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That's beyond irritating, backformore. Sometimes it's nice to live in a huge retirement community, and no children is one of those times. Sure, the residents' grandkids visit, but even if they're taken to one of the more upscale restaurants or country clubs, nobody's about to let them run around and rile up a bunch of seniors who no longer have any filters.

Which was the only satisfaction I as a viewer got out of this whole sad mess.

Aha! I was eating on the couch this afternoon and got up to go to the bathroom. When I came back, my fork was gone. Looked all around, removed the couch cushions, checked under the couch, checked the bathroom and even emptied the waste can there. No pets or humanoids in the house. I re-checked everything three times over the next couple of hours before looking up the prayer to St. Anthony (atheist, sure, but whatever). Less than a minute later, I spied the fork on top of the credenza. Apparently I had it in my hand when I stood up to go to the bathroom and laid it down along the way.

I have a girl crush on Diane Keaton that's hung in since the 70s. Jane Fonda and Diane Sawyer make me embarrassed to be about their same age. They're both so elegant and put together. I could have eaten less as I got older, exercised more, continued to wear makeup, not let my hair go gray or chopped it old-lady short. I could even have had cosmetic surgery. I did none of those things and now look older than either of them even thought I'm younger. On the opposite side of the coin, whenever I see a celebrity who allowed him- or herself to expand and have wrinkles and saggy eyes and aged skin, it's kind of shocking to me. It's okay for me to let myself go, but movie stars? Never!

I liked all the drop-ins during Hollywood week. It was nice to see Jay Leno but I wondered if he brought his own jokes when he tagged in or if those were from Jimmy's monologue. Jimmy started off pretty even with Kareem on pop a shot but he later got so far behind I thought he might be doing it on purpose. (Also, whenever I see or hear Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's name, my mind changes it to Lew Alcindor. Same with Muhammad Ali -- it's just hard to erase the names I grew up knowing them as.)

The show aired so long ago that I'm not sure which opinions are popular or not, but I'm currently watching Deep Space Nine and Avery Brooks is pretty much ruining it for me. I don't think he's a bad actor per se, but for whatever reason he's made, or was directed to make, the choice to deliver all his lines in a slow, operatic manner. Even shit like saying dinner is ready. He never uses contractions and over-enunciates like his life depended on it. Anger or annoyance are indicated solely by shouting. I like the series overall but it's a shame for me since he's part of the core cast.

I wonder if the mattress cleaning van could extend to hotel bedspreads, because those never pass the black light test. I would definitely pick a hotel that advertised steam-cleaned bedding over one that didn't. I can see it being a successful franchise business in the same vein as carpet cleaning. Someone could make a decent living going after the commercial applications in a largish city -- I imagine it would take 4-5 days parking the van outside a hotel or hospital to get through all the mattresses, then on to the next one. That's a ton less effort than driving to 6 houses every day.

I wouldn't be totally shocked if Neil and Sam decided to give their marriage a little more time after the six weeks, just because of how contrite and mature Sam has been on SM since the show's been airing. I can envision the editors deliberately choosing not to air some scenes that showed them getting closer as the weeks went on, because of the surprise factor. I would personally hard-roll my eyes if Neil agreed, but out of all the couples am most interested in hearing their decision and explanation during the finale.

What a couple of buffoons! Good grief. Hired the assistant off Craigslist indeed. I guess we know how to freak out the majority of couchies now -- snakes! Since I can't even look at drawings of cockroaches or tarantulas without shivering, I sympathized. I didn't see the dog dicks! How big can they be on a chihuahua?

Both Destiney and Kenya had some serious cleavage going on at a couple of points. Dang, ladies. There's way too much leaning forward and excited squirming for low v-necks to be a good idea. Amanda was rocking her crop top with long sleeves, though. Emerson? Enough with the manspreading already! It puts me in mind of Larry Craig and his wide stance in the bathroom stall, and that's not something I want in my damned mind. I luv ya Brandy, but would recommend dialing the makeup down a notch. I can practically see my reflection in her shinyshiny lip gloss. Kenya, Brandy, Ayn and Scott being all fan-my-face hot about the sex scene on Scandal was amusing, but Sue's particular enjoyment cracked me up, just because she thought the soundtrack was marching band music. Don't think that's what they were going for, Sue! HTGAWM Kenya, about Viola Davis: "Good lord. HD and no makeup! I love her." It was very thoughtful of Julie and Cathy to give Annalise advice on how to take her Percocet. I had to agree with everyone -- that was an awfully cute hallucination baby. Lamont's explanation to Princella and Rashawn of why the baby disappeared: "SHE THAT HIGH!" Then Princella shut it all down because her "brain hairs are already singed."

Oh, Howard. I for one am looking forward to meeting his cut-rate, moderately attractive nanny.

