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Good manners are just that. In no way shape or form as a culture are good manners more "British" than they are American. To say Juliet and Noelle were rude at the dinner is fine and holds truth if not the absolute the show is trying to present. To try and sell the notion that both were disrespecting the British culture is hogwash. Just because the Brits still have a class system that includes an outdated and often poorer than average aristocracy does not make them more mannered. Most British people are loud and crude just like most Americans are. For me if they just stuck to pointing out that both women aspire to run in a certain segment of British society, with rules and expectations that again are the same at dinners in the US and in France and in Hong Kong and pretty much where wealth prompts aspirational desperation for people to try and elevate themselves at best and remove themselves from the "common man' at usual. You will note that there is not a single mention of the rules of etiquette in regards to hospitality. Which is actually the main point of etiquette. Not to shame and dominate your guests to make them feel welcome and wanted. No matter how and what they think is the proper form of social interaction. Yet that would ruin the notion that somehow Juliet and Noelle being crude reality stars hurt widdle biddle Britian's soft feelings. I've definitely seen enough of every day Brits to know that very very few of them care or even know an ounce of what this show was trying to sell as the British cultural norm. And I've seen enough of the Oxbridge Honorable set to know most of them don't have a clue or care as well. And a few of those that do see it more as a divide than a common ground. Not to mention those that think manners is what makes other people afford them the respect they think they are due thanks to their birth and lets them do whatever they want. Just as I've seen little sign of Brits being better mannered as a whole than Americans (and i think looking at the situation as tourists looks it skewed and unrealistically) some of the rudest people I've seen in action are some of the same lofty titled tofts who think since they do know all the rules that gives them leave to break them.

The reason why part of me was cheering Juliet on in regards to Rosemary is that not once has Juliet disrespected British culture. It is not British culture to be snotty or elitist. Such is the purview of the same people that got their heads chopped off in France and carried through the same people that nodded in agreement with Mittens Romney's now infamous 47 percent commentary. Neither Juliet or Noelle were pissing on the union Jack. They were acting up for cameras at a fake over stuffy contrived dinner with the Pooh-Bahs. Millions of Brits could not care less about such stuff. The idea that somehow Juliet and Noelle exemplify some kind of American crassness in the face of grand aristocratic manners is nothing but a tired worn out trope that hasn't been true since Victoria. After all rich American heiresses went to British courts to find a relaxed social atmosphere. And Hooliganism is alive and well in the UK. Where it was invented. To somehow think this 1 percent rarefied world represent Britain in some cultural divide is no more than the grossly obviously stupidity rendered every time Caroline or Annabelle tried to trot out the "American women are like this versus British women are like this" crap. Show driven and I guess they felt was needed but how dim do they think the average viewer is to try and break down such over generalizations in the world of the internet and the public, if they want. knowing every little thing about people celebrated and notorious.

I've been fighting pancreatic cancer for five years now and chemo varies. Some days I walk a couple of miles, go to the gym even play a few matches on the weekend and three days later it smacks me like a fly swatter hitting a gnat. The thing is stage 4 cancer is incredibly iffy. There is no way around that. Even if she does get well, at the time, it is a looming potential death sentence. The fact she was never on camera even though they went through the guy's home spoke volumes to me. I cannot reconcile someone fighting for her life and having her son and caregiver do something so incredibly time and emotion consuming smack dab in the middle of all this. And I love the idea that no matter how compassionate and caring and generous a person is, she is thrilled to pieces let alone capable of taking on the role of daughter-in-law to a potentially terminal woman. It is incredibly short sighted on all the parts of those in the know going in doing this. Again I give Jason a slight pass because you don't think about things in the normal or proper context when you are in the midst of these things. I do think Jason and Courtney make a good match. For a one night stand. But looking at them I also think they are too much alike. Both like to be the center of attention. Yes being performers is a tie. But that is the type of tie that chafes real fast in more cases than not I think. Most people who want to be "stars" want a supporting cast in their lives. Not someone else vying for top billing.

i suspect Amber gets too distracted by the internal soundtrack to the whole Lifetime Movie: Amber Had Cancer she has continually running in her head. All the times and ways I've been affected by cancer and silly me, I had no idea she apparently invented the whole thing. From personal experience I do know that cancer victims can get incredibly possessive of our experiences. But she really takes it to a new level. Since I have no intention of drinking myself to death I need to come up with a game that involves something positive, like say, clean something, every time Amber mentions the word cancer. I did laugh when she immediately jumped in to make Dina's charity's cancer victims struggle all about her. Er. I mean give them motivation. The idea that on top of having a cancer I'd have to listen to her tell me "how" to essentially have it? Damn that's rough shakes.

