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I wonder if a lawsuit would work. It sounds like she has the receipts, but it also sounds like she knew about the crime and let it go for 10 years. I wonder how that might count against the case in a "for ten years you didn't have a problem with it, but now you do!" way.

There's a time honored way of approaching people you have no problem with but your partner is alienated from. Sheepishly. "Hey, I just wanted to say hi, hope you're okay, even though [wave hand and give meaningful look]" To which the polite response is a rueful, sheepish nod. Then you awkwardly make a comment about the event or the weather or draw somebody else in until you can retreat with a touch of the arm and "good to see you".

There is no way Looie just let $200k go. Please. Maybe he invested it and the deal went south because of Joe and he had to unload the pizza boxes and had all the hassle of selling the stock, but no way is he out 200k and just letting it go because he's so swell a guy that he just wants Tre to get along with her brother who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from him. Within 5 years T will be back on her own and crying to her brother, and they'll be good until they aren't for the next 45 years. I still like Jackie, even though she's floundering. I forget if Dolores' new guy has a prior wife/kids or whatever, but they may be taking care of him with him/not on great terms with her. Don't like Danielle at all, and dark haired lady is playing too many sides. I like the lady with neighbors except she completely overhauled herself post season so I suspect I won't like her for long. Bill needs to run... to rehab. This cannot be good for his medical practice. But maybe he's tired of it and figures he can sell to private equity and just chill in the pool house until the kids are of age and his wife has made enough salary from the show that she can't get much alimony. Looking forward to Ireland.

I wonder if certain cast members weren't pre-gaming in the parking lot or something. Because I don't think an accredited health facility is going to have a liquor permit or BYOB policy. Though maybe things are more lax where they live.

Interesting new wrinkle in the Ozempic/Wegovy front. Apparently they have an emerging side effect of aversion to alcohol/getting sick when drinking. How many franchises are about to go under if they switch to diet coke at their regularly scheduled screamfests?

That pillow looks like something cheap and logo'd you'd get as a car dealer promotion. Have had many facials - don't recall pillows being involved or being in any way uncomfortable - seems like an indictment of her husband's office more than a market need. As for post surgical work, the only way that pillow works is for people who sleep directly on their face normally, or are slide sleepers and never shift position, because the moment you turn your head you'd need to reposition it.

Was not lost on me that the last few episodes have featured LOTS of deck crew literally sitting around not even in pairs but in groups during work hours - what happened to "if you're leaning you could be cleaning"? If Sandy were on board she'd probably praise their amaaazing easy going spirits while doing a white glove test on the back of the galley refrigerator and blaming Fraser for any dust. Only way to revive the show is to ask what I assume is casting question #1 ("Are you willing to hook up?") and cast against it. Then give some of the trips away to deserving people - they're already bearing the lion's share of the boat rental so they could do this. We might actually meet interesting folks who like the last guests would really enjoy the ship and might still be characters. I'm sure Bravo could write it off as a charitable donation. Ben clearly wants to cook in that St. David kitchen, which is about 5x bigger and 10x more luxurious than anything he was ever given to cook in, so I bet he would come back just to outperform Rachel, whom he clearly looks down on. Hell, make it a game show - have the staff need to solve some season-long mystery for which each set of charter guests would provide a clue. This might lead to actual... conversations! I do hope they keep this boat, though -it's gorgeous.

I vaguely remember Joe Gorga having a pizza shop one season.

Dolores has started to let on that Frank was more than merely unfaithful. In what ways, I don't know, but when he was an attorney he was running all sorts of side businesses and using client money to keep them afloat, resulting in disbarment, so he's not just happy go lucky ladies' man/loving ex Frank. I don't know if she's in therapy, or just the therapy of seeing her life on tv and reading what people have to say about it, but she seems to have passed some threshold of understanding that the relationship with Frank was problematic, even if she told herself it was for the kids. Maybe it was living on her own for the first time. Whatever it was, once people cross a threshold of letting go, they don't go back. I think she's let Frank go, whether new guy sticks around or not. If he wants to maintain a happy relationship for the kids at weddings and funerals and the occasional barbecue, he needs to start dealing with it.

