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Remember when he had dyslexia and was an impressive athlete? I swear they forgot Sam had dyslexia when they announced Ryder also had dyslexia.

I'm new here. I would love to have a friend. :) I won't say that I'm optimistic about New York but I'm not sure it'll be a trainwreck either. I still have a little kernel of hope left for the writers. They still know how to write jokes that make me laugh. I just need them to turn their energy towards plot lines I care about (and not just ones that infuriate me like Rachel vs. Santana for Funny Girl). I don't mind bringing Artie to NY because I like Kevin's voice. I don't think Sam really needed to go but he's basically a blank slate for the writers to do anything with (is there anyone on the cast he hasn't been paired with yet?) so I understand moving him over but if they're going to push Samchel... again, it's going to be a rough last season. I would prefer to see Rachel with a new guy or just on her own (and I think this focus on her career has been a good way to keep her plot line moving forward without having her constantly mourning Finn's death) but I know this show and unless Lea Michele is pushing back against it behind the scenes I feel like a new love interest is a comin'. Count me among the people who never really "got" Heather Morris. I think she's had some nice little jokes and Fondue for Two is cute and there have been a few emotionally affecting Brittana moments but she's not a strong enough actress to really carry too much of the plot. And I did like Dani and Santana even though they've been phasing out Dani for a while now.

No doubt. Even though the writers put Juliette through the ringer, she is still one of the more compelling characters and a lot of that is down to Hayden. She is doing a fantastic job. She had me crying so much in the first season finale. I don't want to call myself a country fan because I feel like "real" country fans wouldn't consider me a country fan. I'm a city girl and I don't mind a bit of folk, pop, or rock getting into my country... though I hate all that beer, Nascar, and traditional gender roles stuff in a certain segment of country music. For me, country music is all about the divas... Loretta, Reba, Trisha, Dolly, etc. though I do like some of the newer groups like Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry, and Eden's Edge. I'm not saying that I would watch every show that featured singing but I did watch Glee and Smash so... it's definitely a factor in my decision making process. Regardless of why I started watching, I kept watching because of Hayden. When every other storyline is going off the rails, she somehow keeps things together. Even when Juliette's world is falling apart, Hayden is still right there, fully committed to her part. I never watched Friday Night Lights so I don't really get the adoration of Connie Britton (who seems rather flat in Nashville) but thankfully Hayden is there to carry the show.

There were some good jokes but all in all it wasn't a great episode. I think season 5 has been kind of weak and the latter half of the season has really been making the push towards moving the show to New York. The graduation and the very quick send off of the 2.0's shows how much the show cared about Tina, Marley, Jake, Ryder, Kitty, and Wade/Unique. I did think it was funny how they kept teasing Tina maybe making the transfer to New York. I kind of wish Jake and Unique could somehow make the transfer to New York because they are talented performers but I think this is the last we'll see of them. They might manage to drag Kitty in for a cameo or two if she keeps dating Artie long distance. I'm a little disappointed about how the Puck/Quinn relationship worked out. I think it makes a lot of sense but there's still a little corner of my heart reserved for Puckleberry and if they were going to pair Rachel with anyone but Finn (or Jesse St. James before they made him ridiculous) it would have been Puck. If they're serious about pushing Rachel and Sam in New York, season 6 is going to be rough. I'm glad they squashed the Rachel/Santana conflict for so many reasons. Santana was never believable to me as a Broadway star, at least in Funny Girl. It prevented me from enjoying both characters when they were on screen because I had to choose sides. It was just unpleasant to watch characters I like fighting. I know April and Holly were a little crazy when they were first introduced but they actually seemed insane and unstable when they came back for these two episodes.

I am disappointed that he wasn't the one to take the bullet. He's Rayna's ex-husband and Daphne's father so he's never going to get written off the show as much as they really need to kill his plotlines. They are weighing things down and I really don't care about this new development with him and lawyer lady. I would much rather have the lawyer lady be the supportive cipher for Deacon that she had been up until the writers thought it would be fun to pair her with Teddy.

My vote is for early season 1 Scarlett who sang fantastic duets with Gunnar. I need more duets for my Spotify playlist, Nashville. Make it happen. But seriously, I think they went off the rails with her character. She's been accused of being a Mary Sue but I think the problem is that they keep rewriting her. One day she's this weak, naive poet who stirs Gunnar's protective instincts. The next day she's all sassy and full of quips. Then she's overwhelmed by being on tour. Then she's a drug addict who falls in love with Liam at the drop of a hat. Her personality is not consistent. Her motivations are not consistent. Even her music isn't consistent.

I really hate Rayna. I know a lot of people like her character but for me, Connie Britton and Callie Khouri failed with her. I find her incredibly unlikable and self-righteous. In their attempt to write this strong female character they've made the mistake of writing this judgmental hypocrite who doesn't behave like a normal person. In season 1 she made all these sassy demands and then stormed out of rooms. That is not what a mature businesswoman does. I thought she was alright at the beginning of season 2 but the Rayna I hate has been slowly creeping back in and now she's back to infuriating me more often than not.

