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George is the highlight of most of the shows for me. He always seems like the moral compass when the guys go too far. It was sweet watching the rapt attention of both the little boxers and his travel buddies. Rarely do we see the guys looking serious and behaving themselves in such a genuine way.

I thought Milo was going to be eliminated when they shared the picture of his family at his brother's graduation. It's a sure sign that a contestant is going when we get an up close and personal moment.

Did anyone see the Vogue article? It's no wonder she couldn't play in the Australian Open. https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018

Swoon!

I binged watched the Kids' Baking Championship repeats on New Years' Day and saw a cereal commercial that seemed more inspired by Hannibal Lecter than Captain Crunch. The animated spot featured golden, square-shaped cereals dancing around, seemingly in a party mood. One of the cereal notices its companion and eats it. When a second square be-bops in, the cannibalistic cereal finishes it off, too. Very unsettling.

There's a listing for a restaurant wars episode next week. Is that a new episode?

I'm hoping they're saving the finale episode until after the new year. If they're doing that, it does seem a little reckless to schedule a hiatus for a show that must not be pulling in big rating numbers. I had a hard enough time remembering to look for it on Fridays on an obscure kids' channel. I suppose there's a possibility that Bravo pulled it and plans to show the series on the 'parent' network first.

Sad news today. USA isn't giving Playing House a season 4. I will miss Lennon and Jessica and hope something wonderful is ahead for the both of them.

I liked the narrator's aside regarding love interests brought in late in game. Adam is cute and charming, but I'm not enjoying the Jane+Adam coupling. It seems like Jane's regressing to her teenaged self. Sure she deserves some fun, but last year there were a few layers to her character that I'm not seeing now. Maybe the writers decided to give up on nuance and go with the fun.

As a stalwart Michael fan, I was annoyed show had Adam actually compose Jane's love theme. Boo, Show, Boo!

Anyone else notice a difference in the quality of the video taping? It looks less filtered than the regular Face Off productions. The lighting also seems harsher. I think some of the differences in Mackenzie's appearance may be due to the differences. The lighting, of course, doesn't explain why a stylist chose such an unflattering hair style for Mackenzie.

Wouldn't Gina Rodriguez's schedule make it impossible for her to join? She's starting season 4 of Jane the Virgin soon.

I wonder if the LA shot is framing the back story for Mr. and Mrs. Murray and an opportunity to dump some tesseract exposition. The shot of the kids in the woods doesn't scream LA to me.

This commercial has definitely made my Tour de France viewing less enjoyable this year.

Lennon Parham, Maggie on the show, actually chose Jessica's implants. The scene in the show was based on their real-life experiences.

I read on Twitter that Lennon Parham was sick during taping of the last episode.

The sky-cam angle is probably the one that hurt Sagan the most. It made it look like the elbow was on purpose. The street angle wasn't as clear and made it seem more like Cavendish tried to squeeze into a spot that was too narrow. Regardless, I thought I was seeing someone get their neck broken when the bike went over the fallen rider. Horrible.

That was a brutal crash. Sagan kicked out of the Tour. Cavendish probably out with multiple injuries.

If they had to have teams, I wish they'd brought back some of the beloved winners from past seasons to be in charge of each team. I know they did something similar to that when Laura came back a few years ago. Maybe the winners have gotten too successful to return.

Does the tent have some feature that helps balance humidity and temperature? Couldn't a rainy day affect the proving times of some bakes?

Clarification: dogs and elderly people don't have to appear in the same commercial to make me weepy.

Dogs and elderly people. Check I think Glade enjoys going for the emotional jugular, especially at holiday times.

Beavers looked unstoppable against LSU last night.

I was surprised at how much easier it seemed this year.

I think I read that the actress who plays Lina is going to be on a new show on CBS. I've seen her on one of the Sunday morning talk shows where she's spoken about her book. This is my first episode back since I read spoilers that Michael was going to be killed. I wasn't going to watch any more, but I couldn't stay away.