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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!

I thought the train plot and the script were funny. I’d like to know why the show team felt they needed to add a new character. Or why the new character has to be another family member. If they wanted to add dimension to the show, I’d love to see lupe’s role expanded. I liked the apartment plot, that to me is a really depressing, claustrophobic place. It’d be nice if they could upgrade somehow, at least lighten up the wall color!

I too wondered how she didn’t know about any of the structural problems. Seems like she would have had somebody look at it before buying even if there wasn’t a required inspection for a mortgage. I didn’t love the exterior of the new house but I liked most of the interior, agree those filigree doors were cool. I think there was also something else similar , maybe on the deck. I enjoyed this episode, but it would’ve been more interesting if she had renoed the original house and had to squeeze in what she wanted into the small space. I’d have liked to see her make those kind of decisions for herself. I thought the houses David showed her were really off the wall, I never thought she’d choose any of them. Their interactions were a lot more chummy than usual, it felt kind of weird to see that.

The realtor was really well-dressed. I thought the scarf-poncho things she wore to the first two houses looked like they were dyed by hand. Very pretty. the buyers seemed more grounded than a lot of the buyers on this show.

On the Huntsville AL episode, couple moving from Brooklyn NY, the wife seemed a lot more realistic than the husband. He seemed spoiled to me, saying the 1950s bathrooms were “unusable”. And he needs (!) a Japanese tub. They seemed to get along well, so hopefully she will control the budget and the renovations will affordably give them the house they want in a location they like.

The wife in the Hawai’i to Detroit episode annoyed me. She complained about being able to see the neighbors’ yards. How’d you manage to live in a condo? I thought the house they bought was the best choice, but I personally would appreciate that the yellow bathroom seemed to be in great shape, no need to tear out all that great tile. I’d love to see a follow up episode to see all her diy improvement projects. Somehow I doubt she can really learn how to redo the entire kitchen from the internet. luckily the husband seemed a lot more realistic.

This episode was beautiful. Claire’s family is effed up, except her sister. claire needed someone to accept her for who she is not who she “should” be which her parents seem fixated on, and her brother is just a prick. in that sense Henry saved her. I liked young Henry with the longer hair but I can see Claire’s point of view, he does look really different with short hair. Loved the incident with Gomez and the bikers, Gomez is cool. I really like that actor. kudos to 28 year old Henry for being able to calmly say “my mother died when I was young” considering how traumatic that was for him and how he narrowly missed being killed too. I thought this was just going to be one season but I can’t imagine how they will wrap it all up in one more episode.

It is SO far fetched! I think that’s why I decided to see it as an allegory, or almost a fairy tale. I agree the way he seems to plan some of his time hops doesn’t jibe with the premise he can’t control it. just imagine how hard it would be to keep all that straight in your mind, it’d drive me crazy if the physical stress didn’t destroy me first. also agree it’s probably very good that it’s not more episodes long.

After watching the first episode I wasn’t sure I really wanted to keep watching, it just didn’t grab me and seemed pretty superficial. But I really like both lead actors so I didn’t ditch it. Now having watched ep two I’m really glad I stayed with it, it became a lot more deep and gave me a lot more sympathy for Henry and what he’s been through over the years. To me the plot became an allegory of the way we experience memory and grief. There are moments we keep going back to over and over in our mind whether we want to or not. Sometimes the horror of those moments doesn’t diminish much over time. (I don’t know if the show will directly address PTSD, but the experience of being in the car when his mom was killed would be enough to give Henry PTSD. probably being jerked around in time and having to survive naked would give anyone PTSD as well.).

Nice episode. I’m finding it a relief to have standalone episodes that wrap up a specific story. Really glad the producers decided to go this way.

To me the problem with Colbourne was that he refused to stay out of his shell. I didn’t have a problem with the actor’s looks or the character til he rejected Charlotte at the end. I love what you said about the *farmer* stereotype. We really don’t know anything about Ralph but that one word. Maybe he was raised by a strong mother and appreciates women as equals, which would set him apart from 99% of the male characters. Also the actor looks closer to Charlotte in age than Colbourne did.