CattyK

I just finished season 6 episode 7. The plot is so bad this season. Jason runs off for almost a month and dumps everything on Mary, and upon returning he nitpicks the penthouse work like a little tyrant. Mary doesn’t seem to actually do anything as “manager”, just worries a lot. The “girls trip” at this time is a ludicrous plan but I guess the producers thought we’d enjoy watching mature women bounce on the beds and squeal. At dinner Mary regales everyone with how she’s now trying to get pregnant even though her stress level is very high due to her jobs. Then Emma restarts the fight between Nicole and Crishell and all Mary can do is sit and splutter “I, she, we, uh—-“. I hope Mary doesn’t have twins, she’ll never be able to separate two fighting children! Crishell has been reduced to some kind of caricature thanks to this feud with Nicole and also her current lover which really does look like a midlife crisis. Nicole isn’t attractive or interesting. She just seems desperate. I dislike her more than I remember disliking Christine. It’s too bad no one ever seems to get fired from Oppenheim. Chelsea is a bitch but I do find her outfits interesting….highly inappropriate and ridiculous, but interesting. That belt-skirt thing was right up there with Christine’s tiny chair “purse”.

I just finished watching this season. Flagg has one quality I’ve always liked, his appreciation of older homes. I enjoyed his interaction with the two sisters and enjoyed seeing that house. Otherwise Flagg was just annoying and got more so throughout the season. Tracy has let him get by with way too much for a long time and it finally hit the fan. His “what I say is meaningless” bs is ridiculous. Bobby is better off, and so is Andrew if in fact they’ve broken up. I actually enjoy the other three and don’t find them too annoying. that Las Vegas project is like something out of a dystopian science fiction novel. It deserves to fail spectacularly. I enjoyed the discussion here about the tax on the most expensive houses. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Well that was a good episode! I just hope it wasn’t one of the main characters who got sucked off. Could be one of the basement ghosts.

Yeah at first I thought Lily was totally messing with the guy. Which was very appropriate! But especially when she got to the part about making decisions and realizing those don’t include him, it got very truthful I thought. my feeling is that Lily has really tried to be a good spouse, and I would hope their marriage could survive, but good lord Hank needs to get himself together to make that happen.

It felt like Lily was trying out the divorce conversation to see if that is really how she feels. I thought it was funny when the guy just slid over into the empty chair. Hank’s mother is despicable and his father too although now he’s mainly pathetic. When is Hank going to sever his connection to them?

Finished the episode. I liked a lot of the inside. I really don’t like black cabinets in a kitchen though. The gray on the exterior was horrible, didn’t suit the style of it at all.

I’m watching the “last flip before baby” episode. I cannot believe how long it took Heather and Rejoy to figure out the reason for the upstairs configuration is the dormer. That information should’ve entered their consciousness as soon as they got out of the car. Actually now that I say that, did Tarek also not immediately grasp that? Ugh I don’t want to rewind and rewatch to double check. somehow I find Rejoy the most artificial looking person on the show. Not a fan.

I found this episode less depressing than the previous episode. Hank finally took some action, even though the result was disappointing. I completely dislike both Hank’s parents. Julie is insufferable and really needs to quit the act of running home to mommy. I think Lily is the most balanced character, she’s trying to be true to herself and is a good parent and wife. the music was interesting. I liked what I heard of Find a New Hero, would like to hear the whole song or locate the lyrics.

I don’t like Lillian at all. She does seem to feel like she’s in the driver’s seat. I think the Yamaguchi event was the episode where Kathy raised an issue and Lillian dismissed her concern and said you just have to trust me, she wouldn’t even discuss it. Also did Lillian bother to check the kitchen location before committing to the event? It seemed like she didn’t, since she didn’t inform Kathy. Later she told the staff they are all replaceable, like she was in a position to hire and fire.

I just finished watching season two last night. Apologies to all for such a late post, but I have to say this somewhere—-the “fashion” show was a ridiculous travesty. Atrocity is a good word for it. As an opening entertainment before bringing out some actual clothes, it would be okay, and maybe that’s what was intended, but it left me wanting to see actual clothes. I watch this show for the clothes (of all the characters), the scenery, the pretty men, in that order. I feel cheated that a “fashion show” was nothing more than this. But I did enjoy the clothes in the season, Mindy and Emily are always over the top but they have some great pieces. Julien does have some great clothes too. Mindy is my favorite character, and Alfie is growing on me. I’m very much over the Emily-Gabriele thing but I guess the show will continue to drag that out.

I agree I liked this episode without without Sarah, her character is usually depressing and not funny. Maybe when she comes back, they can lighten up the character a little. Lupe and Denise were hilarious, I always wish Lidia Porto would be onscreen more as she’s so great. Marina and the contractor was good, she may be attracted but doesn’t mean she’s gonna act on it. I was mad at Connor for parking in two spaces, I hate people who do that.

On the Bangor episode, I could see why they chose the new house. The garage was beautiful. It would be a huge project to create a garage that nice at the older properties. I thought the third house stairs were a bit much, and the top story needed work to be really useful.

The husband in the Cairns episode didn’t seem to be very good at listening to his wife and addressing her concerns. I don’t blame her for being concerned about critters that she might encounter in or near the house.

I liked the Florida couple better than many on this show, but I thought the wife was a bit insufferable with her “we can spend more, he just needs to trust me”. She repeated some version of that so many times, including getting in the last word at the end. And my pet peeve, wanting to replace things that work just fine and are still in great condition. I also liked the husband’s voice,it reminded me of some actor. I thought the stairs in the house they bought would be a hazard. Plus she indicated she has a bad knee so stairs won’t be great for that. I didn’t think of alligators or snakes. I wondered how much they’ll use the deck when they’re surrounded by mosquitoes. I’d rather have had the affordable house and put in a pool with a screened cover.

I just watched Newly single in Milwaukee, which I think was a new episode this week. She bought a Tudor cottage house. I thought it seemed like a good buy, BUT: The bathrooms had tile which I thought was amazing, it looked to be in great shape in the short views of it they showed. I can’t remember when the house was built but I’d guess the tile was from the 30s or early 40s. The tile in the full bath was all pale yellow with delicate black accents. The half bath did have two colors that didn’t mesh well, but I thought the geometric floor tile was pretty. The buyer hated it all but her sister appreciated the vintage charm. Buyer plans to rip it all out. the living-dining area had hardwood floors and she refinished that keeping the original color, which matched the window trim and baseboards. But she painted all the trim dark gray. Painted dining room walls dark gray about 2/3 of the way up, then white above, a really severe institutional look I thought. I just wish more people who buy older houses because of their “charm” would preserve more of that charm!