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I was really pleased by the results. I was obviously rooting for Rob, but I had resigned myself to a Walter victory. But honestly, while Walter's demon was really cool, and even though Megan was acting the hell out of it, I really didn't like the possessed makeup at all. Melissa's demon was also cool, but her possessed makeup wasn't any better.
I guess I'm in the minority, because I actually kind of liked the short films. Actual storylines worked a lot better than the kind of random collections of scenes we saw on the previous season. They were all kind of basic, but the variations that the directors put on what's more or less the same script was pretty interesting. And Rob's director seemed to have had a personality transplant, too. Maybe someone from Face Off took him aside and told him he's not Cecil B DeMille.
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From that link about Lacy Spears:
Hammack, while working alongside Lacey at day care, said Lacey had Garnett and was already talking about wanting a second child. It got to the point of Lacey being jealous when Hammack became pregnant with another child. Lacey had even picked out a name for her second: Hammack thinks it was Granite.
*facepalm*
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What about doing Jodi Arias? That's got some of the same hooks as Casey Anthony, an even more insane crime, and an also very colorful cast of characters. If someone played Nancy Grace (who, to be fair, would be part of a Casey Anthony season as well) with as much skill as Sarah Paulson played Marcia Clark, that's another Emmy right there.
Additionally, the media was involved with Arias in a different way, since Maureen Maher's 48 Hours interview was part of the evidence against her.
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Probably for the same reason that drive up ATMs have Braille keypads.
I learned the answer to one of life's great mysteries: Lori does in fact own a pair of pants.
I think Bambooee is an interesting product, but Noam the salesman would be exhausting after about 30 seconds. But I still thought Lori was being awfully passive-aggressive when she was trying to muzzle him.
I actually did think the Zipz segment was fairly interesting. The company still seems to be circling the drain, but I guess they've got a chance to save themselves. I'm not really interested in their house label toilet wine, and I'm no that keen on wineries that use cutesy brand names (Chillin' for a Chilean label), particularly if it's a box wine. I mean, Robert Mondavi and Yellow Tail aren't exactly quality either, but they would still be much bigger gets than that. And if a competitor is already using the Zipz glass, why would someone else want to sign on?
And I'm really not sure that the Beautiful People who are STK One's target market are going to be that into drinking from something that looks like that. Their rooftop bar in the Meatpacking District, Plunge, doesn't even have Kevin's wine on the menu, so that deal doesn't look like it was the roaring success we were meant to think.
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two men provide female consumers a stylish way to listen to music on fashionable headphones
EUUGHHHHHH!
I bet they even allow her to coordinate them with her shoes.
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I'm sorry to say that I spent part of the episode wondering why on earth Lacy didn't cut his hair or at least get the hair out of his face.
Honestly, I thought more than once that she might have wished he was a girl.
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There was an excellent episode of 48 Hours maybe ten years ago that went over the McDonald case. They actually laid out a full-size blue-print of the house on a soundstage so that the audience could see where all the blood evidence was.
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Regarding Garnet, does anyone know if there is a medical cause for dangerously high sodium besides dehydration or ingesting a boatload of salt? I recall a story from years ago in which a woman was accused of killing her child with Munchausen By Proxy but then the same symptoms happened to another family member and it was discovered her child died of a rare hereditary disorder that had gone undiagnosed. She had already served years in prison before this diagnosis exonerated her - it was horrible. Could Garnet have had a rare imbalance? On the other hand, Garnet's mother's interviews gave me the heebie-jeebies. It all was indignation and anger about her situation but no sadness or sense of loss about her dead child. And all the social media lies about his allegedly dead father...
There are certain kinds of diuretics that can cause hypernatremia, but that's also something that wouldn't have just happened. If he'd had poorly controlled diabetes, that might have been a cause, but clearly that wasn't the case.
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I don't think any of us would argue that Lori isn't very successful. I would even admit that watching Beyond the Tank has demonstrated she's got very good instincts about how to oversee her investments and get the most out of them.
