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I loved this panel. They had great chemistry with one another and really interesting stories. Count me in as someone who was horrified by all of the "body" talk. I mean I wasn't surprised by it but had assumed it was more driven by the rubbish entertainment "press". 🙄 BBC iPlayer had posted a clip on IG of Kate telling a story that wasn't included in the BBC America broadcast. Basically, she was performing in a play and almost shat herself. At one point she thought she actually had. It was absolutely hilarious and I have no idea why censors thought American viewers couldn't handle it. Or maybe it was cut for length because of the stupid commercials.

UGH.

There are certain celebrity deaths that knock me sideways and this was one of those. I adored Twitch. His light and positivity was so infectious. His dancing was my favorite part of the show and I LOVED watching him and his wife and their family dancing on social media. This one really hurts.

I think he is a lock for an Oscar nomination but I don't know how confident I feel that HFPA will give him the award. He has already stated publicly that he will not attend because he was previously sexually assaulted by a member (the head?) of the HFPA and never received an apology.

Despite whatever changes the HFPA purports to make, they have been and always will be star-fuckers. I'm curious to see how many of these stars actually show up. I'm hoping for a near universal boycott.

Maribel gives me whiplash. I seriously can not figure out what she wants at any given moment. If I was Micah, I would seriously reevaluate the wisdom in having a baby with her. Am I supposed to believe that Dani now hangs out with Sophie and Finley regularly, to the point where she is high-fiving Finley? Yeah, no. This episode felt like filler to me.

Right?? That first holiday season after graduation was ROUGH. "What do you mean I have to use my own PTO? Don't you just close?" Sigh. So young. So naive.

I was just saying last night how I'm not really feeling all that Christmas-y this year and this episode may have just flipped the script! It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Maurice is cute! Janine should give him a chance because she needs a few rebound relationships under her belt before she and Gregory become the O-T-P - cause you know that is happening. They both just have to get rid of a bit of their adorkableness. Poor Jacob. He would annoy the crap out of me as a co-worker but I know the holidays are hard for a lot of people for a lot of reasons. Thank goodness for Mr. Johnson talking some sense into him. Melissa's "liquor coat" will make it 42 degrees! HA! I missed seeing the kids this episode but it was nice to spend so much time "out of school." And Ava! Are you...evolving??? Color me surprised that she not only extended the invitation but that Janine accepted it. Warm fuzzies!

I've given up hope that anything anyone does on this show will make sense.

I don't know how AA works but would people that so recently fell off the wagon be sponsoring others? 🤷‍♀️ But yeah, I hope this is the last we see of her.

Gigi honey, your life supposedly flashes before your eyes when you have a near death experience. You dear, had a head laceration and some bruised ribs. I kind of get where Dani is coming from because I was SUCH a green-eyed monster in my 20s, BUT Dani should have factored in that Gigi has children with Nat. They are always going to be in each other's lives. I would have been pissed if I saw them canoodling at Alice's show like that but Dani should have thought about that and discussed it with Gigi before she started a relationship with her. But that would require people to have mature conversations on this show and we can't have that! What's the over/under on how long it will be before Dani and Sophie fall back into bed together? I have no idea what the point of the Finley/Carrie scenes were. I don't care if Carrie finds new love or if Finley goes to college. I hope Alice can have at least some semblance of a normal relationship with Chasing Amy. At this point kooky Alice and the TEENAGER are the only people displaying even a hint of maturity.

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When she was complaining about having the tuna sweats I was yelling at her: "Then why are you wearing 2 sweaters?????"

