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Georgie was there to see how much their mother was hurting and affected, Sheldon was not there. Not only was her youngest son away but her husband had passed away suddenly. I’m guessing that she put on a happy face anytime she talked to Sheldon, who is quite literal, took that to mean there were no problems. Not that he could have done anything about it anyway, he was still a kid. I can relate to Mary not wanting to worry her young son. Georgie was saying that things were difficult for the ones who were there, not just financially. Even if Sheldon’s education was paid for, scholarships generally don’t cover travel, housing, books, fees, food. That money would have to come from the family and given that they weren’t rich, it probably was challenging, in addition to dealing with the loss of their father. Georgie stepped into the "man of the house" role that way too many people put onto young men in similar situations. It wasn't fair to him either, cause he was also still young. I think Georgie is resentful not because Sheldon was super smart and went to college early, he’s probably proud of his smart brother, but that Sheldon is a jerk who looks down on everyone else. He doesn’t recognize that the sun doesn’t shine out of his backside and he never acknowledges that his siblings are worthy of respect and not scorn. I’m not discounting that a young Sheldon would interpret his older brother’s behavior differently and because he left home so young, they never really had a chance for their relationship to evolve the way it can with many siblings. I was totally on Georgie's side. Damn it, just say thank you Sheldon! I will add that, in general, though, I find Sheldon an abhorrently selfish person and I can’t tolerate the way he treats and dismisses people he doesn’t deem worthy of his intellect. It might be coloring my interpretation just a smidge :-)

You're not wrong. I saw him on the Talk this afternoon (don't judge, it was on at my nail place) and he did say that he had watched Young Sheldon repeatedly to get Georgie down. He was really excited about playing the character too, so it was nice to see him as Georgie.

Shows how much of an idiot he really was to not put 2 and 2 together on how to get something he wanted from Debra all the time. I will add that even if he figured it out, it's a manipulative and creepy thing to do, which is why I think he would have done it. But he would have overplayed his hand and she would have figured it out. I really hated that episode. Rewatching so much of this show and many other sitcoms, I find so many aspects unsettling and disturbing given the benefit of time and the way we've all changed as a society. The idea of the poor desperate beat down husband who never gets sex is nauseating (it was then too to be honest). Cause, of course, the man is entitled to have sex whenever he wants, after all, he got married and a woman isn't an actual human person who deserves respect or anything, no she's there for his needs.

Feels like they are blowing through the episodes. I mostly enjoy the show, probably because of Zach Braff and he's bringing his all to the role, but many pieces aren't working. I despise the daughter. Why are so many shows determined to have the overly precocious child (usually the daughter) who is also borderline psychotic? That character trope is stale and is boring. The son is too much but I can manage his scenes a little more. I feel as though they are still working on how to work the wife into the show better. She's just sort of there and I don't want her to be the nagging always annoyed at him wife character. The workplace interactions are the best ones for me and I agree that Dierdre & Eddie (thanks for reminding me of their names!) are forming a nice friendship. There's potentially a good show here, I hope ABC gives it a chance to settle.

Was it canceled? It never found a groove or improved. I couldn't tell you what the show was supposed to even really be about and that's because they had no idea either. Each week was just, let's throw out something and see how it goes.

I occasionally read the forums as well but I haven't watched in a while mostly because I found Dre unbearable. I found it unbelievable, even in tv sitcom land, that Bow would tolerate his nonsense. I always felt like Bow was appeasing and tolerating him in many ways and she was fine with it cause she just thought that she could manage around him. Again, I haven't watched in a while, so was having another child the breaking point? What I found compelling about this was that Bow and Dre are dealing with a real and possibly fundamental change in their relationship that won’t be fixed in a 22-minute episode. You rarely see that in sitcoms, but it's real. I might actually tune back in.

For the people who have been wondering about the longevity of this premise, I apologize for doubting you. Maybe they know something we don't know, but I'm not seeing where this goes. I don't know what they are going for which is not promising for my continued viewing. I don't want them to reconcile as a couple. Not reconciling is the realistic thing to do. Maybe a few moments when one of them thinking let's give it a try, but that can't go on for years. So then what? I really like the actors - Jenna and Oliver, not the kid actors, although the youngest kid getting pleading the fifth wrong amused me.

Wow. Still not getting any better, maybe it's getting worse? I cringed at the scene acting like he was going to remember his late wife but it was actually about baseball. Just awful. That was an easy line to throw in about her and they still couldn't acknowledge the wife (even without acknowledging the actress). Tells me a lot about them. I catch old King of Queens episodes and I just think how badly this show misses the mark. Even if they brought back the entire KOQ cast, I don't think they could recapture the magic. Given the nostalgia tv happening with Will and Grace, Roseanne, Murphy Brown, I bet they are kicking themselves about not rebooting the King of Queens.

