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Tuesday night's LIVE special didn't turn up on Paramount+, which is the only way I get to watch TDS now. Wha' happen'?

I sincerely hope this isn't the last episode. Typically, I cannot stand a lot of current TV. So when something this well written, acted, directed, crewed, etc. is available, I make it appointment viewing (even in the streaming era). I'd watch the Sunday morning drops after getting home from church. Thursdays? As soon as I got home from work. Fantastic chemistry between everyone and what a supporting cast. I mean, come on! Favorite subtle thing in this episode? Lawyer!Demon still having that awful 70s thin porn 'stash when he's a demon. I'm glad too David and Kristen didn't end up together. (shallow) Although she did look rather spiffy in Rome.(/shallow) Back to the silent retreat? Cool. Saw the other Sister? Cool. Leland getting tossed in the Demon!Box! was an opening to bring him back in the future. Remember, Kristen was told if anyone spoke in the retreat, it would set the current demon in the box free. She said "BOO!" to one of the statues in her room while there and it was opened. Kristen's attempt to kill Leland gave me the creeps. It was awfully sexual, I thought. She has her legs wrapped around his waist and is pulling up. It's probably what he wanted, but to be rolled over 180 degrees. That mixture of sex and violence skeeves me. I think if the show comes back (PLEASE!) Ben will have issues at his new job (RUN) and Kristen and David will return to get him out of the trouble. Then, back to Rome, or NYC. Whatever. Bye for now, EVIL. I hope you are picked up. This show has two or three more seasons left, easily. Plus, I think the Kings are great showrunners.

Andrea Martin deserves all the awards for her work on this show. She's just fantastic. I saw those swords on the wall in the judge's chambers and yelled "IRA! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Then she gets dumped into the trash a floor or two down from his chambers? Not suspicious at all. Ben is being set-up for something. Why would any employer make an offer of 50% more to someone who doesn't seem like he wants to work for you? So the billionaire dude, who Sheryl was supposed to replace, is still alive? Or is someone representing him in these offers? Andy took $0.10 on the $1? Another set-up, IMHO. Katja singing in Dutch was so dadgum charming. We've heard Assif and Katja sing. Can Mike be next? Two more episodes left. As much as I dislike Netflix, I hope they pick this up.

My opinion is Ellie is an AoS. They seem to have people everywhere! It would also explain why Andy hasn't looked at the flash drive yet. She's distracted him with MaskSex! I hope he does get to see what's on the drive. Kristen has it now. Reason may prevail and she can see it all leads back to Leland. Maybe this family can be a family. They've had more than their share of problems (no problems=no drama=no show). But, geeze... David and Ben's scene was gold from BOTH of them. Just a fabulous scene with David explaining how he feels after looking at his laptop and Ben reacting that he understands his friend and co-worker a bit more after that. Mike Colter is coming to DragonCon this year. I know it's too much to hope Katja and Assif show up for an EVIL panel. Still, one can dream.

I'll offer these thoughts. The girls are older now. I believe the oldest is a younger teenager. Older kids being left alone with the other children was commonplace when I grew up, especially after school when both parents (or a single parent) worked. Andy was gone a lot. I think the girls are capable of handling themselves for a few hours. (Of course, Kristen did go out at night in an effort to get lucky. I saw that as being prompted by the Jinn following her.) Didn't the people where Andy went tell Kristen she couldn't contact him for four or so weeks? I don't remember the time frame, but it was longer than two weeks. We don't really know how much time has passed on the show since he went away.

Ben the Magnificent (R) comes through to save David...TWICE!. The "Washington Post March" has always been a favorite, and I now love it even more. I laughed too hard when the sewage started piling up in the bathroom. Leland has had so much human waste to deal with this year, why not more? MWHAHAHAHAHA! And drinking room temperature bleach? It must be chilled and with a rim of Draino crystals on the glass. Only the finest for Leland. I'm sorry to see Sheryl gone. The whole scene from the girls with her to Kristen to David was just heartbreaking. Christine Lahti is a pro and will be missed. I also hope she is cremated (if she's head of a sigil house) before anything can happen. Andy (apparently) gets a flash drive, too from Sheryl. I'm sure details of his kidnapping and "procedures" are on that drive. But what else? I'd love it if Andy, Kristen, Ben, and David all gang up and take Leland out for good. Sister Andrea remains a badazz. Outside in the storm talking to Not! The Question and being attacked by the demon while saying she wasn't afraid? The best. Andrea Martin deserves an Emmy for her work. I wasn't bothered by the three of the girls praying with her in the bathroom. Yes, they do have a basement, which is a sealed-up gate to Hell. Not sure I'd want to go down there, either. Katja's acting range is fantastic. From the sorrow over losing Sheryl (and her own dad) to the hilarious smile at the end when asked about the baby. "Only the biological mother can make that decision." Her "uh-huh" and slighly insane grin makes me think she'll say, "No, thanks," or "It's not me." I hope it gets picked up. If not, we have four more episodes. It's been great fun. I have a new TV crush. And the writing, acting, directing, heck...everything has been top notch.

