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I immediately thought of the same article (or maybe it's just a similar one on a chef working in an exclusive high-rise restaurant that's usually empty) from the NYT a few months back. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/nyregion/condo-tower-restaurants.html

Hollywood Reporter review is a pan. Anyone know what the twist is? ‘Suits LA’ Review: Stephen Amell Flounders in NBC’s Tonally Confused, Narratively Jumbled Legal Drama‘ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/suits-la-review-stephen-amell-nbc-1236142299/ "When I say the pilot is bad, I don’t just mean on the usual grounds, like bland dialogue or underwritten characters. I mean it’s misguided in respects that make you wonder how any of this came to be. Its single most laughable choice is a high-key bonkers, low-key offensive twist that I am forbidden to reveal here. But there’s plenty of stuff I can talk about that doesn’t work, either."

They've been establishing Elsbeth having a thing for firemen (or them for her?) all season (if not longer). The one in episode 2 The one in the Christmas episode. From TVLine's interview with Carrie Preston last week: TVLINE | Even though there was tons of physical comedy for you in this episode, which was delightful, no moment made me laugh more than when Angus revealed that he’s a fireman. [Laughs] I know. TVLINE | What was your reaction when you first saw that in the script? It was the most perfect way to end the episode, because here we are, thinking that this guy is so different from any of these other guys that keep coming onto her, and it turns out, that’s really how he makes his living, on top of being a musician. [Laughs] So, yeah, I just thought it was perfect, and in a way, it was surprise, but no surprise for Elsbeth. TVLINE | Is she going to give firemen a second chance now? Because it seemed like she was really writing them all off. I think she’s just used to guys like that coming after her for maybe superficial reasons, and then this was definitely not superficial. This was a real connection with somebody who flew all the way across the world to meet her in-person. So I don’t think she’s going to suddenly take firemen seriously now any more than she did before.

Wow. I really only watched this for lack of anything else, even though I really haven't enjoyed it in a while and my comments last season were pretty negative...but that was actually really funny? And made me laugh out loud multiple times? What is happening? But yeah, that was hilarious. It feels a bit broader than before, but it actually worked and everything was clicking. The opening fake out, the hospital scene, whole cafeteria sequence, the final courtroom sequence. I really and without reservation enjoyed that. I don't quite know how I feel about that. But yeah, Flobert makes no sense. Kind of just have to roll with it.

I just checked a few transcripts of the first episode and don't see that?

I actually wondered if that wasn't a lie she told Lilia just to get her to come (just like she was lying about the road in the first place). She was intending to kill Lilia/Jen/Alice all along, so it doesn't make sense that she would tell Lilia not to blast her and she would be fine if she needed Lilia to blast her for the plan to work? Or was she really counting on Lilia to lose it when provoked (which she seemed to be attempting when she demanded to know if there were any real witches there, before Teen burst in to interrupt)?

I watched TBBT from start to finish but none of Young Sheldon. Was Meemaw always such a bitch to Mary on YS or was that just for this episode? For what it's worth, the audience reactions do seem to be real. According to a Deadline interview they toned down some of it.

I really wish the show were better, but it's just so mediocre. It's just a downer. I don't hate it, but also don't know why I'm still watching. The opening with Roz was so clunky and abrupt, like they had to cut off the opening scene in the office for time (but could have just had Frasier cover it in exposition at the start of the next scene before she arrived).

When Roz takes Eve and Olivia out for a girls' night, Frasier, Alan and Freddy are upset that they have to watch Eve's baby instead of meeting women. However, their evening changes when they realize that a baby just might be the perfect icebreaker.

Rusty is a d*ck, but I don't believe anyone would want to believe their children are equally likely to be guilty of murder as their spouse. Spouse is a much more automatic, and reassuring, assumption than child. For an egotist, thinking your spouse killed someone because of you is ego-feeding. Thinking your child could have done it simply exposes one's failures as a parent and a human being.

