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Keke is an ass. However, when a person is saying to "trained" "counselors" that they are afraid to fall into water because they don't swim it is up to the counselors to address that fear. Instead they let her partner laugh off her fear and made it into another way in which she was non-compliant with the "therapy". No matter who they get as counselors, they always get total hacks. I actually liked Amber for a moment; that is, when she called out Jim for his physical stance when speaking at Merika. He is a douche in oh so many ways. His aggressive stance was one more instance. He was asking for a knee to the face.

I am worried it will be a season of me saying "Shut up, Negan." Was there any oxygen left for the other actors by the time he was done? This show has moved off of my live watch list. I'll try to keep up but it is no longer a priority. At least Michael Cudlitz can shave off that horrible mustache and go back to his natural blond.

The end is nigh. Joe Gorga was the unlikely voice of reason. Um, Chris, were you at the same dinner Joe was at? He saw the full blown crazy Jac was showing. Richie Wakile is still disgusting, So that shows a clear consistency. Maybe we're not doomed after all.

The scene with Ian's new friend (aka yet another man who sees Ian and immediately wants him) and his group was ridiculous. Yes, in LGBTQ groups many people will introduce themselves by name and pronouns. In some discussion groups, people will say more than that such as queer or gay, cisgender or transgender. However, I have never been to a brunch where people introduce themselves with so much info. For the record, "cisgender transsexual" makes no damn sense. And the word transsexual is rarely used now and would not be used by such a group.

Finally watched the episode. Unpopular opinion, I hated Granny June. I didn't hate her for not giving up the liver. I hated her character before that. You know how those critically ill people are always crocheting and taking care of others and baking cookies bigger than your face. Heck, you get a call that there's a liver available and you need to get to the hospital, tell 'em to cool their jets; you have cookies to bake for the doctors. I hated her pushing her granddaughter(?) to hug DeLuca. Consent matters, granny. Is she rating the desirability of all men for her granddaughter? Isn't it her choice?

I didn't feel any of the sexiness of the original. Tim Curry sold Frank-N-Furter as being intensely sexual and someone that people were drawn to. Laverne is a beautiful talented woman but she didn't sell the sex. The key problem to me is she's a woman - a sexy, curvy woman - playing a transvestite. The incredible thing about Tim Curry's portrayal was that with the extreme make up and corset and platforms on, he was sexy, appealing and ultimately tragic. It sounds weird but Laverne was too beautiful for this role. I missed Adam Lambert. I'll have to see if I can find a clip. Ben Vereen was great, as always, and I loved Columbia. But overall the show felt very flat. Also, there were so many bad lip synch moments it totally ruined the illusion.

I live in SF, they did some filming near my house and, most importantly, a friend is in one episode. So I'll be watching that one at least. Also, she said Hugh Laurie was excellent to work with so another reason to watch.

The Ancestry commercials annoy me for multiple reasons. First, the series where people find out something about a relative are always so irrelevant -- ooh, you come from a long line of barbers and you're bald. Quelle surprise! There have never been bald barbers. Once you lose your hair, you have to turn in your clippers and scissors. (All people with my last name, unless they took it through marriage, are related to the same person who came to the US in the mid 1700s and was hanged for murder. Celebrate that story, ancestry.com!) Second, the ones for the DNA analysis have people acting like they changed cultural affiliations when they found out their DNA. If you always enjoyed Scottish dance, keep Scottish dancing. It's not like you found out many of your ancestors were of German descent so now you suddenly can't Scottish dance. "Dammit! My feet just don't move the same way anymore!" Do any these people have friends with which they shared these activities? Do they disconnect from their communities? Is formerly Italian guy no longer allowed to eat Italian food? He's Eastern European. Get him some borscht! He needs potatoes, herring and sour cream stat! Finally, for the DNA ads, since whatever they are using to identify your racial/ethnic background does vary among siblings, my brother and I are not the same. They can say we are likely related. However, by the results we received one of us is biracial and the other isn't.

We're a coupe of episodes into season 2 now, and I feel like this show has finally hit its stride. Partly this seems to be due to taking more advantage of the ensemble cast. I find myself liking it more and more.

