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I forgot which season it was when Hotch was having a day off, Gideon called, and Haley said snarkily, “It’s your wife” or something along those lines. I think, like many couples, having a child changed things completely. While Haley might’ve been able to put up with Hotch working all the time and suddenly being away from home for days, weeks, once Jack was born she wanted him to be around more, and not unreasonably so. Somewhat on topic, I know Charm and Harm is not a fan favourite, but I came across an article on Terry Rasmussen who is dubbed the “Chameleon Killer” IRL and that just reminded me of this episode, which had some nice interaction between Morgan and Elle in the car.

Yeah, she had grown quite a bit taller and I really noticed this in the season finale. I thought her voice had changed as well but I haven’t seen S1 since it first dropped so it could be my memory playing tricks on me. The actress who plays Stacey turned 16, I think, but she can still pass for younger. I think she is the oldest of the actresses? I’m not sure. On the whole, I thought S2 was pretty solid and I can understand why they chose the storylines they did. I expected to tear up when Mimi passed but surprisingly it was Watson calling out Kirsty’s deadbeat dad’s behavior that did me in. I liked that Janine got a girlfriend and everyone was cool with it (I which would never have happened when the books were first published), and I liked the Kishi’s taking off their shoes as soon as they got home. I doubt Kristy’s dad had been paying child support but if he did, he might be glad to give up his parental rights because I assume that would extinguish his financial obligations towards the kids. Once Watson adopt Kristy and her brothers, they become legally his children, which makes me wonder if they would become beneficiaries to the Brewer family trust funds, etc.

Recently got around to watching this show on Netflix and, boy, am I bummed that they cancelled the series after Season 3. I’m not a huge fan of zombie flicks but this show was so brilliantly hilarious!

I would be much more interested in a revival if it took place 10+ years later and had Jack Hotchner joining the BAU. His mother was murdered by a serial killer and he’s spent his formative years pretending to be someone else in witness protection. This gives him insight into catching bad guys for the A plot (COTW) and an acceptable level for brooding angst for the B plot. I can imagine Reid still being in the BAU but the others have moved on. Either JJ and Emily would be a higher up and be simultaneously proud of Jack and “Shit, what have you done again and what do I need to do to fix this???!!!” Garcia is replaced by a robot dressed in muted colours and doesn’t talk. Other members of the BAU can show up from time to time but I don’t necessarily want to see them back in the field, I’d roll my eyes so hard my SO would worry I was having a seizure. What would you want to see in a revival? Who do you want to see coming back?

Oh nooooooooo. Every revival of my favourite shows has been a hot mess - Gilmore Girls, The X Files, Arrested Development. I have absolutely no faith in a CM revival being even halfway decent. I’m just going to stay in my corner and rewatch the first 5 seasons, and maybe the last 5 minutes of the Season 7 finale for Emily in Dolce and Gabbana.

Thanks. I finished Season 4, not sure I’ll keep going. I started off the series rooting for the Gallaghers (except Frank), and by Season 4 the only one I can stand is Liam. The cast, while talented, is getting too bloated and I can’t stand Sammi and Chuckie.

I’ve started watching this show recently and just finished Season 3. I loved Season 1 and most of Season 2 but I’m already starting to be annoyed with most of the characters. Should I bother with Season 4, or just call it quits now?

I would say I hated this except hate would require a level of emotional investment that I simply did not have. I found this season to be terribly long and unfocused, and I didn’t care about any of the characters except Hannah. Little Luke and Nell I wanted to rescue from Hill House; I just wanted Miles and Flora to stay the eff away from me. Those are some creepy-ass kids, so kudos to the young actors. Basically I thought this was a less scary, faux-British version of American Horror Story: Murder House. On a separate note, a friend of a friend on Facebook posted that Bly Manor was her wedding venue. Surely a promising sign of a long and lasting marriage.

I felt like I was watching a tedious, sober version of Drunk History.

I don’t think I really understood what was going on, which might have been the point of the movie. As Reid says, how it feels to be scared of your own mind. I was impressed by Alison Brie’s performance in this because I’d previously only seen her in comedies and I had no idea she could do drama so well.

I was watching Horsegirl on Netflix and caught MGG in a cameo ... playing a detective on TV.

That was the episode that got me hooked onto the show. Other scenes that crack me up thinking about it: Alex realising when she gets drunk, she eats ribs; Jazz Kwon Do; the one where Max is a bear.

Vancouver! To quote Allison Janney when she guest-starred on Weeds: primo weed, really good Chinese food. I did not know anything about this series until I saw a complimentary review in NYTimes or Variety or somewhere, but as soon as I started watching, I knew it was filmed in Vancouver. I’m pretty sure Kristy and Mary Anne’s neighbourhood is in Kerrisdale. Damn, now I miss home.

I grew up in a part of Canada with a large Asian community, but regardless of ethnicity, almost everyone I knew took off their shoes before entering the house. I always thought wearing shoes inside the house only happened on TV, especially if the floor was carpeted. I had quite a number of BSC books but not the whole collection, I mostly borrowed them from the library. A couple of years ago, my parents cleared out their house and I agreed to donate most of my books, including the entire portrait collection. I might still have a couple of them left but I’ll never know because thanks to COVID, I don’t know when I’ll be able to visit again.

The first BSC book I read was one narrated by Dawn, so I always think of her first. She wasn’t my favourite but I didn’t dislike her; I liked the stepsister relationship she had with Mary Anne. And I coveted her long, platinum blonde hair. My least favourite was Mallory because she was so blah. I think AMM might have had a thing for large families. She wrote two books about a family with 10 (later 11) children called Ten Kids, No Pets and Eleven Kids, One Summer. I really enjoyed those them. The kids were better defined than the Pikes but they had really stupid names due to their parents’ absurd naming system. I still can’t forget that one of the kids was called Woody and another one Hardy.

