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There's one fairly simple explanation: Older versions of themselves in the present day? Ghosts! (Kidding...or am I?)

Fogelman discusses how the rest of the season will unfold at TVLine:

So the twist was what I'd seen speculated on a few articles about the show (mostly on TV Line), so people are either good at guessing or knew and were trying to spoil it for people. The ending was very sweet, with the three babies in the matching onesies. I generally liked the characters, but I guess I don't really see the point in the dual timelines. So we'll watch the parents in the past and the now-grown kids in the present...why? Seems like it'll be weird shifting from the 80s to the present constantly every episode. Unless it's to show the parents having adventures reflecting on the kids' lives in the present, like Lost's (and 20 million other shows') flashbacks, but with the same characters getting "flashbacks" every week. Yeah, weird. Guess we'll see. But if they give me Milo's ass in every episode, they can do whatever they want.

Yeah, I really wanted to like this show...but I didn't. I don't need a typically "likeable" lead, but seeing how thoroughly she was screwing over everyone else just pissed me off. I wanted her to get caught and kicked out, which isn't what I think the show was going for. I might read recaps/summaries of future episodes just to see what happens, but I can't see myself sitting through more episodes.

Offscreen/not in an episode. Like how Penny supposedly had already met Alfred prior to the previous episode, though we never saw it (or him).

I liked the wedding well enough, even if that set was ridiculously fake. The first half was weaker. They didn't have enough time for Penny's family or to develop her mother and brother's characters, so all the jokes were one-note and forced. I did laugh at "What color trash would you like us to be?" though.

For the tangled question, I would have loved if she'd said "A Disney Rapunzel movie."

The Brazil incident was on August 14. The cast was announced August 30--and ABC was already tweeting on August 12 that the cast would be announced on the 30th. The idea that ABC didn't have the cast already locked in by then, and was still casting in those two weeks, is completely unrealistic. This is a big time commitment, there are schedules that have to be worked out to guarantee someone can do this, which is also why they likely couldn't drop him and pick someone else (especially since the real controversy about whether and how much he lied didn't come up until later the week of the 14th.) Finding someone else to immediately drop their plans for the fall and reschedule their lives in the week before the cast announcement? Completely implausible. There's no way Lochte wasn't signed before the Olympics, long before any need for a redemption story. It just doesn't work that way.

I had no idea who Hinchcliffe was until he appeared on Celebrity Family Feud earlier this summer...but the man is adorable and charming as hell. I'm glad to see he's a surprisingly good dancer and will likely be around for a while. Yes, I'm shallow.

Choreographer Kathryn Burns won the Emmy for Best Choreography in a tie with America's Best Dance Crew. I'll take it! Hooray!

That show was "A Gifted Man," but she didn't win anything for that. She won her first Emmy for "Justified."

Mea culpa. After losing the Oscar and the Grammy, I didn't think the Diane Warren/Gaga song would win this time either. But I guess when you submit to enough awards, you come away with something in the end. Sigh. Congrats to the show, and specifically editor Kabir Akhtar for his work on the pilot, for the one win. But overall, the show was still horribly robbed.

Chad was fired this week from his job at a big-name New York real estate firm, evidently for being on the show. It was probably fine before the news about Sepulveda's background came out, but that probably made the company less comfortable. Not really fair.

It actually doesn't air until 9/19. The final episodes of Pyramid and Match Game are being run/burned off on subsequent Mondays, 9/12 for Pyramid, 9/19 for Match Game at 10/9 central. (Miss America is next Sunday; Emmys the Sunday after that.)

Heh. Yeah, that too. But even without the caption, it always seemed perfectly clear where the show was taking place. In addition to the examples you gave, all the establishing shots were obviously Vancouver, and while it wasn't true for the American actors imported in as guest stars, there were enough local ones whose accents were more obviously Canadian. Unlike a lot of shows trying to be a generic "any city" to appeal to American viewers, this one felt more recognizably Canadian--Vancouver as itself, rather than trying to pretend to be somewhere else--which gave it a more distinctive feel. And I liked that a lot.

