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When you consider that many real life women have had to deal with being stalked for an extended period of time (as I've stated several times, my first #MeToo story is of being stalked for a year by an ex-boyfriend who wouldn't accept that I'd broken up with him), the idea that TV would portray a young woman dealing with this for nearly a DECADE as romantic instead of terrifying is sickening. The "Elvin Pays For Dinner" episode of "The Cosby Show" is utterly enraging. An ex-girlfriend of Elvin's comes to town and the plan is for him and Sondra to have dinner with her. Sondra changes her mind because she's decided to work on her law school application. Elvin IMMEDIATELY declares that he'll cancel and stay home as well. Sondra proceeds to REPEATEDLY insist that Elvin go ahead and go out, over his own repeated insistence that he stay home with her until he finally agrees to go out. Sondra immediately looks upset and when Elvin comes home, screams her head off at him, locks him out of their bedroom and won't talk to him the next day. Why? Because Elvin wasn't psychic enough to realize that being REPEATEDLY told "Yes, it's okay if you go out" actually meant "No, I don't want you to go out". It gets even worse the next day when she goes raging about it to her mother, who actually puts her in her place for not being honest with Elvin and expecting him to read her mind. Sondra realizes that she was wrong and actually gets up to go and apologize and Clair promptly negates everything she just said by telling her to sit down--"he was late, the women were attractive, and he paid for their dinner." So at the end of the episode, Elvin is fawning all over Sondra to make up for the grievous offense of not being able to read her mind, and Sondra is just lapping it up with nary an apology for what SHE did wrong in not being honest and clear with him. So the only lesson learned is that Elvin has to know that if Sondra says "Yes", she really means "No". Sondra doesn't have to learn to be honest and not play mind games with him. INFURIATING.

I remember a woman commenting that if her husband had reacted like that when the child she gave up for adoption (but never told him about) had contacted her, it would have broken her heart. She was pretty terrible to him. I mostly liked Laura, but she really worked that Designated Heroine trope. He could really be a jerk.

Hallmark is starting their "Christmas In July" marathon on June 24, with three new movies, officially making it clear that they intend to make this just as much a phenomenon as their actual Christmastime marathon.

True to form, Hallmark will be starting its "Christmas In July" marathon. . .on JUNE 24. The fact that there are three new movies in the lineup created especially for this cements the fact that they're making this just as much a phenom as their "Countdown To Christmas".

I caught the series finale of "The Fugitive" a few weeks ago and the realization that the Kimble's neighbor knew all along that he was innocent but didn't say anything because (a) He didn't want to admit to what a coward he was to stand there and do nothing while Helen Kimble was murdered, and (b) He wanted to avoid gossip about being over at their house, is infuriating. You let an innocent man be tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and then go on the run for 4 years because protecting your reputation was more important? You PRICK. And then having the nerve to claim that it's his wife he was trying to shield. I'm glad she called him out on his bullshit.

The movie was written and filmed before the pandemic--the trailer came out in December 2019. You're still right about the villain's plot being goobledygook.

Season 4 is my favorite too, because it's when Doug and Carol reconciled and I just loved seeing them happy together.

I remember being taken aback at her defying Dave, who, for all his incompetence, had more authority than her, about emptying the trauma room, especially considering that there was a trauma coming in and the way she was ordering everyone else in the ER around as well. I was just coming to post about Aylward's death: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ers-john-aylward-dead-75-182441028.html For the most part, I liked Dr. Anspaugh.

I think my favorite was "watching a child get into a stranger's car". The "Boyfriend/Errand" skit was terrific.

Talk about an Armor Piercing Question. It never fails to sicken me how whenever someone is accused of a sexual crime, people will rally behind the accused rather than the victim. I can understand the cognitive dissonance somewhat--"But he's such a nice guy! I can't imagine that he'd do something like this!"--but it's still stunning. They KNOW that he did these despicable things and yet they still insist on waxing rhapsodic about what a wonderful man he is. It's frightening to think that someone could walk in on him outright molesting a child and probably still make excuses for him.

Newsflash, Mr. Burton. You're married to a pregnant woman. Legally speaking, that child IS yours, even if not biologically.

Some news: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jordan-Donica-Maree-Johnson-and-Kanisha-Marie-Feliciano-Join-THE-PHANTOM-OF-THE-OPERA-20220425 Jordan Donica will be returning to the part of Raoul on May 29 (I'm not sure for how long), so for a while, we'll have a black Christine and Raoul, like in London. And Kanisha Marie Feliciano will become the FOURTH black actress to play Christine when she joins as the Christine alternate/understudy.

Well, you've certainly triggered me. That storyline was SO. . . ICKY. And it made Felicia (already not the sharpest knife in the drawer) into this utterly moronic slut--she kept ditching her husband and kids to run around with Luke, then whined about them all hating her.

Yes, they were, and I liked that. They're one of the few shows that nailed it consistently. As far as Hayley, I remember her and Brian going to the prom in 1992, but they had to attend summer school because of the time that they'd missed what with the whole Will Cortlandt thing. That said, I'm pretty sure she never went to college, so indeed, her running a multi-million dollar company was highly unlikely, failing algebra or not. This all makes me realize how much I really hate the way soaps played games with the time frames of people's ages and their education.

I just finished watching it and yes, they did.

Sherri Papini's husband has filed for divorce, so I think it's safe to say that he genuinely didn't know she faked everything: https://www.yahoo.com/news/sherri-papinis-husband-files-divorce-204610529.html What a sick woman to let your loved ones suffer, thinking God only knows what has happened to you, all while you're canoodling with your lover and beating yourself up to make your bs story sound plausible.

I figured that too. It's a nice bookend to the series premiere. I don't know why they decided to cast such a well known actress for a one episode part, but it's fitting that the first episode was the first day for a new medical student, while the last was the first day for a new resident. I loved the whole "life goes on" aspect of the show too. ER wasn't the kind of show that needed to end with everyone getting married and/or quitting and/or moving away and the hospital closing down. We came in in the middle of the action and we left the same way.

According to this, Lizzo is indeed the first host to introduce herself as musical guest. I don't know why the link didn't post.

Is this the first time that a host doubling as the musical guest has introduced themselves? This is the first musical performance that I've watched in eons and I LOVED it.

Lizzo is GORGEOUS. The epitome of a Big Beautiful Woman. And she's funny. The latest musician to prove that they're also a talented comedian.

I'm so sick of criminals pulling the "A (random non-white) person did it" crap. Did the husband know all along or did he learn or figure it out later? Because he seemed genuinely shaken and horrified by how bruised and battered she was when she was found.

Sherri Papini has plead guilty and given the usual weepy "I'm so sorry" speech.

Has anyone seen the new production of Macbeth? I want to take my father for Father's Day, but I've seen some pictures and it looks like a modern day version and I'm not sure he'd like that, even if the original dialogue is kept.

Well, back on topic, I watched it as I usually do, and even as I'm always floored by its length, it is truly an epic and an excellent film.

Yes, and that was the moment that whoever she was saying it to knew that they'd seriously screwed up and was about to get a tongue lashing.