Muffyn

A lot of agencies have taken on the term "forever home". I think they're trying to stress the idea that adopting a pet is making a commitment for the life of the animal, but, as you said, that doesn't matter to many people. And of course there are times when pets outlive their people or people have other legitimate reasons to have to rehome their animals. Then again I hate "dog parent" because it goes with the term "fur babies" which makes me extra stabby. They are companion animals. Uh oh, I may be part of the problem, not part of the solution. I saw it as he is showing the potential buyer that the doggy door works.

I think they were sitting on asbestos chairs in case their pants caught on fire.

Like I need The Leftovers to tell me "the end is near." Thanks, show!

I think of this scene every time a hoarder starts amassing random "precious" things. I had a hoarder tenant and I can assure you he did a great job of convincing the neighbors that he was neat, clean and organized and that he was the one holding the building together. I finally showed our neighbor the tenant's hoard in the basement and described his apartment to him. when I finally got him to move, many neighbors talked to me about what a shame it was that he had to leave, what a great tenant/person he was, etc. So yeah, I can understand the concern that there would be neighbors that would hate the new owners,, believing they had kicked a person out of their home of many years. Sandra is a manipulative liar. While that comes with her illness, it is very extreme in her case. I believe she would do anything to try to convince people that she was being victimized. We saw a small part of it. I am sure there was much more.

This show draws me in more with each episode. I don't understand why they are burning it off so quickly. Did they expect it to be a failure? I love the pope's sweat suit. I can't imagine any of the recent pope's walking around dressed like that. But, realistically, they can't wear ceremonial garb all the time, can they? Sending Gutierrez to New York to investigate the child rape scandal is so strange now that we know about the alcohol and children's toys in his room. Voiello continues to play palace intrigue and somehow gets thwarted by Lenny. There is a lot to unpack on this show.

I miss Huang.

Upon reflection, Noah is now a rapist and a murderer. If what we have seen is to be believed, he encouraged his mother to want to kill herself and may not have had her permission to give her a lethal dose of her meds. He raped Helen in their last encounter. It started consensually but didn't end that way. When Whitney and Helen's parents paint him as a murderer for his vehicular manslaughter conviction, I think, dial it back a notch. Now that we know the real Noah, they should dial it up to 11.

This is the key thing, being good at manipulating people. So much of this was like seeing my mother in action. Such a sweet old lady who desperately needs help until you question her. Then the claws come out. Sandra is sick but she is also horribly difficult to deal with. I will bet she has treated people like garbage for a very long time. The hoarding just made her issues more visible. Michael and Eric were very kind. I think they fell for her act, although Michael was a little more over it by the end. Eric was having a harder time of it. There is the reality that an elderly woman had lost all of her belongings and no longer has a place to live. It's a shame they couldn't get her into supportive housing, but she would have to admit she needs help. Since she had borrowed someone's truck and did not have a place to take all of her junk, I am betting some poor good Samaritan's driveway is now filled with her belongings. She is never going to find a place to put it all. I can't wait to see the house all cleaned up. Fortunately she seemed to be a fairly clean hoarder. There will be some mold issues from where the hoard was right against the wall and moisture built up. The tunnel was bad but would not actually be that horrible to clear out. They would not want to make it into usable space. If this the last episode, I was weirdly verklempt that it included someone who wanted to keep a rock. After all, it's the title of the quotes thread, "I had plans for that rock!" also, to quote @ZaldamoWilder, "I like "lemme see that" - um, why now? you ain't seen it since 1981. " That summed up Sandra's house too well.

"Watch Season 1 of UnREAL on Lifetime's app; just read the episode descriptions for Season 2 so you have a vague idea of what happened." I am so on board with this. To continue to watch this show, I need to wipe 95% of season 2 from my memory. Remember the good times, Muffyn. Remember season one. I am looking forward to seeing Libby, er, Caitlin on Unreal. I can see her being able to portray both the bland sameness that is the hallmark of people on these shows along with a true personality that shows many layers.

If he did it's because he wanted to. I'd say he imagined he was forced to drink his own pee when he was actually drinking whatever beverage he was served. Professor Eau So Franch best be careful. He may not be up to a little light bondage but she might need to invest in rubber sheets.

Shout out to the editor who cut to a shot of a doll bent over with its head hidden in the hoard as Dr. Zasio explained to us that Sandra was in denial. This is the first time I ever saw Dr. Zasio panic. After all the shit boxes Zasio has been in, this as the one where claustrophobia and fear of the walls caving in on her won out. I think if Matt could have seen her face, he wouldn’t have found her calling out to him as funny. It was like Sandra’s brother had been reading these boards when he pointed out she hadn’t seen things in ten years but now she wanted them. I wanted to feel sorry for Sandra. I understand she’s sick. But damn if I wouldn’t have locked her in the Sherriff’s car and asked him to drive off. She needs serious help that she is not going to get on a TV show. Somebody needs to find a river for her to park her van next to so she can fulfill her dreams of living in a van down by the river.

