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I liked this past episode a lot... which is frustrating because it's ending and now it's making me care about that!
Lark missing in the hospital was amusing. I loved the new math stuff. (Do they really have those elements in 'New Math'?) And nobody was especially annoying, which may be a record for this show.
It was hard to believe that Colleen, with her perfectly applied makeup, would think that what she did to Joan's face was great. Then again, when she put all that horrible makeup on little Lark (and that awful pageant dress) - she thought it looked great... so clearly she is insane!
Thanks for making me feel like I'm going to miss you show! (Not nearly at the level that I'll miss The Kids are Alright if ABC fails to come to their senses... but still, quite a bit.)
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8 hours ago, In2You said:
You had to rank them on how likely you are to watch a movie with that title.
Cold Feet at Christmas was my highest ranked.
Same here. That's the only one that doesn't sound like one I've already watched.
Edited to Add: To Merry or Not to Marry is the worst title IMO. I hate that one. (Closely followed by Heartfelt Christmas which gives no indication what it's about.)
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25 minutes ago, Driad said:
But many people can put their pants on that way, or by sitting and putting the pants on the floor. It sounded to me as if Sheldon was giving yet another example of how he is exceptional. Or maybe it's just that Sheldon always sounds that way (IMO).
He probably thinks it's the smarter way to do it because it's more efficient.
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2 hours ago, Koalagirl said:
I watched the whole thing and didn't regret watching it. My tolerance level is 30 minutes at most so this is a pretty decent endorsement. Someone previously mentioned the stupid way people dance in Hallmark's wedding segments and there was plenty of that here. I swear two couples were doing the polka during one of the reception scenes while there was romantic music playing.
I'm guessing they add the music later, after they secure licensing.
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9 hours ago, Misslindsey said:
On another note Kelly Pickler's voice in the commercial for whatever the new Graceland movie is called is so grating. I did not watch the first movie, because I am not a Kelly Pickler so I will not be watching the next.
Same here. I watched the preview of the June movies and the only one I'm really looking forward to is the one starring Paul Campbell - The Last Bridesmaid - with Rachel Boston. I've loved him in everything I've seen him in.
I will also probably watch Wedding March 5: My Boyfriend's Back because it stars Tyler Hynes who I really enjoyed in Flip that Romance. (I originally wasn't going to bother since I haven't seen the four previous movies in the series... but the preview made it seem like perhaps each installment focuses on a different couple, making them stand-alone for new viewers. Is that true?)
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3 hours ago, TVFan17 said:
Same here -- I enjoyed From Friend to Fiance more than I expected to. Sure, it had flaws, and there could have been 5 extra minutes devoted to the two "friends" acknowledging that they were in love with each other before the 6-month jump to the wedding. But, in general, I thought that much of the movie was cute. I think that Jocelyn Hudon, the leading lady (who is also one of the stars of the upcoming When Calls the Heart spinoff), is very good. She seems to have a knack for romantic comedy. I hope that Hallmark uses her again in this specific type of movie -- something funnier as opposed to more dramatic -- because I think she has a lot of potential.
I too thought it was cute, and the two leads were very appealing and likeable... especially compared to the last two new Hallmark movies. And I agree with you about Jocelyn Hudon. She is gorgeous but still relatable and seems to have more substance and natural acting ability than some of the other Hallmark actresses who seem to have been hired just because they are TV-beautiful. I think Jocelyn's a great fit for these types of movies and wouldn't mind seeing her in more of them.
I hadn't even noticed anything remotely close to cursing, so I'm surprised about the complaints you mentioned.
2 hours ago, Chippings said:My issue with Friend to Fiance was that fully grown adults kept asking each other "Yes, but do you LIKE-like him??" as if they were fourteen. It sort of diminished the whole thing. Also I couldn't quite respect a grown man who retreats from his looming wedding by crouching in his childhood playhouse. Issues, much???
Girl was cute - perky, and at least a different face from the half dozen usual ones. But the characters' wide pre-teen streak in their personalities was not attractive.
Haha! That's true. I hadn't really thought about it, but in a way I guess it was appropriate since they were all still getting over their pre-adult experiences.
I did like how they handle the reformed mean girl. I was never quite sure how reformed she really was until her last scene and I thought it was realistic that somebody like that could grow up to regret the way they behaved. I liked her realization that at least part of her motivation to marry him was because she wanted to prove to herself that she truly had changed. (Not that dating him would be any kind of hardship!)