What I don't like about her is, as you say, how obnoxious she is. She never sets up an investment by saying "That's a really good product, and I think I can help you be very successful." It's all about her. She is in many ways the female version of Chris "I Invested in Uber" Sacca. And the catch phrases. She's often very dismissive of Barbara. I think it's great that she, as a woman, can compete with Cuban and Kevin, but the way that she does it, by acting like one of the Plastics, isn't endearing.
She does pick products that sell well, and she does get ones that are actually pretty utilitarian, like Squatty Potty and Scrub Daddy. But so much of the rest of it is cheap, plastic crap that doesn't work as advertised, and will end up in a landfill. In the trade show segment, a woman was saying that she'd had her credit card hacked. Lori then points out that she needs a SignalVault, when in fact that would have done nothing to stop a hacker.
And the end-caps and the trade show booth with giant pictures of her face, as though the Orgill Trade Show is Pyongyang and she's Kim Jung-Un. It's her brand, I get that. Kevin does that too, but he doesn't paste his Photoshopped mug all over O'Leary Funds and O'Leary Fine Wines. It's all about the greater glory of Lori.
And for that reason, I'm out.
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Dave Cullen's phenomenal Columbine was optioned by, of all places, Lifetime a few years ago. Some of the victims' families raised a stink about it, and I'm not sure it's going to be going forward ever. I understand their position completely, but I also think there are some bigger issues that have gotten swept under the rug because some of the stories we heard around the time of the shooting were wrong but became the official narrative anyway.
But I totally understand where the families are coming from. The same reason that I understood how Fred Goldman felt about S1, even if I didn't quite agree with him.
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I'm as surprised as I was during Beyond the Tank that Disney is letting them pitch Dreamworks' stuff on Shark Tank.
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Dr. Manning works on a young boy with a broken wrist, but her suspicions abound when the facts don't add up, prompting her to report the situation to Goodwin and Dr. Charles, who must make a serious decision.
Again?
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I hate to be one of the people who judges guilt or innocence based on the suspect's demeanor, but she was so indignant about her conviction. I have a friend who lost a child tragically, and I can't imagine her reacting any way other than despondent were she in that situation.
It takes a certain level of gumption to ponder a malpractice suit over the death of a child you yourself has been convicted of killing.
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Grrrr.
After being disappointed by Code Black and semi-disappointed by Chicago Med, I was really looking forward to this returning. Intellectually, I know what this show is, but at least it doesn't take itself too seriously (cf Code Black) and I like more than half the characters (cf Chicago Med). Now they've mucked up the formula. Again.
I just hope there will be enough absurdity to make up for the loss of Krista and Ragosa. And we probably won't see Rick, either, because Luke Macfarlane is off doing Killjoys.
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I was thinking about how OJ killed Nicole clean and quick, but stabbed the hell out of Ron. I wonder if he really wanted to kill Ron but reluctantly had to kill Nicole because she was a witness. OJ is very possessive about what he deems his property. He threatened people at gun point to get his old sports memorabilia back.
More likely it was because he surprised Nicole. She would have been dead before she could have known what was happening. He didn't have surprise with Ron, and Ron fought.
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Matthew Shepard. The Laramie Project was very well done, but it wasn't about the event itself, it was more about the reaction to it.
Judy Shepard and Fred Phelps are parts that are as compelling as Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran. The only problem is that there's no real complexity to Phelps (may the man rot in his grave) as there is to Cochran.
The problem with going too far into the past, you run up against nothing but stories about white men.
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I had to work up the nerve to watch the episode. It took me until today. Of course, give them all of the Emmys.
I can't quite wrap my head around how grown-man me could be so much more emotionally affected by this recreation than teenaged-boy me watching the real thing. I guess a large part of it is because I guess I wasn't cognizant of the realities of relationships and especially intimate partner violence as a kid. But being in 4th period AP Government and hearing the clerk mispronounce OJ's name is burned into my brain. We were stupid kids. We were glad the famous guy from the Naked Gun movies was acquitted.
I wish they'd left in Darden's "Now Ron, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time Nicole, she was in the wrong place for a long time" in the episode. That stuck with me for twenty years.
