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Melissa McCarthy was brilliant. Just brilliant. I still don't understand why Kristen Bell is famous. She seems half asleep and unsure of her lines. And what was that accent for Gisele? Edit: Sorry, Stewart. Who is she again? Oh, Twilight. Right. I would be fine with a ban on people who like Lalaland. Meet Cute should have been subtitled "Idiots."

I thought for sure baby eater was going to predict Monroe and Rosealee's babies were going to be evil, setting up an interesting dilemma.

Until Conway did "alternative facts" the next day, there was no single thing to mock her for doing. Instead, there was a whole list of things, over a long period of time, that stretched her credibility beyond all recognition (assuming she started with some), and raised the question of, "Why? Why are you doing this? You seem to have some talent at your job. You can voice an opinion. Why the continual crazy talk?" I thought this skit finally nailed Conway spot on for her motivation. SNL used to depict her as shocked at what she had done (helping Trump get into office). I don't think she cares about that, good or bad. What she cares about is being important, just as the SNL skit indicates.

It might be as simple as the fact that she is driven to be as painfully honest as possible, no matter the cost to her. She did it when Peter tried to kiss her in this ep, too. Pretty damn bluntly for dealing with someone with serious mental and physical issues. She did it in the earlier ep, when she confronted Saul for selling her out in the papers - in a crowded restaurant, no less. She doesn't seem to care that it comes at a cost to her. She has to do it, to let others know how she feels or what she did, because she is driven to it for some reason beyond her bi-polarness. What was it in past seasons? I came late to Homeland, and watched seasons out of order. I've never seen an ep that explains why Dar doesn't work aboveboard with Saul. He always seems to be doing something for his own agenda, sometimes in purposeful opposition to Saul. Why?

Black Sails is beautiful to watch (especially in winter!) and I love the struggle between Flint/pirate view of self-governance vs. the more intrusive "civilization," and the way the struggle is shaping up this season. But we all know what eventually happens, and *why* it happens. So I struggle with the lack of a more detailed vision on the pirate side of why their view of the world is better for everyone. If you are married and have a teen daughter, for instance, would you want to live in a pirate-governed Nassau? And if you say "of course not, don't want any of those people," then aren't you soon excluding all kinds of potential assets whose skills or knowledge might help Nassau succeed? Leaders like Flint should recognize that. I would like to see it addressed more in the show ... unless that's part of the fatal flaw that dooms the pirates. That and Flint being hellbent for revenge and winning at this point. To come so close indeed.

A-ha! You have solved a 20-year mystery for me. Back in the mid 90s, I lived in an apartment where the bathroom wall clearly matched a similar wall in the bathroom in the next door apartment - where an older woman lived, who was a smoker. And every time I heard noises coming from her bathroom, my bathroom would spell like cigarette smoke. I finally definitely tracked it to the sink drain, and I could not figure out how her smoke would end up in my drain. I used to fill the sink with a little water with the drain closed, to stop it, even though I had no idea why this worked. Soon after, I moved. So now, thanks to the power of these boards, I have one less unknown in my life. Thank you, Stat!

Let's not go overboard. It's just a TV show. Also, where is this bee and goat filled haven?

TV viewing or no, if they both are working M-F, 9-5 jobs (which those of us who do that know is really more like 7-7), they won't have time for those hobbies unless the goats and the bees can survive being ignored for 2/3rds of the day. Maybe they can. I'm betting their nurse jobs give them plenty of flexibility, and they are also self-directed and energetic. That, of course, will change with their priorities, especially if they have kids (human, not goats).

Oh yeah. Their world will change. Get in the hobbies now.

I'm with you. I can just hear some network demographics nerd saying, "We need more women viewers, so let's add babies" or some such nonsense. This show was terrific at its start linking fairy tales to real life crimes, and implying there may be more to the world than we know, before it went all relationshipy. Rosalee and Monroe was fine. All the baby/Juliet/Adalind stuff was way too much. Imagine if this show had kept to its premise, and then brought in the residents of Portland as being wise to the complexity around them and yet choosing to live there precisely because of it. Could have been some great lessons there that would be especially relevant these days.

Priorities. I got more done around the house and yard when I was working full-time than after I retired. If you know that you only have X hours to get something done, you don't waste those hours. It's when you have the spare time that nothing gets done. Weird. Actually, they both said they were nurses. Nurses can have very flexible schedules, and even "full-time" is more like 4 days on, 4 days off (even if the days on are 12-15-hour days). So I could see them having larger blocks of time for hobbies and farm than the typical 9-5, M-F workers who only get two days off a week, especially if they stagger their schedules.

Sigh, more butt hurt. Caitlin and Julian whining because they did things they couldn't control. Wally because no one believes he is ready. Barry because Wally doesn't listen. I haven't even finished the episode yet and I bet Iris will whine any minute. I said this before the break and I'll repeat it: Can these characters please move on?

