Irritable

I KNOW! The la-la-la shit has been driving me completely insane, too. I am not a fan of much of the music on this show, to be honest. The title theme drives me bananas, and since I've just watched all 7 seasons in something like 10 days, it has become this earworm that I'm struggling to kill. While there were a lot of little nitpicks throughout, many of them the same as ones I've seen here, the biggest one for me is when Richard and Emily are singing "You're the tops" to Rory at her graduation party, and they reference a sorority, as in Rory is a "Phi Beta Kappa - WOW!". Did I miss the huge chunks of her college career when she pledged, joined and participated in Greek life? Something that the Rory Gilmore we were always shown would never do? She accidentally became part of the Puffs at Chilton, but they dumped her when they got busted breaking into the school and found out she never wanted to be part of them in the first place. Also, I know never showing Lane's dad was a "thing", but it really bothered me big time that he didn't walk her down the aisle at her wedding. They should have skipped the ceremony scene instead of having him be so grossly absent during the one time it was really important that he be there. I cried my face off during the finale. They did a much better job of tying everything up nicely than I expected them to considering how far things had gone off the rails not too long before. Everyone seemed to be getting a happy "ending" except for Logan, which was sad for me, because I came to really like that kid. I'm going to miss this show, and I'm glad I got to see it all in one huge marathon. Oh...it was mentioned upthread that Lorelai wasn't wearing the same necklace that Luke had picked out for her with his sister...I just saw that episode, and she was wearing the right one, but not until the very end. During the party, she was wearing a different necklace, but when she found out Luke was the one who did all the work pulling the big farewell together and they ended up kissing, they showed us the next morning when she and Rory were having coffee at Luke's, she was wearing the right one. I recognized it as definitely the same. I thought it was a nice way to let us know that she and Luke spent a fair amount of time together after the kiss.

I do feel bad for Kathryn. At her age I certainly wasn't ready to be a mother or a "wife", so she is under a tremendous amount of pressure that for sure would have buckled me. And I wouldn't have even had to deal with all the snobby scrutinizing and judgment that she does! I can forgive her a LOT right now. Even her saying "like" when she shouldn't. I do not have the same forgiveness for Landon, even if she is the spitting image of Martha Stewart circa 1965. She is going to have to earn my sympathy, and her annoying laugh isn't going to do it. Is slathering mayonnaise on salmon really a thing? Or did Kathryn make that up? It seemed to come out blackened, and I never eat blackened fish nor know how to cook it, so maybe mayo is the key. She seems to have a knack for being a mother, though...she's so sweet and loving with her baby girl. I appreciate that Kathryn prefers to get her ready for bed herself instead of just handing her off to the nanny like Thomas would have her do. Since that's how his MOTHER, the SAINT, did it, in order to make sure dinner was hot on the table on schedule. *huge eyeroll* I think Kathryn looks good and healthy with a few extra pounds, and that the real problem is how she dresses. She does not wear clothes that flatter her new figure, and it wouldn't be difficult at all to do so. Skin tight, high-waisted pencil skirts look good on a very small percentage of women, and for now at least, she needs to let them go in favor of a nice, looser sundress.

I like that when TRav got tired after playing with the kids, instead of just saying he needed to rest, or sit down, which would have been fine, he went that extra few steps through the thesaurus and said he needed to convalesce. I should take notes during this show, for things to work into conversations later.

It's so refreshing to watch a reality show full of people who are well educated and articulate. Don't have to worry about hearing the word "like" a hundred times from any of these folks! I love ALL the clothes. At first when Patricia came downstairs I thought she was wearing some kind of fancy daytime pajamas and robe, but once she arrived at the christening I realized it was actually a pretty fabulous ensemble for a lady of her age. Seeing Shep in those pants made me want to go out and buy Mr. Irritable some pastel slacks, but he would never wear them. Cameran always looks like perfection. Craig is adorable, but it's not going to be easy to watch him act like an entitled asshole when it comes to his job. He's about to learn some life lessons the hard way. Katherine firing the first godmother and calling DO-OVER! on the christening to cleanse the baby of the first one is hilarious. She is so funny; I only wish it were intentional.

No, Hava, I feel the same way. If they want to build a happy, functional society, I see nothing wrong with them being (seemingly) happy and functional because they are succeeding at their goal. Wanting a pasta maker isn't just a pie-in-the-sky dream that only a clueless idiot could ever have in this terrible, awful world. It would give them a way to make a large amount of food that feeds a lot of people at very little cost. It means people wouldn't have to drive 50+ miles away to get more boxes of old, stale pasta. And if they have been living in Alexandria for 2 years, then it's perfectly normal and natural to want to have some variety when it comes to food. Yes, out in the walker world people eat bugs and rats and roots, but that is only because they have to. In Alexandria, not having to eat those things is kind of the point. They are trying to live normal lives that are not based on being afraid every moment. Part of being normal is the natural human desire to enjoy oneself. It's instinct to want to survive, but when you are living in a world where your survival isn't threatened at all times, a person will eventually start to think about having things that comfort them and make their days better. A cocktail party to help socialize the newcomers with the existing citizens sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Sorry that Sasha has PTSD, but that doesn't mean no one else should be allowed to enjoy getting together under friendly circumstances. It pisses me off that "our" people are only in town for 5 minutes and they're already making such an unprovoked mess out of everything.

