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Catching up on the last two weeks.
"Ghosts Can't Talk"
The son Nick is a disgusting psycho creep. He was clearly the golden child for his whole life, coddled by his parents, and then found a psycho girlfriend/wife. I can't believe he actually thought he was smart enough to make money as a day trader. He seemed like he was not too bright. I'm glad Corey finally recognized her son for what he was and is not talking to him any longer.
My sister-in-law and her husband have an only son who has dropped out of college now for several years and lives at home in his bedroom and barely ever comes out of his room when we do visit at Christmas. I can't help but think he expects to inherit everything from his parents as an only child, and possibly as the only grandchild on his maternal side and so he has absolutely no motivation to do anything. He doesn't have a job, doesn't go to school, we have no idea what he does all day. I don't think he has murderous tendencies towards his parents but Dateline really makes you think the worst of people and anyway he would be the most obvious suspect.
As to the episode about the Markels. So glad that Donna got arrested and in the most public and humiliating way. Charlie (and his lawyer) are morons if they thought anyone would believe their story that they were being extorted. If it was true, all he had to do was call the police and tell them "Hey I know who killed Dan!" and the whole thing would have been over. Glad that the jury saw right through it. And as for Wendi, there is no way she didn't know, and even if she didn't know before it actually happened, she had to know that her dear brother was involved once it was proven that the 3 who did do it had ties to her brother. That family is disgusting all around. Curious about the one brother who did manage to get away though.
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Yes, I had forgotten about Susan's first exit! I agree, I think tv shows do this so there can be some big dramatic moment at the workplace or immediately after, like Susan and Mark at the train station or Neela/Brenner at the airport, although theirs was so dull I don't think it was quite the dramatic moment the show thought it should be.
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1 hour ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
Also forgot to mention Carol hopping on a flight to Seattle immediately after quitting on a moment’s notice. The thing with the plane is the most 2000 thing ever. And Abby worked one attending shift before quitting basically on the spot and then drove right to Boston.
To be fair, I think Carol impulsively quit the day she did and then hopped on a plane. My issue is people knowing that they are leaving or moving and then working one last shift on their way to the airport. If I were moving, I'd put in my notice at work, then plan to move a few days after my last day. I wouldn't work my last shift and then just go straight to the airport like they made it seem Neela did. They do this on other shows too and it's stupid. Nobody does this in real life unless they have no other choice, and I don't believe for a second that Neela had to work right up to the minute of her departure. She could have worked her last shift, then gone home and spent the next week packing up her apartment and making arrangements for the move. Instead, she goes from the hospital directly to the airport so that Simon can run after her and declare how much he loves her. 🙄
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I'm getting to the end of my Season 15 watch and just watched the episodes where Carter comes back and gets his kidney transplant and Doug and Carol were the organ facilitators. I find it funny that Doug asked about a few of the doctors who were there when he was, and he never asked about Carter who was getting the kidney. I enjoyed seeing Benton visit Carter and finding out that his life has moved on. That was the thing I always appreciated about ER, they never acted like once characters left the show that their lives got worse or that they remained stagnant. ER always showed that life continued to move on for the characters, even after they left County.
As for Neela's exit, how boring and dull. Her relationship with Brenner was never compelling, and we are expected to believe she just suddenly decided to turn down Duke University to go to Baton Rouge to be with Ray? That's another relationship i never understood - when were they supposed to have fallen in love? What was so special about Neela anyway? She said Brenner never talked to her about anything meaningful, but did she tell him anything? She hasn't mentioned Gallant in years. And then I don't believe for one second that Frank would throw her an embarrassing good bye party when he never even liked her.
Another thing I hate, only on tv do people work a shift right before they literally get on a plane to move! Who does that????
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12 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
II'm also amused because the new surgical intern in the 15th season, Andrew, is English in real life, but playing American, and his real accent comes out quite a bit in many of his line readings. Also, I was very confused about Andrew and Daria's relationship. I initially thought they were a married couple, but apparently they are siblings? At least that helps explain her crush on Gates.
I was confused initially too, but then they said or did something that made me realize they were actually siblings instead, and then of course, her sleeping with Gates made it clear.
Interesting that the actor who played Andrew was made to use an American accent. I always wondered why they made Neela a Brit, like Parminder Nagra. It would have made more sense for her to be an American as there are a lot of American doctors of Indian descent. And then of course, what was the point of Dr Simon Brenner being Aussie, other than the actor who played him was Aussie. I recently saw him in another show, Truth Be Told, where he was supposed to play an American detective, and you could hear his Australian accent come through a lot, and he just didn't have a convincing American accent. I'm guessing his American accent was worse back in the ER days and they really wanted the actor for some reason. So maybe Parminder Nagra couldn't do a convincing American accent? Has anyone seen her in anything where she plays an American?
