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So what? There was also the underground klek and last episode no religious culture. And throwing a cross in the water is totally a cultural custom and has nothing to do with religion per se. The cathedral is the most impressive building in Sofia and made a great visual though nothing "religious" happened there. And again if the Gay teams can make comments about the Gay lifestyle and married couples can talk about their kids and sibling teams can talk endlessly about sibling relationships; then I think the mother/daughter can make comments about what is deeply important to them or at least to the mother.

No. It was really nice to see. Though Bulgarian leaders back in the old Communist rule days might agree with you though, lol. And just like our two Gay teams making Gay jokes and references during the Race. It is nice to see too. Something for everyone. It is all good. Room for everyone on planet earth.

He was the only character on "LA" that I liked other than Hetty: The Early Years. The lead was crappy with zero screen presence and badly written and the two love birds were ridiculous The various tech people were over the top stereotype nerds. And nerds are usually the opposite of tech professionals as well. Personally I think Sam Hanna would be an upgrade to any of the current cast on this mothership.

It's probably how he decided to write that rule. Interesting episode though I couldn't see much of a damn thing again especially in the last 10 minutes. Will somebody tell the producers/directors/whoevers that near darkness on the screen isn't "noir." It's just pretentious artsy fartsy crap that pisses people off.

I hate how they do that stuff. On The Amazing Race now at the start of the episode Phil says something like on this episode ... at which point I mute and close my eyes or switch channels really quickly. Why ruin an episode of anything like this? LONG OT Rant: For years now the old network three have been doing this with their nightly news. They waste time mentioning all the "headlines" at the start then repeat them after just mentioning them. When they go to commercial they tell you what you are going to see after the commercial. When they come back you get a 15 second story then off to the next commercial. The last 15 minutes of the broadcast are roughly 13 minutes of commercials for drugs where happy people walk down beaches and celebrate birthdays obviously not hearing that the drug being pushed will cause their liver to explode, turn their toenails green and make them unable to ever eat pizza again. And don't get me started on the "senior correspondent" for economics who last night was the "senior" correspondent for defense and the night before was the "senior" correspondent for celery research. Just once I'd like to meet a "junior" correspondent. But of course they have less correspondences these days then where one should really get the news (and much needed laughs) -- "The Daily Show" No wonder nobody watches the nightly news anymore. Well except me I guess because I love shouting at my TV about how crummy these broadcasts are then back in the day. 😝

I was not pleased that Donna was proved innocent. I wanted her to be the crazed, pitchfork stabbing nutcase. Was more funny that way. And jailing a now peaceful, 84 year old lady after all those years seemed sad. Main plot was good though.

Cool but why not on CBS? I hate streaming services. I pay enough already and am on a tight budget so I don't want to pay for them on top of everything else. I have an old "dumb" TV which can't be cast to and I don't want to watch on a small laptop. Bummer.

They were middle of the pack racers but when the first double U-Turn happened they moved up and have stayed up since. Last episode they finished second. And I think the Morocco prize rocks. These people are on a Race around the world. Why wouldn't they love a cool prize like that. Also kudos to the Bulgarian farmer guy for having to stick around forever at those haystacks.

Or if they had beaten the Guidos for the Fast Forward right before that. The Guidos almost got eliminated despite getting the FF because then decided to wait for a number of hours so they could take an air conditioned break until an evening fancy express bus arrived as opposed to the local but even though the local still got there earlier. It was a long trip from Bangkok to the south of Thailand and they wanted to have their creature comforts. Had Nancy & Emily not booted (didn't find the car they had to drive but chose to just take a taxi instead) the Detour they would have made Final Four at least. I think Nancy & Emily were stronger. It was the first season and they had no info on how the Race worked yet they almost made it to 4th place. Melinda & Erika haven't done anything to show me they are a stronger team as of yet. And their season are one day legs, not the super long ones that Nancy & Emily had to do. I thought I saw interviews with them but maybe it was just the audio voiceover post elimination narration. Like when they explained with a voiceover about walking back slowly from the Wood Detour then seeing the Mother/Daughter running the other way then they realized they should be running too because there was a U-Turn ahead. And yes it was manual. Just stick shifts have any number of ways to get into Reverse. I've had a lot of stick shift used cars all my life. Some of them involved pushing the stick down then shifting it to get to R. Or shifting over then slightly up (like a small curve in the path you are going around with the stick), then down etc etc.

