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Jill's acting is just sooo bad compared to the rest of the cast. I like the show but sometimes Jill's delivery of her lines is just...I don't know how to explain it. Over the top? Amateurish? And while this show is a parody/satire of Upper East Side rich women, I don't get why Jill is always saying she's "exhausted" and "sooo tired". From WHAT?? She doesn't appear to work or shop incessantly or tote her kids around to activities or do charity work or play tennis... She exudes almost no energy except for speaking to her sour face BFF several times a day. Maybe she's anemic and needs a good does of protein or vitamin B or an iron infusion. I do enjoy Brooke and her vapid self involved coven. I was surprised her fancy "on brand" purses were only $2k. I thought she'd be selling them for $10k (and up) a la Hermes Birkin bags! I do hope Amy Sedaris shows up periodically the rest of the season, sporting her white jeans and matching her Von Webber bag.

At least Mei didn't end up horribly murdered like Cullen's 1st wife, Lilly Bell or Ruth. Naomi had to deal with a lot of shit thanks to Cullen (teen pregnancy, death of fanily, excommunication, being terrorized by the Swede...) but she got out alive and (hopefully) will live happily ever after. Unless he goes chasing after her, Mei should count her blessings that she caught the ship out of Cullen's circle of chaos. Was the point of this show to make Cullen the most depressing, unlikeable, sad sack ever? The character has become ridiculous. I still don't understand the "why" behind Cullen's obsession with the railroad. He has forsaken just about everything to keep working on it, but what is the ultimate reward for him? Money? A sense of accomplishment? Hardly worth losing 4 women & his son over it. He doesn't have any friends. He has made enemies on both sides of the Pacific. Even when he is working on the railroad, he isn't happy. He is a miserable son of a bitch. I don't pay attention to who directs or writes each episode, but this last season has felt like each ep is run by a different person. There is no flow or feeling of continuity. This episode in particular was so odd. Did a Quentin Tarrentino disciple direct? Chang's Kung foo bad assery and Cullen's gunslinger in a trance scenes were so laughable. As much as I have disliked this season, I will finish the last 2 episodes if not for any other reason than to see how many more lives Cullen Bohanon can fuck up before the final spike is driven in the continental RR.

Add me to the list of Bree dislike. Egads, she was awful! They couldn't have found another red haired 20year old who could deliver a line? She reminded me of Vaness Beyer's child actress character on Saturday Night Live. So very untalented, and if she is going to be featured a lot next season, I can't even. Claire looked fantastic in '68! I loved her post WW2 look and styling, but her face was stunning as a 50 yo. I don't understand time travel mechanics, and it hurts my head to try to reason it out. But this part just won't get out of my brain, so if someone could talk me off the ledge, I'd appreciate it. Since Roger was a direct decendant of Gellis, what would have happened if Claire had stopped her from going through the stone? I know she didn't want to stop her, just warn her, but if Gellis never went back in time to become Dougal's baby mama, would Roger just "poof" out of existence? Would he evoporate on the spot once Gillian missed her opportunity to time travel? Claire and Bree had already met him. Would they just get instant amnesia and forget they stayed at his house & toured Scotland with him yesterday? OK, head hurts again and I need to lie down...

Wow. The depth of Jer(k) and Odd's understanding of relationships is ah-MAZE-ing. Not. Boy, sucker4reality, you deserve combat pay for taking that bullet for the rest of this forum. If you complete all 7 days of their "challenge", I guess you get the Purple Heart.

I said it before after hearing Matt complain about his "DW"...if you don't like it, then build yourself a damn house! I think he mentioned building something eventually. If he hates it so much, Matt should have made sure he included something in the divorce paperwork that he will be able to build a home on the property. And the two of them should work out where, how large & how it will be paid for (Matt's personal $$ vs. farm income vs. TLC cash). If this show goes on another season, I don't want to hear the next verse in Matt's "I Got the Double-wide Blues" ballad. The painted cabinets didn't look so bad IMO, but that look wouldn't work in my house. The floor looked nice too. But like ZoloftBob said, it seems like a waste of money to do much more fixing up if he's going to move out of it. I guess there's always the chance one of the Roloff kids Who Shall Not Be Seen or Named could use it down the road when they finish college - if they want to return. The good Lord knows Jer(k) and Odd would never live in "a trailer" if it were offered. I wouldn't be surprised if/when they return to the farm those two would expect to be in the "big house". I have a feeling every time Odd walks into Amy's kitchen she is silently calculating how long it would take to rip out the LP-sized counters and cabinets and retrofit them to her height (and how to keep this show going long enough to have TLC pay for it).