When I think about Rosie and Joe at the book signing, a few things come to mind. First, lights, cameras, Wakiles! From things Tre has said and just a general sense makes it feel like they are all about the public scene. They are really thirsty for airtime. Rosie enjoys spending time with Joe Giu - fine. But she also liked getting the positive attention from her appearances with him. And Kathy's desperation is flying off of her like perspiration drops in a cartoon. Second, and most importantly, Joe Giu is not about public displays of emotion, especially when sober. He is not one to process his emotions and is clearly uncomfortable when put in such situations in public. So they can say Joe blew off Rosie at the bookstore, but, knowing him, what did they expect? Was Joe going to have a heart-to-heart with Rosie, break down in tears and tell her how much he loves her?

So not glad that Chris took Delores's advice and hung out with the Wakiles instead of going to Joe's going away party. That was time well spent. That is if you like spending time with piggish Richie and equally piggish Rosie. I cannot fathom why anyone would want to spend time with them.

Did Nathalia make the black jacket on the losing team that the judges praised? I didn't get that at all. Was there detail that was hard to see? It seemed shapeless and looked like something from Travelsmith - you can roll it up and it won't wrinkle/wear it on a rainy day.

I'm fairly sure Kelly fell off the deep end a long, long time ago. Heck, she gone so far she can't even see the deep end from where she is!

This shows one of the on-going issues with this show - when people get together romantically it is as if they never had meaningful interaction before that. It is so weird in a show that has been focused on friend relationships, especially between women. We have also had strong friend relationships between men and women, although they tend to include "the sun" and the men tend to take a backseat to her sun-ness. Clearly these characters get to know each other as colleagues and the, in many cases, as friends. They spend a lot of time together at work and at home. So they would know more about each other. Yes, Owen and Amelia had a really short engagement, but they have known each other for years. And, as you pointed out, this was the case with Japril also. They knew each other well before the epic elopement. Okay, getting out my soapbox to talk about Alex's case of the week. Easily dislocating a shoulder is not the only thing needed to diagnose EDS. The syndrome has very specific signs. They would check her joints for extreme laxity, as in can she bend her fingers damn near backwards. They would also look at the laxity in her skin. There are variants in EDS that show varying levels of joint laxity and skin changes; however, there are tell tale signs. Also, needing fluids after having one beer is not a signifier for this syndrome. If they believed she was not an alcoholic, they should check her kidney function and do an endocrine panel, unless they think she has the variant of the syndrome that causes major issues with blood vessels and they think she has a bleed. Again, they would need to check her blood work and look for signs of bleeding. I know they handwaved that she was getting a workup, but they could still try, at least a little, to come up with something more realistic. There are many connective tissue disorders (I have one) that could make a person have lax joints. There are also multiple issues that could affect her ability to process alcohol. Couldn't they have picked one of those? Putting my soapbox away . . . .

Maybe he'll hand out Chick Tracts at the bar to get people on the path to Jesus! @lookeyloo So sorry for your loss. There are such complicated emotions with these types of loss. As you said, in many ways you lost her years ago to dementia. However, there is still always something comforting to know someone is alive because it is hard to quash all hope that they will somehow recover. Hugs to you and your husband.

I didn't even notice her outfit because I was so absorbed staring at her makeup. She looked bizarrely shiny and plastic, like they replaced Heidi with an android version of herself. I was surprised when I saw he was 30. Sheesh! From the way he talked about his experience, I expected him to be at least 50. One of the other designers mentioned Alex had been in fashion for sooooo looooong. Did he start in the womb? Was he designing diapers while he was wearing them? Thanks to everyone for pointing out that wasn't mauve. I have a bit of a problem with my color vision, so I thought it was just me. I'm glad I didn't try adjusting the color on the TV. What kind of washed out drab pinkish hue was that and why does pricey material exist in it? I hated the yellow coat. It was way oversized and the sleeves were really odd. The embellishments reminded me of a jacket I saw years ago at Macy's. I was shopping with a friend. We were in the women's business clothing section when we found a bright white blazer with these huge sequin appliques shaped like wrist watches tacked onto it. I, of course, tried it on to fully appreciate the lunacy of thinking someone would wear this monstrosity to the office. I was laughing so hard I couldn't get it off. The sales person came over and suggested we leave. I stop laughing long enough to get out of the jacket and hand it to her. When we looked back, we saw her almost lovingly petting it to smooth out the sequins. Yep, that's business wear. I need some tacky sequin appliques and a silver strapless dress and I'm ready to go.

