Steve Bannon.

These plots don't seem to be very well thought out, to put it kindly. The Retta 'bandage in the sauce' for example. What kind of sad sack would go along with stirring some greasy old sauce with her bare arm, just because the spoon/paddle broke?? Even if the owner is so cheap he won't replace the paddle, and even if the employee (wasn't she a waitress, why is she cooking?) didn't want to quit for some reason, wouldn't you spend $10 or something at a restaurant supply store and get your own paddle?! Stupid. It's like the writer had the 'bandage in the sauce' scene and built this clumsy background story to use it. I am watching for this great cast, but I switched to House Hunters International halfway through because this annoyed me so much.

Yeah, AJ will milk his random witnessing of grandma's assault scene for as long as his idiot mother goes along with it. And poor Archer; what must AJ's wife have been like if AJ got custody? But since we'll never find out, who cares, I guess.

s Unless something has changed in the last few years, isn't the singing shows' (all of them) demographic pretty old? Wasn't that the reason for the string of mature-skewing WGWG's, and the dearth of pop-type contestants of either sex going far in previous seasons? I'm recalling LOTS of discussion about this back in TwoP days. I expect the actual judge critiquing will begin with the top 14 show, when the show will try to get the audience to vote for the 'right' contestants. That's when Katy et al will finally start pointing out the flaws. Catie strikes me the same way Lauren Alaina did in her season: truly talented, but with a contrived/phony personality problem (although that seems to have worked out for LA).