Neurochick

I think another choice is NEVER leave your child with Michael, AT ALL.

I felt Kevin practically did say he wished Randall didn't exist. As for Randall attacking Kevin's sobriety, well that happens in real life. Kevin hasn't been sober for very long, and many times it takes family members many years to trust you. That's just life. To me Kevin's always had it easy. The director probably saw Kevin as mediocre, "The Manny." Maybe the director saw Kevin as one of these white guys whose been able to make it by being "just okay." I know that's how I originally saw Kevin, he's changed since getting sober though.

I thought she meant does the Queen's phone ring "God save the Queen" but I don't think it would have been called a ringtone. I usually don't bother with stuff like that because, heck, Law & Order STILL doesn't get the Grand Jury right.

I really liked this episode and I didn't need to see the recreation of the wedding. I remember the wedding because I just started working my very first job that week. I remember Diana's Dorothy Hamill haircut. Lamb led to the slaughter? I don't know. Centuries ago royal folk knew the purpose of marriage was to unite families, two countries. Everybody knew the game. Marriages weren't about love. The purpose was to have an heir and a spare, that was it, full stop. In some cultures marriage is still like that. The problem in this case was Diana was VERY young, a teenager. She fell for Charles. He was her Prince Charming. She thought they'd get married and live happily ever after, that's what a teenager would think. The family machine knew what the wedding was really about: Charles needed to marry a suitable girl without a past and that wasn't Camilla, even though Charles was in love with her. The speech the Queen gave to Charles the night before said it all. The Queen gets that being in the royal family is a job, a duty and if you want to be in that family you have to deal with it. It does suck. The problem was no one told Diana what the real deal was. She had stars in her eyes and he was all about duty. Was the mouse running across the floor Diana or Charles? ETA: I appreciated the depiction of an eating disorder in this episode. It's like alcoholism and drug addiction. Diana was lonely, anxious, depressed and had no one to talk to. Considering the situation, Diana's feelings were perfectly normal but she was trapped in a society, per her grandmother, where COULDN'T talk about her feelings. So she ate them. At the restaurant when Camilla told Diana her pet name for Charles, Diana began to furiously eat. She was eating AT Camilla because she couldn't tell Camilla how awful she made her feel. BTW, what I remember from the wedding was Diana got Charles' name wrong; I remember she didn't say Charles Philip Arthur George.

I think it was more Karen didn't even try.

The problem with the commercial is the end. At first they show families. Fine, they might all live together anyway. But the ending made no sense.

I have to disagree with that. Privilege is just that, a privilege, not something you should lord over others because in reality the only thing Candiace did for her privilege was to be Dorothy's daughter.

That's why I always felt Kevin was spoiled and entitled. Kevin became famous as a "good" actor. But a black man has to be more than just good. He did screw up big time. I think Randall understood that many young white men screw up big time and get second and third chances, yet when a young black man screws up it's "Get the fuck out of here NOW."

I can't blame him for the dumbasses who flock to this fool.

Ari's dad really needs to STFU about Ethiopia; considering this is happening right now in the good old USA.

The problem with those commercials is they run ALL THE TIME. I don't have a problem with them doing commercials though. There used to be this website (I think it was called JapanEnder or something like that) where they showed videos of commercials Hollywood stars do in Japan. At the time (late 90's early 00's) Hollywood stars didn't do commercials in the US. My feeling is that these people have a short shelf life, why not milk it for every cent?

Day care IS expensive; a person doesn't have to be poor to be struggling with that, these days.

Sarah will never divorce him; she's pathetic. That was a strange story. If the child was Maria's, why didn't she just come pick him up? Sounds like SHE should be charged with neglect too. Who'd trust Michael to watch their child? He can't even be bothered with his own children.

He could have met Laurel after her overdose, maybe he worked in the hospital? Maybe she went to rehab and he was there too? She could have told him William's name, and that they had a child. Why do we think Laurel tried to find Randall? Maybe when she was in rehab she just hoped Randall had a better home than she could give him. I think she's been dead for awhile though.

