iMonrey
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I thought the daughter's attitude was very flip as well and that maybe she inherited some of her father's sociopath qualities.
You know, that's a very good point. We never really got a clear explanation of why the husband would go to such lengths and spend that much money to have his wife killed when it would have been so much easier, and cheaper, for him to simply divorce her. The only reason I can come up with is "he's crazy." And his children may well have inherited that trait.
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I feel like this show keeps Caspe's Happy Endings-esque writing style alive, especially with the dialogue, only difference in this show seems a bit more grounded in reality than Happy Endings ever was.
It's only two episodes in but so far I'm not seeing it as any more "grounded in reality" than Happy Endings was. Annie moving into her car, complete with curtains, is the same time of absurdity that was so common on Happy Endings. Not that I'm complaining, because I loved Happy Endings. But that show did not survive, and if it couldn't find a sufficient audience to keep it on the air, I'm not seeing anything about this show that's distinctly different enough not to suffer the same fate.
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Julianne's mea culpa to Mark was still a slight. There was no need to qualify it with the pointed and inaccurate "this season."
It may well have been a back-handed compliment, but I'm going to be generous and suggest that Julianne was referring to the fact that Mark has to put up with Sadie's family micro-managing every one of their routines this season, thus the "generous" comment.
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Just to clarify, who exactly did the killer turn out to be? Was it that blogger kid's father? We didn't see enough of him for me to really recognize him at the end. I'm confused.
I don't know, this show...Ioan is so good but almost all the other elements feel so warmed over. Warmed over New Amsterdam + Elementary. And since Elementary is back next week I don't know if I'm going to have patience with been-there-done-that Henry Sherlocking all over the place.
Yes, unfortunately, I'm feeling the same way, although I will probably stick with this show until the bitter end because I love Henry and Abe. But aside from that the show itself is another pedestrian crime procedural, and there is already a glut of those on TV. I wish they would focus more on the mythology of what keeps Henry from dying (permanently) and having him explore different possibilities with Abe, instead of having some new murder case for him to solve every week.
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In my neck of the woods, "driver" and "fire fighter" are two different positions, and believe it or not, the driver gets paid more than the fire fighters. So Otis is getting the driver's salary right now. Also, the driver just drives. They do not get out of the fire truck and help fight the fires, They drive to it, and they drive back. That's it.
I don't know why this show is so damn fascinated with Gabby or why they think she's so damned interesting or important, but the show is entirely too Gabby-centric and I'm tired of it. It was stupid to make her a fire fighter in the first place and it was even dumber to have her work the same shift as her boyfriend.
And count me among those who do not understand why they would kill off Shay just to replace her with a far less interesting character that looks so similar. Unless of course they just needed a straight version of Shay to hook up with Severide. Another stupid move. It's Gabby they should have killed off.
I have a feeling it's going to turn out that Casey's sister Christie is the bad guy in this story, and that she embezzled company funds or something. She's probably also the one who hit her daughter. I just sense a bait-and switch coming up.
I wish they would explain what the hell ever happened to Casey and Christie's mother, the one who got out of jail and then promptly violated parole by running off with her former cell mate.
Joe Cruz works on the fire engine but can't fix the food truck, not enough enough to just get it started so they can move it? Can't even have it hauled somewhere, and they just let it sit out on the street and gather parking tickets? B.S.
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I was not on board with Artem tonight. I usually like him. But I thought he was very harsh with Lea. I didn't understand why he felt the need to compete with Alfonso. He shouldn't be worrying about what Alfonso is doing and stressing Lea out over it. He needed to just focus on them and do things at their pace.
I'm not sure why he was focused on what Alfonso was doing, specifically, but I think Artem had the right idea, in that Lea is going to have to keep showing improvement and perform more difficult choreography if she's going to stay in the competition. In fact I don't think Alfonso is necessarily the front-runner this season. You always have to take into consideration that whoever is partnered with Derek gets an automatic pass into the finals, so it's going to be tough for Lea to keep up with Bethany, Janel, Sadie and Alfonso. Just because Alfonso was doing the same style of dance that night doesn't mean he's the only one Lea has to worry about.
