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The funny thing for me about this, is that TGP is the one show that we actually watch live as long as both of us are home at that time (which is most of the time, because it's this show). Every other show we DVR and the same as you and the rest of the modern world. But I do agree. The answer to "Did you watch ______ last night?" at the water cooler, is probably "I worked late but I DVRed it and am going to watch when I get home today". And I'm glad they keep renewing TGP even though its Nielsen isn't great.

See, if maybe the other kids there also introduced themselves, and not just Harvardkid, there might have been a SMIDGEN of mystery about who it actually was... And shouldn't it have taken about ten seconds of police work to do some checking on where everyone who normally drove the van was at that time? I'm a religious person (not Catholic though) and I totally understand the whole what thou confesseth, thy priest will not divulgeth, but I really, really don't understand including crimes in that. I'm trying to catch up on Blue Bloods (Catholic all over there) and I just watched a late s7 ep last week where a priest had a parishioner confess he'd committed a crime and wouldn't be useful to the cops. This one was a *little* better in that the priest was willing to take the fall for not giving up the kid, sort of a "take me instead" move. The "you know you're going to hell" line was kind of weird... I mean, every religion pretty much believes that but most people who aren't Puritan preachers from the 1700s soften that sentiment a bit when speaking to an unbeliever. I assume it was to allow Bull the "already reserved a suite there" line.

I know I've got to stop coming here saying "Well, that would have been a lot better if _____" and yet here we are again.... That would have been a lot better if they could possibly have squeezed some nuance out of the immigration issue. Like having a judge who was sympathetic to the situation but felt stuck in that he is expected to uphold the law and it's difficult for him to decide how to rule in these cases because everyone seeking asylum has a sympathetic situation. Or having Gabriel have a criminal history since arriving in the US but having cleaned it up since then. Or having him come completely illegally, because I would maintain in this situation that he didn't *intend* to enter illegally, he *thought* that he would have everything correct, but was hosed by the lawyer. If they were intending to cast some sort of statement about immigration, I assume it was for us to sympathize with Gabriel/actual people in lousy situations trying to seek asylum in the US but it was harder to do so because it didn't seem like he made choices in line with the character they were showing him to be. I agree with the previous posts that an educated man like himself, should have known to pursue other options when he realized lawyer was a scumbag. Just once I'd like someone on this show to have a romantic interest who is NOT part of a case.

That was forking brilliant. If D'arcy Carden doesn't win all kinds of awards for that, there really is a bad place. Didn't Michael say back in season 1 that Abraham Lincoln is in the Good Place? Although I guess anything he said then is up for debate. And I have no idea when we are right now, so the whole, nobody in the last 500 years could be just about any time. I was just at the point of being ok if Chidi/Eleanor didn't happen but that way of doing it was great.

Dear show, I can suspend my disbelief that Pride would be up for field work at his age after being shot point-blank like he was, WAY more easily than I can suspend my disbelief that everyone at his desk job just lets him run off on his merry way back to the team every 14 seconds instead of doing his desk job. I want to keep the new girl, but not at the expense of the ridiculousness of everyone being all, "Just let us know when you're done!" when Pride just randomly leaves meetings with the freaking DOD. Either have him back with the team for real, or keep him at the desk job for real; this back and forth is ridiculous. Excuse me while I yawn at Pride being all surrogate father to the kid, who thankfully called him out on it. I did think that Loretta was going to pull an "I adopt ALL the lost boys!". And the kid being all "OMG really?!" at being offered a foster home was slightly unrealistic for a hardened CI gang kid.

Not a ton to snark there but I do have two comments: 1) Does NCIS really have the budget, personnel, equipment, etc, to send to DC agents to Afghanistan on a moment's notice? I mean, I get that the case was a little more serious than dead Marine in Rock Creek Park (and I've never seen the Potomac, but I always imagined it as more "large river" than "akin to the creek in my city"), but aren't there agents stationed IN Kabul that could do that investigating and MTAC back to DC? 2) The way the colonel guarding the dead Marine's body refused to move more than 3 inches from her body at any moment made me sure that there was something of implicating nature on her person that someone would see if they investigated her body too closely (like a flash drive in the back of her throat or something), and he stayed that close so if anyone started opening her mouth, he could fake an injury to create a diversion. I was sort of glad it wasn't the case, but it still felt like a missed opportunity.

Four down, six to go! I have to break to return some stuff before the retail nightmare that this weekend is.

