Red Bridey

Family reunification visas take forever. Every country has a limit on the number of visas they can approve for family members, and it's not unusual for decade-long waits. Especially when you must be a citizen first (and US citizenship can take six or more years to obtain AFTER you become a permanent resident). So Devar's K1 visa would be much faster. I don't really care too much about Devar and Mel as a couple. She's an adult and can do whatever she wants to. What made me crack up was when she said (a few episodes ago), "Oh, there's so much to arrange for our wedding. We don't have the rings, I don't have a dress, I don't have A CAKE (emphasis mine)." Oh Mel, seriously, a cake is the least of your worries. Can you imagine a grown woman losing sleep over that?

Raquel is the epitome of the cliché of the Millennial Employee. Which is sad, because I believe that each person should not be judged against the clichés of their particular generation. But she is spoiled, unable to work without constant praise, believes the world owes her respect...HER! I understand hating your boss, I get it, but please be discreet about it. Wait...it's Bravo; there's no payoff in being discreet about anything. She should hie herself over to that RHOBH spin-off, VanderPump Rules. She'd be a shoo-in (full disclosure: I've only ever seen commercials for it, never watched an episode) for the workplace DRAHma.

BREASTS BREASTS BREASTS! Use the grown-up words, Human Sexuality Professor. Boner? Seriously? I cannot stand it when a grown woman sounds like Beavis and Butthead. Hate! As much as Doc Dubrow is annoying, at least he almost always uses the term, "breast." Gotta give him credit for that.

I'm not a comic book reader or a super hero movie watcher so will someone please explain the Paul Bettany line the fanboy asked him to say? Also, hated the orange tinted glasses on what appears to be a very handsome young man.

I am also having a terrible time understanding the actors. My closed captioning is not working for an unknown reason, and that has always been my savior with these kinds of shows. I do love hearing the singsong Welsh accents, but I don't know what they're saying. I thought the trapper with the sheep was a really ugly woman, and since I didn't understand anything s/he said, it took until maybe the third hour that I realized it was a guy. Color me confused.

I agree. I am getting very tired of dick and sex jokes. Comedians: Can't we be a little more whimsical/clever/absurd?

I have to mute the TV whenever she starts blathering. I am done listening to her...and guess what, so far it hasn't made a lick of difference!

I took a subscription to Marie Claire as the least bad premium offer from some points-based card. I am a "woman of a certain age" who also subscribes to Vogue...at least I did until I saw Kardashians and Biebers in every issue...now that subscription will end too. Marie Claire is seriously the worst. The.Worst. I can't decide which was worse: the ugly models, the ugly features, the ugly layout. Looking at a fur feature in JULY was...indescribable. In Vogue, if you are looking at the prices, for the most part they give you them: proudly in the thousands of dollars. Marie Claire would be so coy...."prices upon request." I happen to think Nina Garcia is a classy, well-dressed woman with very nice taste. but her magazine is just bad.

I definitely heard 40 years as well, and was wondering what the hell crime do you commit to get that? I have read many a rap sheet in my time, and that sentence is highly unusual...serial killers and major drug smuggling conspiracies.

WRT Joanne? Laurie's (?) love for TER being so timely, I don't think there's a conspiracy going on. I just figured the producers ask a lot of questions in interviews with the contestants, one of which might be something like, "Is there a person on TV or in the movies who exemplifies your aesthetic or whose clothing you admire?" They got lucky this time that (person whose name I don't remember) actually mentioned one of their judges, and they were able to make it part of the story line.

I was confused at one point and thought Mitch and the sick kid were sitting on a park bench under the Evil Cat Tree and I was so excited to see the cats go after the kids in the playground. Then I rewinded (rewound?) and they were in Boston, not LA. So I was sad. I think the rats hit every floor button like an annoying kid does and so they hit every floor but just exited the elevator when they smelled the blood of the Zoo Croo. Why were they all looking for Frenchie Bug Eyes? She was just behind Door Number Three, wasn't she? Weren't they all talking not two minutes before the Flood o' Rats? Still no killer zebras. Sigh.

