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My two favorite Dr. Rick scenes: 1) in the group trip to the store, when the lady is on speaker phone yammering about how she’s having a BIG LUNCH, AND JUST A SNACK FOR DINNER. That is my mom...putting her calls on speaker in public spaces, but only after she answers it by saying “Hello? Hello?? HELLOO???” in ever increasing intensity and volume because she “can’t hear a thing in this noisy store”. 2) the seminar when Dr. Rick says “You got up early. No one cares.” Again, my mom. She will call me (then my sister)to enumerate all the tasks she’s completed since rising at 4:30. Then shame me for “still” being in bed at 7am. On a Sunday.

Mixed reviews here I see! Personally, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Probably because there was no Pearson speechifying or bemoaning their rather privileged lives, or wailing about the sling & arrows the Big 3 (Stooges) have suffered lo these 40 years, and no self obsession (minus Randall’s rudeness to Hai to speed up Laurel’s story and get to the part about “MEEEeee”). I think I would rather have a spin off about Laurel , her brother, their parents, Aunt Mae, and Hai & his family than listen to Kate, Kevin or Randall whine about everything they don’t have when they actually should shut up and be grateful for what they do have. I had a smile on my face and welled up a bit at the end of this lovely story of love lost and found. Then Randall called Kevin. All the oxygen got sucked out of the room because of course a Pearson is facing yet another life crisis next week.

Why is it that almost every murderer on these shows is introduced as “smart”? They may think they are the smartest guy/gal in the room, but they usually end up doing the dumbest shit that gets them caught. Lonnie’s case had so many red flags flying, but I guess that’s all “obvious” to us in our living rooms. The poor victims must be blind by the overall length of the relationship to see it. If I were Micki, my first clue that something was off would have been when I saw that 40 year old bucket of bolts at the dock. To quote Luke Skywalker upon seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time, “What a piece of junk!”. Didn’t Micki and Lonnie live well prior to the divorce? Nice home, nice cars? I would think Micki was used to a better level of lifestyle than sailing on rusted old ferry disguised as a cruise ship. And their “stateroom”!!! What a shit hole! My college dorm room was more spacious and better appointed than that prison cell! I guess that cruise package cost Lonnie $500/ per ticket. Another big indicator of Lonnie’s guilt was when he got off the damn boat! Your wife is missing at sea, and you jump ship? And cry about how no one speaks English at the hotel? And beg your ex cop friend to get you back to the US? If he were innocent, he would have stayed on the ship to help conduct searches, answer questions, etc. At the very least, stay in Italy and work with the police/ US Embassy to find out what happened! Thank God that research vessel was in the right place at the right time to find poor Micki.

My guess is Capt Lee will fume and rant and rave, then have a sit down with everyone of the guests. He will give them some rules and the charter will continue. I would prefer the whole lot of them get their collective asses left on the dock, but that doesn’t make good tv. Rachel is a good chef, but her personality is annoying. Izzy complains too much, aside from being sick. Elizabeth is useless. She still hasn’t figured out her job after being told time and time again....keep the drinks flowing without having to ask the guests if they want anything.

Forgot to mention...the new deckhand is one of the best looking guys I’ve seen on this show. Yowza!

Started watching this on DVR and I’m only 16 minutes in....HHHHHAAAATTTE the primary from the jump. I actually like his popsicles suit. I think it’s his enormous, overly whitened dentures that irk me the most. Maybe things will improve by the time the episodes ends? I am sure there are production shenanigans going on as far as booking charters with “characters” with “personality”, but this group must have been told turn amp up the personality to 11. I had a feeling Rachel would be back. Mostly because after telling the audience what demanding menus the guests were expecting, and we were still not shown a replacement chef nor a provisions delivery 30 min before the guests showed up. So obvious the food had been ordered and stowed before Rachel ever put her ass back on board.

Thank God the SNL show runners and writers finally figured out how to be funny (-ish) again. All they had to do was tell Alec Baldwin and Jim Carey to stay the F home.

