sara416

Something I may not have noticed if I had not been watching this show all weekend, but Darcy certainly got into a lot of physical fights for someone who professes such Christian values. Actually, she gets into a lot of physical altercations period. There are a LOT of fights at this school. They don't all last very long but it's like every other episode. I had no love for Shenae Grimes in the 90210 reboot and in general did not find her to be a very good actress, but watching the episode where she was roofied and the aftermath of these episodes is really powerful. She did an amazing job with that story line. Here's a random nitpick: Holly J supposedly came from Lakehurst, yet her older sister was Heather Sinclair, who was referenced by never seen in the first 5 seasons of the show. How does that work?

The thing I miss about this show in it's earlier seasons was the casting of average looking people for the roles. Miriam McDonald, for example, was not cute in the first 2-3 seasons. And that's okay! Characters had acne, braces, and imperfect hair. You would be hard pressed to find a show like this on TV anywhere right now in our Kardashian fueled world. Even later seasons of this show cast people who were traditionally good looking and not at all resembling regular junior high and high school students. Not ony was the subject matter ahead of it's time, but the casting was relateable.

Can we have Aneesa just do commentary and talking heads for every Challenge season from here on out? Maybe it's because we are the same age, but she has the most perfect jaded attitude and I love her commentary. She really gets that this is reality TV and there is a much bigger world outside of the Challenge universe. Zack: eat a dick. That's all. Jordan: I think there was a time where I didn't hate you, but you are such an arrogant ass. Please also eat a dick. Thanks.

I think all three at the end played the game well in different ways and I would have been okay with any of them. I think the difference with Natalie coming back from EoE and winning rather than whe Chris did it a few seasons ago is that EoE was actually an active part of the game this season. I wasn't sure how I would feel about them having the fire tokens and being able to influence the game, but it meant that the people on EoE were actually still playing the game, and not just in a social way with building alliance with jury members. I think that is what made Natalie prove that she was able to win. Can you imagine how the Q&A would have gone if the first person voted out would have sat on EoE all season doing nothing and then been asked why she should win? She was absolutely an active part of things strategically. And damn, she made a lot of those physical challenges look easy (rope untangling aside). Sophie looked absolutely awful. Does anyone know what happened to her?

You are absolutely correct. You need to know how your client will react. Sometimes provoking them like that to get a reaction is EXACTLY what they need. Sometimes they need gentle hand holding. We have only seen Randall at this therapist twice, but he may have been there more often than that. Treatment is individualized, and the theory that the therapist is operating under often determines how they interact with their clients. Watch some old school Gestalt videos some day. They are hard core, and the client's end up really liking that. You find the therapist that clicks with you. It seems that this technique worked for Randall, and that's good. Kate would not benefit from a therapist with this approach though. You just have to individualize your approach for clients.

I mean, it depends on the therapist. There are some that can be that confrontational, and sometimes clients need it. We all need to be called on our bullshit sometimes and not everyone hears it when a therapist is gentle about it. As a therapist, I have to say that my favorite line of the night was from the therapist saying "I'm a therapist. I don't give advice." Rule #1 in our field, and I wish more people knew it!

Here's the thing though: it's jail, not prison. Some of these people are there because they have too many tickets and can't afford to pay them. Some are there for things they didn't do. They haven't been convicted of anything yet,. A lot of people in jail are there for being poor. That's not what they are charged with, of course, but poverty is a huge contributing factor to the reason they are there to begin with. Prison is for people who have been sentenced and convicted of something. Of course jail wasn't created to accomodate people's comforts, but punishing people in jail by taking away their basic rights such as food, appropriate clothing, and ability to sleep does nothing but create anger and resentment and then we put these angry and resentful people back outside of jail. It might be a deterrent for the people who can afford to take it as such, but people in poverty, people of color, and other marginalized people cannot take it as a deterrent. They are likely to get arrested for more unpaid tickets, sleeping in a park, or other crimes of poverty.

Am I the only one desperately hoping that the Mariana/Evan thing wasn't real? Sleeping with your boss is the worst idea. I like the things that Mariana working with Spekulate can bring to the story line, and sleeping with Evan will not end well. Callie, I get your passion, but that was so unethical to go through Jamie's paperwork, I can't even pretend to be on your side. I don't know how she will even really become a lawyer with such terrible ethics.

I never noticed how bow legged Dennis was until this episode! Holy moly, I wonder if something happened to him! I like the concept for the next part, I think the people who are the most helpful in this are the people who have been on the other side. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

Mallory is officially my favorite person on this show.

Last night was a really good example of why jails are the biggest metal health providers in the country and how very wrong that is. That girl (can't remember her name, Sierra?) was an addict and had a ton of mental health issues. I am betting that one or more of those issues led to her being placed in that shit hole in the first place. She needs treatment, including medication management and counseling, not to be locked in a solitary room 23 hours a day. It made me sad. I'm currently typing this at a Starbucks while avoiding actual work I should be doing and am overhearing people near me extol the virtues of "being keto". I find people who consistently talk about food and diets incredibly exhausting, even if it is a real condition like Shanese. She would have driven me crazy too.

Yul! I forgot why I loved him so much, but now watching him play again, I remember. This guy really did his homework. He may have been out of the Survivor world since his win, but he studeid this game and what he had to do and sank his teeth right in. I want to see him around for a long, long time. The fire tokens is giving me a Hunger Games vibe. I could do without the people on EoE having a hand in the game from afar, but I see why an all winners season needed EoE. I just wish they didn't have any influence on the current game.

