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I still can't help rolling my eyes each time any of them says how they worked so hard to reach the finals and all their hard work paid off. More than half the people made the finals and most of the people who went into eliminations volunteered themselves. I liked the final until the Carolina reaper part. Putting people in pain just for pain's sake isn't entertaining to me and the next part doesn't look any better with another food challenge I think.

It's probably for the petty reason that Reese was involved with a recent HBO show and Christina's current show is on Netflix.

I had to check if she was ever on the show because she's even more random than the others in the list. Maybe someone confused her and Elle Macpherson when thinking of 90s supermodels and invited the wrong one?

From the EW article: "In addition to the series main cast members Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schimmer, Friends: The Reunion will feature guest appearances by BTS, Lady Gaga, David Beckham, Justin Bieber, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Elliott Gould, Kit Harington, Larry Hankin, Mindy Kaling, Thomas Lennon, Christina Pickles, Tom Selleck, James Michael Tyler, Maggie Wheeler, Reese Witherspoon, and Malala Yousafzai." Some of the people I understand being in this list since they actually appeared on the show, but most of these people had nothing to do with it. I don't need to hear James Corden's opinion of the show or whatever he's doing here.

I'm not sure how I missed this show. It popped up in a recommended after I watched something else and I went through all 10 episodes in a few days. I thought the first few episodes were really great and all the people in it were really fun. Before I finished it I found out it was cancelled and I didn't understand why, then I saw the last couple episodes. It feels like they forgot the premise of the show that worked so well in the beginning. It could have been a fun bounty of the week show with the girls dealing with school stuff on the side, but for some reason they went with weird family drama and secrets and it felt like a bad Veronica Mars imitation for the last 2-3 episodes. There were still a few fun bits in every episode but I'm fine with it ending since it seemed like it lost what it was trying to do and there would be no way to write a solution that wouldn't be ridiculous. I am glad I watched it though just for how good the first few episodes are.

TJ has always hated anybody that quits without trying. I think he's gotten more vocal about it as the seasons have gone on because he knows there are other people that could have been there that would have competed. And unlike some hosts on other shows he's willing to do any of the stuff they have them do (there was an extra video a few years ago of him jumping off a cliff that another person refused to do).

I laughed way too hard when they started playing "Hold On". What was with Arissa saying the only thing she'd do was box? Have they ever had boxing on any challenge?

I really wish I hadn't finished this series. This was one of the most awful and pointless shows I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Only excuse I can give for finishing it is that I hoped there would be some twist that would explain why none of the people in the show acted like real humans, that they were robots or something, but no. Instead I watched a show about a woman who finally escapes the man who essentially kidnapped her and then abused her for 10 years and then goes back to him. I have no idea what this show was trying to be. It's not funny, it's not a drama, it doesn't have action. Maybe it's horror, but it's not played like one, and I'm only giving that idea any weight because that's the only explanation for this finale. There might have been something here if Hazel and Byron actually had a real relationship that deteriorated and we saw the fallout of that, but they never even knew each other before he trapped her so there's no emotional stakes about what she should do.

Tom Selleck has some really bad line readings though whenever he's trying to be funny. Two bad ones are when they're playing foosball and he's trying to trashtalk and then when Chandler is trying to be normal and Richard says "Ewww yeah I don't like you like this". There are a couple others too, but he really wasn't a comedic actor.

I ran out of other stuff to watch so did finish this. It felt like 2 different shows: 1) the still fun and entertaining Drew, Elliot, and Portia show; and 2) the unwatchable Dory and Chip show that was just absolute garbage. And the finale was another nice FU to the viewers, which of course came from Dory. I did like the Susan Sarandon character, she fit with the good trio in being over the top in a funny, yet horrible way. The roundabout chase was great. No idea why they added the incest thing.