I have never owed a Buick and thanks to all their stupid ads, I never will. Nor will my children, grandchildren and all progeny henceforth. Every time I see one of their ads, I jump for the remote to either mute or change channel. I can't decide which one is worse - 1) the ones with idiot passengers looking for their friend's car in a parking lot and calling to find them "I'm right here! In THE BUICK", or 2) the one with the couple on vaca and the wife asked if he locked "THE BUICK" or 3) the one where the baby wakes up and dad says he'll take the baby for a ride in "THE BUICK". Who even talks like that about their car?? Wouldn't most people say "I'm the 2nd car down the street, the blue one with light on" or "did you remember to lock THE CAR?" Between us, my husband & I have 2 cars and an old pickup truck; all different makes - a KIA, a Volvo and a Ford. If deciding which one to use when we go out the conversation goes like this; "your car or mine?" Unless you have a fleet of vehicles at your disposal, no one differentiates which one they are using by the brand name. GAH!!! So irritating!

I wouldn't consider myself "sheltered" or privileged financially, but I'm surprised how many cases come through JJ's courtroom re. adult roommates. Is it really common for 40+ year old men to rent rooms in someone's home? I guess it's cheaper to rent one room than a whole house on your own, & renting out spare space in one's house is a way to make extra income. However I can't imagine renting a room to a complete stranger. Even if they rent one bedroom, they would still need access to the bathroom, kitchen, laundry etc, right? It just seems like a very bad idea. And so many of the cases on JJ prove my point...non payment of rent, drugs, theft, property damage and the difficulties of evicting tenants don't seem to worth the extra $400/month. I know many of the litigants JJ sees are scamming the system with their "disabilities" and lack of the personal responsibility gene. JJ is probably as sick of hearing sad ass stories from these unemployed and uneducated con artists as I am, but sometimes she comes across as down right mean or heartless. She also acts like she doesn't understand that most people in "her America" struggle economically.

I'm liking this show but I can't help but think of the "look alikes" in the cast. * Pack = Aziz Ansari (not so much his physical appearance, but a lot like "Tom" on Parks & Rec than his stand up persona) * Todd = less attractive Matthew McConaughey + less attractive Bradley Cooper * Danny = Zach Galifinakis * Owen = Ryan Reynolds

I take back any negative thing I said about Jer(k)'s man bun and his various hats. Anything to keep me from seeing that mop of hair again. The more I hear Jer(k) & Odd speak the dumber they sound. Never mind the egregious grammar errors, they both just have difficulty stringing quasi-intelligent sentences together. Jeremy especially emphasizes his lack of smarts when he blathers on and on, spitting out sentences with "big boy" words that have little content. Can anyone explain why the Entitlement Hipsters can't move back to the farm "now"? What is so pressing in their lives now that keeps them soooo busy that they can't go live there? They just want Matt and Amy to keep it going so that at some undetermined future date, Jer(k) & Odd can just plop their asses down when they are ready? And we had another episode where only the Twins' financial/land owning futures were considered. Do Molly and Jacob know they have been cut out of the pumpkin profits? That resort they went to is pretty nice. I was there for a business event and it was a beautiful hotel. Lots of great restaurants on the property with gorgeous vies of the ocean. We didn't do a helicopter tour or the dolphin encounter, but we explored the whole island. Drove all the way around the Big Island and saw a rain forest with waterfalls, volcano national park and a Kona coffee plantation.