I've decided to save up the episodes and binge them. I like the characters well enough and am interested to see how it all plays out, but it's harder to remember everyone's histories and current status with the episodes spaced out. I'm not so drawn in that I'd bother to rewatch or research online to keep up my interest. Considering the lack of robust discussion, I'm guessing I'm not the only one. :)

Frances sitting in the car grinning didn't sit well with me, either. She had decided to negate her life's work in order to go after the people responsible for killing her adopted son, so I would have expected some sort of cathartic release. But at her core she's still a very grim woman and the, as you say, affable persona was jarring. I also agree about Alex's secret. It was an important enough invention that countries would believably kill over it, but not at all believable to me as something that could ever exist. I had to hand-wave it. Since we got confirmation that Alex was kept prisoner for a while, I wonder how Danny was kept out of it? He and Alex were basically spending all their time together at that point and he could have popped in at any moment. In sorry-not-sorry news, I hope Danny's parents continued to be relentlessly pursued and persecuted after Danny and Frances went public. Couple of sniveling asswipes.

I didn't even understand what "dome" was missing from the ceiling wheel that made it nonfunctional -- the thing did spin -- but there was still no need to explain it. Just bring out the small wheel to start with. I did wonder during the Bernie sandwich segment who had the job of crouching down there and handing Stephen so many plates. And honestly, powdered cellulose is sold as a dietary/bulking aid to eat more fiber. If I'm taking it by the tablespoon, why would I care if it's added to cheese.

I'm not sure I can even articulate how much I hated this. That's not to say it wasn't well made, well acted, or funny. It may have been any or some of those things but I was too disgustedly bored to notice. The "real" relationships and sex as being shown in Casual and Difficult People and You're The Worst and Girls and Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce and etc. -- it's not weird or naughty or freeing. It's crass, boring, stale and much, much too self-consciously aware of how daring it's supposed to be. It's not even about the characters being likable or relatable, although they're not; it's more about obnoxiousness and focusing on warts-and-all sex just because you can. The attempt to be so jadedly adult makes it come off as very junior high to me. Another show to add to the discard pile. I'm definitely not the target audience, though, so there's that.

Ashley is proof that someone can absolutely go on reality TV and project only the image they want. If her goal after seeing David was not to give anyone the idea that she liked him, then mission accomplished, including banner and aircraft carrier speech. She has resolutely never given the editors anything to work with or footage to manipulate to make it seem as though she led David on or gave him an inch of false hope. No open expressions, no flirty body language, no chattiness, no kind words or compliments, minimal physical touching. She can hold her head up and rightfully claim she stayed true to herself. Whether or not that makes her an inconsiderate shitstain, given the premise of the show, is for each viewer to decide.

Sadly, not at all.

For a few moments, I had hope. But this isn't that kind of show and I was foolish. I had to mute and watch with closed-captions during the suffocation scenes; the sounds of Alex's tortured, frightened breathing was too much. Almost as painful was Danny's matter-of-fact rejection by his parents. The only emotion his mother showed was for her own safety. The literal and symbolic silence of all three titular fathers was dreadful. Second season? Please no. In my mind, Danny and Frances succeed in their expose and are eventually silenced for it. I don't need another Spotlight -- the show is of little interest to me without Danny's love stories, both Alex and Scottie.

Just me, or did Adele sound kind of off key and shouty on "All I Ask"? Nice show overall though. Adele is such a good sport about everything.

Great dairy! I'm really looking forward to more. There are so many moments and story arcs I'd forgotten/repressed. Aaaaand now I love you. But no Sookie/Melissa McCarthy! It goes against my nature, but I'll be generous just this once and assume that ASP figured she couldn't afford her now.

I wonder if she was cruising you? Is that even a thing for women? Otherwise, no excuse for that! I'm never sure if this is inconsiderate or not (I'll note that I have never in my life encountered a person in a wheelchair in a public restroom), but I always use the handicapped stall if given a choice. It's always in in corner or against a wall so there are fewer neighbors, it's of course a lot bigger, the toilet is taller, and there's often a sink so I don't have to jostle with others to reach the soap and towel dispensers.

It was nice to see how genuinely fond Jerry is of Garry; such a long and heartfelt hug to say hello. Their trip to the Comedy Store made me wonder if Mitzi really did have some kind of grudge against Jerry. I also wanted to know what current sitcom is being filmed on the old Seinfeld soundstage; it didn't look familiar at all. The show also made me rummage around online to see if I could find eps of It's Garry Shandling's Show. I always liked it even more than Larry Sanders.

I supervise a 24-year-old who always uses "of" in place of "have". - He should of sent the spreadsheet instead. - I would of done it myself if asked. Initially, I pointed it out to her and she replied laughingly that her mom always tells her that, too. Well, your mom tells you because it's wrong! But she kept doing it and I guess wore me down so that I stopped saying anything, even though I still cringe when she sends emails that include my boss. But honestly? More than one person points out a significant grammar error and you don't do anything about it? Is it supposed to be a cute personal quirk or something?

I wondered why nobody asked who Sandra Dee is! But yes. Remember-er from the actual 50s checking in. :)

Interesting about the objection to the name. DirecTV has it listed and searchable under Full Frontal, so I guess they wave their private parts in the general direction of one million moms. But oh, dear. I do hope the tremulous moms take Nikki Glaser's show title "Not Safe" to heart.