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I agree they probably have alternates when they cast the season but they're not standing by at the nearest hotel in case someone quits or gets fired. They probably have other jobs and if they're available when called up it's a matter of logistics. We've seen replacements fly in from all over the world. They have to have the necessary certifications, we know that. So someone is going down a list, contacting people, and seeing if they are available and can get there in time. They just seem to rub each other the wrong way. Both take whatever the other says way too personally and read too much into it. I don't think Fraser is being "shitty" to her, although he isn't managing his stews very well overall. Xandi has some issues with her as well so I think Barbie is just one of those people that can be hard to get along with. Even when she's giving simple answers she can come across as sarcastic.

Did Chummy have a baby? I don't remember that. I remember she married the cop then went off to run the home for wayward girls and then they never mentioned her again. So many nurses have come and gone over the thirteen seasons. It's why I'd hate to see them write Trixie off, she's one of the very few originals left.

Criminy this episode was boring. I don't understand what the story is here. Especially with this episode, if feels like a very mundane and uninteresting character study set against an intriguing premise that isn't being utilized properly. The story is dragging because it spends most of its time on characters that are boring and sit around engaged in either meaningless chatter or waxing philosophic. I don't have much hope for it at this point, with only two episodes to go and with the amount of time that's being spent on characters who sit around at a beach house. I don't even understand the point of Will and Saul, they don't seem to be contributing anything to the premise at all. If there's some deep purpose they're serving it's totally going over my head.

Kerry is trying to get another stew but the supplier (?) keeps texting it's the busy season and he/she's working on it. Someone else is getting the boot though, judging from the previews. If I had to make a guess right now I'd say Anthony is the most likely candidate. I don't think Barbie will be fired.

Monday's show was really good. All three comics worked well together. My favorite bit was JoJo Siwa road rage. But I don't like the games where they have to guess whether the panelist is telling the truth or not. I'd just prefer they show the beginning of a video clip and then make up how it ends. That would probably be a lot funnier. Also, I don't get the point of "whisper your wager into your podium." That just seems dumb.

I'm finding the show a slog to get through. The premise is intriguing, but the characters are not. In fact they are quite boring. The entire story of Will having pancreatic cancer and inheriting Rooney's fortune seemed like a pointless waste of time. Auggie is boring, she is entirely one-note and I know next to nothing about her. Now, the ship getting sliced to ribbons with the nano-fibers was pretty cool, I'll admit. But it didn't make a lot of sense compared to easier options.

That line made zero sense. I also didn't understand - at this point - why Wade was so obsessed with stopping these aliens if they're not going to get here for another 400 years. At the rate we're going we'll probably destroy the planet ourselves long before the aliens ever get here. BUT, having seen the next episode, this played out like Wade read ahead. So it seems like the writing isn't very good.

I thought the same thing about the husband, he looked way too young! Hmm. You aren't by any chance referencing Grey's Anatomy now are you? Yeah, this is weird. If Trixie thinks she's Lady of the Manor why is she still working? She strikes me as someone who would have quit her job the split second after saying "I do."

I've never used a food app, ever. I've had pizzas delivered like everyone else in the world but that's it. While I can appreciate the usefulness of the service especially during the pandemic lockdowns, I just wouldn't ever trust a third party to bring my food to me. I'd rather go get it myself. And I'm pretty stingy anyway and consider takeout a luxury I'd rather not pay for. 99% of what I eat I make at home myself. So the popularity of these apps sort of baffles me, I consider using them pretty wasteful of money. No, he just needs money for his legal bills.

It's too bad Jill is so obnoxious because she made several good points. When you go to a fancy hotel, the bathroom is stocked with toiletries and whatnot, so you would expect the same on a luxury yacht. Also, I've often thought there should be some kind of bell or something for the guests to ring when there's no stew around and they need another drink or whatever. Ideally there's always a stew on hand to serve them but on this boat they're always down a crew member. It must have been really hard to come up with things for such a picky group. I guess the burgers were flexible enough to be either meat or soy and the buns could be gluten free or lettuce wraps. At least they liked the dinner, although to my eye the portions were so tiny. BTW - the fact that Anthony is dyslexic has nothing to do with his being so disorganized. I know someone who is dyslexic and they are OCD about being a neat freak.