She has to go the following night and sneak down the beach to get it or the next part or whatever. So it will be part of next week's episode I assume. Chrissy was one of the dumbest players on Survivor ever. Twice she ranted and raved and foamed at the mouth about the evil that is the "strong guys" right in front of them. Hello, you got a problem with alpha males then you go to the beta males and women and talk quietly to them about this problem. You don't take a megaphone and announce it endlessly on and on and on and on at two Tribals and God knows how much we didn't see of this back at camp. Inept play. As well as waiting way too long in the game to try to organize against the male alphas. Glad she got voted out. I couldn't take another endlessly long Megaphone Chrissy speech about the evil of alphas and the obvious threat they pose to her.

OT: Just want to mention a factoid. In Roman times Bulgaria was roughly Thrace. And Thrace gave us Spartacus. To this day there are Bulgarian sports teams named after Spartacus. "I am Spartacus!" PS: Update, I found this online. "While there are various theories about his specific birthplace, the most commonly held belief is that he hailed from the Maedi tribe, located in southwestern Bulgaria near the Strymon river."

A normal U-Turn is where you have to do both sides of the Detour. Actually it is a well deserved reward for completing the task. Yep. One sheep does not come with an infinite milk supply. And that still didn't help the Clueless Brothers.

I still hate the U-Turn. Typical trash TV crap. Yeah I really like the Green Shirts but they need to survive fair and square and not being able to read a map yet knowing you are going on the Race is a cardinal sin. And the brothers team didn't just lose because they were 1 kilo short with the wood carrying. The one brother was just grabbing huge chunks and throwing them away without looking. Dude, you aren't looking for a giant beachball. You are looking for a tiny bracelet. But oh no he wouldn't take his brother's advice. I like they wanted to be on the Race for years but hey didn't you watch Lena & Kristy's season? They had to look in TONS of hay bails. You only had 3 stacks. They just kept making mistake after mistake on every leg. If only Pops & Jeff jumped on that car when they had a chance and didn't hesitate they would have knocked that wood carrying out of the park. Maybe even gone back and Pops could have helped the wood splitter guy out some for fun. And Jonathan no you didn't land in the ditch because of bad "luck." YOU drove past the parking sign and then YOU drove into the ditch. Unless you legally changed your name to "Luck" between legs, it is all on you.

Nay, ship almost everyone else out to a "NCIS: Cancelled" show and keep Kasie who is one of the last decent characters on this show. I miss young, innocent McGee. Older McGee just doesn't work for me. His whole personality went from wonderfully quirky and creative to generic middle-aged, lost his mojo and interesting uniqueness. Totally bland now.

Since the navy has a large fleet in San Diego and the Marines have a large base in the area I would say as many as get killed (or kill) in DC/Virginia/Newport News on original NCIS. Or as many as the writers want to happen in either location. 😉 I had forgotten the Sandman thing and the "previously" didn't even ring a bell. Some guy with a long, narrow face gets killed because some guy code word Sandman is tying up loose ends from something I didn't remember at all. Par for the course for me, lol.

Cool Flower is smart despite the handicap of training to be a lawyer. 🤣 Sorry, but along with the majority of America I'm sick of endless litigation over nothing and the legal loophole games the laws provide that ignore concepts like truth and justice. Glad Flower was saved from that fate. I agree. I am sick of "Ghosts" going from a great show into an endless "hooking up every cast member because couples MUST happen in all TV shows" show. Why? She is from the 60's. Who in the counter culture didn't say it then. Janis would make a good character as the recurring threat to ghosts guy. He would not suck them off to some heaven-like world. He would disintegrate and kill them forever. Yeah I'm sick of this concept that being a virgin is some kind of "sin" and sex must be had with somebody, anybody to cure this horrible "disease" as soon as possible. Also while on rants, I hate that Pete can travel across the boundary. At the very least confine him to maybe a 20 mile radius or just a few hours before he starts disappearing. But traveling all over the world for days at a time? It is ridiculous and just destroys a major premise of the show.

