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She's a little too excitable for me, and I hate the fake *gasp* "oh no! What is this?!" cuts to commercial. (Good Bones does that too.) I think it would be more interesting to go in-depth with the "finished" house that's featured on IG. That would give us more of a before and after kind of arc. But I dunno, I might be brainwashed by now, since that is the path so many HGTV shows take (and, I suspect, why I've found it such reliable comfort viewing during the pandemic).

A friend sent me this: The daily edition of 'The Rachel Maddow Show' is coming to an end. So who will replace her? Our mutual reaction: Oh no! Though I was kind of not 100% surprised. I feel like Rachel's been noting more frequently lately how long she's been doing the show. I know I will be bereft at 8 pm CT Monday thru Friday 😭

I got a local PBS pledge drive after this ep also (and after Professor T), which I thought was spectacularly insensitive. I know I'm not the only person who has watched this show over its four seasons 80% for the incomparable Nicola Walker in this role, and to end this season and her run by prattling on about how YOU make series like this possible, oh please. I just want to quietly mourn the end of an era. Interesting for a character to die because the family pulled the plug, though. You get that with the occasional American movie (The Descendants comes to mind), but rarely in a TV show, that I can recall. Hadn’t quite seen that exact resolution of the case coming, which is one of the things I appreciate about this show. I felt the final scenes with each of the suspects were also satisfying.

I grew up in Reading, PA, which is close enough to Philly that a lot of "Philly things" found their way there. And the absolute best "Philly-style cheese-steak" I have had here in Houston has been at a local Greek restaurant. So go figure 😉 and the Greek connection made some kind of weird sense to me. Also, thanks, MC, for making me crave a Good Humor strawberry shortcake bar, which I haven't even thought about in years 😁

Look up the English lyrics to the song that accompanied "The Dance," "Eso Que Tu Haces." Only perfect 😢

I further wish -- as many of us here have whinged about before -- that the hosts/anchors would just tell us if they were taking time off. I am pretty sure Rachel said last night that she would see us tonight, and...not so much. I wish the trust level were different than it seems to be. Seth Meyers had no problem saying he would be off for two weeks and my world didn't fall apart. I think we can handle it.

Hey, Ali Velshi is on now (in Chris Hayes's time slot) but with all the Rachel branding and graphics, and my online guide also shows Rachel in her usual time slot. I am confused.

I was not amused when Mare went to Frank's house and the first thing Faye had to say was to ask if Mare knew about their engagement. Then I was getting a jealous/insecure vibe when she was inside while Mare and Frank were talking outside. She seems to be younger than Frank, though not wildly so; I'm just seeing her as maybe a bit immature at this point. How or if that will be part of the story remains to be seen. What took me out of the milk-through-the-window scene was that it looked like the bottle had come open, and there was milk pouring out of it. I kept thinking what a mess that would be to clean up. But Mare seemed more concerned with adjusting her top. MMV 😉

I grew up in Reading, PA, about 60 miles NW of Philly, so this isn't exactly that, but a lot of little things took me back -- the row houses, Rolling Rock beer... very regional. And don't judge PA by the relatively depressed area this seems to represent; it's beautiful, with lots of rolling hills.

I was laughing so hard at the "quote" from the NYC City Council candidate caught on video that I had to pause the recording until I could recover. It was completely predictable and stupid, and also just so darn funny 😂

Late to posting just to say how joyous Monday night's show was. That is the best word I can find for it. Joyous.

I agree. No disrespect to the top acting nominees/winners, but I call shenanigans.

That was very oddly timed; a lot of folks I didn't have time to read the name and what they did, while others seemed to linger longer. I'll forgive it, though, for any excuse to hear "Space Oddity," even if it is an AirBnB ad.

NYT suggests they are trying to make sure everyone is still awake.

Gosh, is refusing to hate "meeting in the middle" now?

I think all the last year's winners should present the current year's awards because then we would have had a little Taika Waititi and he would have brought some funny 😉

Heh, I was just Zooming with someone this afternoon who lurved it.

Yes, and I kind of hate it.

She has been on every other awards show in what appears to be a t-shirt, sitting in a desk chair, against a blank wall. So refreshing.

I loved the dueling Biden impressions last night! Of course I have a fondness for Stephen's aviators and half-grin, but Dana Carvey might be onto something in just kind of getting at the essence of Biden. I found myself giggling in spite of myself, anyway. It's kind of like his George H.W. Bush's "na ga da" (not gonna do it), which still seems to get at the essential Bush Sr. somehow.

I've read Rebecca twice for discussion groups and this is a deliberate part of the storytelling, that the narrator is so much a cipher, perceived by herself to be so unimportant to her own story, that she's not even given a name. Look for this in contemporary works too, like My Lovely Wife. That has to be the Worst Book Club Ever, with everyone quaking in their boots that they would say the wrong thing and wind up in the Tub of Death. I have been waiting for Alison Wright to come into her Alison Wright-ness in her portrayal of Ruth. I wasn't feeling it in the first season but it's starting to come through. I knew it was in there somewhere. My yardstick is her absolutely phenomenal work on The Americans. Check it out if you haven't already. I will say I have this show as a series recording but I've kind of been letting it pile up on the DVR. It's less of a "must-watch" show than in S1.

Finally watched the movie on Netflix, and I'll just say it's giving me a new appreciation for the show, which is approximately a bazillion times better. The movie is like an extra-dystopian Brazil without the humor, more unrelentingly dark than anything (and I have a pretty high tolerance for dystopias). The ending? Meh. Kept thinking how glad I was to have seen Parasite before I saw the Snowpiercer movie or I would have been deeply suspicious of Bong Joon-ho's work in general, b/c Parasite is a work of genius. But if it took Snowpiercer for him to work out some initial ideas about class discrimination so that he could get to Parasite, I'm okay with that 😉 The show is much more effective, I think, in showing us the train and the various people and systems that keep the "pax Snowpiercer." It seems quite possible there was never meant to be room for all that in the story the movie wanted to tell, and that’s fine. I will admit that it was the general premise that got me to try the show, so it's all good, man ☺

Please note that in my original post I said I used to earn close to $80K. At this point I am very grateful for that $1400. I hope everyone who receives a stimulus check will exercise wisdom with it 😌

Not to mention, neither of those specials seemed to be all that critically acclaimed.

Fact checks, lol I really need to finish the last season of Better Call Saul, and Unorthodox, and the whole of The Queen's Gambit.