TBS would be my best friend except that's when I'm supposed to be eating dinner with my FIL and my husband and my children, none of whom are either old enough or containing a sense of humor advanced enough, to watch it with me...

So, it's almost Thanksgiving. Who's up for an every Thanksgiving Friends episode marathon while making their pies tomorrow or Thursday??

I'm in the middle of season 7, just watched several in a row tonight in fact. I agree that there needs to be a crossover. That Bull a few weeks ago with the police commissioner, I lamented that it was not Tom Selleck. But if there were a crossover, I need competent NYPD, not what we see on Bull.

OMG, this show! This episode was great, absolutely one where I had to pay total attention because I literally had no idea how it was going to turn out. Doug Forcett! I'm so glad we got to see him and am unsurprised that his life is what it is, I'm expecting some kind of shake-up involving the points system (and I wouldn't be surprised if there were no actual Good Place at all but we'll see), but really, no matter what it'll be great. Janet's badassery. Jacksonville style pool. Eleanor and Tahani. Eleanor and Chidi. I can't handle that we have two weeks off now and I really can't handle that we're off until January after that.

This one had glimmers of the original premise, with Marissa talking about the jurors over the headset and I liked that there wasn't the constant Benny looking to Bull thing. They've been working together for years. They should be talking about what kind of jurors they want beforehand and Benny should be able to determine if one is or isn't without constantly looking to Bull for confirmation. I'm so sure all the judges in the NYC courts just loooove Benny's constant turning during voir dire. The last three or so weeks were really, really flimsy cases. Please, please tell me that actual prosecutors need more than a guilty plea for a punch, or DNA evidence under fingernails but no other evidence, and so on, to actually take someone to trial for murder. Investigation, sure, but the trial?? Please also tell me that the NYPD is more competent than presented here, for the crapwagon that all the investigation this season has been. No way this side of Hades are we spending all this screen time on Danny's bed buddy for him to not be an important part of a case at a later time and the anvils of it being related to his immigration/citizenship status are quite large. I'm not sure if I should admit here that I even saw this movie but all I could think about in the restaurant was that Reese Witherspoon movie Just Like Heaven, where she does something similar in a restaurant after having amnesia or having died or something.

This one read sort of like two sets of writers were assigned different episodes to write the A and B plots for (the crime, the CIA guy), and the editing room accidentally put the two together. We were obviously supposed to suspect CIA guy is up to something (Puh-leez, in 10+ years of watching crime shows, never ONCE has the CIA cooperated or been nice to any other agency), but then nothing came of it. Anvils dropping all over for Torres/Bishop. I'm betting that whichever writer specializing in Awkward Contrived Romance was feeling underrepresented and pleaded his/her case in the writers' room.

Slightly stunned that they didn't make Mr. Marisa the perp AND that the two of them are still together at the end. Shouldn't, I don't know, the NYPD or the FDNY or *any* investigator other than the defendant's jury consulting firm have been in there and then looking at who stood to gain from the restaurant burning to a crisp? And did they ever resolve if the guy from the FDA or whatever it was, did or did not evaluate the grease build-up correctly? I can understand Mr. Marisa being a little hurt at Marisa's telling the not-kiss story to Bull, but all she had to say and be justified (IMO) was something like, "I didn't want to believe you did it, but in my line of work, I see many people who don't want to believe their loved one is guilty and yet they are. Between the money owed to investors, the grease build-up and chemicals storage, and then you not waking me up on the same night of the fire, there was enough that I was concerned. And I'm really REALLY glad that there was no reason to be concerned." And then he would apologize for the circumstances that led her to that point and they would kiss and move on through the rain happily. They played it more like, she's hesitant to trust people because of her past, which is definitely fair, but as the Russians and Ronald Reagan say, "trust, but verify". Actually, maybe Marisa should have just said that.

Obviously I have no actual proof or experience but I've been watching the Cake Wars line (Cake Wars, Christmas Wars, Halloween Wars) since they all began, and once they did the newer Cake Wars a few years ago, and then when Jonathan took over hosting HW, HW followed suit, almost every episode had what we called on the Cake Wars board, a "Big Catastrophe" and most of them looked staged or re-enacted. There was one where the woman was acting all scandalized that she broke all her sugar things, but you could see behind her as she was "lamenting", her piece covered with those exact sugar things. It was pretty obvious that that moment was either staged or re-enacted. Or things like "All my cake has fallen!" and you see like 3 crumbs of cake on the floor. Some of them were overblown, like "My piece of fondant isn't big enough! So I will roll out another, larger piece!". I have always found the cake decorating to be interesting enough on its own. If there's real drama (I still sigh in memory of that one whack on FNC who set her cake on fire on the Kerry Vincent birthday cake episode), then by all means, show it to us, but don't contrive or re-enact.