Wait. Whose child is this? Florida? Hopefully he and Sarah didn't breed again.

I don't think so. I don't think Candiace would be anywhere if her mother were not a professional. If her mother were married to some jerk and lived in a tent, Candiace would be in the same spot Ashley's in now. My problem with Candiace last season was that she had no idea how her life was shaped by her privilege; some people do make it despite their circumstances, but those are the exceptions, not the rules.

I really liked this episode because the Big Three really need each other. I liked seeing young Randall and Kevin, how Randall taught Kevin how to study; how Kevin realized that if he wanted to be a great actor, he would have to do the work, and it ended with him studying the way Randall taught him to. I liked it when Randall told Kevin that he HAD to study for every test because in his private school, he couldn't be just average, he had to be outstanding. I had a feeling Kate got pregnant by that abusive boyfriend and had an abortion; just got that sense. Should it have come up when Kate was dealing with fertility issues? I won't should on Kate; I think she could have been in denial about it; but when Elle mentioned that SHE almost had an abortion and decided it wasn't for her, that was the trigger that caused Kate to remember.

I knew I wasn't going crazy. I remember Thatcher as having a womanly figure. I knew she wasn't as thin as Nancy Reagan. I don't think the Balmoral Test was to see if Maggie "knew the rules." I think it was a test to see how Maggie would do if she felt uncomfortable or foolish. Do you deal with it, do you run and hide, do you become resentful?

I agree with this. There are many people who share in 12 step programs and say things like, "I felt like everybody else was born with the rule book of life, except me." That's why a lot of people drink, to feel normal because they feel everybody else knows the "rules" but them. The truth is that no one is born with the rule book; they do research, they ask questions, they let down their pride. In this episode, Maggie didn't want to do that. She wanted to sit and stew and then get all superior about those "privileged folk" at the same time wanting to be accepted by them. The stag was SUCH bad, bad CGI, I couldn't take it. Diana knows what she wants and how to get it, can't hate on her for that. The thing is, everything you do has a price. I think Gillian Anderson looks less like Maggie Thatcher and more like Nancy Reagan. Was Thatcher that thin? I know Nancy Reagan was, because I once saw her when she was First Lady and she was thinner than me and at the time I weighed less than 100 pounds.

You're not wrong there. Candiace certainly could have said that. I wouldn't call Gizelle's home a cabin though, it was a 900k gut job though. If Ashley was really, really low down, she'd say to Candiace, "where would you be without your mother?"

She already has 74k followers. And she calls herself a "world explorer."

Both of them are looking for someone to take care of them. Bad combination. That is right. Neither one of them has an income (excluding reality show income), no one is self supporting. Jenny was looking for a hot, younger man to take care of her and Sumit was looking for a white, American blonde woman to take care of him. Jenny didn't "gaslight" (People use that word too damn much) the parents, she lied to them. And Ari probably would expect an apartment with a washer and a dryer. I'd never expect that in Ethiopia, I wouldn't even expect that in the US.

Just going by the original TLC info from page 1 Well Ari's still not in love with Bini. She thought he was hot and probably "exotic" as well. She probably thought it would be cool to have a baby in Africa, until she realized she was going to have a baby in Africa. Eventually Ari will have an Instagram page and take plenty of pictures of Avi, to show off her "exotic" baby.

I have ZERO tolerance for Ari and her bullshit. She's like a heroin addict and her parents are enablers who keep their child sick because they're afraid of the alternative. I wonder if how Avi, a biracial child will fare in Ari's world. Will he know his heritage? Or will Ari and her nasty Boomer parents try to "white face" him?

This is the thing that pisses me off about the Americans. If you're in someone else's country, then don't fucking complain that they're not doing stuff the way they do it in America. You are not in America. Different countries do things different ways. Different cultures do things different ways. If you don't like it then stay your ass in America. And don't get me started about Kenny. Shit, I know more Spanish than him and I'm not thinking about getting married in Mexico.