Without having watched this I still find it troubling, or perhaps just telling, to hear that Jason's 'wedding' was scheduled when it was. I think it makes Jason's attitude towards this whole thing a bit clearer. If he can't be bothered to make sure his stage 4 cancer mother is not in attendance, no matter how contrived the whole matter is, at perhaps the only wedding she will ever attend? I'm guessing he figured if he last the thirty days it would be a miracle. And I think he probably did this just for the pay those thirty days probably afforded him. At least I hope that is his reason. Because I can't see a schmaltzy reality show about relationships on BIO's re-boot as a warmer and fuzzier FYI doing much for a wrestling career.

I feel second hand shame every time I see that newer ad with Dorff. I keep thinking that the next scene is going to be him going home...to his car. Take away the voice over and it could be an ad for a treatment center "Have you hit rock bottom? If so call...." I have to wonder why her endorsement wasn't more of a factor since just as she was hired the FDA and other agencies were starting to really dig at the whole electric cigarette thing. It makes me think there were an awful lot of "no thanks" in their search to find someone with the barest national audience recognition factor. That or both Walters and Geddie knew their days of absolute power were drawing nigh and figured her casting was one last way of sticking it to the show and ABC.

If Jonathan paid money to look like he did he should get a refund. It was okay but cut all wrong. He looks like a plug with the length of the jacket. And maybe he thought the cut across the jacket made him look buff but all it did was make him look like he was trying to pull off his prom tux with unfortunate side effects. That or he was getting ready to testify against the mob and the D.A. and police wanted to make sure he would survive any attempts at a hit and made him wear three layers of kevlar. Still wasn't as bad as Mario vainly sauntering in with his tie deliberately undone and askew. Like he was some iconic hearthrob. Gawd he is foul. Especially as he then tied it when the toasts were made. My problem with the bit with Luann and Heather was that it seemed clear the guests were not on the same page. As in there was no effort to jell these people into an event. I swear half of them had no idea who they were there for let alone why. Editing can be tricky but still it seemed clear that some were outright perturbed or at least baffled why the free drinks and food came with an unannounced floor show. And an ear bleeding one at that. Kristen's horrible acting reaction shots to everything Heather was trying to sell as hee-fucking-larry-US were actually funny in and of themselves. Kristen does not do things by half that is for sure. She was so over the top I thought she was a contestant on Food Nework's Next Star show. So now we know what really happened with the toaster oven thing. It exploded. Luann might have been sad about Jacques but she also looked really pissed she had to fess up on the cameras about it. She knew Sonja and Ramona were going after that. If only Luann knew what Baby Jesus and a skank with an agenda vis-a-vis Mario's wandering prick were about to hand her. I wonder if the reason the show used the Jacques thing as an excuse is because they had to make her address it on camera. And well past the point the two had actually parted (Mario made some smarmy dig about the timing it seemed in regards to the 'haven't seen him" commentary -- as if Mario cares a fig about Jacques being around or even likely notices him unless it was script related). Plus I wonder how much of the actual dissolution of their relationship Luann refused to let play out for the cameras. Leaving the show with one tense scene taking a picture to hint at the pending demise. Whoever does Sonja's makeup for these events does so with a heavy hand. But also a very deft and even one. She looks "over made" in some regards but considering the work she has had done and the amount of hate natural light has for her ass, she still can pull out a good look for Sonja. I will say this for Harry. His presence keeps Sonja's man hungry vagina off stage as a supporting cast member. Without him we would have had her rubbing against some waiter or trading weak creepy little innuendos with Mario. Or both. I loved how somehow the Tarot card reader was "right" about Ramona going off the rails. Seems like Ramona has been consistently keeping on her usual tracks of the Ramona Obnoxious Loud and Entitled Express. And anyone could easily predict that Ramona would take offense at something if they knew her all of five minutes from the show. This is twice Sonja has relied on the Masters of the Obvious that pretty much everyone who watches the show could parse the same conclusions in regards to the other cast mates and uses it as incredible limited access gospel. And did we hear any rational as to why such a reading was held in a loud busy bistro/bar? By not having the reading at her house or at his supposed place of business did Sonja make the show pay entirely for his appearance. She really seems to be on the edge of stealing sugar packs and toilet paper from these venues. What a joke. "My businesses have exploded". Yeah like diarrhea does from one's ass after a foolish mix of Mexican and Thai cuisine and shots of dark rum.