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I'm watching season 15 right now and most of these episodes I only ever watched the last couple of years as reruns on POP when I was working from home. While some of it is not bad, overall I don't like it. I like Angela Bassett but her character is awful. So much negativity. And when we first meet her husband, it seems like they barely have a marriage and suddenly she is trying to conceive a baby and then when that doesn't work, go right into IVF? I like the maturation of Archie as a person and a doctor but that's about it. Neela and Brenner make no sense, we are never shown why he is so infatuated with her. He clearly has no problem getting women to hook up with him and he was shown to be an absolute dick to the intern he did sleep with, so what was so special about Neela? And Dubenko continues to also be enthralled with her for no reason. I just watched the episode where Neela brought in another surgeon to do some cutting edge technique and Dubenko initially refused to come watch because he appeared to be throwing a jealous hissy fit.
I don't get the appeal of either Sam or Gates personally, but to me, they made sense as a couple. They both came from backgrounds that wouldn't necessarily lead you to believe they would end up as successful doctors/nurses, but they overcame it and for better or worse, were able to make it. I know they are broken up for now but I think I remember that they get back together. They make more sense as a couple than Gates ever did with Neela.
I'm looking forward to seeing Carter again soon. I don't think I ever watched those episodes when he comes back, except for the series finale.
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We were on episode IV when we saw the time jump and suddenly Billy Crow was Bass's posse man with no explanation of how that happened. Then everything got confusing after that. I don't think we will finish the show. Anyone want to convince me that it's worth it? LOL
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Neela should never have been allowed to come back to County, especially in the ER after all of the attendings, except Carter, agreed she wasn't suited to emergency medicine. Yet, when she comes back, she's suddenly the best and most sexually desired female working there. And now she's such a great surgeon too. BS.
I'm on season 15 and I still don't understand why Brenner is infatuated with her. After she told him that she wasn't interested in getting together with him, despite their "awkward shag", he still follows her around trying to get her to go out with him. Is it just that she's playing hard to get?
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On 12/24/2023 at 9:09 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
Everyone says the “everybody loves Neela” storyline is annoying but I feel like the plot of both Carter and Luka wanting Abby, and then the med student calling her hot in S11, was just as ridiculous. Too much personal drama and there is nothing “hot” about her stringy hair and bangs flopping all over the place in later seasons. Even before her relapse she looked strung out and like she put no effort into her appearance; she even looked bland and unattractive (not to mention totally annoyed) at her own wedding. It was so hard to believe that two successful men who would certainly have tons of options for a potential romance were both dying to sleep with Abby, and one of them eventually got her pregnant. Because nothing says “I’m ready for a baby” like someone who has a long family history of mental illness and can barely keep her alcoholism under control.
Who's everyone? As far as I can see, I'm the only one who actively dislikes Neela. I'm not an Abby cheerleader, but I don't see that she's treated as being more likable or desirable than the way the show depicts Neela. I'm at season 14/15 and suddenly Neela/Brenner throw their clothes off and screw in her office and now he can't stop following her around like a puppy dog and asking her out for dinner or coffee, after we've been shown that he's an a$$ towards towards women he sleeps with. And this is after we're treated to Neela being desired by Ray, Gates, Dubenko, all of the ortho surgeons, and now Brenner. I don't even know why Gallant was so hot for her.
Abby is shown her flaws and I agree, I don't think she's a catch either, has too much baggage, is often crabby and seems to always be in a bad mood. I never understood why Carter was so into her but if I remember, he admitted he was drawn to her for an inexplicable reason, and not because she was "hot". His teenage girlfriend at the time who called Abby "hot" was immature and maybe in her eyes, Abby being older and having a career made her seem desirable. I know when I was younger, it would have seemed that way to me.
And while we're at it, why is it that Sam is so desirable either? I get that Luka wanted a ready-made family with her and Alex but that was a ton of baggage that she had, but I guess Luka likes that in his women. Sam and Gates make a lot more sense than him with Neela though. I actually think they match pretty well so far.
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Just watched the 2 episodes in Season 14 before the writers strike, with the horrible hockey storyline. So we are to believe that suddenly all of the surgeons are really good at hockey and ice skating. And we are to believe that Neela's field hockey experience translates into ice hockey prowess? BS. This has to take the cake as the most ridiculous and unnecessary storyline ever. You can totally see how this show has gone downhill.
