possibilities

2/5.

Calling Bode "Broody" made me laugh. Good episode for Eve. And I called it on the hot flashes!

What?? Are they having an identity crisis??? Do they think they need to fill out their names in the form of a question for it to be accepted as legit??? Are they confused??? Am I overthinking details on a show that turns on attention to details???????

I also wondered what happened to the Athena-with-a-trainee plot.

I find it beyond absurd that Zeke answers the door without checking to see who;s there first. He knows that there's a dangerous criminal out there (Sir) and this week he also thought there was someone stalking the girl who was staying with him. I'm not in the middle of kidnapping drama and I don't open the door without looking to see who's there. I just can't suspend disbelief that Zeke wouild be so careless. Likewise, I thought Lacey's mom disclosing details about Gabi to a stranger on the phone was idiocy. I don't really understand why she doesn't seem to have a clue about how to deal with the situation. Has no one briefed her on security protocols? And now we know Zeke can't use tech. I don't know what makes him think his father can fight the case for him-- he did in fact do what they accuse him of. Is he just so privileged that he thinks the law doesn't apply to him??? Or is it like Margaret not understanding why she has to stay away from the bus station, i.e. just part of a compulsion that overrrides rational perspective? How will M&A solve cases without using illegal tactics, i.e. warrantless searches by Zeke? Sir wanting to cure everybody as a way to "free" Gabi to return to him is in line with his delusions of grandeur, but I guess it's better than what I thought, which was that he was going to try to kill them all.

Maddie wasn't in this one, was she? I kept thinking: no call center? I really want the story about Brad and his tv show and the bully captain who took Bobby's place is finally over. They keep briuning it back and I don't know why they think it's so interesting. I guess they think it's fun to have a tv show about what their tv show is about, like it's clever to layer it like that, but I'm not interested.

I took a shine to Holly because I'm feeling very impatient today and she was super-fast. I saw 1968, thought of Berkeley, then Califoirnia. But that wasn't international. I realized the only university I could think of was the Sorbonne, so I guessed that, but was certain it was wrong. At least I had the right country? Why do people put an exclamation point after their names? Why does it bother me so much? Are we supposed to be surprised that it's them? Are they shouting at us? Yes, I'm irritable and impatient today. Cranky!!! YES, I'm YELLING!!! !!!!!!!

I am usually in favor of facial hair, but Will looks wrong with the scruff.

I was so angry I fast forwarded through the rest of his interview. He seems to think the Dems are the ones who were running on "cultural issues" when actually it was the Repubs who were airing ads on that subject, while Harris talked about the economy. I like Bridget Everett. I wish more women would talk about their hot flashes. And who supports unions? And who doesn't?

They really didn't tell us enough to know whether her behavior was actually compulsive, or just enthusiastic and liberated. She seemed to me to be fine, but they really leaned hard into the sons being condemnatory, rather than showing the point of view of any of patient's partners. If she was in flagrante with other residents, perhaps they were consenting, which as far as I'm concerned means it's not a problem. If they had said she was harassing people, that would be different. But at least two men showed up to embrace her. So I think it was just prudery on the part of the sons and social control on the part of the place they had been housing her.

My view is that there is a pattern of making the woimen a mess and the men as either victimized by the women or heroes and saviors to the women. It's not about one character being flawed. It's about an overall gender divide between dysfunctional women and heroic or long-suffering men. This is a Lorre pattern across many shows.

Might be a personal record for me with TS today: Mercury, Olduvai Gorge, Qabba, Jason, abhorrent, and Typhoid Mary. Plus I got FJ. ` Now watch: I'll miss everything for the rest of the week.

Dee is starting to look more and more like Vi. It's not just the hair. it's also the decor. Her bedroom! Have we ever seen it like that before? She looks like Vi's kid more than Robyn's. I love Vi, so I'm okay with that, but I think it's deliberate shift on the part of the show, and I find that interesting. Even if she can't write about Robyn's cases, she could write about witnessing her friend being shot, and learning self-defense, and she could write about recovering from PTSD. That is character building stuff, isn't it? I feel like she also had a story about mentoring other kids, or tutoring, or something like that? What are other kids writing about? They volunteered at the soup kitchen and ladled the soup? -- I never heard of a "darty" but I thought that was funny. Still no follow up on Vi's breast cancer???? I don't really want to see a cancer story, but they did introduce it, so??? -- The less I say about the CIA stuff, the better. -- It occured to me that Marcus's dad might be faking the amnesia to avoid dealing with the issues between him and Marcus. Is there a way to test if somebody is faking? I wish Dante was his first name, because I like calling him that. Harry isn't annoying, so I'm thinking the hacker is annoying because he's a kid. Kids with power beyond their maturity level can be intolerable. Mel's therapist trying not to laugh was a good bit of acting-- in that I enjoyed it. I don't know if it was good therapist behavior or not. Though, I guess the show wants us to think it was, since Mel was magically healed just by basically getting mad at being told she couldn't. If only PTSD was that easy to fix! I wish the Equalizer was actually equalizing-- i.e. helping the underdogs. The CIA has plenty of resources. It's completely counter to the original show concept that they are having the CIA be the helpless people she needs to help. Also, this show does a major shootout in a crowded street, leaving corpses strewn behind them, and none of it apparently gets noticed by the news, or any of the ziollions of cameras that are all over the place, so Robyn never gets recognized anywhere, and there are never any repercussions or investigation of what the hell just happened. No wonder people who live elsewhere imagine NYC is a dangerous hellscape!

Nitpicks: New Guy tells Colter that he shouldn't go after the shooter alone. Right. Says the guy who went after the shooter alone. Also: Colter didn't bring his own binoculars? He had to borrow new Guy's. --- The widow won't be getting the monthly cash anymore, now that everybody's going to jail. We have the weirdest justice system, all about punishment, and nothing about restitution. I know that's what civil trials are for, but still-- it really doesn't work. I don't know what the answer is, but we ought to figre something out that works better than what we have. --- I agree it's weird to go wandering a long distance to pee, but I think maybe what happened was that because he was drugged he fell down the hill, rather than that he wandered a long way on purpose. Also, they deliberately did not respond to his cries for help because they wanted him out of the way so they could threaten the "traitor" among them. I don't know if a large dose of those meds could also cause confusion, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did, especially if he was also drinking. He was glassy eyed even before he wandered off, and they were saying he was totally wasted (drunk-- despite not drinking a lot), so he was definitely impaired. If you are given a drug you are not used to taking, don't know you took, and are in an unfamiliar place at night, I think it's not much of a strecth if you get disoriented and also if you fall.

Everybody googles everybody these days. I think it would be pretty easy to research your ex's current gf and family thereof, and get names, pictures, and other info.