Yep. I'm guessing if Heather Dubrow can hear your voice instead of the pompous preaching tones of her own it must mean you are "yelling". Because that can be the only reason the only voice that should be heard in the mind of Heather Dubrow, Heather Dubrow's, is, well not being heard. I think is deluded, but I find David to be a bit cunning and more savvy to how this type of show works. So if they come back with the Dubrows for another season I hope David fully catches on and finds the best defense is a passive offensive. Simply smile and walk away. Do not give the Dubrows any relevancy whatsoever. And go full batshit crazy with fake drama every time the Dubrows are busy hiring new staff. I just saw the pictures of monster Bethenny Frankel wearing a mock up of her four year old daughter's pjs (I refuse to believe even an insane Frankel and her body issues really was able to jam all that silicone into a 4 year old's top). Someone upthread mentioned Terry's hair. I noticed that they pretty much are styling him and the oldest boy exactly alike. Granted it might be to hammer home the perfect sitcom-ish family they try to sell. But considering Terry is in the industry of poor body image translating into spending money to futilely change nature, I wonder if they kid is not being used to try and present Terry as youthful what with the whole "spittin' image' thing.

One on one with "rape rape" Whoopi? Nope don't think so. Which is why they do need to hire someone with a good journalistic background.

Why does she need to work? She's got Blu electric cig money.

I wish there was a more clever snarky one among the Yanks. Because Marissa, much as I enjoy here so far, is too determined to be even keeled and yet seems incredible smart if deliberately silly in a light hearted way. Because someone smart would have been a delight. Say after the spoon lesson, Noelle asked sweetly : so tell me Rosemary, how does one hold one's cell phone as your royal paramour earnestly wishes to be your tampon? Do you kick dirt on the Duchess of Argyll's shoe Prince Philip just blew a snot rocket on like the sainted Queen Mum did with your left shoe? Or your right? When the Earl of Suffolk farts during dinner without excusing himself is that the signal to switch conversation with your dinner partner on the left to the one on your right? When the Marquess of Lothian starts to vomit at the Derby and demands your hat, do you first offer your handbag despite the fact his vomit is bright green and smells like half of Noah's ark died in in his lower intestine and is walking dead its way back up? When the late Duchess of Fife starts to finger herself during port is that the time to make your excuses or do you stick around and watch her sister-in-law grope the footman's cock while the rest of the party for some inexplicable reason starts baying like hounds? Give me someone who treats me with respect and courtesy and simple hospitality. Not the silly fake rules that most people who claim to use them only do so to bully and diminish others.