Hearing Arnold say, "Get to da chop-ah" will never not be funny to me. The appeal of Harry Potter escapes me. I read all the books when they came out, and liked them. They are actually fairly dark. But something happened when the movies started appearing. The first one was OK to create the world, the rest meh and the whole thing became more kiddie like IMO. And now I can't help but giggle when they point sticks at each other in a threatening manner. I'm not sure how you cheat on a fake and arbitrary show. One week Vince gets $700,000-plus for his charity, just because, while others get the standard $25k (and then Vince basically said "I'm done," and sacrificed himself to go home). Sometimes a project manager is fired for being responsible overall for failure, other times not. I think the "cheating" was clever in the context of the show, though cutting the cord was a bit obvious.

I suppose this season is well done, but geez is it boring. It's like House of Cards, but less interesting. Why is anyone doing anything this season? Seeing Quinn as he is, not trying to get better, is painful ... and will lead to what? Will he save Franny from a DC terrorist cell? What the FBI did to Sekue is not right, I get it. At the same time, you don't do some things unless you want trouble. I don't walk down dangerous streets alone at 2 a.m. If I did, and I was mugged or shot, I didn't do anything wrong, but I should never have put myself in that position. That's what the kid did. So I get the ethical issue, however, it was all so unnecessary the way it was presented.

YMMV, I guess. I find NYC to be the least interesting locale, given you pay ridiculous amounts of money for shoe boxes and the "privilege" of living with a bazillion other people around you at all times. . I suppose there is a sort of morbid interest in seeing how ridiculous it can get - "Oh wow, $1.5 million and it has TWO bedrooms, too - fantastic!" - but that's about as far as I go. Maybe Columbus guy should talk more with his wife about having kids. Not sure she was nearly as onboard as he was.

ITA. This season they clearly are trying to show that Lizzie does actually have some skills (she had some good ideas last week, too). It took them long enough. She has been one of the most maddeningly incompetent lead characters not in a comedy ever. Poor guy who helped Liz and got shot and killed, though. Isn't being in a harem dependent on the harem members servicing someone? Was that someone supposed to be Roche? Seems like maybe but they never quite got there.

Nice sleuthing, magemaud! So are Dani and Kim the same woman? Or did he somehow get divorced, remarried and STILL could buy another expensive vacation home? If so, owning an auto racing business must pay well.

We joked that Sue Heck married Brad in Columbus ("the Middle" reference). We didn't understand what the woman did for a living w/the Atlanta couple, and what her commute (?) was? The husband clearly said, several times, that being near the airport was great for him. She talked about being near shops, then after the last house, said something about a longer drive for her, but it wasn't clear what their respective commutes were and how they might play into the house location for her. Anyone understand that better than we did?

I suppose I am the last person to know what "FUBU" stands for. I had assumed the worst, and like the actual answer much better. I'm pretty sure Daymond rode up in an elevator with me in Dallas back in October, when I was in town for a work meeting at a nice hotel. I kept wondering if that was him (he's pretty short), and I saw the earring and then I saw it on this ep. The guy in the elevator was wearing sun glasses and didn't say anything, so I wasn't sure enough to ask.

Just started watching this show. I want to understand the finances of people buying these homes, their ages and the safety of the area. I'd love to look at retiring in one of these places, but once you buy a house, what local costs do you have, and is it safe? Does everyone local think you are an ignorant American? I want more reality and less dream!

This was never going to end well. Jones is a young actress now best known for being in a Star Wars movie, who has nothing to say. Not her fault; she's just not there, yet. The show could have made fun of Star Wars, and perhaps the ending of her movie and its impact on SW incessant marketing (I won't spoil it here, but the ending was the only surprising thing that happened in that movie), but it didn't. It could have played with the fact she is now most famous for a role in a sci-fi franchise that goes back to before she was born, but it didn't. It could have tried to introduce her as someone who existed before the SW movie, maybe had her protesting she was someone beyond that role, but it didn't. So we were left with out-of-context sketches that had to tie to Jones for no particular reason. At that point, the concept mattered more than Jones did. And few of the concepts were any good (Albert rich guy theatre) or fully realized (Susan B Anthony).I think I laughed once. And I typically FF through musical performances on SNL, so few interest me. I was intrigued by this guy using brass as back up, shades of EWF in R&B, but don't care for country music.

We joked that her choice should have been, "I want to move away from Philly." Not one of our favorite cities. And with no parking, we would never visit that house! True, and even with that, they must have been looking at some of the most expensive areas of the city. $500k plus for W. Va? No. Plus you have to deal with all the couch-burning Mountineer fans. The professor was very attractive. I wonder how that plays out in her classes.

Maybe that will qualify for a placard.

Maya doesn't strike me as a technology pioneer. She seems more like me, who refuses technology crutches for simple things like finding where I parked my own damn car. That's how Skynet gets started.

No less than THREE skits featuring those horrible northeastern accents and self-centered attitudes (donuts, the local play and whatever the hell that was at the end in the bar). All were grating, none were funny. The NY stuff is rarely funny to anyone outside NY (I think those inside NY just like the attention ... is it funny to them?). WU was OK. Overall, a pretty lame episode. Expected more for just before Christmas... a dick in the box, or a holiday tune on synthesizer, or a cynical reading of a Christmas story. But nope.