Sigh. I was really hoping they would surprise us and Nick would propose anyway despite Jess doing the whole "we don't need to be married" since he's shown such "growth" in the about three years, but nope. It actually would have been a perfect time...we don't "need" to be married but I can't imagine not being married to you or some other stuff. But let's drag this nonsense out. Come on show! As per usual, I enjoyed everything about it, except Nick and Jess. CeCe/Schmidt worked, their daughter adorable and funny. Winston/Aly worked and they were funny. Even Russell worked although I didn't need to see him again in the show. I'm with @Snapdragon if there's no proposal next episode, it'll be SO annoying.

That's the episode. Monica was pointing out that they ran in completely different circles in high school even though they stayed friendly throughout it. Well, I'm assuming they stayed friendly enough. Those HS flashbacks scenes seemed to show that they still hung out together. I also think the Gellars were well-off. Maybe not as rich as the Greenes but doing very well. Mr. Gellar especially struck me as being careful with money, while Rachel's dad seemed to spend more freely. Long Island, like any part of a city, has areas that are more expensive than others. Not necessarily a sign of big money but it could be an indication of such.

After talking about how the actors mostly appear to be regular looking people, the next episode has Owain Yeoman who was in the Mentalist and Turn (playing Benedict Arnold) and I find him so very attractive. He was especially hot here. Woo! He's probably the man I've found the most attractive so far in the series, and that includes the episodes with Orlando Bloom (yawn, he was dull and not cute in the least) and Henry Cavill (who was totally unrecognizable to me. This was the man who made my knees buckle when I saw him in The Tudors, but not since).

One thing that really disturbs me ironically isn't the murders, it's the way they show people kiss on the show! Have none of them every kissed a person before. IT's some frantic, weird lip crushing, face smashing against each other thing. Just finished watching Series 8, Episode 1 "Things That Go Bump in the Night" and one of the flashback scenes is the murder victims wife frenetically making out with some old guy. Did I really need to see his bare butt? No, I did not, but thanks for that show! Seriously I hope they hired someone to work on those "romantic" scenes! I do appreciate that the actors look like “real” people, in that they aren’t all glammed up and they aren’t all the most gorgeous people in the world. They are regular looking people.

Agree

@Lemons The story is from 2014 - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/nyregion/separate-entryways-for-new-york-condo-buyers-and-renters-create-an-affordable-housing-dilemma.html It does look like these "poor doors" have since been banned, at least, in NYC but I have little faith in building developers and their ability to find yet another level of unethical behavior. The article is still worth a read though.

Seriously? Wow! I've not read the books, I don't know that I'd be able to get through them with that. Some of the things that he said were insanely sexist, ageist, homophobic or any combination of these.

Sadly, that is really something that is true is some buildings. I don't know if it happens outside of NYC which is where I first heard of it occurring. I wonder if the bad publicity was enough to get them change policies. I was shocked, but sadly, not surprised when I saw the story in the New York Times (I would try to link but the Times is only allowing 5 free articles a month now so if anyone is inclined to read Times articles, I don't want to blow their limit with an old link.) What's even worse is that this is happening and will continue to happen in more expensive metro areas. Developers get such lucrative incentives and tax credits to offer "low income" units in high-value areas, however, there's no rule to say that you have to treat residents equally after they live there.

Exactly! What home? What estate? If he had sold it, Blanche was definitely trespassing. Didn;t Big Daddy (gag) show up with some new young wife? What happened to her? Where did she go? Love this show but wow it seemed like they just ignored any form of continuity. It seems that it is just left to the fans of the show to be aggravated over the inconsistencies. Argh!

Series 7 Episode 2 - "Bad Tidings" - I got through the one where we are introduced to DS Scott. Focused on Cully and her friends from I guess high school and her desire to reconnect with them even though she hasn't seen nor talked to any of them since literally the day they graduated. I thought that was bizarre but I understand the sentiment. It seems that Cully doesn't have a lot going on in her life. Her acting has trickled to nothing, she's working (volunteering?) at some mobile library. I can see her being interested in going back to the beginning with her friends. What I can't understand is how big the county (is that the right term) of Midsomer even is? How did she lose touch with these friends? She still goes to her parents' house and seemed to live there up until recently. No one of the friends had moved, so how was it that she was just finding them now? These villages seem shockingly small - I'm a city girl through and through! I can appreciate the quiet of the country but only for a weekend! How would they not have bumped into each other in "town" or in the "village"? Besides, I'd be terrified of being murdered at this point and they are shockingly lacking in even a whiff of color of any kind (aka diversity). I read that eventually became an issue but we are still in Series 7. DS Troy got on my nerves a lot cause he was so judgemental but he did seem to improve over time. We shall see how DS Scott fares, I have no real impression of him yet. I was surprised that I figured out the "mystery" and who the murderer was as early as I did. That's never happened before!