Aww...I kind of like it. Admittedly though, it's because I have a neice that I call bug. For her first Halloween her parents dressed her as a lady bug and called her FirstName Bug all night. For some reason with me it just stuck and now, at 11, I still call her Bug.

She was great! Maybe it was the song, or the bigger stage, but that was a much stronger voice than I feel like we have heard from her in the show.

My brother in law once tried to get a job as a CO. The pay is consistent, and it is a lot for not having to have any education ro special skills. But the thing that got me about it is that you can't have more than something in the neighborhood of 5k in debt. This was in Missouri, so the rules might be different elsewhere. I always wondered what kind of debt they were talking about though. If you have a car payment, you are disqualified? A motgage would certainly disqualify you. If it is unsecured debt like with credit cards, I can see that. But I personally have a mortgage and student loans, so I will be more than 5k in debt forever probably. I also wonder where in AL this is (haven't given it a Goog yet). Some jails are in pretty rural areas and there isn't much of a population so there aren't many people for the jobs. Regardless, she's a monster and needs to be fired immediately.

Super shallow moment here, but I am watching Pearl Islands for the first time. I don't know how I missed this season before, but it is really good. As for the shallow part...Andrew Savage is ridiculously good looking. I would take him over Ozzy any day of the week. Please don't tell me he becomes problematic! I hardly remember him from his time playing the game the second time either. Edit: Looking at dates I figured out that I never watched this season because I got married right in the middle of it and was working two jobs at the time. I had to give up a lot of my TV watching in those days.

I love everything about this post, but the bolded part is so well said. I'm a mental health therapist and this could not be more true. It's such an empathetic way to look at the situation, I love it. Mental health and insurance has gotten a lot better than it used to be thanks to mental health parity acts, but the insurance scam that we live under in this country still makes things out of reach a lot of times. I have a lot of clients fall off my schedule at the beginning of the year when their deductibles re start because they can't afford the payment for their sessions until the deductible runs out, but have such a hard time prioritizing therapy over medical care. And I don't blame them one bit. It sucks to have to say that you are willing to pay for life or death over quality of life care.

My husband and I each have a list of 5 freebies. And two of mine are from reality shows (still very out of reach though). I definitely think that intruder was very real. I think he hurts Randall and he loses conciousness, which is why we have the parts from next week that seem like a dream sequence.

Gripe from an ACTUAL therapist that specializes in children: "Children's Therapist" is a job title at a place of employment. You are NOT a therapist if you are not master's level and licensed. You just aren't. And when you get your degree, it will likely be in social work or counseling. And your license will be and LPC (or some variation) or an LCSW. You aren't a children's therapist. That is not your profession. Stop calling yourself that. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I had the same question.

I havebn't completely finished this series yet (one episode left), but I have to chime in and say how much I HATE that they mashed these two stories together. The books were great, I liked The Likeness better than In The Woods, and I would have loved to see that as a stand alone series. I didn't feel like we got nearly as much time to care about the other housemates with this being so rushed. In the books you really get to know each character and the house itself almost becomes a character. But this was so rushed that I didn't know anything about these people. I was far more invested in Rob's storyline in the show. I have loved almost all of Tana French's books and I love the way that she takes a secondary character from one book and makes them the main character in the next. I think the casting was done well in this series, with the exception of Frank. I might go back and read the first book to read a description of him, but I never imagined him as a skinny younger guy. I pictured him more like O'Kelly.

I've been watching older seasons on Hulu, and I agree with so much of what was said previously. Remove the HIIs that are played at every damn tribal. Having one every once in a while makes it novel and unexpected. I'd love to see them searching for them just to find out that there is only one per season per camp or something like that. Also, the challenges. There used to be so many more that were simple to set up and assemble, but needed a lot of logic and strategy to win. This sets you up for having a bigger variety of winners, not just someone who can swim and do a puzzle. One of the challenges in Australia was literally the "dot game" where you make boxes and put your initials in it and whoever has the most at the end wins. This was actually way more entertaining to watch. And another challenge they had was eliminating each other by breaking plates with each others names on it with macadamia nuts on a slingshot. So simple, but it was great to see them stategizing about who to try to eliminate first and trash talking each other in a good natured way. Granted, this season in general was great because almost everyone really liked each other and were pretty decent human beings, so that might have something to do with it. But these giant obstacle courses in the water with a puzzle at the end are honestly boring because they are all the same.

I have a vague memory of the China season being the season where they all showed up for what they were told was going to be a photo shoot and then whicksed off immediately to the game, so all they had was what was on their person, even if it was inappropriate. I don't know when they started pre-selecting the colors though. I just found all of the old seasons on Hulu so I am going through a rewatch and there are so many things that are better in those first few seasons, clothing being one of them.

Is this woman hosting an actual cartoon character? What the hell? I think I might be too old for this crap. I didn't finidh watching the whole thing, I might later because it's still on my DVR, but I just can't stand these reunions going in the direction of everyone just yelling at each other the whole time about nonesense. I actually thought the exchange between Wes and Johnny was funny, because it seems pretty clear to me that both of them put on a show for the show but are possibly not horrible people in ther real lives. Neither one of them seemed to take themselves too seriously.

I knew I wanted Janet to win, but I didn't realize how much until she was voted out. If I were on the jury I would have voted for Noura, just out of spite and to annoy the boys.