In some ways, even though they had the immature romantic behavior of "Do you like-like him?" and all that... the main characters also showed quite a bit of maturity, especially in the final resolution, tree-house notwithstanding.
Plus it made it easier to root for the childhood BFFs because they truly loved and understood each other and they were equally gorgeous and attracted to each other... so of course they should get together. (They would have some seriously beautiful offspring!) The thing that was hard to believe was that they never dated before... but I guess IRL people do get stuck in their friend roles, even when everybody else who observes them knows they belong together.
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2 hours ago, lefawn said:
I noticed Baby Andy was left with William. I think William (not Bill, not Will, not Billy - as someone who has an easy abbreviated name but HATES that eliding and prefers a less common one or, just, my actual name, so I like that he’s William) and Eddie are the only ones who are really given Baby Andy. I wonder how much of that is from the creators life - the Eddie brother and William brother were the caretaker kids - or how much is just from the set - the actors who play Eddie and William are good with toddlers so the writers just do it that way.
When William was holding baby Andy at the end... I thought they looked like they could be real-life siblings. (It made me wonder if they are... they looked so comfortable together.)
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I actually enjoyed From Friend to Fiance a lot more than I thought I would, even though there wasn't a lot going on and I agree with Pickles that the older man was nowhere near old enough to be in a home.
I really liked the two leads and thought they were very well matched. I also liked how the mean girl story played out, especially the resolution.
Maybe it was my mood, but it all worked for me, even though it was a very simple story that normally would have bored me. (It did seem a lot longer than most of these movies that I like.)
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11 hours ago, LakeGal said:
Ugh! Dougie is on tonight's show.
Worst television character EVER!!!
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14 minutes ago, AnnaRose said:
It wasn't you. It was the terrible movie. I think you are only the second or third person who posts here who actually managed to make it all the way through A Feeling of Home. I think I bailed after about 20 or 30 minutes.
I couldn't take much of last night's new Hallmark movie Sailing into Love, either. That one was intolerable largely due to the poor acting and grating voice of the lead actress - you'll probably want to pass on it if you value your eardrums.
I watched a recent airing of 2016's Summer Love starring Rachael Leigh Cook and mostly enjoyed it even though the story had some serious problems: 1) People making a huge deal out of Rachael's character's age, including the receptionist at her new workplace who looked older than Rachael, which made her attitude laughable. 2) Her new boss/potential love interest behaving very inappropriately. 3) Not spending enough time with the man who ends up being The One, so that the romantic ending felt somewhat unearned.
There were other issues too... but in spite of all of that, I rather enjoyed it due to Rachael and the rest of the cast. The plot was a little more interesting too, despite being completely implausible.
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6 hours ago, Kemper said:
Okay, granted. I don't watch a whole lot of Hallmark movies other than the Mystery ones. But I do watch a few. Today there was one with two really leaden actors/actresses. I don't remember the title but she played a budding lifestyle/cooking expert who promoted herself as being from New England (she was actually from Texas, I think).
Her father lived on a ranch and was either injured or sick; didn't see that part. So she went back to Texas temporarily to care for him. And yes, we all know where this is heading. I will admit her hair was nice...not the usual fat sausage curls hanging over each shoulder; it was a long-ish bob. She was very pretty, he was Hallmark vanilla (although nice looking). But they were both incredibly wooden and boring; almost comically bad; maybe some of the worst I have seen on this channel.
I am sorry if maybe I just wasn't in the mood for a "pat" romance - they do have their place in our lives. And if this has been discussed - again, sorry. I guess I missed it; or maybe because the plots and titles all run together - resulting in my not knowing which movie was being talked about. If the consensus was that the movie was fun/good/leads were charming...I will blame myself for missing something and then grousing about it.
It wasn't you. It was the terrible movie. I think you are only the second or third person who posts here who actually managed to make it all the way through A Feeling of Home. I think I bailed after about 20 or 30 minutes.
I couldn't take much of last night's new Hallmark movie Sailing into Love, either. That one was intolerable largely due to the poor acting and grating voice of the lead actress - you'll probably want to pass on it if you value your eardrums.
