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Thanks! My memory is not always the best these days. 🙃

I seem to remember in the previous episode Capote commenting on Tenneseee Williams...something to the effect of he (Capote) being better than Williams. Sounded like sour grapes. Williams was more prolific and successful than Capote even if they both had messy ends.

If I'm not misunderstanding, the more people they get who contribute their DNA the more accurate in finer detail the percentages can be. I did a DNA test with a Canadian company, and because a very high number of their participants were from the UK (where 95% of my dad's ancestry is from ) I had better breakdowns than just simply Scottish or English. I found out I'm 5% Cornish -- I love Cornwall!

Just because I'm not particularly fond of "high society," I certainly didn't mean to imply that these women deserved their betrayal. There's no excuse for that no matter what your level in the world is.

Yeah, I'm really only in it for Tom Hollander. He's doing a fabulous job. Oh, I meant to mention that! Phyllis Diller was dressed in her performance costume. That hair, and the dress with the maribou collar, were something she never wore when she was in her private life. It was jarring. I think it was a cheap way to indicate that the Carsons only had low level celebrity guests instead of the so-called creme de la creme of society in Palm Beach at the Paley's. It was cheesy.

Yeah, I know Ryan Murphy doesn't do subtlety, but couldn't he learn? I just get tired watching his shows and usually just give up on them.

Velvet crumb cake! Something even a kid couldn't screw up.

Well, the original movie accents were exaggerated, too, and that's where the Moorjani said she got her accent. I'm willing to bet Juno Temple did, too.

Lucky.

I understand that, but they were so close Witt could almost touch him with the gun barrel. Oh, well, not a big point.

I kept yelling at him to shoot Roy in the shoulder. That would have forced Roy to drop then knife, and it wouldn't have made him a murderer.

Me, either. It makes her look like a toddler. She's annoyed me since the beginning, so I would have been happy with her going. It was really annoying me that Duff was going on and on and on and on about there being nothing in the middle of the handpie as he was waving it around with clear evidence of (admittedly very little) jam inside.

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Elsie?

My grandfather and great-grandfather worked in the Ohio coal mines. My great-grandfather was killed in a pickaxe accident as it was described -- something I only found out recently and sounds odd to me.

Are half the kids from Texas??? Happy that Jaime and Tassi were the top two, as I really liked their cakes, and their personalities.

Not "their." Nancy's. Yep. How nice for Ashley that the finale was right in her wheelhouse. Ugh. I've found her unbearable (heh, unbearable) since the first episode. This finale left a sour (lemon?) taste in my mouth. I don't want to see or hear Nancy ever again. I was rooting for Thoa. She just seemed so nice in a natural, not fakey, way. I also want to eat at her family's Vietnamese deli. I love Vietnamese food! So cute about her and her sister's names. Thu must be a popular name. I have known two Thu's!

No comments on Ashley's monstrosity? It looked like a preschooler art project where all the sprinkles and glitter were dumped on a mound of glue. And, sorry, after the news yesterday, it struck a very sour note with me to have someone bragging on Texas. I felt for Javier, but as he was braiding, we both said he'd need a ton more baking time. I almost felt that Nancy was dinging Sherrod just so there would be someone else in the bottom. And I don't usually stand up for Nancy. I really wanted to eat Thoa's. When I was little, before my mom went back to work fulltime, she'd occasionally bake homemade pies. She'd always make extra piecrust dough and turn it into cinnamon rolls. I've never had cinnamon rolls as good since.

Wasn't the donut chain Spudnuts called that because they used potato flour in their donuts? I don't know if they still do...or if they even exist anymore!

And her pound cake with her potato "crispies" was so sad looking. Cake, yet again, too.

Yes, I could find a ton of my dad's ancestors -- 98% British -- but it's slim pickings for my mom's Hungarian ancestors. And my dad's direct line has no new immigrants to the US since the 1830s. My mom's parents were immigrants.

I have never eaten a chestnut. Other than a water chestnut, which I agree with @libgirl2 about -- yuck. Just happened to watch a movie set in France in 1953, and a little kid was so excited to see the chestnut roaster in the zoo. Guess the war privations were so tough chestnuts looked good! I was happy with this episode. I even liked Ashley getting knocked down a tiny bit during the judging when she was standing there preening and trying to pry more praise out of the judges, and they basically shooed her away. So many of those Mont Blanc insides looked like poop emojies!

Yeah, we had to sleep in the car!

This. It's even worse on Top Chef when one of the pair (or team) has immunity from elimination. Yes, me, too. Underbaked is disgusting.

Yes, all dachshunds think they run the universe. Thunder was the sweetest of all our doxies though. Miss her. This was what we were saying as we watched it. She annoys me anyway...even though she reminds me of the actress who played Frasier Crane's agent (BiBi) on his Original Recipe show. She was hilarious. No. She just made a cake. That was a plain ol' ordinary cake with some schmancy decorations. Part of the difficulty with an opera cake is getting those thin layers even into a nice sharp rectangle. She just made a regular layer cake. No wonder she had time to do a nice table top. I wish they'd put Nancy out to pasture. She's a smidge toned down, but I still just want to ignore her and her weird little gestures. I don't know why you don't at least practice making some of these things you've never made before you go on the show. Did Alex say she hadn't even made a mousse before? She was so delusional. I felt for her, but you don't solve your problems by going on a reality competition TV show.