Taryn74

Hubby and I both burst out laughing when AM was about to go into some deep monologue about what it takes for a person to pull the trigger on another, and all four of them just opened up on him. Turns out it's not that hard. Heh.

I hate to sound shallow and/or mean, but damn Robert Patrick is not aging well. Why is he so puffy? He actually looks uncomfortable speaking.

Well, hubby and I started the new season tonight. They seem to be doing a better job (in some scenes, anyway) of making Reacher seem like he's supposed to be this giant compared to other people. He was towering over some of the dudes who looked like they were pretty big guys themselves. On the downside, the dialogue is a SNOOZE. I don't remember it being this boring last season. Hopefully it will pick up. I live roughly an hour away from Mufreesboro and there is literally no way someone would get carjacked in the middle of the day in small town Arkansas. It just would not happen. One of the bigger cities, maybe, but not somewhere like Murfreesboro. There would have been half a dozen people who would have recognized the woman and/or her car and stepped in and kicked that guy's ass before Reacher ever got out of the thrift store.

Yes. We see it expanding and becoming one of the four rifts when the town is being destroyed.

This. She even commented in an earlier episode (the one where Dustin was eating up all the Wheeler's food, LOL) that she thought it was sweet that they were all sticking together and looking out for each other with everything that was going on.

I never even heard of this movie until my later teens, and it was a few years later before I actually watched it. Personally, I love it. I mean, really and truly LOVE. IT. For me, it perfectly captures the magic of what being a kid is all about, and maybe more importantly what looking back on your childhood is all about. So much of what is going on in the world around you when you're a kid flies over your head, but the things that do stand out are so very important they end up shaping your entire life in one way or another, even if it's something as seemingly minor as fantasizing about getting an A+++ on an essay in the third grade, LOL. So many of my formative memories about my childhood are the simplest of things -- playing chase with my friends after church in the parking lot while the adults stood around and talked, going to the local dairy bar for ice cream occasionally, using grass clippings and fallen pine needles to outline houses with all sorts of rooms and furniture "drawn" in, doing flips off the swings on the playground, the time my older cousin told one of my classmates to leave me alone when she had stolen my headband and wouldn't give it back, stuff like that.

It's taken me how many viewings of this show to pick up on El can't "see" someone in the black space unless she's seen at least a picture of them first? When she's spying on Billy the first time she doesn't see Heather, she just sees him bending over talking to blankness. That was the scene where it finally dawned on me. Which begs the question -- how did she already know who Will was in the first season? She had to have actually physically seen him in the Upside Down before she ever ran across Benny or Mike or anyone else, right?

Does anyone "get" the brief scene where Joyce takes a drag on Hop's cigarette and kind of sputters and says "Hop!" in this chiding tone, and he just shrugs apologetically? We've seen Joyce smoking many times already, so it's not like she's not used to it. Was he supposed to be smoking a gross brand or something? It was obviously an actual cigarette and not a joint. I don't get it and it's driving me crazy. It's the little things that bother me the most when I can't figure them out.

2026, huh? I guess it'll be nice to hear the story from the viewpoint of the characters' great-great-grandkids.

Have I mentioned how much I love that I can bring up a random GG scene and my daughter immediately gets the reference? LOL

Naturally I had to go back and look. Um, yeah. That's pretty hideous.

YES. I'm so mad these shows aren't on Netflix anymore so I can't rewatch them LOL. Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle OWNS me and his scenes with Karen are a thing of beauty.

This is going to be amazing.

YES. I hate that scene for that reason.

"If you don't do something, they're gonna exfoliate me!" 🤣

Yeah, like who shows up dressed like that to nanny young children anyway? The whole thing was just ludicrous. If they had gone with having hired a fitness coach for the grownups for the weekend or something, it at least then it would have made sense. But no, we have to be as ridiculous as possible to make the men look like pigs. Ugh.

He really should have. Every time I think about the look on his face in Big Haas and Little Falsie when he comes in the door just as Charlene is feeling Mary Jo's fake breasts, I die laughing. 😂 And I recently rewatched the episode where he joins the Beaumont country club and Julia breaks it to him that he was only accepted as a token black member -- I LOVE that not only did he already realize that (because he's not stupid) but that he leaned into it because he was making history, even if it was "just" on a local level, by being the first black member there.

Thanks! I might give those a try. Against my better judgement, I went ahead and watched Part 2 of the season opener and honestly wish I hadn't. LOL. I really don't know why we had to watch the stripper's dance like fifty-seven times. Also why make poor Rusty the butt of their joke (pun intended, I guess) TWICE within the same episode? He's not deaf, he knows you're making fun of him. Leave the man alone.

Well I finished S5. Watched Part One of The Big Desk, and I just think I'm gonna call it quits. Amusingly enough, it wasn't Allison that annoyed me as much as I was expecting, it was Carlene. The dumb southern hick routine is just too overdone at this point. Charlene was always charming enough to balance it out (up until about the middle of S5, anyway) but they've just gone all in with Carlene and I don't feel like putting up with it. Goodbye, Sugarbakers. It was nice while it lasted.

Some of my favorite moments are when you see Anthony quietly reacting in the background to something one of the ladies has said. He can be utterly hilarious without ever saying a word. 😂

And on the flip side, it's just as difficult for a decent young man to find someone to be in a real relationship with in today's world. If a guy asks a girl out, is she going to say yes, is she going to let him down gently if she's not interested, or is she going to make a Tik Tok video screeching about how she was "sexually harassed" by the poor guy and try to ruin his life? A man's natural inclination to shield and protect is now "toxic masculinity" and is being verbally and emotionally beaten out of him at every turn. And God help the poor sucker who sees a woman struggling with something and offers to help her. As a mother of two sons, it absolutely breaks my heart to see how men are treated nowadays.

I haven't gotten there yet. I finished S4 and am cautiously moving through S5 now. Mostly it's still okay but I am finding myself more and more irritated with the characters, which truly makes me sad as I want to remember them all fondly after I rewatch. The last thing I want is to just borderline hate them all, you know? I honestly wanted to reach through the screen and slap the snot out of Mary Jo in the episode where Charlene quit working (which quickly moved to working part time, I guess?) to stay home with Olivia. Mary Jo's quips about Charlene not doing anything all day were flat out nasty and uncalled for.

"I have better things to do with my time than sitting around waiting for some concubine to fall out of bed." Suzanne's one-liners are the best. 🤣🤣🤣

Man.....I'm only halfway through Season 4 and the writing is starting to tank already. This is upsetting. There are some really fantastic episodes (The Rowdy Girls being one example) and some that are just a slog to get through a 20 minute episode (The Girlfriend, Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure, Manhunt). Everybody except Charlene and Anthony is starting to become a caricature, which upsets me the most. I don't want these characters to lose their charm, but the shine is wearing off QUICKLY. I'm not even sure I want to finish this season, much less the rest of the show. 😕

I'd forgotten how jarring it could be to binge watch one of these old shows and move into a new season without realizing it. Went from Charlene and Bill getting married to her being several months' pregnant within what felt like just a couple of episodes. LOL. I don't see the episode One Night With You mentioned very often, but to me it's up there with some of the funniest episodes of the entire series. The dawning realization on Suzanne's face when the guy says he thought her name was Julia is absolutely golden. The glee in her voice when she says, "Is it my sister, Julia Sugarbaker, that Mr. Stillman wants to spend the night with?" leaves me howling. And then later when Mary Jo asks Julia what Reese thinks about all this -- "He said we're all dying." I could just hear Reese saying that. 😂😂😂