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I respect and admire Rachel and have from her debut on MSNBC but her show has become increasingly difficult for me to watch. It has become a virtual commercial fest with too little actual content. It is very annoying when Rachel comes back from one commercial break, gives a 20 second tease for an upcoming story and then goes right to another round of commercials. I realize that ad revenue is always the bottom line but when it chops a valuable source of news up so badly. one has to wonder. I find myself, more and more changing the channel during Rachel's show and not coming back to it. Rachel and her fans deserve better than this.

I used to think that the characters on How to Get Away With Murder were the most despicable group on TV but UnReal's folks make them look like Mother Teresa and Mahatma Ghandi rolled into one. This is the best train wreck on television right now. I look forward to 10 PM on Monday night just to see how far beneath last week's sewer the lot of them can sink. Will some one please tell Madison to get rid of the freaking pigtails? Genevieve Buechner is a very good looking girl but that hairstyle, yeech!

Just watched thee finale on HBO Go from my Roku. All I can say is wow, wow, freaking wow! What a great 75 minutes of television. Cersie is amazing in a perverse way. With the short hair she looks like a true warrior queen and Leann Headly is perfect. She can say more without saying anything than many actors can with pages of dialogue. The closing scene of Dany and her armada sailing west with her dragons flying overhead was spectacular. On HBO Go there were two features, one about the closer and another which was a "making of" covering episodes 9 and 10. The looks of sheer joy on the actors faces when they were talking about filming the finale and then seeing the actual rendered footage was terrific.

It wasn't so much Chloe's acting, which was fairly minimal but her dancing which was terrific. Getting the hell away from ALDC and getting some real training has advanced her skill and stage presence. Are you watching Maddie?

It wasn't the best closer that I've ever seen. It seemed very rushed and disjointed at times but having a lot of the cast members dancing at the end was nice.

Watched a couple of minutes during a time out in the GS-OKC final basketball (Go Dubs!) playoff game. Saw enough to keep from going back to it during subsequent time outs. They ought to rename the show "So You Think Your Kid Can Dance". Alas, the best dancing show on TV is no more.

Re: Preview of the show: Well there's one more reason not to watch SYTYCD as it goes through its final death throes. Put a fork in the show. It's done after (or maybe during) this season. DWTS is now pretty much the only show on TV where adults get to dance ballroom.

Well, sort of a decent ending. Hopefully Lionsgate's gamble on the cliffhanger ending will payoff in a season 5 pickup by someone. Some random thoughts: - Luke Wheeler fighting for the right thing and putting his integrity in front of his sales numbers. Well played sir and kudos to Will Chase for such a bang up job throughout the series. He's an established Broadway star, survived his run in Smash (although his "Lexington and 52nd Street" was one of Smash's best numbers), is a great singer and has beaucoup screen presence. - Bucky and Glenn: Who wouldn't want them as managers. Both are class acts - Will finally standing up for himself and putting down the homophobic lunatic on camera. Yay! - What the hell was that crap that Maddie was "singing" in the recording booth? She sound like a heavy breather making an obscene phone call. Sweetheart, Donna Summer you ain't.

It's gonna take more than that to give Melissa an IQ larger than her belt size. Hopefully, next week will be the last we'll see of her and her brood. Why, however, do I think it's not going to play out that way?

I think that Red may have been talking about Tom.

I had mixed feelings about the episode but did appreciate some filling out of Red's backstory regarding his relationship with Liz's mother and with Liz herself. For the record, my feeling is that Liz has truly gone to that FBI Academy in the sky. I was very intrigued by the opening sequence with Doc Nick pleading for his life. Surely Red knew that Nick did everything humanly possible to save Liz but it came down to the choice between a very small chance of her surviving vs. delivering a healthy baby. Red also knew that Nick was very fond of Liz so the whole scene seemed off to me. Hopefully we'll learn more next week but it looks like the theme is going a be a max effort by Red and the FBI to hunt down Liz's killers. It would be nice to see Mathias Solomon get the typical three in the chest sendoff from Red but he's only the muscle, not the brains behind whatever this latest conspiracy is.

You would think that, after 2 full seasons of crazy attraction between Walter and Paige, she would have enough insight into his battered psyche to know that she has to make the first move but nope. This is worse than Castle, although when that situation was finally resolved, it was the hottest 5 minutes in the show's history. Somehow I don't see Scorpion heading down that road.

Maddie and Kalani's duet was lovely but I have a question for all of you who have been dancers or have kids who are dancers. Kalani is a gorgeous girl and clearly a wonderful dancer but even watching the duet, I kept wondering about her future. I specifically thought about many of the kids who are only 18 and have been on So You Think You Can Dance and how advanced their technical skills and vocabularies are and, as good as Kalani is, I'm not seeing her at that level in a few years without a lot of very intensive training in multiple genres of dance. So what say those of you whose judgements I defer to?

