SnarkySheep

Sending healing wishes to Gracyn Shinyei, who plays Emily - she was badly injured on the set playground a few days ago and underwent surgery. https://heavy.com/entertainment/hallmark/when-calls-the-heart-star-injured-surgery/

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't horseback riding considered unladylike back then (because of the implications of having her legs spread)? The women who did ride used side saddles, but of course the Ingallses wouldn't have had the money to spend on something like that which would have been a pure luxury item for Laura. It was somewhere around that period that I recall Laura saying she wanted to earn enough money to pay back Ma and Pa for everything it had cost to raise her. I recall even as a kid thinking that was kind of weird, like she had been a guest in the Ingalls home and didn't want to seem like a moocher...

I agree with almost all the books on your list, and will now be adding "brother/uncle/person" to my lexicon. 😀 Re: The Long Winter - It would definitely seem kind of dull to a lot of kids, because it WAS dull - the Ingallses literally just sat snowbound in their house the entire time. But, as an adult IMO, it's kind of a psychological thriller, because you can understand the horror of living that way for so many months on end. These people literally spent every minute of every day working feverishly trying not to freeze to death, and with little strength given the fact that they were down to like a single slice of bread per day per person. It would be horrifying to live through, but I'd think it would be especially horrifying to be a parent and to see your kids having to suffer like that.

Watching some old eps...and wondering exactly why Ally had lived with Nathan all these years when it's been established she has a living grandmother. She was supposedly four when Nathan first took guardianship. Seriously, wouldn't it have been much easier for her to live in one consistent place with grandma and not be dragged from posting to posting, and just have Nathan send money on occasion? *scratches head*

Kids today have no idea, what with stadium seating that's more comfortable than most of our beds at home! I distinctly recall my child self sitting on the flipped-up theater seat, desperately trying to see something, anything, over the adult heads in front of me.

Those trucks sprayed DDT, which was banned in the early '70s as a carcinogen.

Oh yeah, definitely. He should have told on her immediately, but as he himself did say, they had a history and it's hard to do that to someone you once loved. As cheesy as this show often tends to be, I can understand that part. It's hard to say or do something that might get a person important to you in trouble, even potentially ruin their life, regardless of whether you know intellectually that they deserve it. As for Goodwin giving Will a moment to explain, it was really just a brief, cursory moment, where it was clear she didn't want to hear anything. IMO Will realized that, so he just didn't even bother.

IDK how old you are, but this made me recall my early years in high school (1994/95) and girls dying their hair with Kool Aid... And adding to the Jell-o commentary, would you believe that I am now officially middle-aged and have never even TRIED it? Since my childhood I have always found the mere look of Jell-o to be repulsive and avoided it. Luckily no one in my home was big on it.

My friend manages a movie theatre - he says it's absolutely not forbidden to bring your own snacks. However, this is a misconception they don't want to correct, as theatres make the bulk of their profits through snacks. I'm sorry, but I simply cannot fathom what marketing team came up with the Charmin Bear ads...and continued to run with them for years. Just no, please. I would be willing to purchase Charmin exclusively for the rest of my life if they only promised I'd never have to see one of these ads again.

As Natalie is seen telling the truth to Goodwin, presumably that means Will will be reinstated. And presumably he will agree, because he's a main character on the show and that's where he needs to be to continue. But realistically, if I were him, I would seriously hesitate at returning, simply because it seemed pretty plain that Goodwin - the top dog - REALLY doesn't like him. It first came out when Will was cranky about Ethan getting the job he wanted; but now it was top-level disdain/downright abhorrence. It felt like Goodwin didn't even want to look at him, let alone hear or consider any explanations about what happened. It was clear that her mind had been made up about him long ago, and this last thing was just icing on the cake. So with that all right out there, who would want to remain employed at Med? Will's going to be the scapegoat for everything, whether he deserves it or not.

Chicago PD production assistants were making $500 a week, Sophia Bush claims If they worked 40 hours, that breaks down to $12.50/hr. I really have no idea what the job involves, so I did a quick Google - seems that a PA is an entry-level job in the industry and requires no specific skills. Apparently PAs can be asked to do anything that needs doing, from running errands to helping set up a scene. Further Googling shows minimum wage in Illinois went up quite a bit during Bush's time on PD, from $8.25 in 2014 to $11 in 2017, so I guess this depends on which year they were earning the $500 in? Apparently Bush thinks $500 a week was equal to dire poverty, because she's quoted in this article as saying the PAs "can't afford warm coats". I dunno, the article just struck me as kind of hilarious, with Bush painting herself as some kind of protector of the poor, telling off this man in his "$4 million house" as being greedy for wanting payment, yet she herself made hundreds of thousands per week. Maybe the show's budget could be more generous to the PAs if people such as herself were willing to work for less?

Apparently TPTB thought we'd be too caught up with symbolism - "OMG, the building is burning, just like their love!" - to consider any downsides.

Photos from the first scenes of Season 9

Same - I have a number of serious health issues which prescription meds don't really help, so I tried ACV. Long story short, I guess I'm stuck remaining sick...

