Muffyn

Daniel goes full on BSC. And that's why you don't throw away owl coins that represent death cults! On the Chris thing, I can almost see a teenager running away. Almost. I mean, zombie apocalypse and all, but he's a moody teen. When Madison was being attacked last week and he didn't help her, in his mind "he froze." His step sister thought he was trying to kill Madison. With his normally flat affect, it is hard to distinguish anything from what was shown. Then he tries to talk to her and she thinks he is threatening her. Chris is no master communicator (of course we could probably put his entire dialog over a season and a half on a large index card, so hard to tell). In his mind he was just trying to tell her he froze; she thinks he will hurt her if she says something. Then Madison believes Alicia's interpretation and goes to Travis. So now Chris sees Alicia, Madison and possibly Travis as against him; they think he is disturbed and dangerous and thus will not listen to his side of the story. Capping it off, he tries to go to talk to Alicia to find her napping alongside Madison. They don't wake when he enters the room and he says Alicia's name. He sees the knife, something they are not supposed to have but it is the zombie apocalypse. Chris, having at least a little sense, wouldn't mind having a weapon in case he runs into a zombie, like you do, and he picks up the knife. In a Three's company-esque plot contrivance, the shot goes off that wakes Madison and Alicia just as Chris picks up the knife (note: he may also have been looking at it to figure out where they may have gotten it). This furthers their idea that Chris is dangerous - he was looming with a knife. Looming! So Chris is now a teen who thinks his family does not trust him. He runs away. Have I sufficiently fanwanked to this point? Then it goes off the rails. Travis runs after Chris, neglecting to put shoes on first. (Note, when Daniel and Ofelia are leaving their room, he specifically mentions to her that she should put on her shoes - Chekov's shoes!). Travis hears noises in the small house and enters. Finds Chris is holding a small child hostage. That's where I cannot find an explanation. Unless Chris thinks Travis is there to kill him, why would he take a child hostage? Chris seems like a fairly introverted young guy who has been through a lot of trauma in a short period. Mom dead; dad offed her (for good reason but still). The dead reanimating. He kills the guy in the plane. He is stuck on a boat with fools and excessive hair care products. He doesn't stop the "pirates" from boarding their ship. He kills one for being a loudmouth jackass. Chris has some serious shit to work out. But unless he sees Travis as a threat, why wouldn't his character see his father searching for him as a sign that he doesn't hate him? I have now put more thought into this than I think the writers did.

They are turning into CDB 2. Every place they go, they destroy. Okay, Daniel goes off the deep end, hearing voices and seeing his dead wife. One of the people who seemed to best be adapting completely loses it and burns himself along with many an "infected." Way to create crispy critters! Nick has decided he would rather stay covered in blood and hang with the Zs. Given the often comatose nature of his family, he may have made the more interesting choice. Chris has decided nobody loves him, everybody hates him but instead of eating worms he roams away to end up in random houses and threaten children. Travis finally has an epiphany that maybe his son is really hurting. Hmm. His mom is dead and the world is crumbling around him. Yeah, he may need a little break. At least for once we did see some of the action rather than just hearing about it.

I predict Madison will make a face like she's smelling a fart, Travis and Madison will be unable to communicate like normal adults, and I will be bored.

To be fair, even Naked Josh would have a hard time defrauding someone. He is imminently punchable and everything about him shuts down all ovaries except for Anna's. Josh is birth control. Add a broken Big Wheel and a Trans Am up on blocks and you've got the trifecta!

Hey now, God will improve her life if he sees fit; that is, if she's holy enough. Of course, God could choose to give her hardships to bring her closer to him instead. Only bad things are caused by her actions; all good comes from god, so she best spend all of her time praying. (Okay, I shouldn't have watched RU; it instills twisted thinking.) And it's not just pray harder. As we've seen with skeletal Timothy, it's pray harder and fast. Because dying from starvation for Jesus is godly. And yet they will ask people to come up to be saved again/rededicate their life to Jesus if they feel they are backsliding. And there is the concept of thinking you are not really saved and need to be born again again (reborn again?). So saving is not permanent until they want it to be. There is so much circular reasoning and nonsensical thoughts processes in their belief system. Saved and you murder someone? Still saved, going to heaven. Not saved and you live an incredibly good life, always being kind and helpful to others? Going to hell. Thought you were saved but having doubts because the devil built a fortress in your heart? Need to be saved again; it may not have been real the first time. Was that fortress related to murder, rape, or other horrific crimes against others? Probably not. The fortress was most likely sleeping in and missing the Sunday service or listening to secular music. Those are the real signs of damnation. After all, you had a good time in a way that did not hurt others. All right, I am in a mood this morning. Got no room left for the Rodriguii. Free the Rodriguii kids!