I welcome parent/child teams. Corey and Rob from last season were probably my all-time favorites. But I think criticism of Chris and Angie is fair. Both were literally falling down from exhaustion in only the first two legs. You have to wonder how they ever thought they'd be able to get through this.

I agree about the student nurses. We're three episodes in and I still know next to nothing about them. Joyce stands out for obvious reasons, although I feel like she's basically a substitute for Lucille. Apparently there's a Rosalind, a Kathy and a Norelle. I could not tell you which is which.

This felt like badly written fan fiction to me. The constant cuts back to Rick and Michonne making love and exchanging sappy dialogue just felt very fan-servicey and corny. Meanwhile they really yada-yada'd the whole bombing operation. Terry O'Quinn may have a very devoted fan base, but to me he's just a sore reminder of what a colossal bamboozle Lost turned out to be. In any case he was completely wasted here as a two-dimensional villain. Something no spin-off has been able to break free from is this tedious and repetitive formula of "good guys have to take down latest evil regime." I realize they probably couldn't re-create the sets for Alexandria or the Commonwealth, but did Michonne and Rick just radio their kids to meet them in "that empty field over there"? I can't even remember where the kids were living the last time we saw them. I think they had the kids all rounded up in one house in Alexandria but I think everyone moved to the Commonwealth after they took over it. I guess overall this gave diehard Rick and Michonne fans some closure by reuniting them with each other and finally with their children. But the path they took just felt like tired formula to me. And with only six episodes, entirely too much time was wasted on Jadis, a character nobody ever gave a crap about. We don't know for sure she's Shane's kid. In fact both Shane and Lori had dark hair while Judith's hair is the same color as Rick's.

I'm not sure what to make of Nico's sudden reappearance either. If it was meant to give Schmidt closure it played more like opening an old wound instead. I can't help but think that Nico's fast-track fatherhood with his new partner is headed for disaster and the show is in fact planning on a Schmidt/Nico reunion. The writers destroy every relationship. Look what they did to Jo and Linc.

I've seen Angela Bassett in other things so I know she has range, but there is something very performative about the way she speaks when she's playing Athena. As soon as they spotted the capsized boat from the air they called for backup, which apparently arrived very quickly.

Thanks, that will make it easy to remember: Kishori is the short one.

Well, sure, key difference is that Bhanu was an idiot. Still, aside from confessing to blabbing everything to the other tribes, Q was pissed off at him for giving away any information, particularly that Kenzie was running the show. Now Q has told Tim and Hunter he's tight with Tiffany, again throwing Kenzie under the bus just like Bhanu did. If this gets back to her she's bound to turn against him. Not necessarily. I'm not sure how this scheme is supposed to work but it might be similar to the "Cook-out" alliance on Big Brother with Tim, Q and Hunter as the core alliance, with each of those three having a sub-alliance with someone else for numbers, but them not necessarily understanding they're the bottom three.

@aghst back when the show first started the theme parties and theme dinners were included because the show wanted to depict what a real luxury yacht charter trip looked like, and sometimes guests did request wacky things like that. Sometimes. So we were given extreme examples of guests who demand extreme things just so we would see how the crew sometimes has to really jump through hoops. Sometimes. However, every charter? No. Now it's just built into the formula and I suspect some of the guests either request things because they've seen them do them on the show or else are given a list of things by production to choose from. In reality, if the guests wanted entertainment after dinner when it's too dark to do water stuff, there's a huge TV in the salon and they could watch movies and stuff. I'm sure they also bring aboard their own devices. But that wouldn't be entertaining for us.