I watched a recent airing of 2016's Summer Love starring Rachael Leigh Cook and mostly enjoyed it even though the story had some serious problems: 1) People making a huge deal out of Rachael's character's age, including the receptionist at her new workplace who looked older than Rachael, which made her attitude laughable. 2) Her new boss/potential love interest behaving very inappropriately. 3) Not spending enough time with the man who ends up being The One, so that the end felt somewhat unearned.
There were other issues too... but in spite of all of that, I rather enjoyed it due to Rachael and the rest of the cast. The plot was a little more interesting too, despite being completely implausible.
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1 hour ago, Kohola3 said:
Sailing into Love - ugh, that woman's voice is like fingernails on a blackboard. It was like listening to a preschooler.
Same stupid hairstyles, same stupid story. I couldn't finish it despite the fact that I dearly love that area of BC.
Hallmark really needs to get some new writers. You can't keep telling and same story just change the location to try to make us think it's different. It's not. We are not idiots.
Yes, her voice was very annoying. I managed to watch until the class (it was hard to believe the lead actress was some sort of science teacher!) showed up to the boat and she got her journal back. It also annoyed me that the lead male refused to apologize for his part in the collision the day before. A simple, gracious apology, at the very least, is just decent manners... his adamant refusal made him seem like a jerk to me. At that point I decided I'd had enough anyway. Did anybody watch the whole thing? Did it ever get better?
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5 hours ago, Homily said:
I think they've shown signs of tension between Mary and George pretty much since the first episode which makes sense to me if they are going to stick with the marriage unraveling as per Sheldon on BBT. What they haven't done (so far) is given us any reason to think George would not only start sleeping around but would be pig enough to bring his "girlfriend" home with him to sleep in the marital bed and risk being caught out by one of the kids or by Meemaw who lives across the street!
I agree. To me, it's two different universes... which makes sense because they are two distinct shows even though one is a prequel spinoff.
So the people in charge can destroy George's character in an effort to appease the small percentage of the audience who will walk away if everything doesn't match up with the other show... or continue on making the best show they can now, without alienating their audience who love the characters they've created.
It's kind of a no-brainer to me, but I guess we'll see what direction they choose.
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I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it is a single Westport school for all the grades.
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2 hours ago, biakbiak said:
Modern Family more than pays for itself with its lucrative syndication deal so I find comparing the two in relation to what got renewed disingenuous. TKAA’s competition for renewal was with Single Parents, Bless This Mess and the pilots they picked up not Modern Family.
I wasn't trying to be disingenuous. Modern Family was renewed for next year a long time ago and I know it was not competing with TKAA for renewal. However, that doesn't lessen my annoyance that Modern Family is on for another season and TKAA is not. (And I was just trying to point out that there isn't a huge difference between their ratings. Next year MF's ratings will likely be even worse. I can't see a lot of MF's unhappy viewers coming back after the awfulness of this past season.)
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2 hours ago, biakbiak said:
Be that as it may it consistently had 2 million more viewers than TKAA and almost double in the demo.
Modern Family had much higher ratings back when everything was higher. Now it's only a few demo points higher than TKAA, as it should be since by 9:00pm people in the favored age group probably have their kids in bed and can watch live.
Modern Family has been so terrible for years, but it gets by because so many of its viewers watch either out of habit or because they feel like they should just finish watching until the end since they invested so much time. (That was me - I was going to hang in until the end, but then they added another season and I just couldn't take it anymore. It almost never made me even smile let alone laugh.)
Modern Family getting another season is even more frustrating in light of ABC cancelling TKAA - the funniest show they've had in many years.
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The Dance (Season 3 | Episode 22)
8:00PM EST Tuesday | ABC
With the kids away at the school dance, Katie and Greg look forward to a romantic evening alone; but Anna-Kat is crushed when the boy she likes doesn't ask her to the dance, and Oliver begins to panic when the town psychic's predictions begin to come true.
Airdate: May 14, 2019
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Whales (Season 1 | Episode 22)
8:30PM EST Tuesday | ABC
After learning that donations are down at their church, Peggy grows concerned that the cutbacks will affect the nursing home where she is secretly housing a close relative. Mike and Peggy blame the low donations on Father Abdi and disagree with him about how to raise funds. Meanwhile, Joey pet-sits his friend's snake and, in true Joey fashion, uses the snake to his advantage.
Airdate: May 14, 2019
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3 hours ago, sacrebleu said:
heh-- it was bugging me that her friend looked familiar and I couldn't place her-- she was Doreah-- a servant of Dany Targarean.