When Jill R talks about the kids showering her with gifts on mother's day, I hope that's a euphemism for pelting her in the head. 4-1/2 year olds have soooo many sins to confess. I remember when I did first communion and had to go to confession. We were told we needed a minimum of three sins to confess. Not having been brought up to believe we are evil to the core like these fundies are, a bunch of us got together to try to figure out what to say. Why? Because 6 year olds don't have major sins to confess! Just like a 4-1/2 year old cannot understand the concept of being saved. I wish Jill R's 17 year old had spent her gift card on food for her and her siblings rather than a mother's day gift for Jill. Those children are so horribly indoctrinated.

They could have solved the C/A story if they made the fellowship in Portland or San Francisco. Callie still could have tried for full custody and lost. Then Arizona could have decide to work out a different custody deal. Weekend visits would be workable. Of course, New York made it more dramatic (or so the writers want us to think). I'm surprised Penny didn't get a post with Christina in Zurich or maybe become part of a crew going to Mars.

I assume the ambulance took the same route that Derek took to the airport the day he died. You know, the one that completely circles around Seattle. This leaves plenty of time to search someone's house, find a medical bag, clear off the kitchen table, prep the pregnant lady and get slicing. Heck, he could have also cooked dinner and mowed the lawn.

I can clean my own vagina! Best success story ever!

Derek Hough has zero screen presence. Glad Juliet said goodbye. Every time Layla is seen, I find myself narrating "Layla and her bangs enter the room". I hate the trope of someone who has just met a woman can know so much more about her than she does herself. I am not talking about the therapist who is trained to ask questions that lead to a greater understanding. The photographer spends time with Scarlett and can tell she is holding back and is actually really a sad panda. Okay. Because show me the happy turned into show me the sad. The shame is this show is that there were originally interesting characters and some very strong actors. This was thrown away with bad writing, too many back-and-forth storylines and unrealistic dramahz.

He really varies in whether or not he accepts that people are in pain. Pauline is pretty damn horrific, but did they ever send her to an orthopedist to look at her knees? His contention that overuse of pain killers caused her ulcer was a big red flag to me. The prescription meds she was asking for, which were more likely opiates, were less likely to cause an ulcer. By refusing her stronger pain meds, she may have been taking huge quantities of aspirin or ibuprofen which can eat through your stomach lining. If she is in extreme pain, he should refer her to other doctors who could look for the cause and to a pain clinic. It always seems like Dr. Now wants to be the one in control of all of a person's medical treatment. He is a specialist who needs to stop making it all about his patients pleasing him to "qualify" for being treated. These episodes show up as My 600 Lb Life on my guide on Wednesday nights. I can only see that it is actually a Where Are They Now episode when I look at the description. It's all kind of a mess. While I am not a Dr. Now fan (see above rant) I do feel like this is being amped up for TV. He says it like it's a threat rather than saying I don't think we can help you anymore. Okay, maybe I spend a lot of time yelling FU at Dr. Now these days.

Annotated since this should say "herself" and "her" or more generically "theirself" and "their."

Please let Thomas find his dead family, cuddle up with their corpses and put me out of my misery in listening to his character.

I'm starting to think people would be less concerned about having IBS-D or bladder leakage if these problems didn't come with normally internal organs that you have to lead around. Perhaps the solution is to place their organs back in their bodies? After all, it is hard to control when you have to pee when your bladder is outside your body.

Everything they show people doing takes more than a few minutes. It's not like she just started on the wrong letter or he couldn't see what she's doing. And she is taking the first bite out of her Milky Way. Does she eat them constantly? Is she going blind from extremely high blood sugar? SMH That man wants to give that cow a big ol' dose of his homemade yogurt.

Just watched this episode. The stupid runs so deep. Were we supposed to be upset about the random little girl who went from classic dirty street urchin to dead in seemingly a few short hours? Jake screamed; Muffyn laughed. Won't somebody think of the children (TM Helen Lovejoy)?!?!?!?!?!? None of this makes any sense. None. Of. It. I am back to not caring about anyone.

