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Remember when they sent Sunny home for doing a beautiful yellow dress with just a blue brooch because it didn't meet the challenge? Well, with that in mind, why the hell is Irina still around? There was nothing unisex about her garment. It was feminine from head to toe with not one masculine aspect that would drag it towards the middle. High heels, tight black pants, a blouse. All feminine. Is the black or the oversized coat (with the feminine print) supposed to be gender neutral? Of the two at the bottom. Dimitry should have been aufed, but of course, they love him, so he's not going anywhere. But, if you're not sure what season it is if an outfit has one bare arm and one sleeve, then at what time of year can one expect to wear a trenchcoat that opens onto a naked back?

The DC to London couple were quite pulled together. I suspect Trunk Club or some other fashion influence in their lives. It's not everyday you see a man in persimmon pants.

When the Queens do the "pick the lipstick" walk, I usually think it's silly, but Valentina turned it into a catwalk and I thought "Oh, that's how to make this scene work". Performance: My Top Two : Valentina and Latrice (her Laverne L was accidentally timely) My Bottom Two: Gia and Farrah Runway: Top : Manila (and almost everyone, it was a killer runway) Bottom: Monique Valentina gave a mesmerizing lipsync, so much so that Monet seemed to give up. Gia's determined bitchiness definitely grates, yet I still find Monique the most overbearing person there. Although, Monique redeems herself when she gets genuinely excited for other queen's performances. [Damn it! I have Wow + and was on it last night, and still missed the third episode.]

I wish they hadn't gotten rid of Erica Tazel. Her situation reminds me of the scene where Delroy Lindo makes his TV appearance and the other black host tells him that they'll have to choose different roles if they are going to keep two black hosts. They brought on Audra MacDonald and couldn't figure out what to do with two black women partners in a position to challenge Diane.

Tara and Pricilla were just lovely (and looked so much alike)! For two women who grew up feeling unloved, they seem remarkably resilient and mature. I hope they form the loving mother daughter bond that neither of them were fortunate to have had.

Somewhere along the line, a switch flipped in Debra Winger and she became a dud interview, because I’ve seen her come across as guarded and a tough slog before this. However, I fully recall a time when she was on Letterman and at the end of the (normal) interview she stripped down to her Wonder Girl* costume then ran right off the stage into the audience and out to the street. *she played that role on 70s TV version of Wonder Woman alongside Lynda Carter.

I fear Monica is lost. She was already on the edge over her mother not being her mother and she found that out decades earlier. Now with this father situation (and he doesn't even remember her mother ---actually none of her parents seem to know each other, much less which one of them helped create her) I don't see her getting past it.

Looking up before and after photos, I think she may have had more than one. Whatever number nose job this current one is, it looks good.

Oh, dear. I'm afraid the only proper thing to do, in order to spare his delicate ears from anymore of this, is send me that beautiful ginger cat in your avatar. I'll give you my address. Cheer up. What can it mean? I believe he daydreams and it's her sister who was homecoming queen.

I was interested in this largely for a peek at the sprawling Ross family. The first episode didn't disappoint. Even Diana herself, was there. Unfortunately, Evan and Ashlee come across as the least interesting people in the crew. Evan has a beautiful singing voice, but other than that, he seems chronically sleepy, and Ashlee is just sort of... a bundle of neuroses. I'm sorry to see that she is still haunted by her SNL screw up, but that's not really that interesting a topic, all these years later, for her to keep mentioning. Also, both on the show and in her recent WWHL appearance, she is constantly having fits of nervous laughter, which makes me wonder about her mental health. Her anxiety levels must be off the charts. I think it must be hard for Ashlee to find her place professionally. Her sister went from modest fame as a performer, to mega fame on a reality show, to even greater success with her billion dollar fashion brand, and her husband was raised extremely wealthy among the biggest names in the history of entertainment, so maybe she wonders what she brings to the table. She's probably desperate to shake a Vanilla Ice kind of flash-in-the-pan reputation and prove herself.

