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Maybe we can start a Gofundme for these poor Bachelorettes who need a wedding. Rachel and JoJo—come on, we saw where your families live; they no doubt have always planned to pop for any wedding their daughters want. Not to mention does Rachel’s father the federal judge want to even be part of a televised wedding, since he stayed away from her season? But I do want to see JoJo’s mom enjoying her own bottle of champagne during the toast, no glass necessary!

That’s called hat hair in MMLland. “My comment was more of an implication that her hairstyle looked like she still had a helmet on....a huge encompassing thing stuck all around her head.” MMLizens call that helmet hair too. Or “why is this small scruffy creature sleeping on my head” hair. Not watching this season but enjoying the commentary and glad to see the extended fams are still putting themselves out there so their sons can be embarrassed by them once the show is over!

Dear Show: Could we please just have way more Trudy instead of giving all that screentime to Anne Heche?

And this is why I detest all the “this time it’s personal” storylines. Voight is the same beat-the-crap out of them/ends justify the means person all the time; the other characters all have to have a relative-in-jeopardy (or lazy writer, as I call it) storyline about their sister (both Ruzek and Burgess), their daughter (Olinsky), their son (Antonio), their mentee and their mom (Lindsay), their little siblings (Atwater), their father (Platt) and boom their dark side comes out, but at least it’s understandable vs Voight’s behavior. This many personal vendettas are laughable, but the other characters and how they behave in these plot lines cannot be seen as Voight’s equal in despicability imo.

I wish someone would “reality Steve” (why yes I am using this as a verb) Reality Steve....

Did he say if this bombshell concerns Ari, the last Bachelor?

“Let’s do the damn thing” So fakety fake sounding—an impulsive comment on her part, probably, and now we are all assaulted by the very self-conscious repetition of it in every single marketing possibility. It’s also the kind of phrase one might say when faced with an unpleasant thing, like a root canal, or retaking the SATs. Whatever—Mr MML has come to dislike her so much just based on the commercials that we will skip this season anyway, as we did with Nick.

I predict redemption arc and absolution for all the sins Voight (and Beghe) have committed. Voight 2.0 on the way....

Mr MML and I were screaming laughing when Dr Charles went to Reese’s sociopath dad’s apartment and tried to get in by telling the super/landlord/whoever that sociopath dad was going into cardiac rehab and needed Dr Charles to get his.... toothbrush and toothpaste??? Because you can’t just buy those items at Walgreens or CVS or a gas station or grocery store or have them provided by the rehab place? I am loving Reese’s dad, though—serial killer or not, his scenes are the most fun and he is sooo good at playing this. I also think this finale was soooo much better than April’s brother’s graduation party on a boat (I think it was him) that was just so prommish with coupling that I thought I had the Disney channel on and was watching High School Hospital.

Did someone say bromance?

The best scenes on this show have always been when Matt and Kelly shared the scene, whether at a fire or in the House or off duty. I so hope we get back to that. Because swoon.

Will can hang out with Casey from Chicago Fire next season.

Yes, and I can tell the difference between a character and an actor. I've not seen one post criticizing Monica Raymund the actor. In fact, I will happily watch her in her next venture after she crawls out of the Mary Sue suit the writers forced her to wear.

But only Hermann (not Mouch, no one else) has the Sout-side (sic) tortured pronunciation--and as someone who was just on the Sout-side last weekend, I can tell you it's not that pronounced any more. Although I do have a house painter right now who could be Eigenberg's voice coach. I could tell a couple of the older guys roaming around the commish's office with Boden are extras/consultants on the show. Thanks for mentioning killing Gabby off (I would insert a screaming laughing emoji here)--I didn't want to go there myself. but maybe a damaged from the hurricane hotel could fall on her or something.

I’ll never have to say “Go away, Gabby” again!

I don't mind the comic relief Herman provides too much but his over-the-top Southside Chicago accent really grates sometimes. It takes me right out of the show as I wonder, gee, no one else on this show talks like this, and I bet he doesn't in real life either! Not to mention the guinea pig incident that he should have put the kibosh on. He and Mouch really stretch my belief that they could be firefighters.

Personally I would be thrilled to not have Gabby around any more. Nothing to do with the actress playing her, all to do with the writers who created the character—if they couldn’t make her storylines work better, it’s all on them, not the actress. I think all the Gabby storylines diminished the rest of the characters on Fire. Casey, so much fun to watch, especially with Severide, and so likeable, was turned into a downtrodden henpecked shadow of his former self by this season, but for what purpose? If this report is true, good luck and godspeed to Monica Raymund.