Then again, Artem is new to this show and may have an idealized perception that whoever dances best is going to win.
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I think everyone saw this elimination coming a mile away but it still cheeses me off when the judges start propping other celebs without merit. The way they gushed about Michael's improvement was laughable, the man did nothing but stand there and pose while Emma draped herself all over him. Sure he's better when he doesn't have to move - without that whole moving thing, he's golden.
Same for Tommy. Granted, he moved, but not well. I thought it was very telling how Julianne (or was it Carrie Ann, and does it matter?) predicted he would be in the competition for a long long time. He must be running away with the votes. And this is where the show really gets awkward, because it's going to be painful to see Michael and/or Tommy outlast people like Lea or, God forbid, Alfonso.
It still seems to me like the judges are looking for things to criticize about Lea just to justify her eventual elimination because to me she seems every bit as good as Bethany or Sadie. That's two weeks in a row now where she's had her own solo and killed it. I've yet to see Bethany or Sadie do that. And it sort of feels like they're propping Bethany because I thought her Tango was kind of stiff and clunky. But she's got Derek the Golden Haired Wonder as a partner which makes her a shoo-in for the final two so the judges have to find some reason to praise her.
They need to cut the shit with the Val and Janel relationship, it's embarrassing and I don't care whether or not they're fucking. Stop it.
I still think Sadie is cute as a button but she needs to cut it out with the "I'm too Christian to dance sexy" shit. I'm fine with her being too young, or too conservative, or too modest, but to bring her religious morals into it suggests that other Christian dancers who don't have a problem doing sexy dances aren't as moral or as Christian as she is and that's insulting. If religious people are going to pull this holier than thou crap they shouldn't be on this show.
I know Leah Remini isn't everyone's cup of tea but I thought she was a vast improvement over Erin Andrews. Andrews just always seems too flustered, tongue-tied and rushed. Leah was prepared, on point and funny.
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I checked out when they promised a twist to find out the killer is - wait for it - the husband who was having an affair. So! Shocking!!
Yeah, this. There are too many episodes that should be edited down to one hour. They spent an inordinate amount of time on the Hee Haw gang talking about this mysterious "John" person, waiting about 20 freaking minutes and two commercial breaks to finally reveal John was in fact - the husband. SO shocking. If there's no real twist here, don't try to fake us out.
I can appreciate the fact that maybe some people, including the daughters, are wondering how any man could be so stupid as to throw hundreds of thousands of dollars at these fools when just getting a divorce was so much cheaper, because that really didn't make any sense, at all. As a juror, that might have given me reasonable doubt.
The problem was, the defense never offered any kind of plausible explanation for how John/Frank would have ever even known these people in the first place, or how they would have known him, or how they would have known about an affair he was having. So the theory that he was being blackmailed was laughably flimsy. Even the daughters didn't seem to know just how their father would have ever become involved with these people or what they may have had on him, so obviously John/Frank himself has offered no explanation. How anyone can continue to believe in him is baffling.
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WTF? They killed off the best character. I don't even feel like I have any reason to watch anymore.
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Wasn't this used to be called trickle-down economics? I thought it was definitively proven that it doesn't work.
Not to Republicans, it hasn't. They still embrace this theory as gospel and will pull out all kinds of statistics to prove it does work.
Sometimes people really do get the leaders they deserve.
Kansans may get the crappy Governor and senator they deserve, but the US does not deserve to suffer as a result of Kansan stupidity if Republicans take control of the Senate.
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Did it sound to anyone else like Ellen Pompeo was dubbing in the voice of younger Ellis in the flashbacks?
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I've never really been bothered by Christina's make-up. She's obviously very fair complected, and for all we know there are make-up people on the show who insist that she'll wash out on camera if they don't apply a little extra mascara and eye shadow. I'm sure when she's actually working and not on TV she doesn't go around in designer duds, either. Then again, Tarek is always on site in his usual shorts, flip-flops and Izod, so who knows?