I'm sure almost every young up and coming actress in England has appeared on Call the Midwife at this point since they need 2 to 3 new mothers for each episode. They're not getting to the Diana years in Seasons 3 and 4. There will probably be a brief glimpse of her as a 12 year old or something.

Yeah, "I would buy that Playboy" is not something I'd want my doctor to say to me.

I enjoyed this episode too. Overall, I prefer this episode to the ones we had earlier (and perhaps all of the last couple of seasons): they've brought some of the humor back and toned down some of the "I'm a type A lawyer!" barking.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Both she and Diana look greenish yellow at times. It’s very weird. I get transfixed by it. Sutton doesn’t come across that way, and Debi Mazar was originally a makeup artist, so she probably doesn’t let anyone else get near her face.

I thought I'd seen the killer before. I'm surprised so many people remember Alphas, much less who was on it. Then again, I doubt I watched more than two or three episodes. I'm ashamed I didn't recognize king of Queens' Deacon, though. That show ran forever.

Oh, I liked "Welcome To Sweden". Short lived, but sweet. Hannibal Hanna is actually stylish. There was a street fashion push to bring back the 90s mom jean that has been taken up by designers lately, and oversized coats are very nordic. If you look at Stockholm's Fall Fashion Weeks in recent years, you'll see many of them. My boyfriend and I on the episode: Bf: "I thought Ricardo was gay." Me: "Hanna probably talked him out of it."

Figure part of it would be the time the appeals process takes. It's likely the class would be done before the process was completed. The professor might have been reprimanded or fired, but that wouldn't have helped Marcus become a marshal. A speedy resolution was the only thing that would help Marcus. Exactly. Unless Sherlock had recorded the meeting (and possibly even then), it would have taken way too long to get rid of him through an appeal. It seems like one of the weirdest beefs Sherlock has encountered, to have someone hate him for being too good at his job (unless they were one of the people he put away). But, petty envy in the workplace is a real thing.

I love Jean Smart in everything. I thought she was great, and Kirby too. It's Felicity Huffman's character than I wanted to drop off a boat in cement shoes.

That bathroom was a hodgepodge of styles. The yellowish rustic wood clashed with the urban subway tile and the marble look of the quartz countertops, and then the tile on the floors didn’t go with anything, and then there was that 1930’s Hollywood Art Deco style octagonal mirror. Yeesh! It was like a TGIF menu, a little bit of everything, and none of it sits well.

Why does anyone sleep with John? In every episode he looks like a moving pile of dirty laundry.

I feel like the second half of the show redeemed the first. I'm tired of all the barking. Mike and Rachel were two of a few lawyers who had full grasp of the indoor voice and they're gone.

I was just looking at his SYTYCD flower and bee dance with Jaime and Hok on Youtube. It was gorgeous.

What is going on here? Jay Jay dropped Jensen on her butt at the end of their first dance... and nary a comment from a single judge. The judges praised Genessy and Slavik, but I thought their opening hip hop number was terrible in both execution and choreography ( I did enjoy Nigel pointing out the old man moves though), and their second contemporary dance wasn’t much better. Chelsea was definitely screwed by the tap performance, they had no business giving tap to a non tap dancer. Hannahlei was awful in that Paso Doble in 1970's Krypton, but at least the judges didn't turn a blind eye to it. (Nigel needs to cool it with his Asian women warriors bit. Yes, it's better than thinking of them as Geisha stereotypes or something, but still, get it together old man.) Magda and Darius' Travis Wall bow string dance was my favorite. It was the first time all night I felt I was watching a real SYTYCD production. Every SYTYCD choreographer: “I’ve got a great new idea for this next dance... someone has all the power until the powerless one unexpectedly turns the tables.” I miss Mia Michaels. Sure she was a crazy nightmare at times, but she really could choreograph the hell out of her pieces.

I don’t want to see Maggie jumping through hoops for boring ass Malkie. The actress delivers her lines like she’s sulking at her agent for getting her this gig.

When Jeff said he was sent that black funeral wreath for being a “dead son”, I screamed “holy shit!” like something leapt out of nowhere in a horror film.