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I liked Izayah, I’m disappointed he’s gone. I’m happy that Gordon is giving him a mini mentorship. How has Jordan managed to slide through again? He is not good Christina’s voice is so incredibly grating. And I see that she’s stopped talking about being Greek and instead now she has to constantly mention she’s a nurse. And a single mom. If she were to win this, would she quit her job that she loves so much? I am kind of surprised that the final has all white people in it. Although I’m not sure if Gabe is mixed race or not. The final four doesn’t seem diverse which is odd considering I’m still convinced the whole show is rigged. They could have easily sent home Jordan. Both mentors said the pork was dry. Next week we should finally lose Jordan since there’s no way Gordon will get two people in the finals. Still on track for a Zack win.

Nyesha’s person won Season 1 and Gordon’s person won Season 2. Both winners were women. I’ve had Zack (Richard, male) picked as the winner since very early on.

Terrible. This show was one of the only shows currently on TV led by an Asian actor. So many have been cancelled this season… this one, Quantum Leap, American Born Chinese, Brothers Sun. I guess there’s still The Cleaning Lady. I liked the cast a lot, and I’m sad that we won’t get to see their further adventures and the beautiful Hawaii scenery. It’s too bad that just as we get Sydney that we couldn’t have had more crossovers. I hope the cast lands new gigs soon, especially Vanessa Lachey, Noah Mills, and Tori Anderson. I don’t watch original NCIS so I’m thankful I won’t have to tolerate the awful Wilmer Valderama anymore on any crossovers.

I wanted to like Jennifer Lewis but she seemed so much worse this time than last time. It was almost like she resorted to speaking/shouting instead of singing. The Seal isn't good either. Opening number... can they please please please stop having Ken and Jenny sing, or pretend to sing. They are not good. I've decided that I don't really care for Robin's singing either. Rita Ora, on the other hand, was amazing. Just let her do all the singing until Nicole comes back.

Supergirl isn't so super these days, is she? BTW speaking of Supergirl, wasn't Summer at one point deathly allergic to peanuts? Whatever happened to that? Did she outgrow it or was it just never mentioned again? If this were Bold and the Beautiful and Bradley Bell was writing this show, Claire would just disappear, not be mentioned for months, and then one day show up again with no explanation. Everyone would act like she's been there the whole time and no one would ask her what she's been doing.

The Winters family on this show, at this point, it's really the Barber family. Only Lily is a biological Winters and Devon is an adopted Winters. But Lily, Devon, and Nate are all Barbers (Devon being an adopted Barber). Mamie's sister married a Barber. With Mamie back, I wonder if Olivia will ever come back.

But she's "legendary", why not? 😁

Ugh, how did I miss that the first book in the Gethsemane Brown series, Murder in G Major, was turned into a Hallmark Mystery movie and aired last fall? They bill it as the "Haunted Harmony" mysteries. Going to have to see if they re-air it sometime.

I've read all seven books. I love most historical dramas but especially those set during Tudor times. I'm stupidly excited for this show. I really really really hope the showrunners don't screw it up.

I agree with surfgirl completely in this instance.

I think the issue here is that the hairstyle is common and popular amongst Black women and very much a part of their cultural identity. To me, calling her Medusa because of her ethnic hairstyle is similar to making up a nickname for her that refers to or incorporates some characteristic of her skin colour.

They never explained who the second person in the van was. I'm assuming that Lana wasn't lying. There had to have been a second person in the van, the van stops and fairly immediately, the clown jumps out. No way could someone have navigated from the front seat out the side door that quickly. Nor abducted her and then the van drove off so quickly. I'm assuming that Caleb and his friend weren't in on it. They stole the money originally and obviously Caleb's wife and Lana knew about it. The whole storyline doesn't make a lot of sense from a planning perspective. If wife (I forgot her name already) was so unahppy in the marriage, then why doesn't she say "hey Caleb, I want a divorce. I know you and Friend stole $3 million. I want $1 million and a divorce. If you won't give it to me then I'm going to tell NCIS about it." Then nobody dies. I get that Yasmine Al Bustami may have other jobs, but it's a bit jarring that they don't even mention Lucy. At the end of the episode, Boone could have easily told LL Cool J that he was going to wrap up and then join Kai, Kate and Lucy at the bar. Why can't they even include a throwaway line?

I was away for a bit, last I saw, Finn kept going on and on to Stuffy about "you killed my mom you killed my mom you killed my mom". And Stuffy was all "I had no choice what should I have done please believe me I had no choice I had no choice". Looked like they were done-zo so Liam could swoop in. I tuned in the other day and Finn and Stuffy are all schmoopy again. Not that I ever want to see Liam win anything, but what happened? I am utterly shocked that Bradley didn't turn to his tried and true storyline of waffling back and forth. IIRC, they were both fully clothed in costume and masks and it was up against a wall. Still though, you would think that Brooke should have been able to tell the difference. You would think that Oliver should have been able to tell the difference too. RJ actor makes the actor who plays Finn (also fairly terrible) looks like a Shakespearean trained actor. He's awful, and his body is overinflated. Those actors were just painful to watch. Then when Zende and Poppy left so RJ and Luna could talk it out, I was thinking that all of them should have left so we didn't have to hear any of them.

I enjoyed this episode for the most part, despite the implausibilities. Why would a Chinese sleeper agent seek out Robyn instead of, you know, someone actually with the CIA? Whatever explanation he gave her doesn't really hold water since she wouldn't be in any position to solve his political issues. The wife being an agent as well and meeting with that other agent in broad daylight was ridiculous. But of course the most ridiculous part was Robyn getting onto the plane unseen, throwing the agent out of the open cargo door, holding on with just her hands. Then what? Surely the plane had a pilot or two. In most movies, the pilot would have put the plane on auto-pilot and gone to investigate why the cargo door opened. Did Robyn force him to turn the plane around? I can only imagine that she parachuted out of the plane because if she had forced the plane to land, why wouldn't she have had both cases with her? Why did she only take one vial of the antidote? There were diamonds and a handful of other vials in that case. Weren't those all antidote as well? I find it ridiculous that there was only enough antidote for one person. Surely those other vials were antidote as well. The mom didn't deserve to die from the illness, she deserved to go to prison for treason. What is the dad going to tell his kid now? "Ummm sorry kid, I worked for the Chinese government but had a change of heart after they tried to kill me. And it turns out your mom was a Chinese agent too but she was actually bad, she betrayed the United States, and China poisoned her to death. I'll ask my friends if they know any good child psychiatrists." The Delilah story was extraneous and unnecessary. I like when Dee and Vi do things together and sometimes the story is interesting (like when Vi got arrested in the clothing store) but this protest was such a bad idea from the start, obviously it wouldn't end well.

I think Dick Van Dyke for sure will win the Guest Actor Emmy, but I'm happy that Ashley Jones was recognised. Honestly, Bradley Bell treats her like shit. From her Instagram posts, it always seems like she's so happy when Bradley deigns to call upon her. She was so appreciative of all the fans who are always writing in and saying they want to see more Bridget. It seems to me that she would love to be on contract again. I would rather see Bridget than 75% of the current cast. I'd love to have Bridget back full time and pair up with Finn. But having Bridget around would take away the spotlight from Bradley's precious Jackie Wood, so I don't think it's going to happen.