Greenwich Village in the 90s was extremely white, like over 95% white. Manhattan wasn't some grand mix of people all living together wonderfully, it was heavily segregated like most northern cities. If it makes people feel better to have whatever types of people in their shows that's fine, but I don't like the argument that Friends wasn't representing reality. That's ignoring that neighborhoods in big cities were, and often still are, dominated by one group. Like Chicago is essentially equally divided between white, black and hispanic, yet almost every single neighborhood is mostly made up of only one of those.

I watched both episodes and I don't think this show is for me, yet. I feel like I can skip to episode 7 or 8 when the real plot starts and skip 4 hours of bad sitcom parodies with 5 minutes of weirdness. We already had a Marvel show that was based in a character's head with little hints and clues with Legion and I'm not really interested in another one.

I don't know what they're trying to do with season 4. Watching someone be tortured is not entertaining. I'm done with it unless I see enough people say it somehow gets interesting for the rest of it.

Jack does a magic trick.

I was watching the episode with Parker yesterday (season 8, episode 18) and saw something I'd never seen before. Starting around the 5 minute mark something really strange happens that I'd never noticed before. Can someone else look and see if I'm losing my mind? This is on the HBO Max version, I can't find my dvd to see if it's there, too.

"That'll do, pig" and Mateo's reaction made me laugh way too hard. I've read way too many stories about people living together and one not willing to marry making the other question if they should stay together that Amy and Jonah was realistic to me (and I have some personal experience with an almost similar situation). But their relationship always felt like it was done because it seemed like the writers felt like they needed one rather than that these characters should really be together. So I don't mind them ending it.

This is one I've never understood. Yeah it's not a cool thing to wear but it shouldn't send someone running in fear. I always wondered if it was meant to signify something that I just never got because her reaction is so over the top.

All the work stuff was so blah and predictable. Every slight failure turned into a rousing success showing just how awesome Emily was at her job. She had no personality outside of her job either. Having every guy she meets want her isn't a personality. Do we know anything at all about her except what she does for work? I enjoyed the stuff outside of work a lot more, her friends were fun, and at least with the guys there were things that didn't go perfectly for her.

Oops, sorry, thanks for the correction. I was thinking about the dance style being around for a while, not specifically Michael Flatley, but they referenced him directly.

I don't know if it's something Chandler would tell Joey. Joey is kind of the bro-friend and would make fun of Chandler for it. Chandler also knew Ross and Monica (he lived across from Monica for a while before Joey moved in) longer and that seems like something college roommates would talk about and Ross apparently tells everything to Monica. And I'm not sure if Rachel knew, Monica is the one that answered the question. Minor peeve: After Joey kicks Chandler out of the cab on the bridge on the way to Vegas, the transition after shows a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge and not the George Washington Bridge (the picture used wasn't one of the usual transitions so I think they purposely chose it).

It even sort of started on HBO when it used to air episodes of Funny or Die videos.

I think I need my ears checked, it never sounded to me like Paolo was speaking with a British accent. (I'm kidding.) I used to go to a bar that had an Italian guy working as a bouncer that was kind of Paolo-esque. Half the women that worked there thought he was hideous, half thought he was the hottest thing ever. I started asking because one I was friends with thought he was super hot and I didn't get it. So that look seems like you're either all in or all out.

Was watching the 100th episode and I dread it because of the Happy Days doctor. It's so stupid. But then as I watch it, I can't help but laugh because it's so stupid. I was actually annoyed with myself for laughing. It also goes nowhere, like there's no payoff to it, it just is a thing.

Is there some reason people think Friends is an acronym? It's written as F.R.I.E.N.D.S. in a lot of fan places.

Jesus flying up out of the eyeball balloons (not something I thought I'd ever say, or see) made me laugh way too hard. Was it meta-commentary that Larry is so boring he doesn't have an imaginary friend so sits out of the rest of the episode? I'm sure that'll come back to be important though. The Jane/Miranda stuff was uncomfortable, but good. I didn't really get why they kept cutting back and forth quickly between her story and the Dorothy stuff when Jane was swimming. I know it wasn't by choice, but holy cliffhangers, batman.