I guess where I'm left is the realization that all these people that I thought were cartoon characters are actually much more dimensional and complicated than I ever thought back then. In as much as I found Johnnie Cochran's tactics abhorrent, I also understand what motivated him, and I'm glad it was a light that got shone. I just wish it had been in another venue. Marcia Clark...this whole thing was revelatory. I don't think the show was trying to canonize her (because it didn't exactly try to make her look better in her disagreements with Darden, and didn't hide her vast misreading of the situation she was up against), but what I saw was the only woman in a roomful of men being judged for a lot of things that were completely unfair to her.
Even if Ryan Murphy's only real involvement in the show was the directing and attaching his name to it to get it made, it's almost enough to absolve him of the worst of Glee's excesses. I said almost.
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Getting back to the source of the MCU, even though later marvel employees rebooted it it goes back to the 60s before we were heavily in Vietnam and Tony Stark was captured there and not Afghanistan. So 60's New York City. How the TV unit missed that change when reading old books for story ideals? How do you get around Hell's Kitchen and the Devil patrolling it when I hear it has gentrified? Well that is a miss on Fiege and company.
Actually, the Netflix shows handwave it pretty well--after the events of Avengers, people abandoned Hell's Kitchen and it got run down again. Honestly, I can accept that. It's just funny when they're so clearly filming in other parts of the city that still look like what they're going for.
AoS had the classic giveaway of fake NYC: lots of alleys behind buildings. Those are almost nonexistent.
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Season 9's Jordan Patton has a Kickstarter for a pilot episode he wants to shop around in hopes of getting someone to pick it up. It's not really my thing, so I'll let others reach into their pockets if they're so inclined, but I wish him good luck and thought I'd spread the word.
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Honestly, if Mark's rant about his well-known hatred of patent trolls had ended up with him getting out of his seat and tearing out one of those guys' jugulars with his teeth, I would have been totally okay with it. That was just the most obnoxious presentation we've had in a long, long time.
My entire generation was scarred by Teddy Ruxpin's location deep, deep, deep in the Uncanny Valley, and I also don't know how appealing to some toy that was an inexplicable hit 30 years ago is that strong an argument in favor of TROBO. And like everyone, I still don't understand why the inventors think their battle with cancer/loss of a child/abandonment on Jakku is a feature of the product/service. Okay, so you've triumphed over adversity. That's awesome. But that doesn't make your stupid Bluetooth speaker in a stuffed animal an investible business.
Coolbox seemed like the lumbosexual answer to the man-bunned USB-charging suitcase from a few months ago. These are all useful products, but making them into a chimera doesn't really serve that useful of a purpose to me. It's a thing we can do now. Great. "Because it is there" is not sufficient reason for climbing the mountain.
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True enough, but Dyker isn't Manhattan. It's a wealthy, mostly Italian neighborhood in South Brooklyn (between Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge). And it's not trendy like WIlliamsburg or Greenpoint, so unless you're from the general area, you wouldn't know it. I just thought it was funny :)
It's not that Italian any more. There's a pretty large Pakistani population and most of my immediate neighbors are Russian.
I also thought it was funny that they had the guy with the independent grocery store. Forget independent, I can't even think of any grocery stores here. Your options are Bay Ridge, Borough Park, or Coney Island.
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I thought giving Kenny "Sebastian" as a confirmation name was kind of brilliant. St Sebastian's iconography, from the Renaissance to today, is VERY homoerotic.
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It's not that I care what anyone's relationship is, but it was like those Magic Eye pictures from the 1990s. What am I looking at here? My brain was trying to work it out the whole time
They're not brothers. They don't have the same last name, and on their (really ugly) website, their bio (which is really vague about their relationship) only refers to the deaths of the one guy's parents.
So no, I don't care what they do in private either, but after the reveal that they live together, I couldn't help but wonder if the show was trying to avoid telling us something.
I'd like to know how Miss Lilly Pulitzer is affording her wardrobe and highlights (and everything else in life) on $1000 a month. I'll sit down now.
I'm going to guess the same way she afforded her sorority dues. Her parents have credit cards, why shouldn't she use them?
I am a terrible person.
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I loved TFA, but I honestly might be more interested in this. I like the idea of trying something new in the SW universe.
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Jezebel did a great interview with Ve. Although she said Robert was her favorite. I'm going to pretend I didn't read that part.