A manipulator needs everybody to love him and think he's swell. Then when his wife/girlfriend starts revealing what happens behind the scenes, she's met with "no way, not him. She must be the problem." And if his target is already somebody with Tre's track record, it's even easier.

Pointing to how close they are to where all the fights happen was a neat little sabotage. Looey and the pajamas... How does that first conversation happen? "Honey, would it make you miss your Dad less if I put on his pajamas?"

I didn't care for the book (deleted it out of my kindle library and I hardly ever do that) and was surprised they made it into a series. I'm enjoying the series, but you are correct - it isn't quite cake. But what is the missing ingredient? The cast is doing well with what they've been given so it's not the acting. The ingredient was missing from the book as well. Why does "That Thing You Do" work? Because the characters once loved and supported each other and had fun before it all went to hell? I can buy that the non-Billy folks in The Six have a genuine loving bond with each other, as illustrated in their living together scenes and fond reminiscences about each other. It's never been shown how any of them have anything more than a business relationship with Billy or Daisy or vice versa.

The MOTHER! I don't know the backstory of these folks, but is the daughter the mother is siding with considered the meal ticket? Doesn't seem like she's done much since her glory days, so maybe it's just a case of the mother always having had a favorite?

I definitely think that marriage has been over for a while (since the big reveal of the affair, anyway - prior to that there seemed to be genuine affection). I feel bad for the kids, and O's behavior is heartbreaking. The way Jenn spoke about Bill at therapy is probably close to how she speaks to him at home, so he retreats. Or is smart enough to keep his yelling or demeaning off camera. She clings to him because she sees how much her mother DOESN'T (anymore) and she wants to keep him close. That said, I've witnessed dynamics where one parent indulges bad behavior and in fact encourages it to annoy the more conventional parent. Doesn't end well for anybody, including the kids. Any "therapist" worth her salt would have confronted Jenn about the overt hostility and steered her to more healthy speech in terms of her anger and resentment. Instead we get "Wow, Bill's awfully silent." What exactly were his options, Dr. Freud? He went to this session as a favor to her for the show, knowing his affair would be discussed, and that would be embarrassing, instead she is intent on humiliating him, and you're sitting there chiding him for not responding in kind? Still don't trust Looey, and the way he guides every conversation to egg on T's alienation from Joe. Love bomb, sweeps her away into living with his family, his family her new family, egging the kids on to knock Joe and Melissa, etc. They may all have agreed that the façade of Theresa's new happy love bubble needs to be maintained, hence bringing the kids in to diss their aunt/uncle so that T can sit there and blink and mouth platitudes. Antonia's the only one I can believe because she hasn't said boo in 10 years on camera. That said, if the Giudice family basically moved in and took over because Joe G was incompetent, the kids might not be aware of behavior on their part that might make the Gorgas feel unwelcome. They may have issued invitations for the kids for this or that only to be told they had other plans. They may have asked if they could drive the kids to practice and been told everything was handled-- all the tricks people play to distance loved ones from others. Yes, the older kids are old enough to correspond, but I can fully see Joe Giudice saying "I don't want them mf-ers in my house" and everybody bowing to that. I'm sure they could've done better, but they're in a tough spot and i can see where contradicting the kids now might make things worse so they won't, painting them into a corner in terms of public perception. Or everything the kids said was true and they're liars. I like the dark haired newcomer who had the party in her yard and NEIGHBORS!! She's as close to a genuine person as they have. Maybe not flashy enough for the show, but I hope she sticks around. Blonde girl is trying way too hard. Other long straight dark haired lady I keep forgetting is on the show until she's on screen and I still don't remember anything about her one way or another. Poor Frank didn't realize he was kept on sufferance for the children and Dolores' twisted belief system that sacrificing herself was a great act of motherhood. We were always told he cheated... seems like there was a lot more. At any rate, the kids are grown and she doesn't need him for a storyline any more.