I had no idea who Trace Ellis Ross is, or what she is famous for. All I do know is I can not stand her stupid Lays chip ads. Is she an actor or comedian? A singer? A social-influencer? Does not compute why she is the spokesperson for this brand. Between the damn Skyrizi ads and Lays, I am diving for the mute button a lot. (At least Skyrizi changed the voice of the “singer” in the world’s 2nd most annoying jingle. #1 still belongs to Kars for Kids)

I started watching on the DVR & so I could FF’d thru ads. I was about 20 min in, and I got a bad feeling. Plus I couldn’t stand James and Will much beyond that. So, I deleted it from my DVR a and came here to see what happened. My intuition was right, and the only team I liked is out. I didn’t see the sharing of info on the final task, but I am infuriated after reading what the 3 asshole teams did. 2020 continues to be one of the shittiest years on record, at least in my 45 years on the planet. A deadly pandemic, racial (and racist) violence, a crapfest of an election cycle, economic devastation, remote (non) learning for my kid...all the horrible awful misery going on certainly doesn’t equate to my disappointment in stupid tv show. But now 2020 is ruining my escape from the daily crap?!? So, I am doubling down on my prediction I made a couple of episodes ago...in the Year of the Pre-Apocalypse aka 2020, James & Will will be the winners. I hope The Beards and Chee and Hung relive their stupid game play in a never ending loop in their dreams every night.

Shane is the ditziest person on TV right now. The Kartrashian siblings are running an astrophysicist think tank compared to this kid. Shane has mentioned how smart he is a few times, and how he graduated from Berkeley. Do you think he means a high school called ‘Berkeley’? If he needs to maintain his sleep schedule, his journaling, his yoga and his positive head space for his health, he took the wrong job. Maybe he just didn’t understand he was hired for back-breaking working, and thought he was going on a cruise as a Sustainability lecturer? I hope he and his stupid paper straws, his organic yoga mat and cage-free responsibly sourced journal are dumped off the boat next week. These 50th bday guests were not too bad until the red wine BS. I don’t care that there was a cleaning product to remove the stains. That was so uncalled for.

I just ordered the Holiballs. I have never ordered something from Shark Tank the same night I saw it, but I couldn’t resist! I am a Christmas nut and I love the look of these giant ornaments. Hope they look as good IRL. Toilet timer is dumb. I can relate to why it’s a cute idea because my husband and my children seem to think the bathroom is an in-home Internet cafe. But it’s a gag gift that won’t last. I hate skiing, so boot thingies don’t mean anything to me. I can see some speed demons loving them though. Very impressed by the car coat lady! Good for her on all counts...the biz she built, her idea, her MBA...very savvy woman. Glad she got a deal.

I know they cannot control the weather, but if they are filming this in late spring or during summer, can they just stop asking the bakers to do flipping ICE CREAM or custards or intricate chocolate techniques that require specific minimum temperatures??? There is no way a tent without solid walls and no AC is going to maintain cooler temps they need. Even if they had enough extra time to keep their bakes in the fridge/freezer right til judging, many of those desserts would start melting. Overall, I’m just “meh” on the season, the bakers, the hosts and the recipes. Maybe I’m burnt out on this show. Or the magic from the earlier seasons is just gone. I just don’t watch these newer series/episodes with a big goofy smile on my face like I used to. I used to love or admire all 12 bakers. Now I barely knew anyone’s name....or cared.

The guy who keeps whining and whimpering and weeping about his feelings and his self doubt...STFU FFS! He’s a 30-something year old (guessing) baby-man. His teary TH’s about how he is smart, and special and deserves to be heard/listened to/ to be the leader. Good grief! I don’t know his name, but by his attitude, I’d guess it’s Stuart Smalley.

Forgot to mention; since the most hated, unlikeable people like Flo and Kendra have won in the past, AND because it’s still 2020, aka ,the year of all thing horrible, i think it’s preordered that Will and James will win this season.

Hey, did you guys know Eswar and Aparna are coders / programmers and have ALL the technology knowledge and skills ever bestowed upon humans? I am so glad Aparna finally told me how smart this team is (snort). I don’t like this alliance BS one bit. I hate how Hung and Chee just wait around to help others, then get bent out of shape when another team behaves in a competitive way. Haaaaattttte Will and James. One of the worst teams ever personality wise. I never thought I could dislike people on this show more than whiny, do-nothing, screeching Flo (season 3) or racist, ugliest American ever KKKendra(season6). But Will and James and their self righteous smugness is pushing them into that circle of most despised racers for me.