I'd think that they could have discovered some of the pool problems before they bought, with a more thorough inspection, or having a pool expert look.
I think that's one of the "fake" aspects of the show. Neither of them are stupid enough to buy a property without knowing exactly what they're getting into first. And something like that can be spotted during an initial walk-through. Now, when they start tearing down walls and find bad plumbing and stuff, that's probably genuine, but not something like this.
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My hope would be for a shortened fourth season that would allow them to finish the story and give the fans some closure. That would be far better than a cheaper version without some of the regular actors, and another season finale leaving us hanging.
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I hope Kansas is a wake-up call for conservatives and libertarians still pushing that kind of system, but I doubt that it will be.
Brownback's Democratic opponent, Paul Davis, was actually ahead in the polls for quite awhile. So was Republican Senator Pat Roberts' Independent opponent, Greg Orman. Unfortunately, the negative attack ads have put both Republicans back into the lead in the most recent polls. It seems all they had to do was link their opponents to Obamacare, and wammo - people are back to supporting the idiots in office. {headsmack}
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Its too hard to suspend disbelief that Maggie would just take a job there like a stalker instead of, like, writing them a letter introducing herself or something. They could have set this up better - she finds out her mothers name after already accepting the job, or something.
That's my issue too. Maggie is pissed off at Richard because he didn't tell her, like, immediately, that he was her father. But - Maggie did the same thing to Meredith! And neither Richard nor Meredith had any idea this woman even existed. Maggie's state of delusion is rather astonishing considering what a genius she's supposed to be. She knew she was Ellis's daughter, she knew neither Meredith nor Richard knew who she was, and yet she accepted a supervisory position at this hospital planning to spring herself on them. She's like a villain in a soap opera. She's Adam Carrington! You don't just show up and go "Hey there, I'm your sister/daughter, accept me!!!" and then get all pissy about it when the sister and father are all "Wait, WTF?"
I'm a little tired of the "no I have to talk to you about something but you assume it's something else and walk away before I can explain" trope. Seems to get used a lot in Shonda-land.
Replace "a little tired" with "sick to death" and I'm right there with you.
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They have already investigated Danny's room, they found that wad of bills tucked under his mattress. I would assume they have already gathered whatever evidence they could and I can't think of any reason they'd have the room blocked off with police tape at this point. Anything he had in there in the way of laptops, phones, or whatever, would have already been taken in as evidence.
I had the opposite reaction to this episode than the recapper did - I actually thought last week's was much better, while this one was slow and annoying. We just didn't really seem to learn anything of value this week, and I'm just really tired of Carver being such an asshole. I know this is the way the character is supposed to be, but it's tiresome.
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This is supposed to be a prequel to Asylum and takes place in 1952
It's a little strange that Pepper is the same character, but surely Elsa does not become Sister Jude and Jimmy does not become Kit Walker.
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I don't know why Jon chose this particular issue to discuss with O'Reilly - probably something O'Reilly has talked about on his show, which I wouldn't know about since you couldn't pay me to watch Bill O'Reilly's show. But Bill's position on White Privilege itself didn't bug me so much. I mean, he's an idiot, and I can't imagine what colossal balls it takes to go on TV and claim racism is basically a thing of the past. What really bugged me is this Republican held notion that getting ahead in America is something anyone can accomplish with just the right amount of work and drive. It's what capitalists think of as The American Dream. Unfortunately, it's simply not true anymore, regardless of race, as millions of college graduates will affirm. We don't have The American Dream anymore, what we have is, as Michael Moore says, a pyramid scheme where the richest 1% control 90% of the wealth, and those at the top say "Now if you just work hard enough, you can get up here too!" but that's just not true anymore.
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What did it for me was that blatantly obvious edited-in "commentary" from Probst during the IC: "Drew is single-handedly losing this challenge for his tribe!". Puh-leeez. You know Probst would NEVER be so critical of anyone with a penis unless it was scripted. (And Jeff was, of course, off-camera when he "said" that.)