I certainly wouldn't advise the entire abdominal reconstruction surgery until she's fully at goal. But removal of 30 lbs of skin off her midsection would enable her to live and move more comfortably AND reach the ultimate goal where the major surgery would be appropriate. Not downplaying the fact that any skin removal surgery is major surgery. But I don't buy that an intermediate abdominal surgery wouldn't be warranted/beneficial. As I recall the surgeon wasn't saying she wasn't ready because there was too much fat still to lose there, making it a bleeding risk (as Dr. Now often does), but that she needed to maintain the weight loss for a year to optimize the final cosmetic effect. It's possible that an initial surgery would be covered by insurance as medically indicated, but then the full body lift would be considered cosmetic, in which case the patient would have a hard decision to make - drastic improvement immediately and a large expense or living with major scarring/suboptimal looks, or living another year as is. I hope she's using compression garments - maybe she takes them off for the show. But I can also see where they'd be hard to get into and hot given that she is sleeveless 99% of the time.

Same vibes from Louis on RHONJ. I swear, somebody should design a RED FLAGS course for teenage girls based solely on reality television. "THIS is behavior you need to spot and get away from ASAP." There's no end of cautionary tales.

I assume he got a full debrief from Fraser (who he likes) and then was able to see for himself how Sandy treated people. Sure when he got on everybody was getting along and that was a point in her favor... except getting rid of Sandy might have been as much a pick me up as getting rid of Alyssa and Camille.

Oh, I missed the R. Kelly mention. He's a sly guy, directing every conversation in every scene he's in, and she watches him very carefully as he does it so she doesn't step wrong. There's looking at your spouse and watching your spouse and they give very different relationship vibes.

Yes, and that Rocky guy sure likes the camera, doesn't he? Not liking the vibes off him at ALL, even without the claims of check stealing. I'm liking this much more than the last Xscape spin off. Apparently these ladies are serious about settling old scores. I'm here for it.

Well, there was also a war and Watergate, so it wasn't actually that much fun at the time...

The ones that self-destruct before they make it never made it so you wouldn't know. Like ballplayers who never make the big leagues because they blow it in AAA. The people who tend to make it either make it really quickly in which case they haven't sunk that low yet, or they are able to control themselves at least until they're out of survival mode and everybody's handing them free drugs. It's easier to be a functional addict/alcoholic if you can pull it together 90 minutes a night and the rest of the day teams of people are devoted to feeding/watering you and getting you where you need to be.

Have to say this is a rare situation where the show outperforms the book by a long shot.

It wasn't shown, but I assume that he told them about her breaking into her parents' house only to find they'd moved without telling her. Taking pills and being late would have been clearly visible to the reporter in the room (and not particularly big scandal in the mid 70s). The other story is what Billy had to trade to keep his kid out of it.

Vanessa had already used so many crude terms I assume it was a way of bonding with her without getting as crude as the patient already had. I understand waiting to do skin removal surgery until the situation is optimal, but this isn't somebody with one shot via insurance who is going to be unhappy if she ends up with small batwings instead of no batwings because of a 10 lb weight shift. Wait on the arms/breasts/legs, sure -- but get that weight off her abdomen! Those wrap around surgeries are extreme and risky, but there certainly could be an intermediate surgery done with room for plastic surgery excellence to follow at a later date. This is a serious quality of life issue; I bet she'd trade a flat tummy in the long run for relief in the present with the hope of improvement later. Maybe the difference is that Dr. Now is a general surgeon and not going for refined plastic surgery aesthetics, and this was a plastic surgeon who wants the best possible cosmetic result.

I hate that they keep airing old stuff with new "first broadcast" dates attached. Thought a new season had started Tuesday night, but no.