Not at all! I meant the moms I’ve known for years through school sports & PTO who still call their now 13-16 year old children “kiddoes”. And many of them also use the term “littles” for these middle and high schoolers. As in, “I have to get home to make dinner for the littles” or “I feel so awful for my littles with all these COVID restrictions!” Um, Lisa? Your “littles” have part time jobs and driving permits. And Sara, if your twins are preparing to take the SATs, do they qualify as “littles”??

Sayid is my new best friend. I despise hearing women call other women “Mama”. See also: when women describe themselves as “Mama Bear” and her offspring as either ”cubs” or “kiddoes”, and when couples refer to each other as “Babe” in every sentence when speak to each other...”Babe, did you get the milk.” “Oh, Babe, I forgot. Sorry Babe.” “That’s Ok Babe, but Babe, can you remember tomorrow? OK Babe.” “Anything for you, Babe!” 😩 As much as I liked Amy in the early seasons, I didn’t miss her in this episode.

Lady with the 40 income properties and her daughter had a lot of nerve bringing a case over THEIR error in rent. Let’s assume the 40 units she has are all 1-&2- BR a units. I think she said she gets $1700 for the 1 BR, and $3k for 2 BR. Let’s do some math...if 1/2 her units are 1BR: 1700 x 20 x 12mos= $408,000. 2BR: 3000 x 20 x 12mos = $720,000 for a grand total of $1,128,000 of rent collected per year (assuming full occupancy of course). Even factoring in COVID and loss of rent payments for 2020, this lady has been pulling in some serious income over the years! And to demand $16k in “back pay” of her supposed short fall from this one tenant (who receives government housing assistance FFS) is ridiculous. Maybe this land lady and her attorney daughter should spend more time reviewing her property financials to catch any discrepancies sooner, and less time at the medical spa getting Botox and face lifts. Neither one of those woman could blink!

With everything this episode served up, one of my main complaints is about Diaper Gate. Not because Toby didn’t unload the teeny package of 12 diapers from the car. Or because he failed to remove the teeny package of diapers, but apparently brought in the other grocery bags. Not because Kate couldn’t have grabbed them herself, since you know, teeny package , not too burdensome to lift. Not even because they were bickering in front of potential baby mama (scam alert, BTW). My eye rolling moment over the whole scene was when Toby revealed Kate only buys ONE teeny package of diapers at a time because she doesn’t want to “hoard” them. WTF? I know this is taking place in the height of quarantine and provisions were/are limited. But why not buy at least a case of diapers at a time?? My child has been out of diapers for 10+ years, but I know she went through a lot of ‘em in a day. I guess the point the writers were making is “Kate is a good person! She is empathetic to others’ needs in these difficult times! See how woke she is!” However all I thought of was, Kate would rather she or Toby run to Target on a daily basis to get one teeny package, thus exposing herself or Toby and their son to potential COVID contamination??? And what a waste of gas! Not very woke about the environment I guess.

Did anyone get a glimpse of the big secret while Maggie was scrolling? I supposed we will find out next week. I saw the son’s college cap and gown picture, so I hope the big scandal isn’t that Jamie didn’t actually graduate. While it may be an embarrassment or an eyebrow raiser, I don’t see that being the ruination of Maggie. I can’t imagine a reporter or a Nosey Parker from the village would think that would be that worthy a story to chase down.

Not liking Erin at all. She looks miserable whenever she interacts with the bakers or with the judges. Her voice has a sneer in it, even Whalen she saying she likes something. Maybe it’s her extreme underbite, or her jaw that makes her speak or look like that? Plus, she lost me when she said one of the displays (the textured penguin?) was in a “preCURIOUS position”rather than “precarious”. Raven was a wee bit better on this ep, but who is dressing her? Someone needs to tell her to put David Byrne’s 1980’s oversized suits back in the closet. And leave them there. I agree that this season is off. The format, the sit out a round and snark punishment, no elimination...none of it is great IMO. Even the teams seem less talented, less cohesive, less enthusiastic & more argumentative than previous contestants. There’s an awful lot of rice crispie treats being used in these scenes. It doesn’t support all the weight they lob on top of it. It makes sense to use it for making a head or a tail or other small appendage, but not for the entire base of a building or giant Santa.

