Auntie Anxiety

Yes, Brooks seemed to sail through "aggressive (his words)" chemotherapy remarkably unscathed! The majority of people start losing their hair after the second treatment. I know this from firsthand experience as well as being told by numerous doctors and nurses. You lose your eyebrows, you lose your nose hairs, you lose your pubic hair, you lose the color in your face, you lose weight. It's all gone. To me, Brooks looked like the epitome of good health.

I have been treated (and survived) three different cancers (cervical, Hodgkin's lymphoma and acute myeloid leukemia) in the space of four years. I had chemotherapy for each one of them and was treated at teaching hospitals. There were no restrictions on having friends or family come in to sit with me during the four hour treatments. Even during the leukemia, which was terribly serious, I could have visitors but they had to wear masks due to my compromised immune system. And yes, there were other people sitting in chairs right next to me getting their infusions and being visited by guests; in some cases, I'd wish there WERE restrictions on visitors! I have also had numerous scans, MRIs, CTs, PETs, and CT/PETs. The results were at least a full page, single spaced long. The doctors looking at the scans would list everything they saw, EVERYTHING, about my entire body. There were comments stuff that had absolutely no bearing on the cancer. After all, they have to cover their asses. Vicki embraced Brooks' cancer story line because she figured it would give her the most screen time. She is a desperate, stupid woman.

So I'm guessing that Rhonda isn't pregnant? Or that she lost the baby and doesn't want to tell Andre because she's afraid of his reaction?

It wasn't until the 1960's that anyone made the connection between smoking and lung cancer.

Really nice episode and the pair were well matched. I'm glad she was with an older guy as I think it helped her feel like she had a father figure to keep her safe. She reminded me of a dark-haired Hayden Panitiere. I think it meant a lot to the guy to feel like she trusted him with some of her secrets. Hope they stay in touch.

Loved it. And since I also watch Vikings, I recognized some of the characters' names and had a little knowledge of the back story which helped me figure out who was who and what was going on. Always nice to see Rutger Hauer on the screen.

I have had my fill of hipsters. Tired of the beards, tired of the vests, tired of the "coolness" of the hip-geoisie. Enough already. Talk about a niche product. If anyone wants to give me $9 (plus shipping and handling) for a pair of super duper cool socks, I'll go to the local Marshall's, buy a pair for $3 put it in a mailer and gladly steal your hard-earned money. And I wondered how many people actually buy a second wooden tie after they've bought the first one. The wedding was obviously a re-enactment, although I'm not sure what it was a re-enactment of. The guests looked like people they pulled off the street and received a Wicked Good Cupcake on the way out as payment for their time.

"Every episode of Empire is like a season finale." Amen, Lamont, amen. I want to be Brandy and Julie's best friend. Love their witty banter.

Welcome back, couchers. I have missed my favorite meta show. Where else can you watch people watch tv while you're watching tv? The puppy choir won the gold medal tonight.

To me, the Eli-Eastman fight was like bad drama gone ridiculous. I really want to continue to watch this show, but they have to give me something, anything! With my busy Sunday night tv schedule, I need a good reason to take up DVR space, not to mention my time.

If he expects to run faster than the walkers, he really needs pull up those goddam pants.

Wonder what the lazy approach would be toward those obstacle course competitions for immunity.

I just saw it as yet another attention seeking device for Honora. She's an immature child who always wants to play the victim and what better way than a service dog to play up that aspect of her neediness? Service dogs do have a purpose, don't get me wrong, but I am suspicious of anything having to do with Honora. Seeing the way Shane was treated by Alana and Danielle and seeing the way Dani was treated by Alana, Danielle et al., the common denominator is the Mean Girls. My guess is that Dani wouldn't have had to do anything for them to be nasty toward her. I was very impressed with the way Dani spoke to the group in a very grown-up, direct way. She accepted what they said, she didn't make excuses, she apologized for her shortcomings and pledged to do better. Guess that wasn't good enough for the adolescents.