My biggest problem with Heather Dubrow is that Heather Dubrow practically crows in glee at how she takes the high road and is so proper and yet can't pull the stick out of her long enough to simply defuse a situation she helped create. And yet claims to be shocked, shocked I tell you, shocked is Heather Dubrow, that the situation persists! If Heather Dubrow was anything even close to what she claimed to be, bragged about even being, she would have simply said to Shannon, that she was sorry but Shannon's name was brought up in conversation and that she, Heather Dubrow, did not exchange gossip but was sorry it appeared that way and would not happen again knowing that Shannon was sensitive on the issue. Shannon apologized twice to Heather Dubrow, for what Heather Dubrow decided was inappropriate and scary threatening behavior. But Heather Dubrow is not just a smelly little famewhore who cannot admit she is wrong, she has to take it further and make herself the heroine of a situation she also tries to claim was completely innocent. Or other times never happened at all. If Vicki is so afraid of Tamra, maybe it is time Vicki do something about it. Like when there is a huge cast shift, bend over backwards to befriend the three new women and shut Tamra out. Instead of going all nastily bossy with marking her territory in regards to meeting Lizzy. She should have wooed Shannon Lizzie and Danielle (since at the time Danielle was defined as a possible lead cast member) and simply politely let Tamra spin. After all no matter how much the Dubrows reek in their camera time desperation it was pretty clear last three seasons just how effective a chilly attitude towards a cast mate could help her out the door. In truth Vicki loves watching Tamra tear others apart. Because it does Vicki's dirty work for her, it keeps focus off the fact she is paying a chubby bald leech to play her lover. And because it keeps the other women in a more vulnerable position vis-a-vis the show itself. Vicki had no problem going after Tamra on Brooks' ridiculous evil eye statement when it suited Vicki. Instead Vicki loved watching the rest go at and undermine each other because that night she wanted to sit back and slurp her free dinner just as much as poor Eddie just wanted one of his three squares that I'm doubting he usually gets.

I'm pretty sure she has dual citizenship and did not renounce her US one as the show's press said and tried to imply in the first episode or so. I do think whatever it was, it was probably part of the pre nup in regards to the children. I'm pretty sure during the final filming she is pregnant with their second son (some of her talking heads, unlike silicon bloated Caprice, Marissa looks quite pregnant just in the fullness of her face). Anyway some people with significant assets have pre-nups that allow for greater divorce settlements if the spouse agrees to keep those assets in nation as it were. in other words Matt might have provided a greater monthly allowance to Marissa if she agreed post divorce to keep the kids in Britain and any child support from the Hermer Ignite group holdings in the UK as well. My sister has a similar type of agreement in keeping their kids in the UK at least so many months out of the year should they divorce (up to a certain age),

I suspect the problem is that both Juliet and Noelle weren't happy playing stupid ill mannered Americans for the made up dinner party and now the follow up course in etiquette. And as much as I find both ridiculous and I do think they did act foolishly at the dinner there were two huge glaring elephants they ignored. The first was the dinner party was no where near as formal or stately as they tried to pretend (unless Old Navy is suddenly considered formal attire). The second being that both Julie as "hostess" and Caroline as guest were also rather rude and incredibly inappropriate at the dinner. So Juliet digging in with Rosemary actually made me smile. Annabelle checked herself out of hospital because she didn't want someone like a nurse or doctor guffaw loudly as she spun her tumble and bruises into "the second worse kind of accident you can have" since I can count at least two dozen ways Annabelle could be in worse shape with dead being the fifth from the very worst, I have to laugh at the silly fake melodrama that makes no sense. And both Annabelle and Caprice should have taken the time to study with an acting coach on body posture. Caprice trying to look more pregnant by slouching in the car with Julie even as she moaned how uncomfortable she was. When you can clearly see the edge of seat she positions herself on is actually not supporting her at all and is jabbing into her kidneys. But ti did make her stomach look fuller. It was funny how full all her clothes got in the belly area even as they got tighter in the pelvis hips and thighs (really her walking down the steps was ridiculous). Annabelle and her crutches was equally a hoot. What a little actress our McQueen whisperer is. I kept waiting for her to say Lee pulled her back from the light because she has so much more to give the fashion world. Marissa. I know it is a show thing. But I wish she had not succumbed to the silly shower feud plot. Caprice and the baby contrivance is just ridiculous. There is no way that she could not have managed her "line" and the babies better. While no pregnancy is the same it is not like doctors don't time parameters. The whole thing stinks to me. I'm still not sure why you would go to L.A. for a surrogate when you live in London and are selling yourself as such. Fake phoney and a total pig. Those kids better have good nannies. I love how Caprice has done nothing but talk behind people's backs and yet whines how she does not do that. No Caprice what you don't do is miss a chance to be in a scene that has cameras capturing it. The idea that she thinks she doesn't look the rude attention whoring fool by jumping in a car in July/August to leave London for "an hour" to drive out to Caroline? And it's dark outside? Bullshit. There is no way no matter how late you might dine continental style, that it is proper or courteous to jaunt into someone's home at ten at night to join a dinner party in progress. Noelle is a worse actress than either Caprice or Annabelle. Does she really think viewers are stupid and the wide eyed what me? routine on making sure that there is drama between Caroline and Caprice for the cameras actually made it seem real in any way? ETA: being pedantic here but there is a huge difference between the Montagus of Sandwich and "royals". Marissa's joking hyperbole aside, Julie did not marry a royal unless about a million people dropped dead suddenly between them and even the most tenuous claim to the throne. And that includes all us Americans who descend from James I or the subsequent Hanoverians who are legally in line for the throne as defined by the Royal Marriage Act.