This is so much the crux of it all. Tamra's behavior is unacceptable to most people. She loves histrionics, taking things to an absolute extreme. She does horrible things to people, but they are forgotten when she goes into her major victim mode. The only exception was during the infamous run away from the table scene when the whole group was riding her for her behavior. Otherwise, she goes after one person and then has a fit, painting herself as a victim, and one of her coworkers will step in to try to calm the rabid honey badger down. She can go from aggressor to victim in seconds. Full disclosure: I am attuned to this because my mother does this. She will attack people, usually more subtly, sometimes viciously. When they finally snap then suddenly mom is the victim. And people run to her side. It takes people a long time to see through this kind of behavior. I agree Simon has not been a good parent if he was unwilling to have his children see a therapist to help them with issues surrounding the divorce. He often came off as a controlling jackass on the show. The children could be helped by therapy; it could help them better navigate through the messiness of the destruction of their parents relationship and let them know they are absolutely not at fault. Also, given the level of acrimony, it would help them understand that their parents aren't behaving well and that is not the children's fault. However, if a child, now young adult, says their parent is abusive, I am going to believe them. Abuse comes in many different forms. If nothing else, Sydney may feel abandoned by her mother since, in her mind, her mother chose a reality show over her children. Heather and Shannon do not see through Tamra's victim act. On several occasions they have called her out on her heinous behavior, but they always cave after she has one of her woe is me fits. It shows that they are both kind people at their cores. Unfortunately they don't see how they are being manipulated. As far as land loan gate, I can easily imagine Kelly being at lunch with someone and mentioning she was on the show. That person saying, "Oh, I've met Heather. My firm arranged her loan for the land she bought." Not a big deal. Kelly is trying to turn it into a take down fancy pants moment without realizing (or caring) about the effect her comments could have on the person who made the comment's life.

I don't need them to be good. I am tired of this cynical world in which everyone is an asshole. Caleb seemed too good to be true. Now he's a cheater (even though we've never heard them explicitly state the limits on their relationship; he did feel the need to lie). The waitresses are suddenly expendable. I very much agree with your last line. There used to be other characters who were critical of some of the Gallaghers' actions and that, as an audience, we were expected to understand and quite possibly agree with. Where have they all gone? Was that simply too much nuance for these writers? You nailed it. They are just going in circles. There is nothing new. They are not developing or changing (other than Deb feeling she can steal from people and use their credit cards with abandon). While Frank has always been an unrepentant drain on his family, leaving a wake of destruction in his path, the other characters had struggles with who they were and how they dealt with the world. There used to be a sense of them stealing because they were in desperate need. Now they all just fuck people over because they can. I keep hoping for a laugh or something challenging to think about. It looks like I will be left wanting for the rest of this ride.

I was just coming here to rant about the start up. Of course Lip gets an unpaid internship and immediately finds a way to start scamming his employers. And of course the FBI shows up. Since we saw someone deleting files (like that would completely erase their existence - hitting delete equals scrubbing the system in the world of Shameless - no chance they are stored in multiple places or have been attached to mails, or are sitting in the trash/recently deleted folder . . .), we know they are up to no good; that is, when they are not placing coffee orders and playing games. Why? Because in the Shameless world everyone is a scammer. No one ever does good. Heck, I would settle for someone's actions being neutral. Now genius Lip can find the files and blackmail his employers. Because of course he can. He's a Gallagher.

I so agree with the horrible issues with Ian's storyline. So he feels he has to have sex with a woman. Yeeeeeeaaaaaah. I fail to see the humor. Let's address the other issue - a random woman on the El sees Ian and decides to have sex with him. During the encounter, he is clearly uncomfortable but she is all hot to go. After all, she's not white so in the world of Shameless she must be very sexual. He is disgusted when going down on her and she doesn't notice Somehow the Gallagher genes make him irresistible and incredibly skilled at cunnilingus. Continuing the women can't get enough of the Gallaghers, the new waitress (again a WOC) immediately desires Lip. Sure, she had just started at a new job but her desire is too damn strong, overriding common sense that would be to not start a new job by trying to have sex with your coworker. Finally Frank, yes, Frank, sleazy, smelly, drunk Frank, uses his child to pick up a woman who is happy to go home with him. Why not? He's a Gallagher. Everybody wants to see what kind of diseases they can pick up from Frank. She is willing to climb a ladder and (possibly, not clearly specified) have sex with Frank in front of his child. All I have left to say is "Aaaaaaaarrrrrrggggh!"