Sure but someone above mentioned that Otis had caught the faking with “a few google searches” to find the real data (a few google searches wouldn’t give one access). I forgot who (outgoing commish?) gave Boden hard copies of the fake reports turned in to HQ (and only to HQ?) that Otis compared the system stats to? Few people would have the fake reports, but yeah, you are of course right, someone else with access could have found the real data. Otis should probably be in IT and not on a truck. Gris will either get rid of him or maybe “Chicago IT” is in the pipeline.

Otis found the real data for Grissom’s house because he had access to the system while on desk duty recuperating from his injuries and was looking for them—not something most people would otherwise be able to do. But all that on-foot chasing to Boden’s home and then to the Field Museum I mean “City Hall” to what, confront the mayor? Couldn’t Otis have called Boden and Boden have called the mayor? But great, now will Boden spend the whole next season being unfairly persecuted yet again??? Please Show do not have Gabby already be pregnant and then need Casey to rush to Puerto Rico when she needs aneurysm surgery. Brett made me cry with the woman with knife in her chest scene. I like her character as much as I hate the Gabby character. Cruz and Brett really don’t have much chemistry, however.

I think Trudy as played by the great imo Amy Morton could be amazing as a higher up, especially dealing with colleagues she knows. Even backing out all the “this one was personal” bad cop stories (which can’t possibly be very common irl), Vought still has a long list of suspect/witnesses he’s brutally beaten the crap out of (not “justifiably” to avenge a loved one), and not to mention his double secret cash stash of mysterious origins in his basement that used to figure in every other episode, and I would love to see good writers create the good guys who could have at him vs the Woods-type of characters. I am doubtful that will ever happen.

Best of luck to Elias Koteas--I will be looking for you in future roles. Was Voight really going to confess if Al hadn't been killed or was the set-up with the fake/bribed witness going to happen anyway? Voight going all Nicholson in A Few Good Men on someone as dirty as Woods was hilarious. Sure, Hank. I wish just ONE TIME the higher ups who are out to get Voight, or Boden on Fire, would NOT be the evil conniving dirty characters we have to keep seeing. I know there are honorable people in real life in these positions who should be investigating people like Voight. Promote Platt and have her go after him, especially since she was close to Al too and Voight certainly at least indirectly was involved in his death. I would also like to see Antonio and Jay kept as good cops but then I don't know what the writers feel they "have to" do with them. If a writer ever says "I have to....", it's bogus. They're writers. They are making it all up anyway--if they can't write around something and make it plausible to us, then they're not very good. I remember reading that some Madmen writers didn't like writing Betty, worded in such a way that the response was, "Really? Because you invented her." Same here--they did not have to kill Al, they do not "have to" keep writing the same thing over and over.

Madison, Wisconsin, is 150 miles from downtown Chicago. Dr. Charles just impulsively left work to drive a good 2 plus hours in traffic each way to break into a storage locker. Come on, Show.

Maybe when Reese’s father gets his strength back he can pick one of the women at Chicago Med to fixate on as his next victim—well, hello, simpering Dr Manning! Come into my storage unit! Now that would make me happy! Does the hospital get to charge the patients’ insurance for both Manning and Halsted? I can’t believe they are joined at the hip now even to treat patients. Reese’s character has turned so naively sad and pathetic. Get her out of psych please. A little tired of the dramatic create an airway like Dr Choi started the show with. And the point of his sister’s character is beyond me—so will Show let her existence now just fade away or will she get arrested for stealing drugs? I bet A.

Even Taylor Kinney (playing Severide) couldn’t keep his face from lighting up when Shahi (Rene) walked into the firehouse. I like Stella a lot (and Mayo is a lot prettier than Fire lets her show) but her character doesn’t even come close to Rene, and Rene and Severide’s chemistry is off the charts. Plus I predict the boy really is Severide’s son—show amnesia will override any earlier evidence proving he isn’t.

Natalie better be firing that nanny’s ass for not calling her asap to tell her they were all right since they were running away from, I don't know, at a fricking mass shooting!!! And Will could leave to find her kid but she couldn’t??? Gah. Chicago Med damsels getting rescued by big strong men. I knew who shooter was as soon as he said he had lost his wife after she called him a hoarder. Yeah, lost her by shooting her. All the items from the shooting site should have been treated as potential evidence from a crime scene and locked up imo, not pawed through by random hospital visitors.