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These people, gawd. The participants insist -- INSIST -- during the casting and interview process that this is what they want more than anything and they're 100% committed to making their marriages work. Then it turns out that they're actually prepared to put in zero effort. I'd be annoyed too, if I were Pastor Calvin. Bunch of trifling fools. The decision to lie about having sex was probably Sonia's coy 50s throwback idea, and Nick is always happiest when he doesn't have to speak so it suited him. Does Nick really believe his own backtracking about his outburst last week? This is what we saw of his drunken interview with the producer. He and Sonia argued on the couch, he walked away, and the producer called out to him that "Every relationship requires work." Nick, to the producer: Well, you gotta be attracted to the person to have that relationship, is all I'm saying. I'm checked out. Like, I'm fucking over it. Like, I don't want to be attracted to her at this point any more. Like, I don't even want to try to be attracted to her any more. I don't have feelings for her, AT ALL. She constantly calls me out on random things. Like not being open. Like, what the fuck is not being open, like tell me what ... tell me how you want me to be open. Cuz what is opening up? What do you want me to open up about? Tell me! You tell me what you want me to open up about. I DON'T LIKE HER! That's opening up. I can't open up any more than that. I don't think she's attractive and I'm not attracted to her and that is me opening up to the fullest fucking extent. We're not sure how much of that Sonia heard at the time, but since Nick was speaking loudly in the next room and she heard "not attracted," I assume she heard all of it. They can't walk that back.

It looks engaging although I'm dubious about my ability to believe that Her Majesty was ever a sprightly moppet in love.

I've never wanted anything to be a mega-hit the way I did the remake of Ghostbusters, solely as a middle finger to all the people who lost their fucking shit over it. (Regrettably, my convictions weren't such that I actually went to the theater and watched it myself.)

My UO is that I watched four episodes of Mr. Robot and thought it was silly. If that means I'm uncool, slow, and lowbrow, so be it. It sometimes seems like the more fervently a show is hyped by TV critics, the less I'm liable to enjoy it.

With regard to fundraising, I use Wikipedia a lot, mostly to find episodes of TV series and such. I am happy to donate to their campaigns. HAPPY TO! What irks me is that they then don't stop dinging me every time I go there. Get your cookies or IP traces in order, Wikimedia! I wonder about the people who sell GS cookies on Ebay at a substantial mark-up. Just who is the extra profit going to? And wouldn't blurbs about being the top seller in the state or city or troop turn people off? To me that smells of "cheater." I once had a wrong number from someone who asked to speak to [my name], saying she was looking for Dave. I told her it was the wrong number but she would not accept it. She kept explaining who she was and that she worked with Dave and we had met at such-and-such. I finally just hung up. Like, honestly? Some people have the same first and last names and yes, even live in the same town.

I love the guy who explains the diseases. He's soothingly calm but implacable as he explains how I'm going to die. The trick to that show is to listen without watching (although they use far too many squelching sound effects). But it's the graphics and closeups of brain-eating organisms that will really do you in.

This is a dual peeve: Mother Nature and all the news shows that love to scare us about germs. I had some Crystal Light in a plastic pitcher that had been sitting in the fridge for a while. When I pulled it out from the back of the shelf today, it had several mold spots on the sides, along with maybe 200 small black flecks floating around. I washed the pitcher, put a bleach solution inside to soak, and heated it in the microwave. It looks and smells like new but I'm still kind of afraid to use it any more. Secondly, what the hell kind of bacteria is it that can grow in a refrigerated solution of Crystal Light, a collection of chemicals completely devoid of any organic material? My only conclusion is that the bacteria was something in the water, which ugh, just kill me now. I already have a whole-house water filter and use a filtered pitcher for drinking water.

I've thought about the vets on Dr. Pol before because all three women are pretty much like him in their pragmatic, no-fuss attitudes. Brenda of course has been there for years but even Emily and Elizabeth are the same. It probably takes a specific personality type to work in a large and small animal practice in the rural Midwest. The Pol vets are certainly a lot different from Dr. K and Dr. Thielen, who are so kissy-face with their patients. But yeah, Charles can be annoying.