I am a relatively new Face Offer and I have a really basic question: who actually creates the costumes and backdrops for the models? Do they have a room full of costumes that they reserve, or do they have costumers running up the dresses the day the contestants are sculpting and molding? It seems like the contestants have a lot of decisions to make in addition to the actual makeup choices. Oh, and I am also surprised that there is so much use of masks, etc. Why can't they just use makeup on the faces for a change? I guess I am just unclear on the concept.

I have the deepest sympathy for the contestants, (while still being a sarcastic, mean Previously TV board watcher type), and always wish I was in a game with different categories. I came in second when the champ was a runaway winner, and I still blame the categories. I was in the WRONG GAME!

Eliza's account was too true! I also couldn't watch my piled-up Jeopardy! episodes for months when I got back from my taping. Are we the only two? I spent a half-hour in the makeup chair because I warned the lovely makeup artist that I am prone to rosacea redness when I am under stress, so she really did a fantastic job making sure I didn't look like I was having a heart attack! I would have loved to mingle with the other contestants afterwards, but there were hordes of middle school students on a field trip and I could barely locate my best friend in the throngs. Couldn't get within a mile of the awards cabinets in the hallway. I also had reams of unanswerable questions on my questionnaire, and I am considerably older than Eliza. Yes, Alex, I am a boring boring person.

I did not feel a bit of sympathy for Tracey. She's a murdering, scheming, lying psychopath who is raising her daughter to be just like her. But just to be clear, I love her as a character! She injects a whole lot of evil energy to this show that it badly needs.

Man, I totally agreed with the upthread poster who said she had John pegged as the one to drop out. I thought he would go after nine days, and that Amanda would make it "for her kids." I'm glad, and sorry, I was wrong. John needs to stay away from his toxic family, and actually, so does Amanda. But she went running back home to the bosom of her loving family (!!) and if anyone thinks she's off heroin and on methadone only, I have some lovely swampland in Florida to sell you.

Every single one of those people were meth-heads. Raspy voices, missing teeth, haggard faces, even the fair Stormy Pearl looked rode hard.

I absolutely loved the Platts with the family therapist. Any time the Corrie cast "goes to a meeting", wacky hijinx are sure to ensue. Another of my favorite scenes was when Peter Barlow had his family attend an AA meeting. God, so funny! In other news, I'm bored with the tortured Alya, tired of the menopause pregnancy (well, that resolved itself), and am intrigued by the Mysterious Kathy (? potential love interest for Roy). What's her deal? I can't wait to find out her secrets. I am also relieved to see Miley go to a good home. Watching Faye try to emote anything other than sullenness was sheer torture.

Seriously, Puli handler? You're showing your best of breed dog in Madison Square Garden in a yellow velour track suit? Maybe her luggage got lost, but still: go shopping and buy something appropriate.

Of course they are not real people. This season is full of the fakiest fake-fake competitors I have ever seen.

Maybe they edit it out, but I would love for the good doctor to stress to all his patients that they need THERAPY and COUNSELLING to deal with their issues around food.

I just watched the first season on Youtube and was delighted to see a couple that was actually hot for each other. All the celibacy that the other couples practice is just.so.boring. Pao is a knock-out and I was surprised and delighted that Russ actually moved out of the kiddie bedroom into a real apartment to get it on with that stunner!

I just wanted to thank you all for the real deal on Tamra and Simon. All the info is just so sordid and juvenile. Simon is absolutely right to keep their children off the show, even if it is just to piss Tamra off. As always, my sympathies are with the children, and I don't even like kids very much. Actually, I hate seeing normal kids turn into self-aware, camera-loving attention whores. Like Tamra!

I only watch this show off and on and I am curious about Tamra's custody battle with Simon. You all seem to know what' is going on; I don't like to click on links to avoid nasty malware, so can someone synopsize what happened or is currently happening with Simon? Or if it's covered in another thread, let me know where I can find it. Thanks so much! Tamra is vile. I thought Shannon looked like she was observing interesting animal behavior at the zoo during the reunion as she looked at Heather and Tamra. I don't know any of these women, but I think I would like to hang out with Shannon, even though as a hard core cynic I think her holistic beliefs are nonsense. I just kind of like her.

Thanks for the answers to my questions. Hmm, I wonder why I, a person who likes to hit the computer for answers to just about everything, never thought to look at the Sundance page. My technophobia pops up in the weirdest ways. That was my first post, I think. I like the people at this website!