All it would have taken is if one of those douchebags had stood up to the others and said that they should be willing to give Dani the benefit of the doubt and, since it was only a few more days, they could just grin and bear it. Instead, they decided to emotionally beat her up and make her out to be Public Enemy #1 for not waking up enough to put wood on the fire? And let's think about the wood on the fire for a minute. Six people, 8-9 hours of sleep at night if you're lucky and Dani was the one who shirked her responsibility? About how many times a night do you think the fire needed to be tended? More than once an hour? Did she miss one rotation? It's so ridiculous and petty. What if someone wanted to call out Chris, the fisherman, for not being capable of catching one friggin' fish? Talk about a major league fail. The only reason I find this show more palatable than other reality shows is that they don't ply the contestants with liquor.

Just finished watching this show today and thought the first season was excellent. I was busy raising kids during the 80's, so I didn't know much about what was going on in the 80s, except for Dallas, Dynasty and out-sized shoulder pads. Totally looking forward to the next season. Netflix was ingenious in this undertaking. I bet it introduced an huge Hispanic audience to the Netflix brand.

Couldn't agree more, spaceghostess. I think that was Shane's problem with the witch coven from the get-go. He wanted to embrace the experience, push himself, do whatever possible to survive while those two harpies acted as if they were sitting on a bench waiting for the bus to arrive on Day 40. And Danielle (who couldn't wait to get her "name" back, as if she had trademarked and copyrighted it), it's really time to stop patting yourself on the back because you were able to maintain your vegetarianism. I value acting like a mensch far more than not eating meat for 40 days. Get over yourself, dear. I'm pretty good at reading people, have a fairly high emotional intelligence and I found Eva's apology hollow and phony. Hope it made her feel better about herself. Alana hugging Shane was profoundly ridiculous. You could tell by her face that she was thinking about how she was going to get herself out of that situation. It seemed quite clear that she hadn't given her actions a second thought up until the time the camera was focused on her reacting to the video. I mean, didn't the group have at least five seconds to speak to each other before being filmed at the reunion? Even if they hadn't yet seen the episodes, wouldn't a normal person rethink how s/he treated someone else and, I don't know, maybe apologize before being shamed into it? I've heard a rumor that there are things like phones and emails that one can use to communicate. And how dare EJ not be the leader of the entire group! [/sarcasm] Was that supposed to be in his contract, Laura? To play daddy to that woeful group of do-nothings? Last time I checked, you were all adults, all signed on to be on the show, all KNEW or should have known what it took to survive (since they were all veterans of the show) and no one should have expected to be provided for by anyone other than themselves. It wasn't EJ's job to make the 40 days into Club Med for all the hangers-on.

Honora really appears to have embraced the homeless persona thing, dog and all. Would it have killed her to maybe put a comb through her hair for the occasion? What a poseur. Dani, who looked lovely btw, let them off easy. I don't think I'd ever talk to those assholes again. Chris is a tool. Alana sucks the wad. Laura seems to have rationalized her horrendous behavior. I don't care how tired and hungry and terrible someone is feeling.....you do NOT treat a teammate like crap and try make excuses for it after the fact. Those extreme conditions show who you really are, including being a douche to someone who doesn't deserve it.

Thank you, lovebug. Even with the tranquilizers, the caiman almost got away.

I thought it was also a "let's feel good about ourselves" moment. There are some survivors I didn't like, some I felt neutral about, but the only one I'm disappointed in is Laura.

Best part of the episode was when the dolphins showed up. After the reunion, I don't want to see any of those people anymore.

With regard to Honora, it just goes to show you that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

From the previews, it looked like Honora had a few choice words for Chris (called him a sexist or mysogynist or some such thing). I wonder if she watched his first episode and saw how he treated his female companion in order to buttress her accusations.

Hooray for a reunion show. I just recently posted that they needed to do one, just so that Dani could call out the assholes who bullied her for no reason whatsoever. We need a drinking game: Have a shot whenever they cry "editing." Those guys with guns on the boat made me wonder if perhaps I made a mistake and was watching Narcos (which is very good, btw, if you need something to binge-watch).

Didn't I see this same mob goes crazy plot line in the first season of The Strain? Yeah, I stopped watching that one too. And Matt, I apologize, but you are always going to be Randall from The Wire in my eyes.

I was just thinking about how much I would love to see a reunion show and have Shane and Dani totally humiliate and embarrass those assholes.