Dr. Muffyn is a cardio thoracic surgeon. Also, I, and most of my siblings, have an inherited heart condition so I'm am going to cautiously weigh in on the medical discussions, knowing that everything (EVERYTHING) must be checked with your physician who knows all of your own medical history. The chemical form of the stress test is as safe as the treadmill version. In both, there is always a risk that you trigger your heart issue. Then again, that is what they're for! Often the advantage to the chemical form is the doctor stays with you or is very ready to intervene. And it is often quicker. Somehow with the treadmill version doctors are more likely to leave you to the trained technicians. They know their stuff but don't have the same level of training. (Full disclosure: I tore a foot tendon during a treadmill test. This resulted in four surgeries to repair it. I do have a genetic disorder that causes problems with my connective tissues so I was at significantly higher risk of such a thing than others. However, I now have a well earned hatred of treadmills.) You will feel your heart racing. It is disconcerting. You need to remind yourself that this is a forced chemical reaction because your mind can start to panic. Depending on the person, it can help to either keep talking to distract yourself or to work on deep breathing/meditation, whatever helps you remain more calm while your heart is going "panic!!!!!" @Jynnan tonnix for your father, since you (rightfully) have an appointment with his cardiologist, in the meantime you want to track when he has these incidents and exactly what he is feeling. Things to consider are: he has eaten and if so what, whether he is in a warm or cool environment, if he has been active (whether walking, exercising, climbing the stairs or doing other things), does he appear puffy at all (fingers and feet/ankles or face). People with heart damage tend to be more susceptible to minor fluctuations in fluid levels than others would be. He should track how long he feels the symptoms and specifically what he is feeling. Does his heart rhythm feel normal? Check his pulse rate. Check his blood pressure (if he doesn't have one, get an automatic BP cuff for home 0 they are pretty accurate). Is his vision affected at all (things seeming out of focus, wavy, color reduction, light reduction, lessened vision to the perimeter)? Is there any change in sensation in his limbs (numbness, tingling)? Is there a change in grip strength? Please know, none of this is to scare you. He may have absolutely none of these types of symptoms. If he is alert to them, he may notice something he is missing that can help with a diagnosis. We tend to not notice numbness, only pain, so it's good to have a check list. Also, it helps the patient feel more active in their own care. He can take back some control of what is happening which can be very important after heart surgery/issues. Since you noted it does sometimes seem to be related to him leaning forward too much, have him sit up straight (not standing in case he gets dizzy) and take very deep breaths focusing on expanding his diaphragm. In case he is having intermittent arrhythmias that are resolved before the ambulance comes but he is still feeling effects from based on his limited heart function you can also suggest he do 2-3 forced sharp coughs when he first feels symptoms. It can help to reset the heart rate. (And he can learn to do an excellent Bill the Cat impression - I have it down!) I hope everything gets resolved quickly for you and your family.

Greg was there to service whichever Manzo boy he's been in a relationship with all these years. In addition to her soap, Caro has also spent much effort criticizing others, over praising her sons and of course wiping her kitchen counters. That woman can wipe!

I want some humor but not scripted shoe-horned in jokes. There are naturally funny people who can do commentary that makes you laugh without trying desperately to fit whatever supposedly witty comment in regardless of whether or not it fits. This show comes off as desperate.

It feels to me like Bravo is throwing things/people into the show this season trying to figure out what will stick; that is, what the audience will be really interested in. Toss in the Wakiles. Who wants more? How about more Chris and Jac? Here's Kim D to stir the pot. Will that make you want to watch? Will social media light up over this? It feels desperate.

I am afraid tonight my fuck meter officially hit zero. I have zero fucks left to give. I do not care if any of these people get along. So boring. From Siggy's acting reaction, we're supposed to think the hellspawn Ashlee being pregnant is the most shocking news ever!!!! Had it not been for Siggy's I'm-going-to-disconnect-my-jaw-and-swallow-Ashlee-whole-like-a-snake face, I may have nodded off from the lack of surprise. I did get one thing from watching this episode. I thought I could go as Kim D for Halloween. Then I realized that would be much too scary for children to see. I guess I'll just cover myself in gore to be less frightening. I'm sure I can find realistic looking bloody bowels and a hanging eyeball somewhere. I'll still be less horrifying than everyone's favorite schmata salesperson.