I was a freshman in hs when that (original version) song was popular, so I find this commercial especially funny, imagining teens singing this version instead.

This storyline annoyed me the most - I felt like we were being TOLD the two grew close, like the writers simply got tired of the character/storyline and just wanted to wrap it up. But then, why even bother to introduce Mina?

Honestly, if this were another show, I'd be thinking they were setting things up for Conrad and Billie to hook up behind Nic's back... And hey, who knows? Many a show has gone down the "we're drifting apart because our lives center on baby" route. I really hope this one doesn't. Check any town's newspaper or bulletin boards in places like the local Y, town hall, etc - you are guaranteed to see at least one, if not more, ads for fundraisers like pasta suppers, in support of someone's child with cancer/whatever rare disease.

You can't blame AJ for being shocked - yes, Mina made some bad decisions, but so does just about every other character in primetime drama. The writers don't even remember them a season later, let alone have the characters called out for them, LOL As someone who has worked in a school system for over a decade, I can confirm there is a myriad of Grace, Gracie, Grayson, etc. in prek/elementary, so I'm pleased they did Georgianna for the first name and Grace just as the middle. I predict this show will go the way of many workplace-centered dramas - there will be a big to-do around the pregnancy/birth, then we will only get an occasional mention, if that. Which I'm ok with.

I totally get this, but I - and probably a lot of other people - just wish the Chicago shows would pick a lane. For instance, back last fall, Chuck Lorre made a point of stating that none of his shows would have the characters wearing masks (because he wanted to pretend we weren't in COVID times, for the sake of lighter entertainment for his viewers). Other shows, such as The Resident and New Amsterdam, chose to speed up time, showing montages at the season's start that suggested a lot more time had passed than actually did, and that COVID wasn't really much of a thing anymore so they could largely be maskless. But in Chicago land, it seems to vary without much rationale behind it.

I don't think it was about not having thought of her spare room so much as having gotten to a place where there was something of a relationship between the two, so that Bloom felt she could trust Leyla not to murder her in her sleep (and likely vice versa). I think the writers just wanted a reason to bring him back to New Amsterdam, and so they came up with something they thought serious enough/potentially serious, yet not so much that Reynolds couldn't still work full-time, socialize, etc.

If I'm not mistaken, being a hospital director literally means he is supposed to be busy directing things - like dealing with paperwork, committee meetings, employee issues, etc. - NOT actual medicine. (You never see Sharon Goodwin on Chicago Med doing anything other than these things.) In fact, I think there was something about this in the very beginning, when someone commented on Max's wearing scrubs instead of a suit, which apparently they were used to directors doing, and he had said he didn't want to lose the medicine end of things. Which...I don't think is exactly his decision to make, upon agreeing to take the job he did, but hey.... Same - except in my situation, the person who was selected to be director serves a largely poor and uneducated population. Yes, the director was a POC like most of our population, but she held an MBA and earned a six-figure salary, while most of the people she saw daily lived on Section 8. It was utterly ridiculous and downright condescending to think people will walk into an office and be blind to all these things, simply because their skin is the same color as the director's. Yet the organization did it four times over in my experience. Max is basically full of good intentions but he is going about it totally wrong.

Honestly, if I were Leyla I would NEVER have gotten romantically involved with the person who's literally keeping me from living on the streets for this very reason...they can break up with you at any moment, over any stupid thing, and that's that. And likewise, Lauren shouldn't have gotten involved because conversely, she held all the power in that situation. I guess Leyla figured she'd passed the US boards and would be able to get a job as a doctor again, so she wouldn't be as vulnerable as she initially was?

Seriously, this is literally the most stereotypical "stranger danger" trope out there...I grew up in the '80s and heard about not believing people who claim to be mom or dad's friends right along with not accepting rides with strangers in vans claiming to be looking for lost pets. And Iggy wanted to adopt ANOTHER kid?? How about properly parenting the ones you've got first, dude??

I assumed Greenwich or someplace like that, given the huge beautiful house they showed them in...and if that were the case, it'd be a really short train ride into NYC, which also works. Especially given the fact that Iggy apparently knew he was leaving messages on an old-school answering machine, not VM, and that Ella is living there, so she was listening to all this... If he was that concerned, couldn't he at some point have left a message for ELLA to call him? As, y'know, she eventually did from her own self?

The problem there, however, is that Max only got anecdotal evidence from a handful of people, which isn't really worth much. IMO he would have gotten farther by checking to see how many job applicants at New Amsterdam in recent years identified as Native American. Is the problem a lack of applicants or are they just not being hired for whatever reasons? etc. Honestly, I would have loved to know just how much that professor actually tried to do herself, other than teach her classes and blame Max/the hospital/all of white people for 400 years of injustice. Whether or not you agree with his methods, Max usually does try his best to actively fix or change the various problems he encounters. You can't accuse the guy of not caring or not trying. But from what we saw, it didn't seem the professor did much except complain and expect her words to make other people change the world.