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LOL @Cloud9Shopper I get that you hate Abby and I'm not saying that she gets a pass or should get a pass but I also don't think that Abby is being shown as the best-est ever mother and person that you think the show is doing. She clearly spiraled out of control here because she has a disease and it's pathetic that her friends/colleagues who are doctors all failed to recognize it and/or took advantage. CPS didn't get called on her because she was a white woman, and clearly middle class. My husband is a defense attorney in CPS cases and in these situations, if the parent is white and middle class, CPS will hardly ever get involved. However, if the parents are non-white, even if they are middle class, there is a much higher likeliehood of CPS involvement. Anyway, I'm not sure that this was the point of ER having Abby go to the airport clearly out of control. I was just making a real-life observation of what could have happened if a parent shows up at the airport intoxicated with their baby and makes a scene.
Yes, Abby should have recognized that her alcoholism is not under control, but from what I recall, Luka doesn't even think she has a problem. But that's the thing with alcoholics, they stay sober for a few years, think they have it under control, and then a little adversity and it can come rearing back. They need to have better support and since Abby was missing or lacking in that, she relapsed. I still just can't believe that her supposed good friend Neela did nothing when everyone could see that she was drunk at the bar. I'll give the others a pass in that maybe they thought Abby was just letting loose, but as a friend, Neela should have known that Abby was spiraling and should have done more.
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Just watched the awful Blackout episode from season 14 where Abby slept with Moretti. So many terrible things happening. First of all, is there nobody left on the show who knows that Abby is an alcoholic? Why wouldn't Neela know? They were roommates for a while and are supposedly good friends so how is it that Neela didn't know? And then even if she didn't know, how is it that no one noticed that clearly Abby was out of control drunk? Yes, I suppose Pratt noticed when he told her not to go back to the ER to check on the family with the baby but no one else did? Some friend Neela turned out to be. And Moretti clearly should have known better. Not only was Abby married, but he should have known she was drunk and incapable of consent AND he was her boss. Clearly wrong in so many different ways!
And then Abby's behavior after getting home was so awful. The poor babysitter. And then what was Abby thinking getting in the car and driving herself to the airport??? At least at some point she recognized she was too impaired to finish the drive and flagged down a cab. But whatever happened to her car and why wouldn't she have taken the car seat with her? And then her behavior at the airport - she is truly lucky that they didn't call law enforcement who would have then called CPS because she was clearly endangering the baby and she was still drunk!
I guess ER was effective in showing Abby hitting rock bottom (is this her rock bottom or does she have farther to go?) but so many people just either did nothing or took advantage. Disgusting all around.
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Just watched the Season 13 season finale and what a mess it was. The only good part was when Katie called Neela a bitch and said that Ray's predicament was her fault. Neela's complete lack of self-awareness is infuriating to watch. There was some satisfaction in seeing her get trampled at the anti-war protest, but why was she even there? And why did Gates follow her there? Ridiculous that in the crowd he was even able to spot her.
And then of course we got to the season 14 premiere and again it was all about Neela. The way so many other patients in the ER got neglected because everybody was so f-ing concerned about her. Grrr...and Gates should have been fired for what he did to the suspected bomber, not just banished to the ICU. He should have been arrested too.
Watching the entire run of the show in order, you can really see the decline of the show. At this point in the original run, I had also stopped watching regularly and so many of these episodes I've never seen. I know they were competing with Gray's Anatomy at this point, but the personal and romantic drama just doesn't work when it appears to be the main focus and the characters are annoying. Neela is annoying and not a romantic lead, same goes for Abby and Sam...not one of them is as appealing as the show makes them out to be. And the men really aren't any better.
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Just watched the most ridiculous season 13 episodes where Neela is "dating" Gates (while lamenting that he is now busy with taking care of Sarah and not knowing where she fits in to his life), has Ray pining after her and kissing her after a night out, and then Dubenko telling her that he's allowed his personal feelings for her to influence his treatment of her at work after she complained about no longer being the prized pupil.
So we are to believe that 3 of her work colleagues are simultaneously in love with her??? Ridiculous. She's cute but just like Abby, not sure that her personality and baggage is all that appealing either.
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Re: JD/MD's - Do you guys follow the Betty Broderick real-life saga? The husband she killed, Dan Broderick, had a JD/MD that he used to pursue a career in medical malpractice lawsuits. I think there are multiple uses for MDs who also pursue other advanced degrees. There are many who also have joint MD/MBAs as they ultimately want to pursue careers in hospital administration.
