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When I rewatched it, they were deliberately vague about the event. I guess my take was that it was the election which shows where my head is.

I fast forwarded through their scenes as well, I just don't care enough about them. Even when they border on something resembling an interesting storyline, they back off or address it superficially, which results in me caring even less. Sol works my nerves. Describing him as precious is perfect.

I have to be Julia! There is no other option for me. The whole scene with Arlene was so hard. I don't know what I would do if I was the child in that situation.

Grace taking her makeup off in front of Nick was a powerful moment, particularly for Grace. It hit me in a maybe an unintentional way. How women look is so ingrained in how we interact with the world. Grace, was (and is...) a beautiful woman and for the majority of her life that was how she faced the world each day. Getting older as a beautiful woman is a challenge and Grace is facing that and I really appreciate how the show is addressing that. Youth is so prized and older women (in particular) get dismissed and shoved aside - as evidenced by their vibrator business - I can see how Grace is struggling with how she thinks Nick sees her. I can't remember which of the original supermodels said this but her quote was "nothing ages worse than a beautiful woman's ego". You spend the majority of your life being treated a certain way and then one day your age changes that. It's difficult. I have more thoughts but it's getting late.

Totally. Given that it was their affair or relationship that spurred the whole "Grace and Frankie" to begin with, they are the least interesting aspect of the show. In fact, if they weren't in any episode I'd probably never even notice. Coyote is so earnest and charming, I am really rooting for him to be happy and successful and for him to feel settled and stable. Lisa Kudrow aka "Old Phoebe" is annoying. She's actually a really good actress, so I don't know why she's playing this part. Maybe there's something interesting coming? "Cut another slice" - that was kinda hilarious!

I agree Lisa Kudrow playing older Phoebe isn't something I wanted to see, but it sort of gives a glimpse into a potential Friends reunion. Honest to God, Jane Fonda looks amazing, I can't even deal with it. How do I find a surgeon that good and how much will it cost me? I've been to gender reveal parties. I was a gracious party guest but I was thinking this is the most self-absorbed thing I've had to set aside time for. It's one thing to wait until the baby is born to find out the gender but honestly these parties are too much. 5 more parties .... STFU, I'm not doing that! As a woman who hasn't had the pleasure of these types of events, I'm trying to think of what I can invent so that I can have my friends and family show up with gifts. Open to any suggestions, o, I'm not getting married nor having kids so something that doesn't involve those will be cool. Puff puff pass, everyone knows that Brianna. Stop hogging the joint :-)

Just watched it and yes that's exactly what I think people in the episode were reacting too. And holy what the eff! Wow. I want to say I didn't expect that but really how could I have expected that! But the purple balloon made me smile.

I just recently watched part of that movie. I'd never heard of it before. I didn't get through the movie. It is seriously disturbing.

Why haven't we seen JP's wife since he got married? I don't need to see her regularly, but it seems odd to me that she's pretty much disappeared. The commissioner gets on my nerves. His presence is so forced and unnecessary. Plus why is he on the board of everything or president of everything? It annoys me.

Yeah, as usual, finances on tv shows make no sense and change to suit the situation. Robert and Amy would have been doing pretty well. As a married couple, I'm guessing they were doing better income-wise than Ray. I mean, Ray worked for a smallish newspaper as a columnist. Even being moderately successful, his financial situation made less sense than Robert's. Unless he was a big-time columnist at a major paper, he wasn't making enough to support the lifestyle that the show depicted, IMO. In terms of where Marie could have stashed away that money, I thought (and maybe I heard her say this on the show or I imagined it) but if she put a little bit aside every week from the "allowance" (ugh!) Frank gave her, then she would have been able to accumulate a decent amount of money. Obviously, she couldn't get a bank account without his permission until after 1972 (again, ugh!) so she would have been putting that money into cans hidden around the house. Being the nerd that I am, I estimated that Marie could have stashed about $50 per week for 30 years, which is $78,000. Granted it could have been $20 bucks but she'd still have a decent amount put away. Frank wouldn't notice her taking a little bit out of the grocery money. He didn't do any of the shopping, that was her job (ugh!) Robert had money when they needed him to have money, and then didn't have money when they needed him to not have money. If they said he had a gambling problem or something like that, I might believe that's why sometimes had no money.

