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Rushdie has been doing a lot of interviews. I am finding them quite interesting. He gets to talk in more detail in other places, because they give him more time and are not trying to be funny.

I am certain that he was trying to set Elsbeth up. Whether the he is shady, or how shady he might be, I think is unclear, but him leaning on Kaya suggests to me that he likely is at the least willing to be shady.

I like the kids drawings game. It's not really worth much as a competition, but it's hilarious anyway.

I like that the show took the wind out of "everyone must go to Harvard or Juilliard" and "everyone will get in if they want to". I find both ideas obnoxious, so I was glad they did that.

I immediately thought of Tiffany, and immediately rejected it as absurd. Also, I did so well in the math category that for the first time in my life I felt good at math. And that is really absurd. Surprise ending with the 3rd place person taking the win. I liked that he said he and his spouse would be happy whatever happened with their respective dreams.

My DirecTV DVR has no problem recoding Monday's shows. I would ask your provider for help with this, because it's a weird glitch. Or, maybe remove the show and then re-set it to record. Sometimes that has worked when I've had problems in the past, with recording other shows. I thought last night's show was extremely good start to finish. Jordan and Ronny seem to work really well together. Jordan takes the edge off Ronny so he's less of a randomly and relentlessly one note rageful maniac, and Ronny gives Jordan a little bit more bite. Jordan is good at not losing his shit when he talks to the most obnoxious people, but a steady diet of affable can make him seem a little too tolerant of horror at times.

I live in a small town. Only city people who have never been here think our seedy underbelly is well hidden.

Polo!

That was a fun interview, but he might regret it if people watch and they stop celebrating him now that they know they have the wrong day! I was surprised to see the demographic on his fan club.

Little guys who have $30,000 (sometimes more) to pay for an investigator to take their case-- which he solves in 2 or 3 days.

I guess we have to resign ourselves to the show no longer being about helping everyday people, but I don't know how much more of this show i actually want to watch. It's so full of holes, it's absurd. Now the Chinese govt knows where the "secret lair" is under the bar, and they have clearly identified Robyn, and nobody seems worried that they will now be targets? And it looks like they are setting up a love triangle with Miles wanting to get closer to Bobyn again, and Dante clearly being worried about that. And they are trying to convince Delilah not to protest? Being arrested for civil disobedience is not going to ruin her fruture. What kind of BS double standard is this family applying? And Delilah was so traumatized by being arrested at the protest that she is apologizing? And Robyn can now perfectly casually go all vigilante and then call in Dante to finish it off? No questions about that? Ugh. I will handwave a lot, but I'm just not enjoying this show the way I used to. It's disappointing.

In the cigarette holder, you'd be carrying a cigarette-shaped recording device, correct?

Another thing I notice this show does which is like Columbo, is that they don't rely on DNA testing or computer hacking. I thought Columbo was that way because those things didn't even exist when that show started. But Elsbeth uses his same methods, and the show has really not made it seem like any of the new-fangled methods and current TV detecting tropes are needed.

I agree about the the similarity between Hetty and Trevor (both being from wealth-driven excess), but there is also a contrast in that she was so very naive and buttoned up and he was so pleasure-driven and self-indulgent. But they both died while doing an act of self-sacrificing kindness toward another-- and tried to hide it for a long time, even from their ghost-buddies. And I guess neither of them felt they had any friends in life. Maybe all the ghosts feel like they died with secrets, or alone, unloved. Pete was in denial about his marriage, but it's clear he wasn't well-loved there. Flower I guess had friends but she was very medicated and checked out of reality in a way. Isaac seems to have had a wife who loved him, but he was keeping his true self hidden. Thor was abandoned by his fellow travellers. We don't know what happened to Sassapis. Alberta was murdered, though it's not clear that she was unhappy or alone in general, I guess. Am I forgetting anyone? Of the non-core ghosts, we have Stephanie, Crash, and the cholera crew, plus the Brits in the shed. And Pete's wife. I don't know that my theory really holds up.

I'm relieved to see they've dialed the ditzy act back to a level I find okay, and are not overplaying it. She is a little bit like that, but the general tendency to discount her seems to be at least as much because she's a woman, not in uniform, and maybe a little clumsy and not being surface-confrontational-- people underestimate her without her having to lean too far into the dimbulb gambit. She's "nice" and she makes the big eyes and the slight stammer, but it's much closer to how Peter Falk played Columbo now, and less how I thought they were playing it earlier in the series. She doesn't take the typical "all business" cop tone, but she's really not being all that subtle about what she's doing, either. Her questions are probing, if you pay any attention at all... and the fact that often people don't, shows more about them than about her at this point. I approve!

I didn't watch The Good Fight, but as I recall (which may or may not be accurate), she did NOT have the totes on The Good Wife. I don't remember her being particularly fashion-forward on that show, either. It was just the ditsy persona overlaid with the extremely sharp detecting.

I thought tonight's game was fun. They kept things moving, cleared the board, and still managed to be kind of funny. The bios were fun, too. Marko putting the ! after his name meant I kept having the impulse to shout POLO! every time the camera allowed me to see the podium, though.

I don't know what the show wants us to think about him. I just know that I don't like him bothering Kaya.

I guess they didn't want to use the noisy aspects, but I think it might have been a good gag to have the slapstick element combined with the romantic/clingy element. And Jay would have heard or seen the things going clank, right?

Why did they even bring Carol in, though? She was only in one episode since she died, and I didn't think it really advanced anything.

I thought she was going to set off the smoke alarm, at the least. And if she burned the divorce papers, how does that help, anyway? If her husband wants to divorce her, burning the paperwork doesn't stop him, does it? I don't really understand the situation, though. If they are married, he doesn't seem to have been living with her. So... that's weird.

The Captain leaning on Kaya officially made me hate him. I wonder how she'll handle it. She was hardly in this episode or the one last week.

If Isaac let go for a second, why couldn't he just grab Patience's hand again right after? I do hope that Patience is found and added to the group, though. Hopefully, time doesn't work the same way for ghosts, so she won't be as bad off as one might imagine from being lost for a long time. An uncapped well is definitely a hazard! I think having a story that involved everyone working together and supporting each other is much more enjoyable than one where everyone is bickering and being petty. Carol and Crash must be together somewhere. Or, as someone said, maybe she's making her way with the basement crew. Or the shed ghosts?

I also thought the avalanche of welcoming and perks was meant to show that for admins at district central, there is more money for parties and perks, whereas at Abbott, everything is bare bones and must be free. The gifts, the new computer, the party, etc-- they take care of themselves, and there's a double standard.

I think it's very telling that one of the contestants recently said the producers said it's okay if things go off the rails. Whether that's true or just something they said, It sure does seem like they prefer it that way. Basically, they seem to be cultivating a punch drunk aesthetic. I like Taylor a lot, but I agree she often laughs more than I think the situation warrants.