Re: Peter and Cleo. Yes, I agree that her character was pretty much useless, as we never really got to know her. And there is no way that Peter's career as a surgeon would have put him at a disadvantage during the custody fight. There shouldn't have even been a custody fight, as Roger had no legal right to Reese. There was never any indication that Peter was a negligent or neglectful father, other than he worked long hours at times. But so do plenty of other parents.
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Peter may not have been the biological father of Reese, but he was on the birth certificate, always held out Reese as his own child, and provided for him financially and emotionally. There really would be no reason for him to lose to Roger in a custody battle, other than to create drama for TV. If Peter wanted to act in the best interest of the child, he would continue to let Reese have visitation with Roger and encourage a relationship, but legally, Peter would have custody of Reese. The idea that because he worked long hours as a surgeon and that would be disqualifying is insulting to all working parents.
I'm currently watching season 13 on my DVD and it's pretty bad. I know everybody hates Abby here, but I really can't stand Neela. Just watched the last few episodes where clearly Ray and Gates are having pissing matches over Neela and the Christmas episode where we start seeing that Dubenko has feelings for her. Ridiculous. And of course, even those homeless kids somehow think she's the best thing since sliced bread. Ugh.
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19 minutes ago, LuvMyShows said:
Come on, no one else is going to comment on that? They were thinking of sending the phone off to that place that might take 7 YEARS to unlock it with a special software, yet not one single person in all the previous years, had ever thought to try the guy's birth date?!?!? SMH
Well, they said they had a limited number of tries so they didn't want to waste one of the attempts on what seemed like an easily guessable passcode but sometimes we give people too much credit and expect them to be smarter than they really are. LOL Remember Spaceballs and the passcode on the combination lock for the president's luggage?
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2 hours ago, pdlinda said:
I thought the most interesting new revelations (if you could call it that) were from the housekeeper.
I forgot about that, but yes I agree, it was interesting to hear from her. Although every time she mentioned how Maggie and even Alec were her "friends" I would yell that they weren't her friends, they were her employers LOL. I think it's pretty clear that the Murdaughs felt most people were beneath them, including and especially "the help".
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On 11/18/2023 at 8:33 AM, AManfred said:
Yeah, I just am not interested in watching another Murdaugh recap with some new info sprinkled into it.
In the past, I've definitely given five hours over weekends to the three network true crime shows (Dateline, 20/20 and 48 Hours), but I can't remember the last time I did. The three all seem to be covering the same cases. Last night's 20/20 was the same case Dateline had on a couple weeks ago.
I deleted the 20/20 episode as soon as I recognized it was the same case Dateline had just covered. It's irritating that they keep covering the same stories. There are so many cases/victims out there (unfortunately!) why do they have to do the same ones?
As for the episode on Thursday, I deleted it before watching as the episode description sounded like the one from last week with the guy whose body was burned in Miami. I guess I should have started it just to make sure.
The Murdaugh episode didn't really add much other than the investigators talking about how they unlocked the phone and also a mention of the clerk whose behavior is now under scrutiny. I didn't realize that 10 of the 12 jurors signed affidavits denying the clerk said what Harpootlian claims she did. However, if they can actually prove that she did say or do any of those things they are alleging, I would have to unfortunately agree that a new trial would be appropriate. At this point, I just don't trust the defense is telling the truth. But they've managed to poison the well enough to sow doubt so I guess they succeeded.
They did interview the prosecutor Crayton Waters and I wish they'd shown more of his cross examination of Alec. I happened to be working from home that day and had the trial on and his cross was pretty effective and it was so funny how he kept needling Alec about his "new story".
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I know Abby is the least favorite character here, but mine is still Neela. I just finished Season 12 which is when she and Gallant get married and then dies and inexplicably we find out Ray has been holding a torch for her all this time and John Stamos makes his first appearance and is also inexplicably attracted to her for no reason and tries to ask her out for the first time.
When Gallant dies, I'm sorry, but Neela's reaction is so self-centered. She almost didn't go to the ceremony at the gravesite, without any regard to how it may look or feel disrespectful to Gallant's parents and family. Her grief is understandable, but her lack of respect for his service is not. At the reception after the graveside ceremony, she lashes out at Gallant's father and practically throws the flag and his medals at him. I hope she eventually returned all that to his family instead of keeping it for herself as she clearly had no respect for it. I don't know if the military has any rules regarding this, but I feel like if the servicemember did not have any children/heirs when he died, those things should go back to his parents/siblings instead of the spouse, who will likely re-marry, in order to keep it in the family.