One of the most satisfying finales I've seen for a procedural. The right amount of character focus and mystery. Nice to see how everyone turned out--Paula and Kennicki, Lucas married again (though I guess I wasn't invested enough to remember whoever it was he married, unless it was someone never mentioned before), Betty and Oscar, Manny--while still leaving the future open for their lives and stories to continue. At the same time, the case and cast of one-time characters were well-developed and memorable. Yeah, yeah, murder is wrong, but I still wanted Lexi to get away with it, right up until the point where she stabbed Angie, and probably even after that. Angie's stupidity was the sole off-note for me. Getting into the face of someone you believe is guilty of at least three murders when you're unarmed and have no backup? So, so stupid. In a show that often had sympathetic killers and unsympathetic victims, Lexi--multiple murders and all--was a very fitting final killer. I really liked this show. The characters. The actors. The Canadian-ness of it all (I could have sworn they made it explicit long before this, but maybe it just seemed so much more obvious than other shows. At the very least it didn't seem like they were trying to hide it). The mysteries. Probably one of my favorite procedurals ever. It was just so likeable, in a way that made it more endearing than other shows of its type. I'm going to miss it.

It actually happened in the late 2000s in Pennsylvania--the Kids for Cash scandal. As soon as it happened, a bunch of shows did the usual ripped-from-the-headlines episodes. I remember the SVU one--Swoosie Kurtz was the evil judge (in a performance that wasn't exactly subtle).

Minor spoiler I guess?

Really good episode. Love that the show keeps finding new twists. I was shocked to realize the show was almost over and it looked like the killer was going to get away with it. And as much as I know I probably shouldn't, I really wanted her to. (Although I guess I shouldn't count on that lasting...) Glad Vega finally appeared. And even Kennicki was redeemed--something else I never saw coming! Nice that the Lucas-witness plot ended up having some kind of payoff, even if I don't know how I feel about him going to Internal. This has been a really well-constructed season, IMO, in a refreshingly different way than the usual season-long arc method. Next week looks really good. I'm going to miss this show.

This was the first episode of the show I watched. It was all right, though nothing I really feel the need to watch again. I did find it annoying that they kept calling the show "Million Dollar Listings" when it's Listing, singular. The fact that that was the most memorable thing about the show to me probably says everything about my reaction to it.

Why? Old people have cable, and can figure out streaming. For anyone who loves television--as people who work or have worked in the industry presumably do--that's where they have to go for the best, or at least most interesting, shows these days. And it's still the shows that have more appeal to older viewers than younger ones that come out on top, regardless of where they come from. I couldn't disagree more. If anything, the Emmy results over the years have demonstrated the Academy doesn't give a damn about buzz or what's cool, or we wouldn't see so many of the same nominees and winners year after year, long after their shows' buzz have faded, while much more acclaimed and talked about shows are ignored. Maslany was buzzed about from the very first season of Orphan Black--and was ignored by the television academy its first two years, only breaking through in its third, presumably when the voters finally got around to watching the show, which was actually when the buzz had slightly diminished. If they did care about what was cool, she would have been nominated from the start. As mentioned above, nope. She won the Golden Globe, but the television academy ignored her. Bloom received even more awards, acclaim and media attention this year, and was just as ignored in the end.

All of the Sunday night game shows have been renewed (presumably for next summer, though the article doesn't say).

All the Sunday night game shows have been renewed (presumably for next summer). Hooray!

Wow, that was actually a pretty good twist. Maybe I should have seen it coming, but I was so squicked out by that moment when Armstrong started kissing Rachel and then climbed on top of her, plus annoyed by the heavy-handedness of the religious fanaticism, that I completely fell for the misdirection. It seemed like such the typical religious-conservatives-are-crazy-hypocrites thing that cop dramas and mystery shows do a lot that I was didn't pick up on the hints (if there were any?) or think it was anything more than it appeared to be. Love it when a twist makes the plot more interesting. You got me, show. And the actual murder, with the mace to the head. Damn. Very effective and well-executed (er, so to speak). Vega quitting and Flynn considering leaving is really giving the show a sense of finality in these final episodes. I'm actually finding it pretty sad.