Not that the over-monied likes of Winfrey or Spielberg care about my one ticket; but if it wasn't for the cast, director and the fact I thought the book was a cute fun light if predictable read that I figured would make a good summer movie when I read it? Winfrey flapping her lips as if The Hundred-Foot-Journey is some kind of profound life changing philosophical ideology makes my stomach churn. What a silly cow she is. I swear her whole unlocking the meaning of life gullibility could have someone with the right amount of moxie selling her a box of Life cereal and making millions of this fool with too much money. It always amazes me how people can make such successes in life and still be so damn determined to wear their anus as a neck warmer. And do they really need to sit as producers essentially telling you that the main reason to go to the movie is because of them?! Not a movie based on a successful trade ppbk. A book that also trades in a timely manner similar themes of cultural divide that the successful Marigold Hotel movie (and its coming sequel) drew audiences to see more than once. Not a movie directed by the same man who directed Chocolat in a similar movie for fans? Not the fabulous Helen Mirren? I just wish there was some way I could buy my ticket and have the stub shipped to these two fools and tell them I'm going to the movie in spite of them. Not because. So I hope they spent a shit load of money they didn't have to to make sure they could sit and stroke each other's egos on camera.

I have no idea who these women are and have no intention to finding out. I will say that watching a few minutes was fascinating though as the one brunette's (wavier haired one, not the one with the over dyed straight hair and equal but different eye issues) left eye seemed to almost pull off a successful escape from her face every time she stupidly tried to roll it. Which seemed like every ten seconds she was on camera. To the point that I think it would be practical practice by the clinic she goes to for her injections to maybe provide some sort of sequined eye catcher. Bitch is going to lose it and then where on the pageant circuit will she be. One eyed joker in a hideous jumpsuit made of old fake Hermes scarves. Stuck with a bug eyed doppelganger shrieking two feet to her rear.

A friend who watched this swears that at the start when they are still winnowing the cast down, Doug is shown on Skype without moles. Sooo...Editing chronology mishap? Or heavily contrived Production values?

So as the pieces of shit otherwise known as Theresa and Joe Gristle try to revise and rewrite the whole matter of them being victims...of being caught committing crime, Gia is yanked out once again to the forefront of Theresa's battle strategy. I'm guessing there is a whole season planned of scenes of how incredibly fucking wonderful the Giudice extended family is interspersed with Gia putting out the tears. For a few seconds I thought she wouldn't pull it off. Especially considering the history of Gia's incredibly bad acting. I wonder, since it was such a huge freaking success in delivering the coup de grace in her feud with her brother, will Gia pull out a song she just happened to write and want to perform? Maybe she can croak and warble some plaintive tune about the cruel unfair federal prosecutors and judge who simply won't see reason and let the shallow brain pan duo get away with whatever they want. Between Teresa's tweaked face, Joe Gristle's steroid bloated face and Gia looking like she is taking her first shit in weeks as she struggles to put out the tears, it is like a version of the three monkeys "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil". I saw maybe three minutes of Amber's "party". And i'm guessing the producers hate her already. Note that she was summoning outrage at her tacky guests as the cameras lingered on her pathetically tacky party throwing efforts. Huge uncut "finger food" little to no plates and no wonder her floors were making the rounds as "seconds anyone?".