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On 11/3/2023 at 6:23 PM, Irlandesa said:
There was a brief moment where there was doubt, considering she had a boyfriend.
But there was just something about the ex-husband's face. And then when they said he had a big personality and was excited to be on Family Feud, I knew he must be in jail since he wasn't being interviewed by Dateline. At least they kept it to 1 hour.
Unless I'm mistaken, wasn't he trying to answer a category where he had to think of what answers could be up on the board? If that's the case, I think the way they treated that answer is a bit overblown.
The Family Feud thing was a little overblown and I agree that the point is to think of answers that could be on the board, but if that was the intent of his answer, he would have also said something like "not that I would have said something like this but..." Instead he made a face and said "sorry honey" or something like that.
The ex husband was a man who never outgrew his frat boy persona. I could see how when they were in college and in the first few years after, he'd be considered charming, but that gets old after a while. He was stalking her and clearly couldn't handle her moving on with her life with a new man. I too thought the defense/divorce attorney was ridiculous. She says they never proved he was inside the house? How do you explain the shell casings? Even without the gun, that's a hella coincidence.
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On 10/20/2023 at 9:14 AM, Peanut6711 said:
Agree! I spent several segments muttering out loud, "So is the kid missing too? Where is he?" Dateline could benefit from some better editors. Or "beta watchers." Later they finally said he was living with Bethany's mother after they suspected abuse from Ronald. But how he got there that night, no clue. And if the son was living with her mom, was it normal for her to go 3 weeks without seeing him and just responding to FB messages with things like "don't want to talk now?" Also, while they did indicate she was going to move out, I don't believe they ever said where to. Was she getting another apartment w/out Ronald? Moving in with her mother's to be with her son? Moving back in w/her husband?
Wish they would have had the police show or comment on the messages she received and exchanged on her phone while at her grandmother's, the last night anyone saw her.
Got around to watching the episode about Bethany last night and I agree. I kept yelling "where's the baby" and my husband finally told me the baby must be with some other relatives. I don't recall that they mentioned that the baby was living with Kim, the grandmother, until sometime later. Because I kept wondering why no one was concerned about the baby. If Bethany didn't want to talk to anyone for 3 weeks, ok, that's a little weird, but wouldn't grandma want an acknowledgment that the baby was ok? That's what led to the whole Casey/Caylee Anthony situation, because grandma wanted to make sure Caylee was ok. And then even once we knew that Grandma Kim had custody of the baby, I wondered if it was normal for Bethany to go 3 weeks without seeing her kid. I think if the family had raised the alarm sooner and reported her missing earlier, the police might have been able to find more evidence in the apartment to nab Ronald. They never explained how the apartment got cleared out or why all of her stuff was in the trunk of her car (unless I missed it). It's ridiculous to me that the family would have waited 3 weeks to report her missing. Even if she was communicating via text and messenger, they didn't think to verify that it was her or check if she had showed up at work?
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20 minutes ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
Season 12 is really when the show goes down the tubes for me. I’m not planning to watch much of it next time I get there.
I never thought Ray and Neela had great romantic chemistry and didn’t care about their relationship, and Abby and Luka shouldn’t have gotten back together either IMO.
I agree. I didn't watch first run many of the episodes from season 12 onward, only caught a few episodes here and there at the time they aired or more recently as re-runs on Pop TV when I was working from home but from what I remember seeing, the show was not as good as the original seasons. It was almost like a completely different show. And ended up inexplicably revolving around Abby and Neela.
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I'm now on Season 12 and Gallant and Neela just got married. I still don't know when they were supposed to have fallen in love and why they did.
Knowing that the show only lasts through season 15, I'm now surprised by how much happens in the next 3 seasons. With Gates making his first appearances already, and Abby and Luka already reconciling, a lot really does happen in the next few years. My husband is watching these episodes for the first time and he still can't understand how Neela goes from a whiny, self-doubting intern to the object of every male doctor's desire in the next few years. There is no indication yet that Ray ever had any feelings for Neela so I find it hard to believe that they are some big love story and that they deserve to be together in the end.
S03.E05: The Road Home, Part 1
in La Brea
This show feels like they just make $hit up as they go along LOL. Has anyone tried binge watching this show from beginning to end? There was always so much time in between seasons that I never actually remembered what had previously happened so I was able to hand wave a lot of the ridiculousness. But I wonder if you watch all the episodes back to back in a shorter timeframe if the show would actually make some sense. I doubt it, but it would be interesting to see.
Anyway, kind of curious to see how they wrap it up. Will we finally see Eve, Riley and Josh? Will they get back to 2021? LOL