Hey now, just because the dead are attacking doesn't mean you should just throw away your recycling credit. I got a rebate of almost $2 last year. /snark

The whole point of this show was to show the early stages of the ZA. The writers seem to have forgotten these people aren't seasoned veterans of zombie killing who can brush it off. Should there be a ZA, I want whatever drugs these folks are on. To me that is one of the biggest problems with this show. The writers seem to assume we like and care about all of the characters but haven't given us any reason to do so. The most likable so far are a junkie and a conman. Overall our hapless crew comes off like sociopaths. It is so early in the ZA we should see them react to seeing dead or zombified children. At least Nick balked at smashing a little girl in the head. Daniel hesitated but it was shown like a (poor depiction of a) PTSD flashback rather than an internal struggle or acknowledgement of the horror of killing a child. When it's all said and done our team of sociopaths is ready to settle in for watching some videos and lazing around the vineyard, no worse for wear. Well, it's not like the dead are a threat. Oh wait . . . maybe having death wafers around is a little bit of a problem.

Well, Madison took a shower at the house and did her hair before finding Nick and telling him to wash the godawful stank off. She is committed to her hair care regimen.

Okay, let's break this shitshow down. As always, they tell, don't show. I know we were supposed to be overwhelmed by suspense when the ship fools were not exactly hiding down below. The problem is I don't give a damn about any of these fools and the acting/directing/writing is subpar so zero suspense. Thanks for telling us about the shooting rather than having us see what happened. Daniel looks at the coin like he knows what it means and tosses it, but he does let the guy bleed out because the world needs more zombies. They abandon The Abigail because um, yeah, I got nothing. Chris tried to do us all a favor by letting Madison get bit and Alicia ruins it. Dammit Alicia! Celia is BSC and (like Lizzie before her) thinks the dead have just changed rather than are really dead and trying to munch down on the living. She sidles up to Nick because he's so special and spiritual and deep and meaningful and . . . (or he's a junkie about to snap because he smashed a little girl in the head). Maddie actually smiled at Celia. Points to anyone who guessed that Maddie would change her facial expression this episode. It's always a long shot. Strand and Abigail act the ever-loving fuck out of their scenes making everyone else look that much worse in comparison. Somehow the jail cell o'zombies is quiet when the boy is chatting away with his mom (who he stands way too close to) but becomes super chatty/moany when Daniel comes in. He must smell extra tasty or they think he's trilingual -- English, Spanish, Zombie. Strand shows yet again that he has more sense than the rest of them combined and shoots Abigail in the head. Mama's gonna be mad. They sleep soundly with doors unlocked because of course there is nothing to worry about. It's not like the dead are rising and trying to kill the living. Nap away kids; it's all good.

And I'm happy again. They remembered what our team is good at.

Catching up on a few episodes. Brace is profoundly stupid and socially inept so yeah he's running a business. I do enjoy how the show constantly shows Nick as a fool. He had no sense of humor at the roast and couldn't tell a decent joke. At least we will be saved from watching Brace doing the sex. Of course now I'llthink of him as the guy with his wig on backwards. Things not insured for $1 million - Nick's penis.

I watched the Rodriguii video on homeschooling. So, here's what stood out. First, if you actually listen to what she says the daily schedule is, these kids have about 3 hours a day of skewelling. Second, during the skewell time, they have almost no interaction with Jill. She is spending her time with the younger kids. So the older children settle in with their workbooks and skewell themselves. Third, the workbooks they show the older kids working on look very age-inappropriate. Fourth, Jill claims she could make "good money" as a cosmetologist. Um, no, she could not. Not with the way she does her hair and makeup. Her daughters look like they use spackling knives to layer on their makeup. I've seen corpses with less base on. Jill does her eyes so dark she could be an extra in a zombie show. And their hair is fried. So, no, Jill, you could not make "good money" as a cosmetologist. You could, however, create a horror scene using makeup, a blow dryer and hair spray.

Give that boy a year or two and he'll be licking counters alongside Josie! Derick and I had the same surgery. I thought he had his lower jaw done but those comments say it was his palate. It is difficult to find a specialist who does this surgery. It is very uncommon. So I'm not surprised some hack botched it.

If Josh does a second stint at RU, he'll go back to the mothership in Illinois. The RU folks really like it when people become "lifers" and move to Rockford to stay under their thumb protection and guidance. Of course when Josh was there they had to limit the live streaming of some of their activities. We didn't get to see them hand out their multitudinous awards which include both "fruit" and "branches." In the spirit of RU, I award you all the snark fruit and perseverance branch.