Sheree reminds me of a kidney stone. She's agonizingly prickly, gets a lot more attention than she deserves, no one enjoys her company, and she serves no apparent purpose. Once her last child has moved out, she is going to finally be alone with the one person she thinks is worthy of her worship - herself. Maybe then she will finally be happy! The tennis player seemed nice enough, but so bland.

It was excruciating to watch Hannah go on a date with a seemingly nice, fun guy with real potential, looking cuter than she ever has, being genuinely charming and interesting for almost the entire evening, only to watch her set the whole thing spectacularly aflame just to create a bonfire big enough for Adam to notice. Especially excruciating because in my early 20's (maybe not as old as 25, but certainly as late as 23) I would have done the same stupid thing. I know I threw away a good guy or two just because I was trying to work my way through heartbreak caused by a boyfriend that I was still crazy for, and wanted to be with no matter what. And I knew what I was doing was wrong and dumb, but I still knew I was going to do it anyway, because I was being driven by something much more powerful than my brain. This season is the first one that has felt real at all to me, and because of that, it's by far the best. I missed Ray.

I am firmly on Team Carly. I don't care that she doesn't always say the right things, or always take the high road - she entertains me. I like her commentary, I like the way she mocks the assholes, and if her reactions aren't always the most mature, then so much the better as far as I'm concerned. Watching people have mature, classy, clipped reactions to drama is boring. Plus, she dislikes the same women I do, so, you know, that really works for me. I would love for her to be the next Bachelorette because I think all of her talking heads would be fun, but I don't hold out any hope that she would ever get that "esteemed" position.

I know this is all going to turn into a flaming pile of screaming shit really soon, but for a little while, I just want to enjoy seeing everyone (well, except Daryl) all cleaned up and wearing fresh clothes, sitting on furniture, not scrambling every minute to just barely eke out an existence while always sleeping on dirt with one eye open. I had grown incredibly weary of all these seasons of caked on filth and dried blood, and it would be nice to watch them actually help build a community and see how that goes for a while, but I'm not foolish enough to think that it could ever happen past 3 episodes. Also, I presume at least one of the men who was exiled are going to be making a bitter, vengeful appearance soon, pulling one of our people aside to warn them that things aren't really as they seem inside the walls, etc.,.

Thank you!

parrotlover, Hayley was actually at home, asleep the whole time. She "married" a cronut as her Facebook status because it was so delicious, and then accidentally left her phone in Andy's car, which he then drove to Las Vegas to attend a friend's wedding. The book was for Hayley's boss, who is starting to design maternity clothes and wanted to get inside the heads of pregnant women. Overall, I was impressed by how well this was pulled together. It was timely, and relevant, but I wouldn't say I liked the episode itself. And yeah, I'm awfully tired of all the Apple plugging that goes on with this show. Didn't mind seeing my home slice, Pinterest, though. Organizational porn, indeed.

Hmmm...this description doesn't match the episode that I just watched. Alexis was doing trash pick-up with Mutt for community service, and David was trying to sell some of his possessions. I think this show gets better and better, and it goes by way too fast. Makes me sad that it seems no one is watching. Starting a new show on a new network must be really tough, and I hope somehow they don't end up canceled. I am loving the Rose family.

I hate to say this, because I really do appreciate that the show is trying to change things up a bit, but...the body painting challenge was so boring for me. I FF'd through most of it, and even just watching the presentation to the judges I was bored silly. Guess I'm just more into the other things that go into the transformations. I did enjoy the foundation challenge because the hats were interesting, but as usual, we didn't get to see all the submissions for long enough. Maybe it's some huge shortcoming on my part, but I'm not able to look at something for half a second and have any idea of what I've just seen.

Gosh, couldn't you just sit around listening to Chris try to articulate complete thoughts all day long? Oh, wait...I think we just did. That was a 16 hour episode, right? Kaitlyn for sure dodged a bullet; she is much too sharp to settle for life in the middle of a field with a dullard. I'm not saying I wish that on Whitney or Becca either, but they definitely seem like they would go crazy in that life more slowly than Kaitlyn would have. Now all Chris has to do is choose between the woman with the vocal fry, or the woman that talks through her nose. I'm so glad we are finally in the home stretch of a season that had some entertaining moments (only because of the women), but has now dwindled down to watching Chris sweat and heave sighs for two hours.

I enjoyed this show very much, but that's likely because with this cast, I don't think there is any way I couldn't enjoy it. Everything the son, David, says is funny to me. Every single word. Doesn't matter at all what words are coming out of his mouth, I am just in love with his delivery, but it doesn't hurt that most of what he says is funny anyway. I was impressed by the fact that they cast an actor that looks so much like Eugene Levy, only to find out that he's his real life son. And Twila, the waitress, is Levy's real life daughter, although I wasn't particularly impressed by her character so far. I'm all in. This can only get better, as far as I'm concerned.