The very notion that men cannot fathom simple household chores only holds truth in that Madison avenue has done its job well. Granted I'm a homosexual. But I also play in one of the premier la crosse leagues I manage accounts that are in the multi millions for the 12/13/14 largest privately held firm in the world (it depends on the day really where we rank). I've rebuilt cars I use a wicked chain saw I installed my own plumbing and electricity (wait a minute, does this mean I'm actually a lesbian...) point is I can wield a wicked Dyson (dirty jokes to the left please), I can cook well enough that I am the default in the kitchen among some rather lamely pretentious but beloved foodies. And these isn't a straight man I know who cannot do the same if he wanted to. Or felt he needed to. There are tons of manly straight men of my new generation who were raised by single fathers or mothers and know that if you want to eat? You might want to learn to cook. And if the food is good you might want to clean so you aren't fighting off the vermin for it. But not only are there ads that sell the false men can't do housework or parent well, but also ones that hammer the notion home that when they do they are rare and they have to give up some of their dignity and masculinity. Even the burliest of men will dress up in drag for a little girl's tea party for some Doritos. Or gets patted on the head for at least trying to fold baby clothes that will stay folded according to the ad's own narrative for all of a few hours. Of course he can't do it. Even though we can see clear as fuck he does. Don't even get me started on the man who looks like the week prior was modeling underwear in Milan who grew a beard stopped shaving his chest long enough to accidentally wash himself with his wife's lady part magic potion and the only way he can grow his dick back is to mow the yard in a spiked helmet he forges himself. So maybe some men are naturally inept at certain household chores. Simply because they are inept. They have an equal number of women who can't clean either due to not wanting to, not liking it and therefore subconsciously failing. Because last time I checked my cupboards Proctor and Gamble had all their directions written in English. Not some secret Moon Goddess Uterine Dialect,

I think David Beador is on cameras because David Beador wants to be. If he wanted Shannon on a la Kelsey Grammer David would be a blur entering and leaving the kitchen of dried chicken. David seems to love being on camera. I can't tell if Shannon loves it or not since most of the time she seems to be flapping in the batshit crazy cave.

Actually I have always thought the men are stupid meme is nothing more than chauvinism reversed engineered. It pats women on the head because they are just so good...at being the nurturing (i.e. stay at home) parent. they are just so good at cooking and cleaning. So good at making sure the silly stupid man is fed and cared for. Because men are soooo stupid they can't work...at home. No they have to take all those silly willy jobs as corporate management jobs and professional level jobs because they are just so useless. At folding clothes and finding things in the fridge and actually being a parent. No men have to be shoved out the door by the competent woman who is the only one able to get her husband and brood out the door out into the meaningless world no one actually cares about. Yeah right.

Clicking through YouTube on an above video link I discovered the old Phillips "its time to change your lightbulb" commercials. The cat? the old couple having soup for dinner and the shy guy in the elevator. My new old favorites. Also the Nissan "Dogs Love Trucks" campaign with taking Ralphie for a ride.

Actually had our ancestors gotten what they wanted we would all be singing God Save the Queen. But they didn't. and instead they fought for the very choice among others that Marissa Hermer exercised. That State Group Think at the cost of the individual is dangerous and bodes ill not just for the personal pursuit of happiness but the welfare of a state aimed at rights for all, not the few. For the individual to have liberties that go with the responsibility of citizenship. That borders do not define the nobility of liberty or the honor of maintaining it. Marissa Hermer did exactly what the likes of Jefferson, Monroe and Madison all espoused. Not just exercising her own state of personal happiness but doing so by being taking responsibility for her identity to a nation and a peoples. The founding fathers wanted rights for all men and their ideas of liberty did not stop at the Atlantic even if their purview as statesmen did. I do not know where that idea came from but it did not come from the likes of Adams and Jefferson or even later on in the days of Jackson who again fought against the British. Marissa exercised freedom. Liberty. Not only is that the American way it was never not other countries ways either just because we have the mistaken sense we invented it and are the holders of its honor like some vestal virgin and her holy vagina.