After a couple of minutes, I took a pass on this episode and watched Gotham and Ken Burn's Jackie Robinson instead. Skipping the Disney Night show has become a habit now. There's too much nonsense and crass shilling for Disney going on to really just focus on and enjoy the dancing. I wish that they would just do away with this bloated drek.

Melissa flaunting her alleged sexuality and her hubby's supposed lusting after her 24/7 was just a tad on the YEEECH! side. I do get a laugh out of the Jill and Holly's moaning about how the team is changing, blah, blah. Yeah you dumb twits, it's called "Children grow up and go on to other things, even yours". They are probably really worried about what happens to the show and, not coincidentally, their paydays if Maddie, ALDC's star, leaves. The show could lose much of whatever remaining audience it has and might finally face the long overdue cancellation by Lifetime. After all it has those shows about Little People, idiot "celebrity" mothers and daughters and lord knows what else to keep the masses happy.

Typical of DWTS. After a long absence to be a wife and mother (she and Alec are one great looking couple so the kid's got good genes) Edyta comes back to all of the ballyhoo, gets stuck with a clunker and bam, she's gone after one week. The saving grace is that eliminated dancers always stay for the season and are in the pro routines so we'll get to see more of her. BTW, what does everyone think of the show so far without Derek? Looks OK to this point. Sasha is an outstanding dancer and partner and takes up some of the slack. He can do some good things with Kim once she calms down a bit. Nice to see Keo with a contender for once as well. Tony too since it looks like Marla can move out on he floor. Overall, there seems to be more balance this season between the celebs minus Geraldo, Misha and maybe Doug. The distribution among the pro dancers seems better balanced as well.

Olivia is almost beyond redemption. She is now the spitting image of Papa Pope right down to the scathing Shakespearean soliloquies. Yeech! Please, for the love of God, get rid of Sally Langston. Kate Burton is a terrific actress but the character is beyond obnoxious. Even if Susan was padding the truth, her debate answer was one of the best moments of this season. I loved her coldly stopping the blowhard Hollis in his tracks with her "I'm talking now". It was a very nice scene for Artemis Pebdani who does a fine job playing Susan.

Maybe it's just me but I find this dream of acting stardom by Maddie and her idiot mother to be very suspect. Think of the brilliant child actors that you've seen over the last few years. Jacob Tremblay in The Room, the Fanning girls, Abigail Breslin, Chloe Grace-Moritz are just some examples and there are so many more who have been excellent in major films. Does anyone see Maddie comparing in any way to these kids? I personally don't and it would take a world of acting coaching to hone whatever innate skills she has. I would hope that Maddie continues with her dancing and her training. At the end of the day, her future may well lie in that direction.

It was a good move by Abby. Her comments after Kalani's second place finish were very insightful as well. J-Lo or anyone else won't be "snatching" up Kalani anytime soon, or at least until she turns 18 but I hope that Kira was paying attention. Woman, get your kid away from this faux fame train and back into a real studio for some serious advanced training. Your kid's got it in ability, looks and personality and might actually be a professional dancer but only if you help to make that happen while she's still in her formative years.

"Norma Desmond & Baby Jane Hudson" Just priceless! Most likely for a) the money b) a contract with Collins Entertainment that is an equivalent to legal serfdom. These reality show contracts are usually very rigid and very binding. They are difficult to break. Clay Aiken is one of the few who did it and he had to hire a very high powered (and no doubt very expensive) Atlanta entertainment law firm to battle it out with American Idol's production company.

Ditto on Gregg Henry. He's the perfect acting choice for a low life like Hollis who was enough of a dipshit before Trump came along. Now they've got a while new vein of scuzziness to mine. Let's not forget Henry's portrayal of one the sleaziest, but also funniest "villains" alive, the immortal Val Resnick in Payback.

Kalani has consistently been the classiest and most adult person on this show and her actions last night were just the latest examples of that.

True that but OTOH, any excuse or plot device used to get Kelly Preston on a show works for me.

Actually there was. When Echo saw what was on the hard drive he distinctly said it must be worth a lot of money, so there was his motive. Wizard probably knew Echo as a fellow hacker and foolishly told him about Jake's "achievement". Since CBS cancelled the last four episodes, it looked looked like the writers came up with a script that could serve to tie up loose ends and serve as a series closer or in case of a renewal go forward with new story lines minus DB's involvement (at first, possibly). My bet is that Cyber will be cancelled and for me, that's too bad. Contrary to the slings and arrows that are thrown at the show, I've enjoyed it.

I have not been a fan of Maddie but I have to admit that her Lizzie Borden number was brilliant as much for her acting as her dancing. From the opening "crazy eyes", she completely sold the insanity of the piece all the the way through. It may be the best routine that I've seen Maddie do. I don't believe that the announcer actually gave her score after gasping at it but it must have been pretty close to perfect.