I loved that Claud called Kristy out on her bossiness. I found Kristy overbearing at times but knowing the reasons for her desire for control, I could empathize. Wouldn’t want to hang out with her though. I love Stacey’s outfits. So stylish but without being oversexualised, which I really appreciate. Sadly, my fashion choices lean more towards Kirsty’s. Jeans and a hoodie are my go-to.

I watched the first 2 seasons during its original run. Even now, whenever I see the ending montage of A Time to Hate, it makes me tear up. When this show was good, it was good. A couple years ago on a flight to Tokyo, I discovered that Japan did a remake of Cold Case. I really enjoyed how they tailored the storylines to make them relevant to their own culture/history. The victim in the remake of The Letter was an ethnically Korean woman with whom a Japanese man falls in love in post-WW2 Japan and the episode was every bit as compelling and heartbreaking as the original. They also did the sleepover episode, the Boy in the Box, and the mom who jumped out of a building with her daughter to get away from the abusive social worker. I was a sobbing mess by the time I landed.

I remember that one. Wasn’t one of the girls sailing with a 4-year-old who got sick while they were stranded? Finished the series, absolutely loved it. Social activist Dawn cracked my shit up. Marc Evan Jackson as Mary Anne’s Dad is perfect. The young actresses were each perfect in her role but I thought the girl who played Kristy was especially good.

This! Stacey’s handwriting stuck with me most, with the little hearts over the i’s and the typeface lower-case A’s. I tried to write my A’s like that for two weeks when I was 10, it was too damn inconvenient. I love that each girl got a chance to narrate her own episode but appreciate not having to go through the standard recap of how the club is run and who does what, which took up at least half a chapter in each book. I’ve just finished episode 4 and oh, my heart. Claud and her phantom caller. Stacey’s entire storyline. Mary Anne and Dawn’s first encounter brought back memories of meeting my high school best friend for the first time. The actors nailed the naked desperation of an introverted middle-school girl wanting to make a new friend but not really knowing how, and the palpable relief when somebody else doesn’t think you’re totally uncool. “Krakatoa was an atheist.” I love this Karen. Book Karen was annoying, at least in the two Little Sister books I read.

Just watched the first episode and loved it. It’s adorable. I love that the show actually hired 13-year-olds to play themselves. I was 8 or 9 when I first got into the books and 13 seemed so grownup to me. 20-odd years later, these girls look positively like babies to me. Such a refreshing change from watching oversexualised “teens” on TV.

Still doing my CM rewatch and finally reached Season 6. It’s my least favourite season of the original Prentiss era, and only 60% of my reason for hating it has to do with her terrible hair. I remember the collective rage felt by fandom when AJ and Paget got fired and I hated the super spy Lauren Reynolds arc when it first aired, because it retconned everything we knew about Prentiss. Season 6 was also when the torture porn started getting out of hand. I just finished Remembrance of Things Past and I cringed at the scenes of several victims in their underwear, tied to a bed and screaming while the UNSUB electrocuted/stabbed them. Lucky had a freaking cannibal and IMO it wasn’t nearly as exploitative. There were some episode I liked, e.g. Into the Woods, Compromising Positions (the UNSUB is Keith from One Tree Hill! Guy can never catch a break), Into the Woods, and the abovementioned Hanley Waters. Kelli Williams was so good. I wanted to love JJ because Joan of Arcadia was one of my earliest fandoms and the episode would be a mini-JOA opinion but I can never quite fully enjoy it because it always reminds me of the slap in the face that CBS gave to all the fans by getting rid of two of the show’s female leads. (Plus I effing hate JJ’s hair in it, I know I am shallow.) I realise eventually both actresses came back but things were never quite the same, whether with the show itself or my enjoyment of it. @Annber03 For some reason I quoted you twice but I can’t figure out how to delete the second quote! Sorry about that. I’m officially an old fogey who just wants my 12-year-old/intern/Alexa to figure it out for me. Now I really wish I had a 12-year-old intern named Alexa. Even better if she was one of those Junior Masterchef contestants who could cook for me.

Currently in the middle of a season 2 rewatch from The Last Word onwards. The show had a much different tone when Gideon was around. Don’t get me wrong, I love Rossi, but there’s a quiet intensity to the Gideon episodes that doesn’t quite come across in the middle and later years of the show.

Just rewatched S2’s Legacy and it reminded me of everything I liked about original recipe JJ. She was empathetic with the OCD detective, caught the postmark from across state line which put the case into federal jurisdiction, had AMAZING shiny thick hair, and was generally all kinds of awesome without it being a profiler. I liked the relationship between JJ and Hotch. He clearly respected her. This episode and Birthright gave me more JJ/Hotch vibes than any episode have ever given me JJ/Reid vibes. When did she begin calling Reid “Spence?”

Watched it and enjoyed it, except I find it hard to believe Nora wouldn’t have learned to play blackjack earlier in her life. Every Chinese kid growing up in US/Canada I know, myself included, learned to play blackjack and Big 2 from their cousins, usually while the older relatives were playing mahjong. Once we hit 11 or 12, we got to sub in at the mahjong table while grandma checked on the food. I loved grandma starting a race war. “Don’t talk to the Chinese about books. We invented paper!” “Don’t talk to Koreans about chargers, we invented Samsung!”

I found Mindhunter to be terribly slow and dull. I'd happily watch a CM prequel in the usual COTW format. There must be lots of cases in the 70s that they could draw from. Just as long as nobody lets Erica Messer anywhere near it.