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Aaaaaand… He’s speaking at the Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden: Dr. Phil: They're going to say “Isn't Trump a bully? Let me tell you why the answer to that question is no. Because to be a bully, there has to be an imbalance of power. And when there's not, it's just called a debate. And he's just better at it than anybody else. Thank goodness no woman has ever said Trump did anything but ‘debate’ her. “This country was built on hard work, added value and talent, not on equal outcome, not on DEI.” Phil says at Trump’s rally, complaining about a Black woman being in any way important in the United States. I can’t hear a whistle, but all the dogs are barking all of a sudden. Exactly whose hard work was Phil’s career built on? Wait, I guess Oprah just can’t have worked that hard after all… Not with all that DEI, huh Phil? No, Phil got to where he is because he had to work twice as hard, he had to go it alone because of all that discrimination against educated, middle aged, white men. There we go. It took a while, but inevitably he got there, eventually. So now you can decide exactly what all his other advice was actually worth. This isn’t about politics. It’s just simply about his judgement. It was perfectly possible tonight to say he didn’t like Harris, without saying that she doesn’t really have any right to stand because she inevitably must have only got there by ‘DEI’. This guy was never, ever, the least judgemental person you will ever meet. And when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I was thinking today that the character in the original show was basically what you’d get if you crossed Reid with Benjamin Hawkeye Pierce from ‘M A S H’ and then stuck that character into ‘The Mentalist’/‘Castle’. And the out of control hair, skinny outfits, leather satchel and general body language was all very Reid. I mean, tragic, logical, clever, high, silly and horny? It could work.

From what I have seen of the original German show, the character is incredibly similar - Wintenberg reels off statistics about everything, solves crimes with math and weird pieces of knowledge, notices details that others miss. Oh yes, and he’s doomed to die of a genetic disease he’s inherited. And he steals drugs constantly because he has an illness but also seems pretty addicted to most things. So that’s kind of a connection as well. The main difference in the two characters is that Wintenberg horndogs on everyone he meets all the time and Reid quit the drugs and wasn’t necessarily going to catch the genetic doom thing. But I can really see why they thought this might work, since they were never going to just make ‘Criminal Minds: Reid’.

Honestly, sorry for those that enjoyed it, but I’m not sad about this. There was something weird about making a comedic show using the identity of a real, horrifically murdered teenager, that just didn’t sit quite right with me.

The dress is slightly too long. That’s the whole problem. If it skimmed slightly above the knee, it would be a super flattering skater dress, but below the knee it makes this shape look small and wide instead of curvy and gorgeous. It’s also the whole reason why I can’t wear culottes. Massive tragedy. I hate the idea that they made her wear it like this instead of taking it up a bit and making it beautiful because they think women over 50 shouldn’t show their knees if they have hips, but I don’t see another reason for this mistake. Christian Dior would never have messed up like this.

That looks so fun!

This show seems to be super cute and has a kind of ‘Grace and Frankie’ vibe. Enjoying it so far.

Looks like Phil’s latest attempted money spinner is rebranding as a right-wing Christian influencer (super common nowadays). https://www.christianpost.com/news/dr-phil-says-god-wants-him-to-speak-out-against-woke-mob.html ‘Phil McGraw recently spoke at Pastor Ed Young’s Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, where he weighed in on the importance of the church’s role in society and revealed he believes God wants him to speak out against the “woke mob” attempting to re-write the truth. “The church brings something to the family unit that causes cohesion, that causes values to be thought of and talked about and prayerfully considered,” McGraw, a clinical psychologist and television personality,said. “If you are married and you do have two parents in [the] family and you are going to church, that's your best shot of those children going into a lifestyle that will be drug-free, alcohol-free, abuse-free, divorce-free, that's your best shot,” he continued. “Family in America is under attack. We need to fight back with the tools we have, and one of the tools that we have is our active relationship with God.” Anyway, that’s kind of a 180 for the ‘least judgemental guy’ in America, as he always used to say on the show. Glad to hear that being Christian saves you from divorce, drug use and abuse… that’s going to be news to some of his former guests on the show. ‘The former “Dr. Phil” host appeared at Fellowship Church to promote his new book, We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity and media network, Merit Street Media.’ “It was important to me, as a father, to model to those children that they see their father in a prayerful relationship with the Heavenly Father, because I won't be here forever,” he said. “I know in my heart that when I'm gone, they won't be alone because they will have a well-practiced relationship with their Heavenly Father. I have the peace of mind knowing they will never be alone. They will never be without a father because when their worldly father is gone, their Heavenly Father will be there, and I will have shown them how to do that. And those are the kinds of things we need to fight back [against], this relativism that's being peddled, all this history is being rewritten, science is being rewritten, biology is being rewritten.” ‘In his conversation with Young, McGraw also tackled issues like government control, income inequality and marriage, calling for a focus on healing "damaged personal truths" that deviate from God's vision.’ I suppose this was always inevitable. But hey, as long as he saves ‘America’s Soul’. Good luck, ‘deviants’, in Phil’s brave new world.