I have to disagree. I think it is incredibly poor form and bordering on disgusting that someone who appears to be trying to present this saddles and hounds lifestyle would put a horse at risk even if she is fine putting her own neck on the line. If she wants to jounce on a hobby horse like a porn star at a gang bang that is fine. When she puts her ego ahead of the well being of an animal I have huge issues. I'm glad for her though that at her age she only has one dead loved one. Because it could not possibly be that staying true to her dear dead friend over and over again on camera is merely because he was famous and she doesn't miss or grieve over his non-famous and publicly tragic loved. I wonder if McQueen would have pulled the trigger if he knew the consequences were all about Annabelle cottage cheese face and not his emotional turmoil? I do think she thinks she is doing McQueen proper emotional due. But black hole sucking just considers it it's nature after all. I wonder how long Annabelle is going to tolerate Caprice solely for the gentle lathing of Caprice's tongue across her ass as it becomes increasingly clear Caprice is determined to make every single altercation between the other women all about Caprice? Annabelle might not know it yet, and it will be deliciously ironic if it happens, but I'm betting in the next episode or so Caprice will be the most most traumatized by Annabelle's boo-boo.

I'm so glad to pop in and find confirmation that Jamie is indeed going for her pro card on the Famewhore circuit. Every time she did one of those talking heads all fluffy hair and make up I kept seeing the outside of the tawdry Bachelor villa-esque mcmansion. And in the scrubbed down versions I imagined the Big Brother confessional room. I did stick around long enough to see if Jamie's pairing with Doug was done because 1.the show wanted a failure to make it seem "real" and Jamie screamed superficial from the get go or 2. they wanted to make sure at least one would not back out and knew once the cameras were on Jamie would deliver and deliver with all the hand wringing silly vaporish nonsense we see in the previews. What really really turned me off the show though was what in a way made me tune in in the first place. Jason. Cute guy with muscles and that accent. Hmmm. Then I find out he is taking care of his mother in what sounds like a losing battle with cancer. This is so wrong in so many ways. Sorry cute bearded Dr. But I think, and this is just an opinion of course, you and the rest of the experts should have stopped and considered just what it means to be in Jason's situation. You can all say he is an adult and made his own choice. But I've been there. I've been the son taking care of his dying mother and it is a wrenching soul sucking experience even when you, standing at the center of that emotional hurricane, think you are doing just fine. It is exhausting mentally and physically. It is hugely exploitation and totally unfair to Jason, his mother and the young woman you paired him with. Does Courtney have any idea her soul mate you went all eharmony for her is quite possibly in the death watch stage? No matter if it is months or weeks or days or even well over a year. To have her put in that situation, told to make it work and then have Jason have to face that "failure" on top of everything else? Yeah. That sucks big time and revealed more than anything all all social science experiments aside this is hugely tacky and at the end of the day more shock value than study. Even if the mother comes out fine somehow, the emotional state any loving child of a sick parent at any age does not put him in the right frame of mind to even come close to putting into even a "reality show" marriage what is intended by this experiment in my opinion. To the point that even if he is the most likeable for me of the cast I find myself feeling way to voyeuristic and find the show using him in this manner to verge on being flat out creepy. So much that while I feel incredible sympathy and empathy for his situation I also find myself pitying him because I just don't think he is capable of really making the right decision for himself his mother or his "bride". And in his situation I don't expect him to make the right decision. The shows experts should have exercised more common sense and decency rather than what I have to believe was deciding what made for "good show". I would like to see a real matchmaking show. Something that matches a bunch of couples very carefully and then has them commit to dating for a certain length of time to actually get to know one another. I'm guessing PBS would have to do this. It did bother me that every time there was this cheerleading blathering about arranged marriages it failed to address the economic and religious factors in the areas where it is most prevalent in the world. Plus the dynamics of the woman's position in the family household and her "transfer" to her husband's. Not to mention what choices those societies allow for dissolution of such marriages. Or the sexual practices allowed in such societies. Or even the son's amount of choice in the matters. The show was not just glib about arranged marriages but incredibly disingenuous. But for all the academic posturing this was the Bachelor on an itty bitty stage just with the fast forward button hit to the "Very Special Bachelor Episode: Famewhore Man married Famewhore Woman". I'm not sure I'll tune in for anymore though I definitely will be tracking the conversations here.