There is so much pretty in that family I had to avert my eyes a couple of times. The glare! The script gave me very little to like but I did anyway, for no good reason. I ignored season one because I didn't care for the Australian version, but Cornell is interesting enough that I may give it a try just for her.

This is a third-hand peeve, which I am not above. I recently read a free Kindle book called "People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges." It's a collection of satirical essays from a blogger about having kids and moving to the suburbs. I am not a parent, aunt, or godmother, but still managed to be peeved on the author's behalf for most of the book. I assume some of the neighborhood "momster" stuff she described was exaggerated for comedic effect, but still. Super annoying.

I wonder if viewership was down for the week? I deleted all four without watching but nobody's counting me.

Animal ER: All those herpes warts on the sea turtle were pretty horrifying. They didn't specifically show them removing the ones around his eyes, which I really wanted off. I really like this show overall; they're doing some very advanced procedures. The owlets on Dr. Dee sent me over to spend some time with online owl videos. So cute.

This is churlish of me, but I don't like it when people ask me to call them by descriptive, overly familiar nicknames. "Everyone calls me Smiley!" "Just call me Papa Joe!" I've also met women who go by Happy and Delight. I can make up my own nicknames for people I'm fond of, thank you very much.

Wrong thread!

Heh. Did you perhaps see these brothers on Notorious?

Really, Parker? The environment in the trailer seems solidly middle class. I'd be surprised if it's set anywhere other than the mannered suburbs of the Northeast. She herself doesn't know how to act any other way than "as Carrie." From the NY Times review: "Frances is far from a starry-eyed romantic: She has cheated on her husband; she is a narcissistic oversharer, a foul-mouthed accuser, a weak-kneed manipulator. She is also, as played by Ms. Parker, deeply real and somehow appealing." Rest my case? It's a hard pass for me. Er, I don't actually have HBO but even so.

This is a tiny mosquito pet, but a peeve nonetheless: when TV and movies try to pass off completely dissimilar looking actors as siblings from the same parents. Yes, yes, it happens in real life but just seems like casting laziness to me on screen.

That really is a pain in the ass and inexorably the way things are headed. On the plus side for me as a consumer, it's hella expensive for a network to set up, maintain and provide direct customer support and billing for their own service, so CBS All Access aside, there probably won't be a real onrush for a while.

He never reacted when he was alive, either! The visions were Ginny's projection of him, but I think that was the point. She loved him, he was the most important person in her life, he gave her an entire world that she inhabited almost solely with him, but never gave her his approval.

They could be hand twins! That was fun and both of them played off each other really well. Best of all, Corden was absent. (No need to put yourself in everything, my friend.)

Aha! I'm extremely suggestible and was just deciding what to have for lunch. Split pea soup it is. Chunky style.

I wouldn't be surprised if it will be revealed that Jake, Bradley, and Julia were foster kids, adopted, or otherwise grew up together. The Ryan character grated but I assume he's supposed to. Sgt. Powell is likeable even though she's providing confidential police information to the producer of a sleazy "news" show. The less I see of Louise the better, unless she becomes something other than a oversexed caricature. My eyes were rolling when Jake practically put a searchlight on that large bag of cocaine as he took it from the car and waved it around before handing it off to what's-her-name. "Has everyone gotten a clear photo yet, or do you need me to pause longer?"

The Sorting Hat: Kevin at Work and Speechless are in the reject pile. I was looking forward to The Good Place but a couple of the characters grated and overall, the minuses outweighed the pluses for me. I'll stick with Pitch, Notorious, and Falling Water for a bit. On the bubble about Lethal Weapon. I'm not mad at it but neither did it draw me in.

Even after watching, I still halfway think it's supposed to be about an a cappella singing group.

There wasn't much. Jianyu did wrote the notes. When E confronts him: J: You don't belong here. Admit it. E: Okay, you're right. I don't belong here. Michael made a mistake. But I'm trying, dude. I'm really trying to be a good person and I think I'm changing for the better. So just please, please don't rat me out. J: Don't worry, I won't. E. [relieved sigh] J: Because I'm not supposed to be here, either! I don't know how I got here, I have no idea what's going on and I am FREAKING OUT, homey! You gotta help me! I'm scared! E: What? The end.