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I won't pretend to understand what's going on with Cat or her friend but she never should have gotten on the boat in the first place. I can't help holding it against her a little bit bailing on the crew like that when she knew they were already a man down. She could have waited until the charter was over and they had replaced the deckhand. She's too immature to hold down a job. Fraser and Kerry are more forgiving than I am. Ben's relationship with Sunny is even more problematic now than it was when he was just lead deckhand. Sandy would love Barbie's tablescapes. (Spell check says tablescape isn't a real word. Maybe it's not.) We knew Jared wouldn't last the season from Day 1. This franchise has a bad reputation for hiring bosuns who are clearly unqualified, they need to stop it. Their credibility is low enough as it is.
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It was a step in the right direction anyway. I liked the mock murder podcast with the dairy killer. The episode sat on my DVR for almost a week before I got around to it though. I haven't cancelled series record but it's still ranking "when there's nothing left to watch."
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Some of them do. A friend of mine worked in financial aid, she was very diligent about advising students not to take more money than they needed, and the students rarely heeded her advice. There is abuse on both sides. I honestly don't know the ratio but there is.
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I'm glad she got the chance to write for her own character. Especially since she addressed the guilt she felt leaving her children behind. That never sat right with me. Who does she think is even taking care of them? Eugene? Carol and Daryl are both gone now.
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My question is whether Isaac actually believes a state could be purchased, not how much it would cost. I mean, I don't even think that was a thing back when Isaac was alive. Is he just making a joke that Delaware is so tiny/insignificant it's not worth much money? Possibly, but Isaac's comments usually demonstrate how little he understands how much has changed since his time. It was only last season that Sam had to explain to him that Britain and America are no longer enemies/rivals. That's what makes me think he actually thinks someone could buy Delaware.
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It's strange because I prefer when the show moves away from the tedious Evil Empire trope it keeps going back to, and I even enjoyed the smaller, quieter episodes back in Season 4 when the group was split up and they focused on a few characters at a time. But . . . This. It kept going around in circles. I was even more frustrated with Rick than Michonne was. Then there's this. The CRM doesn't make a lot of sense to me. How do they expect to keep themselves a big secret if their choppers are flying around all over the place gassing people? They literally flew clear across the country in the last episode, there's got to be survivors somewhere down below who noticed. It's like they want to rule the world but they also want to kill everyone else in it at the same time, without anyone finding out about them.
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I didn't even know this show was back until I saw a promo spot for next week's episode. Had to catch it on Hulu. I agree Athena's concern about being alone with Bobby seems out of the blue. They might be able to turn this around and have it be something else entirely but they've been together too long for her to start having these kinds of worries all of a sudden. Lots of people are afraid to go on cruise ships, they could have just left it at that. I suppose the show felt the need to inject some kind of relationship angst into Bobby and Athen'a story but I don't think it was necessary.
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I didn't even finish the last episode, I admit it. I watched about 15 minutes of it then turned it off. I sat through seven hours of Tom Hollander vamping and monologuing and I'd had enough. There really wasn't much of a "feud," per se. Truman betrayed his friends and they shunned him. That's not actually a feud. This was just a lot of Tom Hollander swanning around making an eight hour Emmy reel with a few scenes of the Ladies Who Lunch gossiping about him. The talents of Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore and Molly Ringwald were completely wasted here. Less so for Chloë Sevigny, but still. The whole thing felt very lopsided. It almost felt like they shot something else, then got caught up in Tom Hollander's performance and had him do more of it while editing out "the swans" to make room for more of it. It was Capote overload.
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I'm sort of torn on the student loan issue, I'll admit. On the one hand I totally understand how expensive college is and how prohibitive it is for so many people because of that. I also understand the necessity of a college degree for most jobs. And I understand about predatory lenders, they're a real thing and naive people are taken advantage of. On the other hand, I have a hard time understanding people who rack up 100K in student debt then say they had no idea what they were getting into, like 18 is just too young to understand numbers. Student loans have been around for a long time, student debt is a problem that has been around a long time, this is something people should understand. Yes, even at 18. I also know someone who worked in financial aid at a college and saw students borrow the maximum amount they could get time after time even when they didn't need it. And yes, students will use loans to buy cars and vacations on spring break, so I can see where people are coming from when they say kids like that shouldn't have their loans forgiven. Not the politicians or the pundits or the actors in those commercials, but real people who are paying back car loans and paying mortgages. I guess there needs to be scrutiny about whose loans are forgiven and what they used them for.
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Yeah that's pretty much where I land, I didn't really get Rick's excuse either. The quick glimpses of Carl were sort of an emotional cheat. Great for sentimentality but a stark reminder of how good this show used to be. I have a feeling Rick and Michonne are going to wind up dying by the end of this. I doubt very much if either actor is interested in doing multiple seasons of this. From what I can gather they only agreed to return to these roles to give their characters closure. Which cannot be accomplished if we just leave them up in the air or even back at Alexandria. Rick's sudden urgency that they leave prompted me to say "you weren't in such a hurry a minute ago when you were sexing it up with Michonne."
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Delaware. And this is the second time he's made a joke about buying Delaware. (Or maybe it was Hetty the first time.) What is it about Delaware? Was it for sale at one point? Do the writers have it in for Delaware or something?
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I thought it was a fairly strong case. The witness who identified Joanna's truck was key. There were a lot of little things that piled up after that, like the former co-worker who testified how Joanna described her perfect murder scenario that matched Heather's murder. And I think once the jury saw the surveillance footage and the artist's rendering that was enough.
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Carol and Elias might make a cute couple! This is the second time Trevor has gotten into their finances. Remember the Nigerian Prince? It was a lucky break that Sam got a fraud alert. Sam and Jay really, really need to update their passwords and keep that laptop closed when they're not using it! You'd think they'd have learned their lesson by now.
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No you didn't. That's really the best word to describe this show. All we saw her doing is leaning over his bed and listening to him saying random words like judge and murder. We don't know what her relationship was like with her brother in law. It's possible she just figured she could get into his room and if he were high enough on pain meds she could get him to tell her what he planned to tell the judge. Now, why she had to disguise herself as a doctor and sneak in, I couldn't tell you. If this guy was a potential witness to a big case there might have been a standing order not to admit any visitors.
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Deadly Swap: Twist! It wasn't the husband for a change, it was his mother! I kind of suspected it the first time they mentioned Joanna, they made a point of being very specific about how she didn't get along with Heather then just dropped it until they circled around back to her. Man that woman had a shitload of guns. The evidence against her was so overwhelming this time even her defense attorney declined to be on the show to plead her case, LOL. No fool he/she. Still, I thought Heather's new boyfriend was awfully glib when the police brought him in for an interview. For someone who claimed to be in love with Heather he didn't seem to be the least bit distraught over her murder.