They're from Florida? Oh, that explains so much. 🙃

I can't think of a situation where Boden protected 51 even when they were in the wrong. Because 51 is never in the wrong. It's always the corrupt higher-ups that are in the wrong and are coming after 51 for personal reasons and vendettas. I do think Violet was a little too bossy with Lennox on Day 1 of being PIC and his Day 1 working there. But for him to file 2 complaints against them after one shift then expect to go back and be treated OK is completely delusional.

Oh I don't know about that. I'm sure there were still plenty of applicants willing to risk it for the million bucks. I think it has more to do with the types of teams the show wants. They want parent/child teams. Those, perhaps, might have been slimmer in the pickins'. On the other hand the casting people might have just thought they would make Good TV. And I don't necessarily think people like Angie and Chris have "delusions of grandeur" going on a show like this. I do, however, think they have unrealistic perceptions about their own physical abilities. We hear this all the time on Survivor too: contestants saying "It looks so much easier when you're watching it on TV!" Oof. I have a hard time believing the entire instructions were in Spanish. I think maybe some of the words were in Spanish and that's all they focused on the first time they looked at it. I think we would have heard at least one team complain about the instructions if they turned out to be entirely in Spanish. How did the twins eventually manage it? I didn't see any of them tasting the food. They seemed to be judging on whether or not it was plated correctly and whether or not things looked thoroughly cooked. Well, Sunny and Bizzy are blonde while Yvonne and Melissa are brunettes. However, if you mean Sunny and Bizzy are interchangeable with each other, and the same for Yvonne and Melissa, then I agree, I still don't know which is which. But that's pretty much always the case with same-sex teams. I still don't know which is which with Karishma and Kishori either, and I would never have known who was who between Anthony and Bailey.

Tim may or may not be sexist but you really can't judge just by him accusing the woman of aligning. I mean, it's a pretty natural assumption when every team is made up of three women and three men. It wouldn't be any different if they had two teams of five men and five women. It's just a numbers game.

Wow. Two days and only 13 comments. How far this show has fallen. But I get it. I still don't give a damn about any of the new interns and can't remember any of their names. And why is Teddy still alive? Who the hell likes Teddy? I really like Natalie Morales but her introduction as the new Peds doc was so ham-fisted and corny. Who the hell walks into a brand new workplace and immediately starts arguing with and speaking condescendingly to the head of neuro like that? What, all because she stole a parking space from her? I get that the show wants us to understand immediately this character is tough as nails and knows her shit but she just came off as a jerk. Which means of course she and Amelia will wind up in bed together by, what - next week? Oh well, at least she has a personality, which is more than I can say for Kai. What is up with Bailey being such a bitch this season? I understand she has always been sort of intimidating and no-nonsense with the interns but over the years they have done a lot to humanize her. It seems like she has reverted into this two-dimensional cartoon character that does nothing but be mean to the interns.

When Bobby and Athena were on the rescue ships they were in the process of searching for and rescuing all the lifeboat people. Some of them had already been found, others were still being searched for. That went right over my head. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention but I just saw a kid distracted by his video game. That's it. Perfectly normal kid thing, headphones or earbuds in, not paying any attention to anything around him, just looking at his device. IMO the show didn't do a good job of establishing the kid was on the spectrum if that's what they were going for, which is why I found him saying "I'm not supposed to go with strangers" so stupid. Even knowing that after the fact it still seems stupid to me. I'm not sure the move to ABC had anything to do with the budget. The show is still produced by 20th Century Television, not by ABC. However, 2-part and 3-part episodes of television shows generally do have higher budgets, I think because it's one long story versus three stories so they save on writing and sets and so forth and can spend money elsewhere.

I understand why it's an hour, because they have to fill the spot previously occupied by the James Corden show. I'm not sure what more they could do to make it work better as an hour-long show, but it really did work better as a half-hour show. When it's not working, it's really, really not working.