One reason the BBC and RTD announced she would be back is that the Daily Mail and others were claiming earlier this year that she'd been fired and replaced with the new companion (some were saying after only a few episodes), so the DM may need to be taken with several grains of salt. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12985585/Doctor-Millie-Gibson-dropped-one-series-replacement-revealed.html https://deadline.com/2024/01/doctor-who-millie-gibson-dropped-varada-sethu-joins-1235799043/

The answer has been reported and confirmed by RTD and the BBC.

Three Seasons of Bridgerton Culminate in One Ecstatic Line Reading

Hasn't it been widely covered that none of the clothes on the show are really period accurate?

Also, as ever, Mr. Finch, I'll miss you most of all.

I have to say, that big blue/green sheet in the sex scene was really distracting and kind of embarrassing. I don't need to see nudity, but if you don't want to show it...don't cut to an overhead shot showing him thrusting away so we have to see they've carefully draped themselves in a massive sheet like no one would actually do during sex. Just stick to the closeups of their faces, which are more intimate anyway.

Also, out of everybody in this episode, Varley may be my favorite.

The opening confrontation was a letdown after the deliciousness of the cliffhanger. Penelope was too weepy and Colin seemed too...restrained or something? Not intense? Not angry enough? It just fell kind of flat. The second confrontation on the street was much better. His character really hasn't been developed enough, so the fact that they tied his anger more into concern that she was right in what she wrote about him, and not really respecting his own writing, and not needing him, gave him a lot more (or at least some) depth. The early Violet/Danbury scenes and Colin/Eloise scenes were really good. "Have you forgotten what she wrote about me at the start of the season?" "Of course, that was not so good." It was all in her delivery, but I had to cackle.

Okay, the one thing I didn't love... After setting up such an unconventionally romantic love story for Francesca and Stirling in the first half of the season, they were clearly setting up seeds for discontent for Francesca in this half--the pensive look she gave Colin and Penelope outside the church in episode 6 when they looked happy, all the pensive looks in this one when Violet was going on about how she was wrong about love needing to be a certain way, that moment where she was unpleasantly surprised that he might want to dance, the reluctance over the wedding kiss.... I don't mind the gender swap for Michael/Michaela, but it does bum me out that they basically had Francesca fall in love at first sight for her

That. Was. SO GOOD. And so much more satisfying and enjoyable than how it played out in the book. The fact that it was Penelope who had agency and took control over the narrative and revealing herself. That it was her cleverness in pulling everything together and solving all their problems. The fact that Colin came to appreciate Whistledown was a part of her all along. Lady Danbury in the chess game with the queen early on. Penelope giving her sisters their ball and letting her mother take the credit. Danbury after Penelope's speech, revealing she suspected it was her and looked forward to the next edition. I loved Benedict and Eloise bonding. So so good.

Colin telling off Portia. ***chef's kiss*** Watched that scene three times.

I was getting really tired of the endless Whistledown discussion--tell him, don't tell him, blah blah blah--so that ending was delicious and perfect. I haven't gone on to the next one, I'm still basking in the Drah-ma. The best part of this one though was Ruth Gemmell's facial expressions in the scene where she encourages Francesca and Stirling to wait until the end of the season, and then when they told her they wanted her to speak to the queen. Hilarious.

Meh. Patricia Heaton Joins ‘Frasier’, Reuniting With Kelsey Grammer "she will play Holly who is down-to-earth, unpretentious, and openly mocking of overly-intellectual types. A Boston native who tends bar at upscale restaurants and events, Holly is extraordinarily comfortable with both who and where she is in life, a quality that the always-climbing, always-reaching Frasier (Grammer) finds as alien as he does attractive." While she sounds like the opposite of Diane...having him get involved with another Boston barmaid?

Thank you. I regret I can only give you one like for this post. I agree with every word. I hope the inevitable drama they're setting up for the second half of the season for when he finds out she's Whistledown doesn't last too long and he understands relatively quickly that she did nothing wrong. When a con artist is exposed, the correct response isn't, "Poor, poor con artist! How dare you reveal she was pulling a con to get out of a situation of her own making!"

When a caller arrives at her home, Penelope faces a difficult choice. For others, opportunities to build a fresh start - and find a love match - abound.