In what world was that woman a therapist for children?? I know there were no kids on the premises, but Verindar's personality seemed so devoid of empathy or warmth with the adults so I can't imagine she can flip a 180 and be someone with whom children would be comfortable sharing their troubles. The Gordo Gross-O-Meter really got a workout tonight. I thought the thing would start vibrating and smoking with quadruple digits flashing. I looked away for a few minutes at the end, so I may have missed it...how did the make over for the Stuart Little breakfast nook come out?

Looks like this train wreck of a show finally came to rest at the bottom of the cliff...no one is posting, so I'm guessing no one is watching! I quit after the first episode when I didn't know a single "celebrity", but I planned on lurking on these boards for some good snark. These Z listers can't even get negative attention! Pull the plug on this shit show.

I forgot my other comment re. the need for another house for Matt. If living in the double wide is to demeaning or too close to Amy or both, than why the hell doesn't Matt just build another damn house on the property he already has?? They have acres of space, and apparently they have money to purchase more property. So, use those funds to build a house to suit Matt! I don't get the dilemma they think they are facing. Add me to the list of viewers who are confused why the other two kids have no voice in these future of the farm discussions. If they aren't on the property for a certain amount of camera time, they don't exist in their parents' eyes? All the work the other two did growing up along side Jer(k) and Zach doesn't earn them sweat equity too? It doesn't look like they got invited to Hawaii next week either. Yet Odd and Tori will be there I'm sure. I like Zach better than his twin, but I thought it was very "Roloff" of him to name the soccer fundraiser after himself! Wasn't the point to bring awareness to LP & sports?

I had to rewind it but I heard Amy say "par-mee-GEE-ann". That's a new way of saying it...totally incorrect and hurts my ears, but points for creativity. I swear I saw relief in Jer(k) and Odd's eyes when they heard about the potential for new land that came with a house. Like they just assumed it would be handed to them vs. it being a place for Matt? The sense entitlement of those two is astronomical.

I like dogs. I'm not a dog owner, but I like them and I hate that puppy mills exist, so raising money for this cause is great. The dog wedding was just beyond stupid. We didn't see the whole party, so I'm assuming (hoping) more than that shit-show of a dog parade happened. Otherwise it just looks ridiculous that rich people who walk over other homeless, debilitated, suffering humans every single day spent that kind of time, money and effort on a dog wedding. It was a vanity project so these NYC socialites could dress up and bring their dogs to a fancy party under the guise of "doing important work" for one night. The wedding part wasn't even done well IMO. I know it's difficult to wrangle that many pups into doing exactly what you want, but the whole "ceremony" could have been executed by a local Brownie troop. Dress up your dog, walk the runway and have someone's mom/grandma act as officiant, get a badge for Animal Care. Did Carole's photographer friend say the dog's wedding dress was a custom made Marchesa??? WTF is wrong with these people? And is Carole's dog some kind of rare, expensive AKC champion? I've never heard of "co-owning" a dog outside of the dog show world. Carole seemed so smart and erudite in her first season. Now she acts like the women she once snarked about in her TH's.

My husband and I really have enjoyed this show, and we were sorry it was cancelled. He rides his ATV in Maine a lot, and he and his buddies have run into a few of the game wardens- never issued any summonses, just had their registrations checked. He said the wardens are really cool and very friendly. Last week, hubby and his crew went way up north to Caribou, ME. They didn't see any wardens, but at one of the coffee shops, they guys asked if the wardens ever came in. The place went silent, and the owner said "best not to talk about those fellas around here." Apparently there was a bit of a scandal last year when the production company had a casting call for townies. They paid several locals to play "poachers" and set up several scenes of people being "busted" for poaching, drinking while driving, driving with loaded guns in vehicles, non registered boats/ATVs, etc. The wardens went along with it for the sake of drama and lost credibility with the community. That really made me really sad.

I used to kinda like Casey, but now I think he's almost as annoying as Josh. Casey's prayer circle at the beginning just seemed so phony and something he thought up for the camera's sake. And of course Josh invokes the spirit of dear ol' Dead Dad. He wants to be remembered like Phil was. I'm OK with that...just have Josh take a selfie, frame it and hang it next to Phil's picture, then get out of the wheelhouse forever. When they flash the camera on the 2 pictures the viewers can say, "Oh yeah! Captain Harris! What a great guy! And look, he had a son."