So we've confirmed Noah puts the batshit in crazy. He imagined Gunther tormenting him at the prison. He imagines Gunther following him as we suspected. He stabbed himself in the neck. This was brought on by guilt that he killed his mother so he could go to college. It took us too damn long to get to this unearned conclusion. The only good part was Brendon Frasier's performance. Otherwise, argh! Hi Vik. Welcome back. Didn't I tell you to run far, far away? Don't forget what a cesspool of neediness and drama the Solloway clan brings.

Helen's face when her mother ran over to hug her was so wonderful - horror, shock, mild revulsion all mixed up in the greatest WTF face ever.

This show draws me in more with each episode. We still don't really know how Lenny got elected pope. Each character is becoming more deeply drawn. And yet much of it is also done in such strange ways - Gutierrez with his stuff animals and alcohol. Spencer and Mary's attempts to bring Lenny back to some semblance of normalcy by playing angry dad. Lenny admitting he became a priest because he couldn't think of anything else to do while juggling oranges as he did to seduce a woman before he took his orders. Maybe that's the most quirky thing because, really, has any woman ever fallen for a man because he juggles? You have to be really attractive to have someone overlook juggling and about to become a priest as your two primary draws.

This week John makes crab taste like pimento cheese. Next week he’ll make filet mignon taste like cat food. For his piece de resistance, he’ll make white truffles and beluga caviar taste like a cold, burned, dried out White Castle slider. Given how sloppy he was, I was afraid Katsuji was going to drop the bowl he lifted over Sheldon’s head and cover Sheldon with whatever horror he was making.

Katsuji and John talking about tongue made my stomach turn. I don't want to think about either of them when I think about tongue.

The sun is a star, so that make 4. 2 people who have to be there and the city they're in. Seth, never change.

It's all well and good to leave a bit of a gap. It's another thing to manspread across an entire bench. Unless you're The Man With The 60 LB Scrotum, you don't need that much room.

This episode it didn't seem like the hosts could even stand being in the same room together. There were so many times they would either roll their eyes or glare at the others. The mouth guard game was a horrible timewaster, Margaret was never funny, Nene would not shut up. The only saving grace was Melissa looked very pretty. Her face looked a little fuller and very soft.

I'm calling it now - Sister Mary and James Cromwell's character are Lenny's parents. Ah, the mysteries of Venice!

Thanks for the eagle eye street sign reading. Panhandle it is. If the brothers inherited the house or bought it a very long time ago they could have really low taxes. One of the problems with the system is that when you do repairs, the assessed value of the repairs gets added to the base for taxes and so the yearly taxes go up. The house clearly hadn't had any work done in forever. To fix he structural issues, replace all of the fixtures in the bathroom, knowing that there is probably serious damage to the walls and floors, Ray is easily looking at more than $100K. If he needed help to pay for his brother's cremation, I doubt he has the bank to get the house up to code.

The best thing to happen to Wallace and Joyce is that they no longer live together. That is a whole lot of hate they have for each other.

When will Dr. Zazio learn to not open jars without checking what's in them first? When you know someone is hoarding things for their cat skull, don't open the jar with the dead rats. I too think Shannon had people to talk to. They may not have been available 24/7 like Friend was. However, she did have a dog. Heck, it has a small skull and fangs. Chat away!

I live in San Francisco. I kept trying to read the street signs so I could see exactly where Ray's house is located. While they kept talking about it being a three story house, there was more than one door. It was either what we call a two flat or a three flat. That is, each floor is an apartment. Ray and his brother lived in the upper flat. The walls that were coming apart were on the enclosed back porch. From what they showed, the walls are not what you would normally imagine. These are one layer of beadboard held together with wide spaced 2X4s. There was so much beautiful original woodwork in that house. Damn. It would be worth a lot of money if it was in good shape. As it is, Ray is in a bad place. Dealing with the city and contractors to do repairs will probably end up in his losing the building. If he could get it fixed up and rent the units, he would do well. Rents are very high here. I did wonder if they weren't showing the other floors because there are renters living there. They may not be hoarders but the building is unsafe. (I have almost finished massive amounts of repairs that were needed because I had a hoarder living in the upper unit of my two flat. Fortunately I had money put away and could afford to not have a tenant for a long time. I doubt Ray is in that position.) Shannon made me love Corey Chalmers even more. He was so good at being kind to her. He saved his snark for the talking heads. He recognized just how unstable she is. I worry about her kids and hope her family checks in regularly.

Philip Michaels in the recap "So now the suspect list has been narrowed to…the rest of North America.". Water meet keyboard. Heck, I might stab Noah if given the chance.