Hey @Ina123 I think we are on the about the same watching schedule cause I just watched that one! I'll be happy to discuss these with you because NO ONE I KNOW WATCHES THIS SHOW! lol. I need some Midsomer to distract me from the world, despite the fact that there are a gazillion murders! I was tempted to google the population of Midsomer to figure out if there are even any people left after all the killing!

Blah. Daphne's mother was just terrible and she was in far too many episodes. Her mother was intrusive, offensive and obnoxious. I wish Daphne had told her annoying mother to shove it. Niles had the patience of a saint to put up with that woman. Any episode with Daphne's family, I consider a bad episode.

The recent posts have shown that we all miss the KOQ more than we enjoy this show. Hey, at least we still have the reruns to enjoy! I have tried and tried and then tried again with this show, it just hasn't found whatever it needs to be a good. They can not recreate the KOQ using this show as the basis, it won't work and it hasn't worked. I don't know if part of the problem for me is that I can't see Kevin James/Leah Remini as anything other than Doug and Carrie Hefferan. Whatever it is, something is missing, at least for me. I think the writers need to just stop trying to re-capture KOQ and truly embrace whatever this show is supposed to be when it grows up. I have realized that as much as I love/loved KOQ this ain't it and I need to bow out. I might check in occasionally to see if anything interesting happens, but I'm out my friends.

UGH! That episode was one of the WORST! That episode truly was a what the...are they thinking. Terrible episode. I'm still surprised at how badly these writers managed Charlotte as a love interest. I want to think that the Charlotte arc wasn't as strong because of the number of episodes, but Claire was only in a few episodes yet I believed in their relationship far more than Charlotte and Fraiser. They had no chemistry and while they are both excellent actors, they couldn't sell it. That was the most disappointing part of the last season. I also intensely dislike the Greek wedding one. I won't ever watch it. What a waste of the great Patti LuPone.

All these shows have the exact same look and feel and therefore they have gotten boring and repetitive. I saw the commercials for this and I rolled my eyes. I can't even list the common themes used here that run from show to show (super quick talking, sexual innuendo, the competitive rivalry, the win at all costs attitude for some). I don't think I can watch this one. Not compelling.

I mostly find Sheldon's treatment of his so-called friends to be appalling. He rarely does something thoughtful for any of them unless there's a benefit to him. Does he care for or even respect any of these people? With that said, I really can't understand why these people are friends with him at all. If Sheldon is such a chore to be around, well stop being around him! Sheesh. In the real world, Sheldon, at best, would have a few acquaintances. His behavior towards Amy has marginally improved but he's still an awful person. If Sheldon was interested in joining that club he would have looked into it himself, instead of insisting, as usual, that his whipping boy Leonard investigate.

I laughed so hard when Bonnie referred to Miranda as the elf on the shelf, it just cracked me up. I was so sad the Jill fell off the wagon. I can empathize with the idea that if you can eat half a cookie, why not just one drink...sadly that's not how their brains work as addicts.I'm not an alcoholic, but there are times when I say ok I'm only having 2 drinks at this event and end up having 4. Not quite along the same lines but I kinda get it. Who hasn't had the whole darn ice cream container? I don't necessarily have an issue with Christy doing the law school thing for another year, what I do have an issue with is her getting consideration from sitting there all day and getting the admissions director a restaurant reservation. That's not how any of this works, and it's frustrating to suggest that all they need to do is just meet you and they would change their minds about admitting you. This is LAW school. I have several lawyer friends (god help me!) and I have a friend who didn't get into the very prestigious law school everyone in the family had gone to for several generations (maybe it rhymes with Hale Law School).No amount of pleading and calling pledging a new library and possible, alleged donations changed that for her. She went somewhere else for law school. I'm just saying that scene irked me, but the show has been playing fast and loose with Christy and law school since it became a storyline. Miranda's whole process was nonsense from the get-go, but I think the pay-off for me was the role reversal between Bonnie and Wendy. Even if everything is back to normal next week, I will still enjoy "she's being so mean to me"!