Can we please be done with Alec as Trump , Jim Carrey as Biden and Kate as Giuliani forever, please? I am not pro-Trump, but the election is essentially over. Biden/Harris ticket won. For all the weekly mocking and reminding the audience “Trump is eeeeviiil! Trump is so stupid!! Trump needs to be thrown out/impeached/imprisoned” over the past 4 years, can SNL (& America) just drop it? Why continue to make him a point of conversation? Isn’t at least 50% of the country satisfied that Trump is out? He will be gone from politics as of Jan20. Until then, he is a lame duck with very little power and even less respect from his own party. I am tired of the negativity, especially in this COVID shit show of a year. I want to escape from the world when I choose to watch SNL or a comedy. If I want to drive my anxiety and stress levels up, I would turn on the news. I get SNL’s foundation is political satire, and I have enjoyed it since 1975. I am just over the repetition of the same thing week in and week out.

The Hug Sleep thing sounded interesting in theory. But I was confused by one thing in particular...are you supposed to sleep in the cocoon, then under covers? Or is the compression wrap supposed to keep you warm without sheet/blankets? I sleep with some kind of covers all year long...I need the feel of at least a sheet, even in a heat wave. And in fall/winter, I like the weight and warmth of my quilt. So I think I would be too hot in the summer and the winter if I used the wrapper. But mostly, I wouldn’t buy it because I’d be afraid I’d hurt myself getting out of bed! I have a very high bed, so it’d be a long hard fall onto a hardwood floor if I had to get up to pee or get out of the house quickly. I am considering putting a weighted blanket on my Xmas Wish List though. At least I can toss that off if it gets too hot or to get out of bed without Herjavec-ing my noggin. So tired of the sob stories. It’s friggin’ 2020, people. We ALL have sob stories. I had hoped the Shark Bubble in Vegas would mean fewer Guest Sharks, but guess not. I am sick of hearing these Guests shoehorn in their company’s origin story every time they open their mouths. “When I started XYZ, blah blah, struggles, blah, no money, blahddy blah, no respect, closed doors, bootstrapped,blahblah, nobody believed in me because I was young/ a minority/a woman/ didn’t have a degree blahblaaaaaahhhh.” Shut it! We hear your bio at the beginning of the episode. If we are as interested in you as you are interested in you, we can Google for a deeper dive, thanks.

She looks like she’s perpetually smelling a fart. Not so much “resting”; I’d say Erin has a pretty active bitch face. Even Shin Min seems to have caught a minor strain of it. The teams seem extra snarky and bad tempered compared to past seasons, especially in the first episode. Usually the tension and sniping turns up as the teams go deeper into the competition. Everyone on this show seems so unhappy for people who get to be around CAKE and SUGAR and HOLIDAY stuff. Maybe this was filmed during the height of COVID outbreaks? Was everyone quarantined together and already sick of each other by the time they got on set? Not a fan of Rayven. Not even during her cutesy wootsey days on the Cosby Show. I will probably keep watching for another week or two because my daughter likes it, but I don’t see me rooting for any of these people.

Amy has owned her new house for a year now. She was able to host a very sad Christmas dinner for Z&T with Chris, but at that point she hadn’t fully moved out of the big house. Now we know she didn’t finally vacate the farmhouse until late Feb or early March 2020. And Chris still wasn’t living there full time when thes COVID a episodes were filmed. Now it’ a year since she bought her new place...has Chris moved in?? If after a full year of playing house on a part time basis, I don’t see them getting married. Amy is very sloppy and likes to surround herself with her 40,000 very important and sentimental mugs, and boxes filled with 30 year old papers. Chris likes order and not so much clutter. Tori has every reason to be cautious about living on the Roloff property. Thirty-two acres will feel like a 1/32 of an acre once Matt constantly stops by to talk pumpkins and buildings and maintenance every day and night. It will be extremely difficult to keep boundaries in place. Matt will pull the strings to manipulate Zach and Tori based on what he needs. Poor pitiful crippled disabled Matt will whine and wheedle. Big business man Matt will pull the boss / owner card. Even when he and Caryn (aka the next ex-Mrs. Roloff) are in AZ, he will call or text to make sure Zach is dancing to Matt’s tune.