Actually there was no need to come here first. The editors gave away that Pops & Jeff were out in the first two minutes of the show with their "human interest interview of doom" they do for each team that is going to be eliminated that episode. Think? No need to think with me. I LOVE them. I want AMAZING shots every episode. I want to see the world all gussied up and looking stunning. More of this and less of Jonathan please.

Yes. Yet again they ruined an episode by telling us the team that would be eliminated in like the first 2 minutes. The Amazing Race used to have really great editing years back but now they have really REALLY dumb, poor, horrible, stupid editing. Hate to see the show I watched since the very first episode of Season 1 hit the skids like this. It also made the whole episode a real downer knowing full will Pops & Jeff were going out.

Looked up this online for you. Season 2, Episode 13. Wikipedia's summary in spoilers in case others here haven't seen Season 2's episodes:

Why two weeks? When did Sai find a second idol?

Smart to take Charity out first. A member of the big numbers tribe left and a real snake type. Yes it would have been funny if Sai's vote for vengeance against her own protector had lead to her demise. But Charity was the big shit stirrer. Besides I'd guess most people watching want Sai out and she does crazy things like vote against said protector so she makes a perfect villain for this season. Certainly more entertaining than Charity. Points for the kindness of Star but man, Cedric (spelling dif but I can't remember it), can you do ANYTHING well on Survivor? He was as useless as a sack of rocks in that challenge. PS: Loved Eva's comment in the voting both: "Why does everything look like garlic?"

Scott was never a villain in the least. He was a sweet guy. I'm going to knock him. He burned the express pass last leg. If he hadn't he still would have been double u-turned no matter what. You can't keep coming in first and NOT be targeted. And Phil said at the beginning they were doing all the stupid reality show artificial gadget junk in this Race and the u-turn is the most stupid of them so of course it was coming up and of course you save the express pass for it. But dingbat here didn't. So he didn't have it to skip the coconut part of the detour. He is an idiot as well as being a bully. (I never had heat exhaustion but I do horribly in heat. And I had heat stroke once and never thought to be rude to anyone when I was out of it). I agree totally, completely 100%. It was the crown jewel. It was truly AMAZING back then. "This is a Race like none other in history. This is The AMAZING Race" was Phil's voiceover to the opening credits on Season 1. And so it was. But now it is just a mere race like any other. And full of so much artificial junk to not even make it a race based on some sort of skill level. What next? Hidden immunity idols on every leg for the team that finds them preventing them from being eliminated? It is turning into Survivor quickly. Sad, sad, sad.

How many episodes are left this season?

You found a very good tell for sure with this show. If you look at an hour long whodunit it is is only 42 minutes of actual material because of endless commercials. That means the writers can only shoehorn so many characters into a show with that limit. First I look at what characters early on were not really needed. Like one show (forget which series) had a brother with his mother when she learns her other son was killed. There was no real dramatic reason for that "brother" character to have to be there. It could have been just the mother being told. So of course it was the brother that was the murderer. Those are the easy ones. What they often try to do is have a red herring. But as soon as the good guy team starts to seem sure one of the people is the guilty party and it is only a half hour into the show that kind of gives away that suspect was only the red herring so it was the only other person left as a possibility at that point. I never read detective novels but my mother liked them. A novel can actually make you guess based on actual clues. A TV show is more a deconstruction of script, seemingly unnecessary characters at the time and the time factor of the show itself. Well unless it is "Murder, She Wrote" where Jessica Fletcher figured out whodunit about 10 minutes before the hour when someone says some stray phrase that causes her light bulb to go on. Stray phrases are hard to anticipate in advance. (Yes I've been watching some of these shows in syndication and Angela Lansbury was an absolute delight so who cares whodunit in the end).

I liked the character. And the writers made her unhinged. She never acted that way until they started the b-o-r-i-n-g (especially the endless Tony undercover dating the daughter) season-long plot from hell that never made any sense at all. But NCIS writers tended to mis-write for women on the show a lot. I will never forgive them for turning Ziva into a victim type near the end. Let us hope the NCIS Origin writers are better at handling female characters. The Tish story line seemed well done. And Mary last week. But the whole Lala thing could be a disaster waiting to happen. We will see.