That whole scene with the girl "noticing" the corn stalks were burning and the exchange after was the fakest fakery that was ever faked too. I mean, you could at least try to sound realistic.

Couple is prying cabinet off Me: Dead body in the studs. Mr. DVD: Unexploded bomb behind the cabinet. Couple: (finds envelope) Us: Damn, we were both wrong. And now that we're through the episode, I feel that exchange is completely inappropriate. Sorry. Excuse my blinky eyes during the last scene. Oh, and what the hell was up with that stupid Laurel/Yanni thing? Hi, last year called. The amount of time I spent scrolling past talk of it on Facebook back then was already about 300x more than I needed.

Right! All you need is a couple skeptics on the jury and you've got reasonable doubt. He seemed awfully confident that all twelve would view the DNA as incontrovertible.

Well if that wasn't just one long commercial for why NOT to do 23 and me... Mr. DVD and I were screaming "He's a twin!" at the screen around the 13 minute mark. Seriously, I know the unexpected twin is kind of a soap opera trope but I'm sure it's happened in real life and you'd think after no motive, means, or opportunity for the doctor came up, that they'd be investigating his family history to see if anything useful cropped up. I also think DNA under his fingernails is unfortunate as far as implication but does it really hold up as evidence? He could have encountered the victim somewhere not on camera. Probably not the coffee creamer handle though. Pretty crappy parenting to not tell your kid he's adopted. They didn't mention much about his adoptive mom but I'd have a really hard time forgiving that one after being on trial for murder because of it...

Yawn, snore, Lasalle's business, blah blah oh good his dad isn't a total cretin, just mostly oh hey Lasalle and business associate might be a thing! I've finally gotten to the point that I don't hate Gregorio but I wouldn't mind if the other lady stayed and Gregorio went somewhere else.

The only good thing about that one is I like Cable's replacement, she seems like a good balance to the team and won't be afraid to stand up to Bull. Case was weird, Bull was too emotional about Cable's death, and I thought that case even going to trial was unrealistic even for this show. I understand wanting the guy to pay but what's 100 million going to do for Mrs Cable that 25 million wouldn't? His being arrested was unconnected to the trial, it seemed. Best part was the judge "I like riddles. Go on". I've never sat on a jury or through voir dire and I really wonder if Benny's shtick would be "you can be done now" or "carry on" in a real court.

I felt like the amount of time Bishop spent talking about taking out the shrapnel, was more time than it would have taken a trained agent to just get it out.

I shouted "REALLY?!" at the TV so many times after Fake PT Patient was revealed to be .. whatever she is, so many times that Mr. DVD told me to get a grip. I mean, really?????? Vance cannot possibly have some happiness, apparently. We called the wife, then retracted when the guy accused his wife, then called the guy, then retracted.

This ep would have been way WAY better if Tom Selleck/ Frank Reagan had been the police commissioner and really, that would have been a brilliant move on CBS's part. I'll grant that 2.5 mil in NYC wouldn't have gotten them that far (although surely enough to retire to the country), but there's a mile or so in between 2.5 mil and 25 mil, that you'd think they could have settled on??? I mean, I am a terrible liar and would crack in about .3 seconds under cross-examination, but even a good liar would have to be really, really good to keep their story straight and not have a tell or something that would have given it away in court. Rockstar investigation, that nobody noticed the guy never ended up puking until halfway through the trial. Portraying racial issues and cop issues with nuance is probably way, way above these writers' pay grades, but they could have, I don't know, maybe tried a little?! I also didn't catch why the cop and the guy had to keep their liaisons private? I mean before the Incidents portrayed. I didn't recall either mentioning that they were married to someone else, or any other reason why they had to stay in a hotel for their escapades. Also, crappy investigation that didn't pick up that the two of them were communicating - burner phone, secret Facebook messaging, or anything else.

Janet: I'm like a printer queue. I knew no way would Eleanor be into Trevor's shtick... Not quite sure if that's what Trevor planned. It's different, this season, but I like it so far.