Oh The L Word - I wish I knew how to quit you. Sophie has some nerve accusing her sister of having a big mouth when Sophie blabbed about Maribel and Micah's plans to the least stable person on the planet. And speaking of those plans, can we maybe SEE those conversations? They have the opportunity for a really interesting story here about baby-making in the LGBTQ+ community and instead we get "I do want to have a baby with you." The writing for this is just awful. Is Jennifer Beals leaving the show? I sort of got that vibe and while that would finally convince me to turn this shit show off, I do still love my Bette Porter. Particularly when she is with Shane and Alice. Don't really care about Dani and Gigi although for her kids' sake, I do hope Gigi is okay. Shane is 100% going to hook up with that other chick which will be as stupid a decision as opening another lesbian bar. There are seriously like 3 left in the entire United States. I am totally hate watching this out of some misguided sense of nostalgic loyalty. They should change the name to The L Word: Hot Ass Mess Express. Ugh.

Finley and Carrie make big moves. Hopefully they realize they are in love and would rather run away together and live in Timbuktu.

I loved this episode! Loved Gregory's assertiveness when dealing with Ava and how much he has grown as a teacher. Loved Jacob's standing up for Janine. Loved Barbara and Melissa and Tasha acknowledging that Janine can often (most times) be too much and they just want her to shut up. But they also were able to appreciate what she brings to the school and were happy to have her back. I screamed when Tasha said, "WAIT - Why am I talking?" You know you all have a co-worker (or 3) like that. Loved Ava. Yes, she is a horrible principal and an even worse teacher, but this was a terrific episode for Janelle James. It's a comedy - I'm not expecting her to behave appropriately. That's not who the character is and it's not actually a documentary. I get that her brand of comedy doesn't work for everyone but I just love it. Loved Janine's students and how much they value Janine and hate Ava. I even loved the "crime scene" tape across the coffee maker at the end that said, "Don't use. It's trash" because it brought to mind the whole printer debacle from season 1 when Mr. Johnson kept wanting to throw it away. It was definitely one of the strongest episodes of the season for me. Kudos Quinta!

Yeah, as soon as he told everyone "I'm going to be a father" I thought, "Oh Buckley." This is all going to turn out very poorly and I am not looking forward to the soap opera element. I lived in LA for 5 years so I always handwave the geography stuff but I legit laughed out loud when Bobby, on a rooftop in downtown LA, said, "I smell fire" and it was a rinky dink little controlled burn in like Calabasas. 🤣

I definitely got the impression that Krista's suicide didn't happen until later in the film but both she and Francesca certainly had the motive for posting it. And Francesca's actions with the book - writing RAT over TAR - certainly suggests that she was 10,000% done with Lydia. That's why I'm so looking forward to watching it again to hopefully have some of my questions answered.

I thought it was Krista because throughout the film, we see the back of a redhead watching Lydia in several scenes. Although she's never identified IIRC, they were definitely implying that Krista was obsessed with her following what I assume was a romantic relationship. There is a sort of gauzy scene at the end of Lydia and a redhead that I assumed was a flashback.

The screening I went to was delayed about 30 minutes because of projection issues. When it finally started and that long sequence of credits started running, we all thought we were seeing the end of the film accidently. People actually began turning to one another and saying, "Is it broken?" It was an odd choice, for sure.

Quinta and Sheryl Lee appeared at our Thanksgiving Day parade. There was an absolutely adorable moment of Quinta meeting Jim Gardner in the broadcast booth. I am not exaggerating when I say that this man is an absolute legend in Philadelphia and seeing how Quinta was so starstruck made me absolutely giddy.

I literally know nothing about football and don't even follow it so I'll just take your word for it. 😂

The Angie thing didn't bother me as much, although I felt badly for Angie, because they're kids. First love, inevitable heartbreak, yada, yada, yada. It's what happens. It's the writing that has everyone else acting like a teenager that bugs. No one on this show acts like an adult.

I'll watch this via streaming because I love all of these ladies. I hate Tom Brady but it will be nice to revisit him getting his butt whooped by the Eagles. 😊

Sigh. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Almost 19 years in and I still can't quit this crap fest. Finley still bugs, Shane is still gonna cheat, Bette and Tina are still gonna dance, Alice is still gonna date wildly inappropriate people, Micah is still gonna get the short end of the stick because the writers don't know what to do with him... Days of our Queer Lives.