Weirdly, I expected to enjoy Hugh Grant and...didn't. I've added him to my list of actors that I like onscreen but don't much care for in interviews. Maybe he takes himself too seriously, or if he was trying to be funny his timing wasn't working for me.

It bothered me that the murder of Becky's mom and her mom's boyfriend barely seemed to matter, the way the story was told on this show. Every now and then it was like the editors remembered to throw in a little tidbit to remind viewers that oh yeah, 3 innocent people were killed, not just the young girl.

I watch all these shows, and I do mean ALL of them. My husband says I am addicted to Murder Death Kill TV, and he's probably right, but I only watch the real stories - never any of the scripted crime dramas. This one ripped me to shreds so badly, it's in my Top 5 of all time most moving and horrifying stories I've ever watched on television. Robin Doan is an amazing person, and clearly always has been. I can't imagine being so well composed, coherent and having so many details committed to memory at that age. It nearly made my heart burst when she said that she doesn't go to a therapist because if she wants to talk to someone, she can talk to family or to the people in the police department who helped her on that horrible day, and have continued to ever since. To know that she was able to call 911 and get exactly the help she needed, from people who genuinely care and think of it as more than just their jobs...it restored my faith in humanity quite a bit. Finding out that you couldn't possibly get any more random than this massacre was pretty shocking. We like to think that we learn ways to protect ourselves when we hear cautionary tales of horror such as this, but what can anyone do when a psychopath who has already killed two people happens to drive down your street in the middle of the night, see your house, and decides to just kick in the door and shoot everyone? A house alarm would not have prevented it. A steel door wouldn't, he would have just come in through a window. Keeping a gun in your bedroom only works if you are awake and alert and know that someone is coming in to kill you, so if you're sleeping, there is absolutely nothing you can do to protect yourself or your family. What is more terrifying than the thought that people capable of this are walking around, right now, and could be anywhere? It's honestly too much for my brain to handle. I find it disgusting that he was not given the death penalty. I'm not a fan of DP as a general rule, but if ever a monster deserved to die while victims of his crimes watched, it's this one.

I've never enjoyed Whitney Cummings, but now I outright can't stand her. She was so awful! Not a single thing out of her mouth was funny, and yeah, stop trying to lean into the frame when it's Eileen's turn to speak, you desperate loser. I have no understanding at all why she is "famous". I've never heard a genuinely witty thing come out of her, ever.

Well, so much for the "Jennifer Lopez / Josh Lucas should date" idea. Andy brought it up last night and she did not seem into it. At all. I don't know if JLo is some kind of hypnotist or sorceress, but she absolutely charms the hell out of this straight middle aged white woman. I find her to be absolutely ethereal, adorable, fun and mesmerizing, and if I could please be reincarnated as her in my next life, that would be super.

You just reminded me that when Eileen was saying goodbye to Vince's son, Duke, that she called him Dukey. Which of course, sounds exactly like dookie.

The only time during the entire episode that I made an effort to sit completely upright was to get a good look at what Yolanda did with Bella's apartment, and I was pretty disappointed. Compared to GiGi's apartment, furniture and décor, it seems Bella got the short stick (although I know it's a very nice place and crazy expensive). It wasn't very feminine looking, which maybe was at Bella's request, but I was hoping for more of a fresh, interesting look. And when she was putting up all the little squares that people painted for Bella (at least that brought in some color, and I genuinely do love the idea of those collages), didn't one of them say "POO" in big letters? Were that in my apartment, I'm afraid that particular square would meet with an accident and have to be replaced by something that doesn't say "POO".

That was the laugh of someone who was so embarrassed she wanted the earth to open up and swallow her whole, but since that was probably not going to happen she was trying to show a sense of humor about the double-disaster she had just found herself in. Not that I know that particular laugh from experience, or anything...

Frankie Fucking Grande?!?!?!?! It's almost as if Andy is TRYING to make me stop watching this show. I had promised myself I would never have to see that talentless, desperate, overgrown child ever again after he ruined Big Brother, and I was doing so well until tonight. If only my cable company had the bar guest listed in the episode descriptions, I could have kept up my perfect record. The more I have seen of Lisa Rinna, the quicker she has gone from seeming okay, to try-hard, to try-waaaaay-too-hard, to downright embarrassing. Good lord woman, calm down, stop with the fake guffaws, and try to at least feign some humility. When the caller said Lisa's daughters have been such great role models on the show and their behavior has been so admirable, I thought, "But did you see the episode when they went to Montana? You must not have seen when they went to Montana."

I think they even put a black bar over Jillian's butt when she was wearing jeans. My guess is that when she wanted everyone to pay attention to her butt, having the world be told she should take a weed wacker to her ass crack and then having the editors get in on the fun by blocking out her nether-regions wasn't what she had in mind. It's possible that I've just lowered my standards, too, but so far I'm not having a problem with Chris kissing so many women. Maybe it's because he doesn't give them all the tongue. I think he slipped it to Britt tonight, and virgin Ashley may have forcibly dragged his tongue out, but otherwise he has been practically chaste compared to previous Bachelors' kissing techniques.