I wasn't sure what that meant... but after a bit of searching, it seems she is/was on Game of Thrones. Also, according to IMDB, she will be starring in a Christmas movie this year, currently titled Picture Perfect Christmas. which looks like it's probably another royal-related Hallmark movie.
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14 hours ago, Marly Holley said:
Tim Doyle tweeted it was the “new bosses” at ABC who , from what I can figure out had histories with some of the other show runners/creators whose shows were saved that were not doing as well as TKAA or not as well received, (this from when the bosses were at FOX) and saved those shows based on that. Tim tweeted that ABC’s decisions on the matter were “like high school with money.”
I wonder if that is why somebody at ABC kept f-ckin around with the TKAA schedule... like when they pulled TKAA during May Sweeps to show a repeat of the terrible Bless This Mess (which must have been the favorite because it got renewed even though it shouldn't have)... or when they removed it from the schedule listings so enough people thought it wasn't on - probably enough to drop the demo rating a critical point right before cancellation decisions were made.
10 hours ago, dcalley said:
That's exactly how I'm feeling about this news.
1 hour ago, HeySandyStrange said:Yeah, I know, but a girl can dream. The cast is very talented, and the writing was top notch imo. It would be a real F-you! to ABC is the sitcom they cancelled was one if their only to get any Emmy's love.
I feel the same way! I know Emmy usually ignores all of the non-cable/internet shows, but TKAA really deserves the recognition and I would love it if they end up with some award show love. I think the pilot was nominated for a writers guild award, if I'm not mistaken. This show has a lot of passionate fans. I bet a lot of Hollywood peeps can relate to Timmy's youthful longing to break into show business. It may be a long shot, but you never know.
I can't believe the horrible Single Parents got renewed. Bless This Mess is pretty bad too. I feel confident they are both going to tank next year, even more than they already have. I hope ABC/Disney and whoever is responsible for renewing those and cancelling TKAA face harsh consequences.
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15 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
10 minutes into tonight's movie and I had to turn it off. Either the movie was insinuating that a woman who grew up on a ranch was naive or incapable of ranching or it was just the former boyfriend who was insinuating that. Either way, I gave the movie the finger and turned it off because I don't want to watch a movie whose story is the former and I would find it hard to root for a movie where the main love interest is the latter.
Plus, Texas might be a fine state (never been) but "Texas" is not a plot.
I made it about twenty or thirty minutes too, before I turned it off. The lead male was obnoxious, arrogant and patronizing. I wasn't sure if it was partly due to the tremendous ill will I feel toward the actor because he butchers the role of Max Evans in the horrible remake of my beloved Roswell... but every time he was onscreen in this movie I just wanted to punch him in the face. (And I'm normally a very nonviolent person.)
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I'm heartbroken. This show is waaaay too great to be cancelled after one season!
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1 hour ago, Frost said:
We saw Sheldon typing the ledger entries into his computer so I'm sure in his mind he was being an efficient executive assistant and was planning to give the floppy disc back to the church, along with the book. But I'm also pretty sure Mary wasn't asked for permission. Although Sheldon didn't bring his briefcase to 'work' so Mary should have seen him carrying it home. Oh well, sitcom!
I was very glad Dr Sturgis is self confident enough not to let Connie off completely when she first found him, but he's unfortunately naive enough about gambling to be distracted by a lobster dinner!
Oh for sure. In his mind Sheldon was being a conscientious executive assistant who took his work home with him, not a thief.
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3 minutes ago, Traveller519 said:
I'm impressed didn't feel the need to get more expositional in the last scene. Beverly didn't have a break-down and moment of clarity. She quietly accepted Leonard's feelings and moved to out her research persona aside to comfort him. But she never admitted to being completely in the wrong. A nuanced scene I normally wouldn't have expected from this show.
A couple good subvsersions in this show with the decision to not have Raj pursue love, and to have Howard help him feel good about his decision.
I totally agree with your post except the bolded. I've been impressed with the way this show has thoughtfully handled important character moments with great nuance and sensitivity. A few examples that come to mind: Sheldon and Amy's first time having sex, their wedding, and Howard finding a letter from his father.
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SO3.E23 A Mom's Parade
in American Housewife [V]
Yes. They're moving it to Fridays though.