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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.

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.

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?

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".

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".

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

What kills me about these interviews is that these family and friends are being interviewed after the crime has been committed and there has been an arrest and they still want to go on TV and talk about what a wonderful person they thought this person was. If I had a friend who got arrested and then charged and found guilty of murdering his wife, I would be so angry that I had been friends with someone like that and I wouldn't be going on TV telling the world what a great person he was and how much he loved his wife. I'd be ashamed and angry at myself that I didn't see what was happening. I just don't know how people can sit around and laugh at "good" memories of a man who murdered his wife in cold blood and do it publicly on national tv.

The Note Very sad but seems like it left a lot of stuff out. I too was wondering where Kendra fit in the picture. I'm not sure there really was enough evidence to convict Brody even though I'm pretty sure he did do it. A kid who was arrogant enough to talk to Megan's mother the way he did definitely would have issues. They also never mentioned whether his father, the cop, had anything to do with a coverup. I thought I remembered that they said he wasn't exactly forthcoming in the beginning. The Clearing I agree that the defense attorney was top notch and was worth every penny. It's possible that Matt killed Emily but the prosecution didn't prove it. I don't see how they didn't find her body before those women did. They mentioned that he had a previous DV charge with his ex wife for choking her and that is a big red flag, but then they never told us if she testified or was even questioned. The amount of tragedy in Emily's life doesn't make it seem unlikely she would have committed suicide. And this was during the original Covid lockdown when many people were going stir crazy being at home and having nothing to do.

Just binged this one in a few days. It was entertaining but pretty ridiculous. So the whole plot was to get some criminal mastermind out of prison and to make a gazillion dollars/pounds by shorting the airline's stock? So their conspiracy involved multiple people who didn't know about each other, including a couple of doofus goons who didn't realize they had guns with blanks (or did they insist on it, as it appeared they were not really that hardened? I couldn't tell.) And then in the end, the head honcho criminal whose release from prison was the original motive, ends up getting shot in the head by one of his co-conspirators because he wouldn't get off the computer and wanted to keep making more money? Did I get that right? Also, I don't believe that the woman who ended up landing the plane would get off scott free. I'm sure those in charge would just say they told her whatever she wanted to hear in order to get her to land the plane. Maybe they drop the charges related to barricading herself in the cockpit but no way she can get off for murdering the pilot. And at the end, I kept waiting for the twist that Idris Elba was one of the conspirators who had been put on the plane as a possible insurance that the whole thing wouldn't go too far south. Was there ever an explanation for why he was in Dubai and now heading to see his ex wife when she clearly had moved on?

I watched both this one and the 20/20 episode and she is a special kind of evil. Jennifer is delusional and a narcissist. Yeah, I too don't know how a dumpy frau like her could get so many men to do her bidding but there's been dumpy men who've managed to con numerous women too so I guess both sexes are susceptible.

I'm just not getting it. What was real and what was not? Did Anna really start puking up black sludge when accepting the award? Was that woman in the bathroom real? Did Anna hallucinate Cara Delevigne's nurse character giving her a miscarriage? I wasn't going to watch this season as I hated last season and quit after a couple of episodes and I hate Kim K but when I saw that Matt Czuchry was going to be on the show, I decided to try as I really like him. I think Kim K's character is awful and she's a terrible actress. She's basically playing herself/her mother and she's not believable as a tough agent/manager whatever she is. And her face/body are distracting with all of her plastic surgery. I'm going to try to hang on for a few more episodes but I'm not sure how much more of Kim I can take.

This episode was excruciating to watch. I think Alex became more unlikable than Mitch. Her complete meltdown at what may be in Maggie's book is so over the top. Like others have said, just DENY DENY DENY. If Mitch didn't talk, then who actually knows for sure other than them? What a waste to put Mitch on a redemption arc just to have him commit suicide. What a waste of time this storyline was. If they wanted to bring Covid to the studio, they could have just had Daniel come down with it or infect someone after he came back from China. It's like that storyline never happened now.

On the last season of The Resident, they started using an opening credits sequence that seemed to mimic the ER opening credits. I liked The Resident the first few seasons but it really went downhill the last 2 seasons. I don't think the time jump over Covid did them any good, especially since the pandemic wasn't really over when they did it, and then the time jump to age Conrad/Nic's daughter messed up the timelines of all the characters. I wonder how ER would have handled the pandemic if it were still on or if something like Covid had happened in the 90s/early 2000s.

I just watched the episode where Neela tried to get a job at a coffee shop, retail store (because she liked the clothes LOL), and even sat down with an employment agency where she admitted she had no skills in anything other than medical stuff other than working at her family restaurant and she was never going to do restaurant work again. Seemed a little high and mighty for someone who claimed to be willing to do anything for a job. Why couldn't she work at a restaurant? What did she think she was going to do at the coffee shop that was really all that different than a restaurant job? And the way she completely downplayed her academic skills was pathetic. With her academic background, she should have tried getting a job at a library or as a substitute teacher. And if she really wanted to do retail, did she try a bookstore? I get that we didn't see all of the places she may have tried to apply, and this storyline seemed to be played for laughs, but she's so annoying.