Did anyone really want The David Tennant Doctor and The Doctor Donna to go, though? Really? Basically we are all Rose now. We’ve all got what we wanted. It is truly such a total cop out, but you know… it’s nearly Christmas, and every now and then, very rarely, not often but sometimes… everybody wins. And the new Doctor seems absolutely wonderful as well. Can’t wait to see him running around the universe. Sometimes, if we are all very good, we get to have nice things. I’m happy.

I just saw this and found myself involuntarily whispering ‘what?’. Perry probably should have been the most beloved breakout star of Friends, the Bill Murray replacement of his generation. But he wasn’t and this is so very sad.

Maybe something (anything) will actually happen in season 4? *sigh*

I always thought having a mirror over the bed was a bad idea. But not for that reason.

To me McCallum with always be the best Man From UNCLE, (I’m not that old, they repeated it as a classic show when I was a kid). That show and the three main characters were so cute. It was just magic, especially for kids. Anyway, I’m so sad to see Ducky go, as well. McCallum always had serious charisma (it wasn’t really ever looks that made him special, it was always a certain attitude) and he really did carry every role he did off with such panache.

So nothing is ever really renewed anymore, I guess. Now that shows which have even been filmed are being cancelled and vaulted, I guess nothing counts as renewed until you’ve already watched the whole damn thing. Anyway, this is a waste. It was a good show and deserved better.

I found out recently that a bunch (3) of my great grandmas had their last kid at 47/48, so I could see that happening, especially as LTW’s previous kid is a lot younger than Rock. It’s unusual and I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t exactly work out, though. A story about making decisions as an older mother (I mean, there are a bunch of tests you would do, it might not have the answers you hoped for) would be fair, if a bit depressing, in a show like this. Although if she’s supposed to be over 50, that would be crazy. So, not everyone who is Jewish keeps kosher, and some people cheat on kosher at parties because they can argue that it’s not really their fault. I feel like that stupid storyline could have been way funnier and less stereotypical. Anthony and Giuseppe are also so stereotypical. I suppose someone (apart from Lily) had to be dating someone inappropriate in age. They are trying to balance it by making Giuseppe more knowledgeable about Anthony’s supposed Italian culture, but… non, grazie. And yes, Brady should be older than Lily and they should be 20-something. Making them younger was always crazy and this just lampshades it. If they were both 20+, this could have been cute. Miranda is still a gigantic snob and should be pleased her kid is at least working hard at something. She’s terrified that their kid will be just like Steve *gasp*. I could see her being pleased that he might marry Lily and inherit half of Charlotte and Harry’s money, though. Carrie is just way too rich. She can just buy a giant house with its own park in case she has step kids before selling her other place? She’s a billionaire. And even the great Isabel Allende apparently asked her living step kids if she could write about them before writing her memoirs (the answer was mostly ‘no’, if I remember correctly) and every now and then she really shares just about everything of her life, except about them, so I feel like Carrie probably should have known how that was done before anyone had to intervene. The cool answer would’ve been ‘no, of course not, not until they are adults and only ever with their express permission’. Job done. They made Carrie look stupid and unprofessional here. But I like Aiden’s ex way more than I like Carrie now and felt bad for her that Carrie might be mindlessly aiming for her kids to move away to Manhattan, to live in luxury, without even asking her. They are her kids as much as Aiden’s and having a great whole family relationship should be Carrie’s goal. Not just buying everyone’s love.