That's an interesting observation, because I thought something was wonky about the editing. We didn't see anyone on Drew's tribe even discussing the possibility that he had thrown the challenge, which seemed awfully obvious to me, and even Jeff seemed to be calling him out on it. Also, this is something that Jeff usually jumps on at tribal council: "Drew - how responsible did you feel for your tribe's loss today?" But again, not one mention of this at TC.
Something else that stuck out to me was at the beginning when Coyopa was discussing John's boot, they all mentioned something about the negativity John was bringing to their tribe. Yet we saw very little of this aside from the confrontation he had with Natalie the previous episode. Made me wonder if maybe John had been a total ass to his tribe the whole time but was being given a white-washed edit.
Now I'm wondering if they're all jerks, and we don't get to see it until the episode where they're voted off.
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I was afraid this was going to happen---a lot of 'weird' things going on for weirdness' sake because we are at a freak show, but no coherent storyline.
That's definitely the way I felt about Coven, but so far I'm not feeling that way about Freaks. Of course, it's early yet. But already I sense a more cohesive storyline than anything employed on Coven. Very much enjoying the addition of Michael Chiklis, and the return of Angela Basset.
Also, this episode didn't have the same problem with the overly loud music that the pilot had, thank goodness.
I think Dandy is going to be the breakout character to watch this season. He and his mother are hysterical. I want to know more about them.
I can't help it, I did feel bad for Meep.
I only just caught the fact that Pepper is, in fact, the same character she played in Asylum. Not just another pinhead played by the same actress, but the same Pepper that will eventually wind up locked away in the Asylum in the 60s.
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I did not recognize JoBeth Williams either.
I don't see a whole lot of difference between the character Casey Wilson is playing here and the character she played on Happy Endings. Not so far, anyway. So I would imagine that anyone who was annoyed by Penny on HA is going to have the same reaction to Annie on MM. I would also suspect anyone turned off by that sort of manic, foot-in-mouth type of persona would have been turned off by the entire cast of Happy Endings, because they were pretty much all like that. That's where I see a lot of similarities between the shows - I think it's sort of a David Caspe thing to have fast-flung dialogue like that, and characters that border on the absurd that you can't imagine ever knowing in real life.
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I loved the graphic with the big fence around Texas. What an excellent idea!
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First impression of this show: another romantic comedy about early 30s neurotics in the big city? How many do we need?
That's probably my main beef with it too. It seems like every single new sitcom this season is about the blossoming relationship between some young, urban couple. Hollywood is a wasteland for imagination. But so far, out of the ones I've seen, this one appears to be the strongest.
The boyfriend is an idiot for not telling her that he lied to his boss about going to Mexico so it's his own fault that he got fired.
Somebody above pointed this out, but he did tell her - that was part of the joke. And in that respect, the show does in fact feel very much like Happy Endings - the lines come at you rapid fire, so you almost have to watch every episode twice in order to catch everything. And I liked that about Happy Endings, they didn't dumb it down. I could grow to like this show just as much. I just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Happy Endings.
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I thought this was actually a pretty strong episode, although it might be too little too late. The leads are so watchable. I loved when Dana had the flashback and realized all the things she'd seen in Tucker's office that should have tipped her off to his being gay, including the photo of him with his boyfriend! (Although, to be fair, if the guy has a boyfriend, why did he think Dana brought him to the party to set him up with Peter?) I laughed at him slapping Peter on the ass, too.
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S02.E04: Old Scars
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Yeah I caught that too. Highlight of the episode, really. I'm hanging in there, because they're promising us some answers next week, but they're losing me. I still get the overall impression that they really don't know where they're going with all of this. If I'm not mistaken, the story is loosely based on a book (?) and of course, you cannot successfully adapt a finite book story into a long-running network TV show. Once you try to stretch the premise you get lost and that's what I feel is happening here.
Yes, definitely. I feel like they've already changed gears more than once. When a show starts out as something that's potentially going to have a limited run, then gets a chance to be a regular, 22 episode-per-season series, it always goes wrong.