I mean, yes, she's insulting herself but I wouldn't even call it the worst tagline this season. I think that would have to go to Sonja's commando line which is gross and not even mildly clever. It lands with a dull thud every time it starts the episode. So far I like Kristen. Granted, it's only been two episodes, but she seems pretty nice if a little kooky. I haven't decided how I feel about her relationship with her husband yet. Either he's this awful jerk who can't be bothered to text her when he'll be late, drags her out to do crazy mud races and then leaves her behind after promising to stay, and is generally neglectful and uncaring. ...Or she likes to complain a lot and after years of being married he's used to it and doesn't want to really engage with her anymore.

No, I didn't watch any British spin-off. But I did get that same feeling watching a few episodes of Accused when it was on Netflix.

I miss the show that I started watching in season 1 but I'm doing my best to get through the rest of this season because I'm a completionist and I want to put this series to rest. Then after a sufficient amount of time has passed, I'll rewatch it but stop maybe in the second or third season and pretend it never got renewed for another season after that.

Oh, no question. Original recipe is the best of the Law and Orders. Criminal Intent was good when I was younger and thought it was gritty television. Also, they had Stephen Colbert on an episode so they get bonus points. SVU is horrible. It's depressing and it used to be the same case all the time until fairly recently when they decided to just make things crazy. But yes, good, old-fashioned Law & Order is still the gold standard for police procedurals. It is the bar against which everything else is measured. Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, and Benjamin Bratt years were the best years for me. Dennis Farina was never as good as Orbach and the less said about Jeremy Sisto, Anthony Anderson, and Milena Govich, the better. Obviously Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy made the show. As for all the ADA's, I would go 1. Abbie Carmichael 2. Claire Kincaid 3. Alexandria Borgia 4. Serena Southerlyn 5. Jamie Ross 6. Connie Rubirosa.

Actually in the moments when the show has hinted at an Annie/Jeff pairing, I've been all for it. I know in the universe of the show there's a weird age difference but I think the actors have a lot of chemistry and those scenes have really worked for me. Annie has kind of been on the sidelines this season. The biggest thing that has happened for her character in my mind was the introduction of her brother Anthony played amazingly by Spencer Crittenden.

I'm torn when it comes to the fashion on Reign. On one hand, I feel like this show is really becoming the spiritual successor to Gossip Girl so I understand the desire to just have things that look pretty or that reflect some modern trends to sell things to the teenage audience a la Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars. On the other hand, the level of historical inaccuracy can sometimes be painful and the fact that a lot of the costumes are accurate to "a" time period, if not the right one for this show, has to mean that they're referencing specific time periods. I do think things have improved since the pilot where the costumes were generally not just historically inaccurate but quite cheap looking. I don't mind the historical inaccuracy as much when I get to stare at lush fabrics and beautiful embroidery. Though it did really bug me in one scene where I think Kenna either had on feather earrings or a dreamcatcher necklace.

I love the title of this thread. I used to watch Megan Follows in that Anne of Green Gables movie all the time. I had the box set but the sequels when she got older were not as entertaining. I've only watched the first few episodes of Reign but I wish she was a little more deliciously evil. Catherine de Medici should be such a compelling female character or at the very least a deliciously camp role and at least in the first four episodes, I don't feel like she's really been going for it.

I feel like I was a little neutral on her last season but this season I'm really starting to dislike her. Not that I'm siding with Aviva. I'm Team No One because they're both awful and wrong. But I don't think enough people on the show are picking apart how terrible Carole's arguments are. She is really condescending. I can't take her seriously as a writer when she claims she purposefully sacrifices grammar to create more beautiful sounding, lyric prose. She keeps perpetuating this idea that we should feel bad for her because without her career she has "nothing" because she doesn't have a significant other or a child which is ridiculous and insulting to women. Somehow she's trained Heather to be her attack dog which makes me dislike Heather more. Her refusal to acknowledge her own privilege because it doesn't gel with her image of herself as this cool, downtown chick is irritating. And she just doesn't seem like a very nice person. She and Heather are a little too willing to jump to making jokes about Aviva's leg now that they're not friendly anymore.

I know I'm a little late to the conversation but I've been holding off on Enlisted because it seemed like that show that I could catch whenever. I'm biased because I fell for Parker Young's version of this same kind of dumb but lovable character on Suburgatory. Also, Keith David. Come on now. But the show won me over on its own. I thought it was funny and charming while not stretching too far out of the typical sitcom mode. It made me laugh but I could definitely see the way the dog thing would work out as soon as they introduced it. Then again, I feel like Brooklyn Nine-Nine does something very similar and I've stuck with that show.

Hmn. I actually appreciated the spoilerific discussion on the old TWoP board. Should we start a separate thread to discuss TCM movies with spoilers?

Thanks for creating this forum, mariah. Hello fellow TWoP emigres!