In Neela's mind, I'm sure she thought a retail or coffee shop job would be "fun" and easy. How hard can it be to use a cash register or serve coffee? After all, she was a customer of those establishments and she saw how "easy" those jobs are. <sarcasm> However, being a janitor at a hospital, where she was intimately familiar with how disgusting it could get, I would be willing to bet she'd think she was above that.

Wasn't the point of showing Elizabeth spatting with Mark once Ella was born to show that even accomplished career women like Elizabeth don't have it together all the time either? I think it was a way to show she was far from perfect and not immune to the pressures of having a baby and a career. And it also highlighted how Mark at times still felt his career was more important than his wife's, even with wife #2, who was equally if not more accomplished than he was. At least with Jen, you could see how it was difficult for him to adjust from her being stay at home mom and law student to a successful woman with a career. My very unpopular opinion is that I do like Abby, way more than I ever liked Neela, especially now that I'm older. Neela just comes across as whiny and petulant and I've never ever seen the appeal of her. I'm watching the show with my husband now, and he never watched it back in the day, and he can't see how Neela becomes successful after the ridiculous Season 11 storyline of her quitting her internship. When she goes back to the hospital and begs Kerry for a job, any job, he was incredulous, like what type of job does she think she should get? I wish Kerry had offered her a job as a janitor and see if she was really that desperate.

Well Weaver got the last laugh by using his endowment to the hospital to fund a LGBTQ health center or something like that. Romano was a d**k but I was a little surprised that everyone went out of their way to avoid going to his memorial at the hospital. It wouldn't have cost them anything to go, but I guess it showed how much he was disliked that no one would just take a few minutes to go up to the chapel while at work.

Very late to this, but just watching it now. I finished Season 1 and am starting Season 2. Since we are now 3+ years removed from the real-life circumstances of this show, it is a little funny to watch how much they downplay Covid and basically treat Daniel as Chicken Little in regards to his warnings about it, even though he was quarantined for 2 weeks. I remember the optimism of NYE 2019, not knowing what 2020 was going to end up like. And I also remember having the same attitude of many on the show, downplaying how serious Covid was. I think if I had watched this at the time it originally aired, I would not have found it as amusing as I do now, because it was still too close. But it is kind of funny to watch it now, especially as so many shows just pretend like Covid never happened. I don't want it in my face all the time, but it would be more realistic if more shows would at least acknowledge that it happened and still has current repercussions. I don't know why Chip agreed to come back! He seemed like he was happy with his new fiancee. And then suddenly we see him back in NYC with Alex without her. I really hope that he had a discussion with her and she either agreed with his decision or that she dumped him when he decided to come back. I'm not sure why we need a Mitch redemption story but I'm enjoying the scenery of Italy and I too am anticipating some big Covid storyline to come out of the location. On to the rest of the season!

I guess we all just have different opinions about who is the most annoying character. I know a lot of people here think it is Abby but mine is definitely Neela. I'm watching the episodes now where Kerry is battling Sandy's family for custody of baby Henry and it's so sad. She lost her spouse and now has to contend with fighting with the family over the baby. The show definitely showed multiple sides of Kerry. Yes, she was a hard-ass at work, but she was also very much relatable as a person outside of work. I did appreciate the scenes of Elizabeth reaching out to Kerry as someone who has also lost a spouse. It's heartbreaking.

The sexual assault scene was definitely uncomfortable to watch but also rang very true and I think most women can relate to having been in a situation like that. The best defense you can give Mitch is that he misread Hannah's body language but it seemed pretty obvious that she was not into it at all. I watched this with my husband who is around the same age/generation as Mitch, and even he could read Hannah's non-verbal cues that she didn't want to engage. So Mitch either has the worst body language skills ever, or he deliberately misread them and hoped she would just get over it. Given that he didn't kick Hannah out of bed after the deed, I'm inclined to believe it's a little of both and that he just assumes that every woman, especially on the show, would want to sleep with him and so it never occurred to him that it was not consensual. I felt bad for her after she was offered the promotion. Women are always in a rough spot in these situations. The consequences of turning it down and pressing forward with the accusation is almost always worse than trying to get something tangible for the trauma you've just been through.

I feel like with Abby and Sam, not everybody liked them and they were shown to be off-putting or not as likable and to have flaws. With Neela, even with her flaws, it always seemed like we were supposed to feel sorry for her and every single male doctor that came into contact with her just thought she was the most beautiful and wonderful person and doctor ever. Except for Morris who never hooked up with her, as far as I can remember. Wasn't there a time when John Stamos, Shane West, Dubenko and that British doctor in the final season, were all in love with her after Gallant died? She's cute but not all that. Plus she was wishy washy and lacked self-confidence until suddenly she became the best ever doctor/surgeon they'd ever had. 🙄