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I had a surgical consult in conjunction with being prescribed weight loss meds. The argument they give for surgery is largely that the benefits are immediate. Many folks can leave the hospital *off* their diabetic medication. Various cancer risks are also reduced immediately. So in some cases it comes down to "you can fiddle around with the medication and lose as much weight as you manage to lose and stay on it for life, or you can have immediate results and benefits." For someone like Brittany with uncontrolled diabetes, surgery could be truly lifesaving/extending. On the other hand, Amy should absolutely be on a GLP. It's now considered the backup for weight gain after surgery, and they begin it long before you've regained the amount she has. Of course she may have contraindications to taking it or simply not be able to afford it at this time.

No, it was wrapped in a napkin (and still delicious in the morning when I ate it before breakfast!) Apparently it's an old English superstition but started with fruitcake which would have been less likely to cause a mess. Haven't heard of anybody doing it in the last 50 years, but seems like the kind of thing Gilead would bring back.

Yes, but railroad lines tend to be blown up pretty early in civil wars. I'm not sure if the show ever delineated which states remained "free" and which were full Gilead. Large areas were uninhabitable/full of radiation. Aside from Boston and DC, I can't recall what the rest of the Eastern seaboard is supposed to constitute at this point.

When I was a kid and my parents went to a wedding they always brought me back a slice of cake to put under my pillow (to dream of my future husband, yikes!) Can you imagine June overhearing that they were sending cake to the future wives as a special treat?

Traditionally in the US, you'd have a wake, funeral mass (or religious ceremony) then burial, and together most folks would call it "the funeral." With more people getting cremated and delays between death and memorial services or interment, there are many more variations of how much or little people choose to do. Some want a simple graveside burial of ashes, a few words spoken, nothing else. Some do a full funeral home visit and cortege with hearses and flower cars and a ceremony at the graveside whether with a casket or urn. Some choose cremation and a long waiting period until the weather is more conducive to burial/better for out of town relatives to come visit, etc. At a slight distance it becomes more of a celebration of life than a communal grieving. The Browns picked the last option in terms of the actual interment - a location and timing that worked best for a large extended family.

Kudos to the editing team for the cut from Kody saying he didn't need his brothers there to dig the hole, he was digging the hole himself, he just welcomed the support - to footage of Kody off to one side directing his brothers in digging... (Yes, he also did some digging - I just appreciated the moment of levity)

I'll have to see what Phaedra brings to the table because I used to enjoy her extravagance and wit, but I'm bewildered by her cracker commercials so who knows anymore? Other than that I'm just about out with Atlanta. I don't know anybody's name because we don't see them doing anything except arguing with each other or complaining about each other to each other, so I don't have a lot to grab onto in terms of remembering who's married to the basketball player or who has the surrogate children. One of them is extremely short which repeatedly surprises me for some reason. Overall it feels like eavesdropping on people jockeying for position in a toxic workplace where I don't even work, thus ultimately boring.

That neck "adjustment" is going to paralyze somebody. Having had a sibling who made impulsive life choices for years and then bitched when people weren't happy for her, I felt for the sisters. Mine grew out of it, but I'm not sure Amy will. (And boy is she a dead ringer for her mother!) If I were with Brian and he was looking up down and all around like an infant outdoors for the first time I'd offer to take him to the nearest Emergency room. He didn't exhibit that behavior in previous appearances. I wouldn't let a sibling of mine (anybody, really) drive off with somebody exhibiting those symptoms.

I don't begrudge showing the kids around, or even Dad bragging about his past to kids who clearly don't care (who hasn't been there?) Sol and Ari have gone more than half their lifetimes not having seen Garrison, they've been drug across country by sad adults, and I imagine the previous weeks/months have been dreadful in their household. Not every moment of their current lives needs to be mourning, and learning about their family roots in the area has value even if they don't know it now. That said, it's totally tone deaf to film it under the circumstances. "His picture will always be in my garage" is just... wow. I hope the Meri/Janelle/Christine relationship has thawed a bit. Meri's grief is so visceral and moving. I hope at some point we get the OG 3 on a sofa together.

Brittany turning on the snark! At least twice she made me snort - "You need to ask for the same camel!" Want to see more of her journey - she's revealed so much more personality this season, from side eying the Tammy takeover of her home and husband to comments here and there.

They wouldn't, but a jury trying to assign responsibility to the park/guest could probably be swayed by the fact that they had drugs on them and who knows what else they were up to? What might have been a complicated "yes, I signed a release, but this was a bad bite, my arm was laid open, might have been a child, did I mention I have a television show, see you in court unless you give me a nice big settlement" quickly turned into a much brighter prospect for the park.

That Safari Park must have been so psyched to be handed a get-out -of-a- massive-lawsuit-free card via the drug charges. That was a NASTY bite.

Chris was talking about 30 years' time in prison, which seemed suspicious, so I googled to refresh my memory. I guess they dropped child endangerment/abuse charges in exchange for pleading out on possession. This snark from the Tennessee District Attorney cracked me up: “This is the Season of Giving and we understand that Amy Halterman and Brian Lovvorn are the pride and joy of the State of Kentucky and they will now be back in Kentucky for the Holidays,” Crockett County District Atty. Gen. Frederick Agee wrote in an email statement to local news outlet WREG.

He clearly was struggling in recent years (based on comments from family members) and the show never touched on it, so I hope/expect they will be respectful and compassionate. I expect they will be, because despite the parade of familial dysfunction they've been filming for years, the kids have always come off well. They seem to have genuine connections with the crew and feel safe with them. If I recall correctly, it was crew members who alerted Janelle to Garrison's mental state that final day, prompting her to contact him and try to help him, so I imagine it was a genuine loss for the crew as well.