If dust and cob webs are clearly visible & hanging over food and reception areas, I'm going to assume the guest rooms will be disgustingly dirty as well. The UV light reveal always grosses me out. Does that gizmo light up for all "bodily fluids" like sweat & drool in addition to fluids emitted from the nether regions? I always travel with my own pillow and I have been known to bring my own flat sheet to spread on the bed if I'm not sure about the hotel/motel chain. The dust in the AC units/filters are something I bet a lot of inn keepers forget to clean. But how difficult is it to look up once in a while and notice dust building up on fan blades & light fixtures? That guy was a straight up control freak. Passive-aggressive and more interested in being "right" than being a successful business owner or part of a community. I can't imagine what kind of life the teenage daughter has. Her father dislikes kids and thinks they shouldn't be seen OR heard. I wonder if she's ever allowed into the restaurant or the ice cream parlor? The "week alone" vacation doesn't bother me in theory. My husband goes off on a camping trip with his buddies & I go off for a 2-4 day girls' trip once a year. However, this guy makes me suspicious of his private time. I don't think he has any friends for a guys' trip, and he doesn't seem like the meditative type looking for a week of reflective deep thoughts.

Dear God, PLEEEZE let's move this along in the final episode! Capture Arnold, jail Andre, boot Peggy back to her parents, let Rogers get away and go West, give Abe's dick of a dad a fatal heart attack, and even though I know the real Simcoe lives to move on to Canada, I would love for a history rewrite. Let's have him shot and killed. Not a slow, drawn out dramatic death for revenge sake. Stand him up, fire the gun, he drops dead and I never have to hear that whiny nasal voice again. At least some real action is finally happening with Arnold being discovered. Now that the blinders have fallen from Washington's eyes he can be a little more hard-ass and open to strategic input from others. I would like Peggy to suffer a little more just because I don't like the character.

Maybe it's my cable provider, but the first 3 episodes show up on 3 different channels, 3 different times, 3 different days. I can't set a recording of the series...I have to search the show by name, then find the episode and record individually. I like Jim Gaffigan's stand up, but like him, I'm too lazy to go through this much effort for a TV show! If I remember to do it, I guess I'll catch up via On Demand. I don't get why it's so disorganized...if the network(s) liked this show enough to order a 2nd season, why make the audience go on a quest to find it?

Re. Water in basements...I live in New England and I have a Cape with a full basement but it isn't finished. We only have the laundry room and storage down there. We got about 3" of water our first year in the house thanks to a crazy rain storm. We didn't have any damage but we looked into a professional company that fixes water problems around here. To put in a French drain around the perimeter and re-grade the yard would cost us $22k! That didn't include the cost to re-do the lawn and landscaping they would have to rip up in the process. That came in at $7k. So...instead we bought a $75 sump pump, $25 worth of PVC from Home Depot to carry the water from the pump through the yard in a trench my husband dug & $10 bag of grass seed to patch the dug up area. Definitely was a more economical solution. It's been 12 years and many storms later, we haven't had a drop of water down there yet. Kizzy was wound a little too tight and seemed like a scammer to me. I wouldn't be surprised if she saw some water seeping in and then stacked her stuff down there to get a pay day out of the "damage". She is a lying liar...renters insurance is cheap! My sister rents a 3BR house & her policy is less than $300 per year and it covers full replacement value.

I loved Harriet Tubman being such a badass branding mogul. The real woman was truly a badass, so it was great to see that personality trait amplified as this show does so well. Loved that she sent those two twits over the Falls in one of her Tubman's Man-Tub and working the photo op. I wonder if Chair will regain consciousness or will she be bed ridden for the season? I like Flobelle so far. Me thinks Peepers has met his match.