Leland always manages to come back, no matter what is thrown at him. His proclamation of "MY will be done!" was pretty chilling. Might he be Satan on Earth (literally)? NPR has several stories on Chinese companies creating avatars of the dead. One man has his deceased mother and talks to her when he is stressed. This really isn't good for the grief process. It runs you $30 for the basic avatar. I'm so out of the demo on this. It's an ethical minefield. Not like people don't live online already. Here's one of the stories. You'll need to search for it. I can't seem to post a link. Chinese companies offer to 'resurrect' dead loved ones. It raises questions : NPR

Marvel has that de-aging software they use in those endless movies. It seems to work pretty well.

This made me laugh. Kind of. After the house was sold we got a call from the new owners. Some feral dogs had dug their way in and went nuts in the basement. Sister Andrea should've been called in then, too.

I was thinking Sheryl would go for the femoral artery in Leland's leg. He'd bleed out in around a minute. I don't recall which side she stabbed him on. Whatever the stuff they've been mainlining may not make her LOOK younger. Maybe it makes her internally younger and feel better again. Take it away and withdrawal is a beast. Aasif, if I may say so, has a nice singing voice. I think that song "Baby Come Back" by Player must be having a resurgence. The teenage cashiers at my grocery store were singing along the other day and told me they "love it." My theory is the Djinn is causing all the havoc with Crazy!GoatKilling!Woman. Ben's face at the end with Kristen on the stairs. A great moment. My parents had a hole in the basement wall about the size of the one on the show. A furnace had been replaced and the hole not filled in. It remained that way for over a decade. Not sure why.

I have re-watched the series over the last week. There was so much time between the seasons I totally forgot stuff. Also, I'm old. In S3 Grace told Kristen that Lexis was in danger. We also got the news she was being groomed to take over one of the most powerful sigils, and the head of that group was being sought out before he or she died. The body could be disposed of before Lexis cannibalized it. I guess that's another way AC!Baby was happy to have Lexis hold him. I really thought Sheryl was going to have a redemption arc. She was going to bring Leland and DF down and save the family. Now, not so much. This did feel like a filler episode. I love these three main characters so much and would love it to have the show continue. As long as there is an ending and no hanging plot threads I'll be happy.

To me, that's as about a proper DW as you could get at this point. I only wanted to see Sutek's hand of death holding his pillow to keep it from falling off the chair. Will there be a resolution next week, or do we have to wait two more years?

Martin and Shawn were simply perfect in their scene talking about the Monsignor. I love it when people I've watched for years knock it out of the park. Andy was killing me. I said out loud, "Please don't stab her, and don't turn it on yourself..." and then what happened? Kristen foresaw what Leland was going to have to deal with. So, you think you can anti-Christ? Good luck. I want a resolution soon to Ben the Magnificent and the jinn. There's getting to be more plot lines than might be wrapped up.

Really saw everything in this coming like a 5th Avenue bus. I think we've seen all of RTD's tricks. I'd rather they had waited for Ncuti to be free from Sex Education and given us the Doctor prominently in all the stories. The dadgum show is called Doctor Who, not "What Rejected Black Mirror Story Is On This Week."

Good idea, half-butt execution. What is it with stepping on things this season? A butterfly, a landmine, a bunch of twigs and strings? The Doctor gets sucked into the void and exchanged for the Evil!PM? Maybe I'm an idiot, but I didn't get that from what happened on screen. Once again, the companion is "the most special person to ever live in all of time and space." Paging Rose, Donna, Wilf, and the rest of you. Do I love Ncuti? Yes, I do. Millie is great, too. They have fantastic chemistry, but for the love of Rassilon, does RTD only have one set of tricks?