I Want My MBTV

I thought they were doing a ripped from the headlines thing and the "Mysterious Case of Natalia Grace" - her adoptive parents said they woke to just finding her at the foot of the bed (with a knife) and also said she got violent with their other children amongst other things. That whole thing is a cluster and you can't really believe anything the former adoptive parents say but that's what this was reminding me of.

In this episode they made a point of saying how both Margaret and the office manager (sorry, can't remember her name) thought they already paid one of the vendors. That made me thing someone inside is stealing funds and that's why they have no money. Maybe it's Beverly and Susan has somehow caught on to that and is trying to get close to her to suss it out? Susan's behavior towards Margaret has been really out of character so I hope it's something like that. Beverly I believe is just "grooming" Susan so she can have access to Susan's husband. Beverly mentioned something about Susan being "connected". If Susan were married to a janitor/detective :-) I don't think Beverly would be taking this kind of interest in her.

I don't care if "J" is right about anything I can't stand him. He can never just act normal he's always acting like a jerk. I also don't understand his role in that he doesn't work for the MPU but he doesn't seem to have any skills that they don't have so why is he there? Other than for conflict?

This episode was intense! I was even worried for poor Betty in that backpack! I need some levity folks! When young Amanda pulled that creep over and he was taking so long to get his documents I thought he was going to pull a gun and I kept yelling at her to draw her weapon. Then when she saw the nails (which I thought meant he was making a bomb) I was yelling at her to go back to her car and just call in his plate and get out! Unfortunately, she did not listen to me. I understand Will and Faith's point and no one wants a cop planting evidence but I also totally empathize with Amanda. She tried to do it by the book and it didn't work (and her Dad was an ass). If only this dude had been in Miami then Dexter (or his dad given the year) could've acted their form of justice on him and no one would have had to worry about him ever again.

I kept wondering if he actually understood the challenge. His teammates didn't help by saying they wanted to start with a flavor bomb! I remember on the global all stars where the format and judges were all what we have in the US, a lot of the non-American chefs mentioned how different things were like the shopping themselves, etc. Actually, Tom said at one point a lot of the chefs didn't understand the challenge and were just turning snacks into other snacks so maybe there's an overall communication issue?

If they had to cut character's time this season it's a shame they didn't cut Abishola's mom! She's awful and not funny. I'd much rather see Delee (where has he been?) or literally any other character than her. I don't even understand why she's here. Until this episode I've never seen her do anything helpful even though she lives there and treats it as her house. She's just mean and bossy and serves no purpose. As she said Olu was the one that took in Abishola and had essentially been her surrogate mother for quite a long time. To me it wasn't even a fight between the sisters it was just Abishola's mom being jealous and wanting to knock Olu down in the church and home where she's been for years! It was just cruel and mean and petty! I hope her character gets sidelined for the remaining episodes,

My recollection is he said she'd be at Abbott two days a week not that she'd be in her classroom two days a week. I thought it was her in capacity in her new role she'd be stopping by the school and on those days she could check in. I assume she's supposed to go to various schools at certain times and check in on them and assess needs. I think she's probably spending too much time at Abbott. I think it would be very disruptive to the kids to have a teacher two days a week and rotating subs the other day. JessCa was from Tiktok or YouTube or whatever. There was a story about it on my local news this morning. They showed a clip from her channel which I didn't find funny at all and have no idea how that would have gotten her a part but I did think she played it well and I also have no need to ever see her again.

Did not enjoy this episode. It felt like a hot mess to me. And I don't know if it was because I wasn't paying close enough attention or because of the writing (the later is my guess) but I did not understand for the life of me why Mathias wanted Wes dead. Wes didn't know who Mathias was and didn't seem to know anything about the church bombing other than he built the bomb for it so what was Mathias afraid of with him? If Mathias is the ex-wife's new BF did he shoot himself to make him look less suspicious? It didn't look like it was a self inflicted wound but if he lives I'll be suspicious - maybe he's not working alone? I really want JM in a better show. He can take this sister but leave everyone else. Why can't he come back to Law & Order? Not that it's great now but it's better than this and he would only improve it.

More sister and less assistants made this episode enjoyable for me. I did think, however, that the ex-wife was going to break up with her BF - dude was smothering!

Me either! And I did try I didn't give up after one episode but after maybe four or five from the first season I was like "why am I forcing this on myself?". I didn't find it special and just couldn't deal with all the yelling. With all the awards I feel like I should try again but I just don't know. Different strokes.

I found them especially annoying so I was hoping that was what would happen.

Excellent question (also why is it in milk cartons?!). Even when the 'secret shopper' folks asked Lan she gave them a word salad that didn't explain anything. She said something about people thinking Vietnamese coffee was condensed milk and condensed milk is fattening..... so I guess it's supposed to be some cute play on that? IDK - between that and the milk cartons I thought it was an already made drink so was very confused when Gordon told her to make one of those! I'd be more impressed with Chris' 'invention' if he was somehow printing water! That's what i want someone to solve; getting water easily to places in disaster areas or places that just don't have access to clean drinking water. That would be Noble price worthy. His thing about saving on shipping his cups vs all those bottles is a misnomer because as everyone has said you can get packets of nearly everything that he showed and add water to it and use your own reusable glass or cup. At the end of the day is his just another single use product.

For acting especially no one is going to care what college or any college at all. Most successful actors didn't go to college. I was so confused by the setup on the trip it looked like all the kids were staying in one hotel room with 2 large beds?

While I agree with this I did think it was rude and presumptuous of her to just expect the Coopers to take care of CeeCee while she did this. She didn't even discuss it with them. Nor did she mention anything to Georgie before dropping the baby off with him when she went shopping with MeeMaw. Not saying that Georgie shouldn't share parenting duties but if one or both parents have jobs outside the home you can't just give them the baby as they're walking out the door. And Mandy knows where he works and she was with the only other employee there so what did she think was going to happen? Where do her parents live? I know she doesn't have the best relationship with them but why can't they help out too? Also, Georgie is very young and I can understand why she doesn't want to marry him but I don't like the way she kind of strings him along. In general I don't care for her.

Maybe they should call the show 911 - Lone Rescue!