MartyQui

If the Edinburgh husband had said one more time that they didn’t have jobs, I was going to lose my mind...yes, I GET IT, you don’t have jobs.

I thought Tom was jerk-ish to Aeisha earlier on, when he gave her the plate with baguette toasts on it, and they were slipping and sliding off the plate while the poor woman was trying to bring them upstairs. Why didn't he put them in a basket with a napkin, which is the way they're served in Spain (and France) anyway? He loves to blame his poor serving/cooking/napping skills on others, doesn't he?

I’m not actually rooting for her...they should never have fired Tom. She didn’t have any witty comments and her delivery of her scripted lines (you could practically see her reading off the teleprompter) was awful.

He posted a video of himself doing a piece of the cha-cha while vacuuming his temporary home. He was moving pretty well. His Instagram is great, for anyone who doesn't follow him.

There was an interview with Stephen in our local paper (the Patriot Ledger), and he came off like a real jerk. He's the chef at the Marshfield Country Club, so I don't know what he has to be so arrogant about.

Tiffani is a very successful chef here in Boston, and does a lot for her community. I know one of her sous chefs and he’s had nothing but good things to say about working for her.

Having spent a lot of family vacations in cabins that look like the “before” (but generally cleaner!), the updated cabins look wonderful to me.

I think he’s cooking the meat sous vide, which is long and slow cooking in a plastic bag placed in a pot with simmering water. It keeps the meat juicy, and can be really delicious. I think most chefs pan sear the meat once it’s cooked, so that it doesn’t have that pasty look. But once you know that the guests don’t appreciate it, don’t do it again!

Regarding the yellow kitchen house...how in the world did he do all that work for $50,000? My mother had her bathroom redone (by Bathfitters, so a one day deal, plus a new vanity and toilet (that my BILs installed)),and it was $6000. It just makes no sense.

Another instance of poor planning...but why not just have solar powered lights? They have improved a lot, and if one goes out, you just replace it with another. I was at a fancy resort in Arizona and that's what they had (you could see the solar panel on the fixture). As far as "Caribbean" feel, I think Sarah's counting on the views of the ocean to be the star of the show, which actually makes sense to me. The water in the Bahamas is gorgeously blue green.

I’m watching it now, and it seems like they need an actual project manager. So many late decisions, design changes at the last minute, wrong measurements...what they’re producing looks gorgeous, but it’s so stressful watching it happen.

I liked that he didn’t go overboard with the blue...just touches on the pendant lights, and the pictures in the bedroom. And the courtyard had the teal half wall. I thought it looked light, bright and happy, which was just what she needed. The backsplash tiles were gorgeous, and different from every other backsplash (which are starting to all look alike). She deserved a beautiful home after what must have been 8 years of agony.

I agree with the above...these weren't guests who are going to the all you can eat buffet in Vegas...they were probably expecting Michael Mina or Nobu level food. I had one of the best meals of my life at a restaurant in Vegas...very, very fancy.

Um, I think that is supposed to be what the Chief Stew does...

Re the turret house...I had an apartment that had the two doing room set up. It was an old Victorian, and we had a breakfast room as well as the formal dining room. So I didn’t think the set up was odd at all. I like the way the house looked post renovation, the kitchen was gorgeous.

Ok, I'm all in on suspension of disbelief, but if they gave 15 year old Beth a tubal ligation, she could still have children through IVF. Women who've had ectopic pregnancies and lost a fallopian tube do it all the time. Especially possible since money wouldn't be an issue. Again, these plot devices make NO sense.

My sister broke her back (her horse threw her) and she certainly wasn’t having sex in her hospital bed. They put you in a clamshell brace and you move pretty gingerly for six weeks. The whole Jimmy/Mia storyline is another bit of crazy in this show...it’s a great show, but it makes absolutely no sense.

I thought the kitchen in the historic house was so small! And those stupid cat stairs with the brackets exposed are the first thing you see when you come in the house...didn’t like those either. Not my favorite.

And not only them...people like my dad’s cousin, born in 1939, and accepted by his family, but desperately unhappy because he could never publicly say who he was. I liked the beginning of this series...but then it became a reimagined world in Ryan Murphy land, and the struggles of people to publically be who they are, or to be equal with everyone else, were fixed by one movie. Ugh.

It may have been Savoy cabbage, I’ve seen that in the markets in Italy. Which, as a cook, are SO inspiring.

I qualified for Mensa based on my SAT scores, but once I found out it was a room full of Spiros types I was horrified. There should be something more interesting about you than your ability to do well on standardized tests. I generally love Mafee, I think he's a very interesting character.

Some of the choices she makes are just weird...there was one episode where she changed the location of a powder room door so that it opened right next to the living room sofa...not much privacy there!

Re: the filet mignon.... it’s expensive, but because it doesn’t have much fat, it can be dry. Real gourmands would Have requested a ribeye or a New York strip. And to really go over the top...the Wagyu version of either.

Karen’s a James Beard award winner, and her new restaurant in South Boston, Fox & the Knife, is very sophisticated food. Just because she’s not great in a competition setting doesn’t mean she’s not a fantastic chef.

They cut so many scenes I would have liked to see!