I could live without the kids especially Violet. She became just a horrible person that I wouldn't want around. I have more neutral feelings about Roscoe. I like the mix we have now, the kids can stay gone.

Oh, that's funny!

I echo this sentiment 100%. No matter what "box" we fit into, the stories we live are remarkably similar and having programs like this show that we are SO much more the same than we are different. I'm curious where Amazon goes next with their programming. I think they, along with Netflix, are getting to an interesting growing pains stage of development. They aren't the scrappy underdogs anymore who are more willing to take chances and they are real programming forces. Do they fall into the traditional path of the networks or continue to forge a unique path ahead. Time will tell.

It's been a while but I was recently thinking about these shows and how they follow the same script as "Regular" House Hunters with people going on and on about room for entertaining and guests. Well, I’m sorry, but if you have a tiny house, so you won’t have guests to consider. So quit worrying about what you will do with “guests”. No one is staying with you and using your composting toilet. No one!

The fact that there were any men were interested in Carrie the way the show depicted was sheer and utter fantasy to service SJP's ego -- just my opinion. Although it irritated me so much that she was attracting as many interesting, attractive, successful men as she was, that is common on tv shows, It's just the men who get women who are far out of their league. In real life, we all know Carrie wouldn't be with Big. He might have "dated" her but she's not meeting his mother or his friends or his colleagues. That's why the first few seasons made more sense than the ego-fueled fantasy land of the last seasons and the movies. Plus Carrie could only have acquaintances, not friends. On the surface, she's fun and seems to know cool and interesting places to go in the city. Other than that, she wouldn't be able to offer the support, stability, and reality of a true friendship. I can see texting (not calling) her to ask her "hey is there anything interesting going on this Saturday?" but she's not invited to the brunch with the girls on Sunday.

I took Dave's response about luck as more about him being lucky that he didn't have to think about fighting for civil rights. He was lucky to be born as a white man in America and his big worry was going to Mexico and drinking with his friends. I found it to be an honest assessment of how sometimes your life circumstances are such that there are things that don't affect you. As a much older man, he is now saying, why wasn't I more involved and more concerned about the situation of men who were his own age at the time, fighting for the same rights that he got to take for granted.

Ugh. Why would they cancel this?

While it was quick, I loved the scene (among many others) of Jefferson and his daughters running together and him racing to beat them at the end. Reminded me of times like that with my Dad. Even though I was enjoying it before that scene, after that they had me.

So good

I watched it. I don't know what to say, other than they tried I guess. It feels like they can't decide what show they want this to be: workplace comedy? family comedy? Because doing both isn't working for them. The work stuff was ok but nothing really all that funny. I did say I'd give it chance and I did :-) Lord have mercy, Leah's botox is killing me! Please Leah the love of all things good in this world, chill out with them. She can hardly enunciate her words.

I'll give a chance if you do! My expectations are less than low, there are non-existent.

Grrr...I hate to cede any ground in Carrie's favor but this is fair. I mean, it almost physically hurt me to type that. She still certainly could have called for additional help after putting clothes on her poor naked friend.

I don't understand the point of her doing that. But way to conflate these issues and make this somehow about you and the movie. Good grief.

Oh, I know. In my response, I was trying to be delicate :-) The reason it took 75 years is a word that starts with R and ends in -ISM.

I haven't watched this in ages but caught the tail end of an episode. One of the many things that irk me about the show (lol...that list is extremely long), is when David shows them the new "value" of their renovated house. The increased "value" of their house is the alleged new value minus the renovation costs, not just the top number. That number obviously wouldn't look as impressive on tv but it's SO misleading! I can't take it. Besides, real estate is worth what the next person is willing to pay for your house. You can ask for whatever you want, $500K, but if I'm not giving that to you, your house ain't worth $500K! Now, back to NOT watching this show again. In the future, I know to even avoid even small snippets of it. Edited: I know the show is nonsense and fake from start to finish, but that still annoys me.