Those 2 are ridiculous. They are special snowflakes who think they know everything about everything. The name of their blog ("blurg") is stupid. I get that they mean that half the marriages end in divorce However relationship/marital advice is not what comes to mind when I hear "Beating 50%". If I had no knowledge of these 2 dolts, & a marketing person asked me what I thought this site was about, I'd guess it had something to do with surpassing a different kind of statistic: cancer survival rates or help to keep from relapsing into an addiction or how to get into a selective college. And why do Jer(k) & Odd always have extra layers on indoors when others do not? He wears the wool hat and she has scarves the size of horse blankets draped around her neck all the time. They would be insufferable as parents. No baby product would be organic or locally sourced enough for them. No preschool would offer the right curriculum for them. I weep for their future children, as well as for the future teachers and parents of future friends who will be dealing with these two self-centered brats.

Did anyone catch Sonja saying "I can't just walk away from my contract!" re. Lu telling her to quit the liquor biz? So maybe Sonja has learned from her Hollywood lawsuit? I feel bad for Jules, but that relationship was on shaky ground before this show. I think she just needed to see her husband's crappy behaviors from a new perspective. I'm sure he had the same bad or annoying behaviors before, but on the show all of that got magnified. His lack of hands on parenting, his self-centered-ness, being on the phone during date nights or family time, flirting, etc probably bugged her in the past, but having her own "thing" with this show maybe gave her a sense of "me" and gave her a voice to say she wasn't putting up with that shit any longer. I hope she gets a great settlement and leaves him with that money pit in the Hamptons. Dorinda likes to stir the pot, huh? She couldn't wait to spill the news to Sonja that she's not invited to Mexico! When she said, "I hate to tell ya!", she had such a smile on her face. And her vodka infused relationship rant at dinner...what was that?? All that arm and hand gesturing! Good thing they were seated indoors vs on the sidewalk or a fleet of cabs would queue up thinking they were being hailed. I don't think Adam likes being on camera. He looks so uncomfortable and squirmy, and he turns away so his face isn't shown. Maybe he & Carole do have a good relationship off camera, but on camera he looks like he can't get away fast enough. As for Carole's way of saying 'ki-en', does she say 'Manha-en' too? She needs to just let go of the Luann thing too. agree Lu was wrong for all the name calling and sore loser behavior over Adam ( no one will ever convince me that Lu was not upset for her niece's sake re. Adam...Lu was hoping to shag him herself). Lu apologized, Carole accepted, it so done. Lu is simply a co-worker at Carole's job. They don't have to be besties, but they do have to work together. Lu has been staying with Sonja long enough for whatever is in the water to seize hold of her brain. She seems manic - and not in the giddy "I'm in love" kind of uber happiness. She's coming across as so desperate for attention. I hope for her sake Tom is truly looking for a relationship and not just trying to get all the spaces filled on his "I F**ked a NY Housewife" BINGO card.

I think Gordon said he was testing the bacteria levels with the monitor thingy. I heard him say 30 and under is acceptable, over 30 is dangerous. But I'm unclear on how what "30" vs. "803" means. Is it particles per thousand? However, if the machine's calibrations tell me that I need to be concerned if I see anything higher than 30 and a Triple Digit Number rolls up, there would be a BusyOctober shaped hole punched through one of Sarah's Brillo stuffed mural walls! On the other hand I wouldn't need a device to tell me to get the hell out of a place like that. The clutter and the obvious stench would have me running back to my car within minutes. There is something very very wrong with this woman. She has serious mental health (& apparently gastrointestinal) issues in my non-medical degree having opinion. And her son is no prize either. He allowed his mother to live in squalor and to run the business into the ground. He is damn lucky he hasn't been sued by a guest for food poisoning or some nasty infection. So, while it was good TV to show Karan getting a clean house and a (very minimal) makeover, there is NO WAY that woman changed her hoarding and hygiene habits in 3 days because of a blowout. She needs therapy. I hope whoever rented the temporary housing got a HUGE damage deposit. I bet Karan hauled in her bat-shit crazy basket collection as soon as production pulled out of town.

Those damn Subaru Summer ads started again. Thank goodness I'm quick on the draw with my remote's mute button. There is a special place in Hell for the jingle writers who cause so many aural atrocities. I am convinced the woman who does the voice over for Panera's "clean" salads and the woman who sings that infernal Wizard of Oz rip off song for University of Phoenix are the same person. Her smug, vocal-fry voice just makes me want to spit nails.