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I feel like I'm liking this show less and less as each episode airs, which is unfortunate. It's starting to feel cliche and I hate love triangles. One thing I noticed that I don't think has been brought up is how much more comfortable Zoey seemed singing to Max versus singing to Simon. I didn't see nearly as much trying to hold back in that number versus with Simon she was clearly mortified to be singing.

On a shallow note, the daughter from The Ranch was gorgeous. What a sad, sad story. Amazing that Eduardo survived.

I was browsing Rotten Tomato's reviews of this movie, and found one that really spoke to me regarding Emma's character: I do think that yes, Emma is classist and snobbish but I also believe she genuinely thinks she is helping the people around her. Which didn't come across so well in this version.

I totally called the break-up when I saw the series preview, but I was hoping I'd be wrong. Still, it was wonderful to see how mature Alexis was about it. She's grown to be probably my favorite character.

I saw this tonight. It was enjoyable but far from my favorite Austen adaptation and not even my favorite version of Emma. I liked both the Gwyneth Paltrow movie and Romola Garai miniseries better. I thought the costumes were beautiful. Miranda Hart was criminally underused. The actress playing Jane Fairfax was perfect. I liked Anya Taylor-Joy more than I thought I would based on the previews. I loved the preoccupation with people getting dressed/undressed. It really gave the physical sense of how confined the rules of society could be.

I still plan to see this, although I appreciate the conversation it's sparking. I think this review might be on the nose: There's one thing that twitter thread doesn't bring up which was in the screenplay (again, have only read it, haven't seen the movie, so I have no idea if this was kept although my gut says they wouldn't have cut it). Major spoilers plus trigger warning for sexual assault in addition to all those in the original twitter thread.

I had read that theory before, and I certainly like it better than the depiction of a bipolar person as dangerously homicidal.

I was able to find the original script online so I'm horribly spoiled but yeah, I'm still looking forward to this one a lot.

I watched this over the long weekend and it was interesting, although I had read spoilers in advance so I'd know when to cover my eyes. The close-ups of the aftermath of the cliff jumping scenes were a bit much for me. The one thing I was really disturbed by was the scene where Josh (William Jackson Harper) was murdered and then possibly raped(?). I couldn't really tell if that was what we were supposed to be getting from that scene and I did not want to rewind to examine it more. I was also really disappointed with how they labeled the sister as bipolar as if that explained her behavior. It pisses me off when I see stuff like this where it's really not at all necessary to the plot and just further stigmatizes mental illness. They could have just said "You know she's threatened this before, you know how she is," rather than naming a specific mental illness.

I think David is hot. They’re both good looking.

I loved Alexis trying to play off her flight mix-up by claiming she was going to stay an extra month for the wedding, only to have David see right through it.

This case seemed vaguely familiar, but it honestly wasn't until they played the 911 call of the guy offering to take the POS down that it all clicked and I remembered it. I'm surprised I didn't remember the dog!

I can’t recommend this podcast and that season in particular enough. And even though it was in 2015 I don’t think she excused or romanticized Polanski (and his later rape of a child) or his relationship with Tate at all. On a random note, as much as I enjoyed the alternate history ending I did not buy that Tex or the girls would just change Charlie’s plan like that. But that was a minor quibble in that scene which overall I found very funny. I laughed out loud when Francesca popped out and let the dog in the room. And why the hell was Leo’s character listening to The Royal Guardsmen’s Snoopy and the Red Barron??? I got a kick out of it because my mom always played her old record of Snoopy’s Christmas when I was a kid.

I'm very excited but this promo has me worried that Ted and Alexis are breaking up. I hope I'm wrong!

The trailer just dropped and I'm intrigued. I'm loving the background music.

Yeah, that part was true I guess, although something about the way she was doing it and ran to the elevator and just left her assigned post also didn't work for me. It's a shame as I wanted to like it, since I do like the actress.

I enjoyed it for the costumes they put Anna Kendrick in alone. I thought they were super cute in a kitschy way. So far I'm behind on my holiday watching, but I've managed to see a few. Check Inn to Christmas didn't really grab me, but I appreciated that it skirted so many of the awful tropes, and that the leads seemed to genuinely like each other from the start. I just finished A Storybook Christmas and thought it was super cute, and I'm looking forward to watching Jake Epstein in Mistletoe and Menorahs next. I loved him in Degrassi TNG, so I'm happy to see him in other stuff. I also like Ali Liebert a lot and the niece wasn't obnoxiously precocious. I tried to watch A 9 to 5 Christmas but shut it off when her first day on the job consisted of her just standing there randomly greeting customers and apparently not doing any actual work like stocking shelves or working the registers. Then she got called up to the head of the company. Really? By that point I was both bored and not able to buy the premise.

I felt like I'd seen this one before, but even if I hadn't I'm pretty damn sure it would've been obvious who did it. Note to self: if a family member ever takes off and refuses to communicate except through email, contact the police.

I wish Kristen could have just repeated her monologue from the last time she hosted where she talked about how Trump is/was obsessed with her and Robert Pattinson. Still topical!

There was a period in my early twenties where I only had broadcast TV so I watched almost exclusively Dateline, 20/20, 48 hours, etc. After awhile I had to stop because I started wondering who in my life wanted to murder me.

This was a really good but depressing episode, although the birthday card bit reminded me of the Seinfeld episode with the thank you card.

Interesting how this episode seemed more sympathetic to Anissa than Morgan, because I thought the HBO documentary took the opposite tack. Im glad Payton is doing well.

I can't believe I didn't know You Must Remember This is coming back until today! I have never been this excited about having a podcast come back before.

I didn't get the sense that he was implying that overpopulation wasn't a problem. The policy itself just wasn't a good way to deal with the problem, and created a whole host of secondary problems, such as the gender imbalance, stateless denizens, etc. And I do think the 4-2-1 issue is a problem, especially since from what I understand of Chinese culture (but correct me if I'm wrong!) children are expected to care for their aging parents. That is a lot to put on one person's shoulders. In an ideal world where men and women have equity and there isn't the assumption that every woman will have a child, you would have mixed families where maybe you're an only child but you have a cousin or aunt or uncle who is also around for support. Of course there's a wide range of experiences but it seems like it would be a really hard, lonely experience. I love my parents and my grandparents but the thought of the responsibility of caring for them resting solely on my shoulders with no other familial support...that sounds horrible.

I thought she got upset that he wasn't believing her, and that was what caused the tears. I'd bet the only remorse she felt was that she was caught. I think she should have gotten a longer sentence but at the very least she has lost her children for the foreseeable future. Maybe when she's out and they are grown they will choose to have a relationship with her, but she won't get that chance for a long while.