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I kind of liken it to Hitchcock's "The Birds". You don't know why any of it is happening. You're just plopped into it with little to no explanation. However, "The Birds" is a far superior film to "A Quiet Place."

"Uncomfortability"? Is that a word?

I couldn't agree with you more!

I think they should just stop broadcasting these live versions of Broadway shows. They are just dreadful. Last night was another perfect example of overblown production values aimed at a demographic that only responds to volume and spectacle, and really, really awful casting. I just hated every minute of it and got so annoyed when the audience cheered every time a lead hit a high note as though that's the only criteria of good singing. From their infamous production of "The Sound of Music" right up to this disaster, they have set a very low bar. "Peter Pan" was boring and never got off the ground mainly due to the amateurish performances of Alison Williams and Christopher Walken. "The Wiz" looked like a community theatre production choreographed by the local gym teacher. "Hairspray" was dismal and what were they thinking with the terrible narration by Darren Criss? I could go on and on but I'll desist. Let the hating begin!

I hated "Victoria" and "Poldark" too. I'm just so surprised by how much I like "Midwife". I don't like "800 Words", "Death in Paradise", "Father Brown" or any of the other mystery shows. I kind of liked the one David Tennant was in a few years ago in which he avenged his wife's murder but mostly because I like him so much. I adored "The Hollow Crown". I have a friend who thinks that anything on PBS is good and he gets very annoyed with me when I don't like something. Just because it's on PBS doesn't guarantee quality. I listened to the new version of "Prairie Home Companion" today on NPR. Dreadful. Just because it's on NPR doesn't mean it's automatically good. I never miss "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". Very clever. I don't like "This American Life" or the Terri Gross interviews mostly because Ira Glass and Terri Gross really irritate me. And those are my idle ramblings for the day.

I think everything she does is calculated, including her support of Trump. I remember when she was married to Tom Arnold and went on talk shows with him where he talked about being sexually abused as a child and she talked about having multiple personality disorder. Then, after she dumped Arnold, she returned to the talks shows to discuss how small his penis is and how lousy sex with him was. She makes the same sexually based, outrageous remarks Trump does to appeal to the base that watches her. As a previous poster remarked, Trump called her the day after the show premiered but it took him a while to call the soldier's widow and then opened his remarks to her with "I hear you're a big fan of mine" or some such. I have a feeling that in "real" life, Barr is probably a decent person - I don't think actors of the caliber of Goodman and Metcalf would put up with her for 5 minutes if she weren't. But she knows exactly what she's doing in her professional life - she knows how to target her audience, she knows how to raise hackles, she knows how to get laughs and she knows how to get rich in the process. I don't plan on watching the show because I just found the first 2 episodes so ponderous and heavy with issues; some of it was funny but she's a terrible actress. She's lucky to be surrounded by a lot of talented pros on the show. As the above poster said, she looks like a comic reading cue cards most of the time.

For the most part, I enjoyed the new "Roseanne", but I really think they overloaded the opening episodes with "issues" - effeminate (for lack of a better term) grandson, mixed race granddaughter, Trump supporter versus Hillary supporter, limited health care coverage, surrogacy and bullying. I loved the original show and often admired how some episodes were just very funny depictions of daily life. This new version is just top heavy. Admittedly, some of it was funny but I felt like I had been lectured to by the end of the 2nd episode. What was a big surprise was the new show that followed "Black-ish" (now THAT'S a great show), with Oliver Hudson and Jenna Fischer. I think it's called "Splitting Up Together" ? It's produced by Ellen de Generes. I thought it was going to be a generic sitcom with wacky grown-ups and sassy kids and it did have elements of that but it was also very subtly moving at moments, made a lot of sense, and its depiction of the relationship between the parents was really incisive. I also found it very well acted. I'm going to be interested to see how it develops because I think it has potential. I'm also looking forward to the new Zach Braff show - I've always found him very charming and a really good comedic actor without the shlocky sitcom mannerisms that often come with episodic shows. He and Neil Flynn sure have found their niches since "Scrubs" as t.v. and movie dads.

It is one of the corniest, over sentimentalized pieces of crap I've ever watched and I'm thoroughly addicted to it. Last night, there were 2 new episodes on PBS and as always, I found myself grabbing for a hankie before the first episode was halfway over. I knew that the Jewish lady was going to die and her husband would find God again. I knew that the racist hairdresser would end up friends with the Jamaican midwife. I knew the weakling husband would grow a pair and tell off his mother-in-law. I knew the squeamish, macho husband would end up delivering his wife's baby, and I knew Timothy would develop a crush on the hot au pair from Hungary. And yet I just couldn't stop watching. What is wrong with me???

Tommy Davidson and "like". Enjoy.

Other vocal mannerisms or habits that make my skin itch are the use of the phrase "in terms of". We have a local weather forecaster who says, "We will have some precip today in terms of rain". I don't know why the hell she can't just say, "It's going to rain today." I heard a journalist on CNN today say, "I'm going to ask you this in terms of a question." Then there's making up nouns. I have heard "intentionality" and "speakerness" used. And of course - and people are going to argue with me on this one - the ubiquitous use of impact as a verb, as in "this will impact people greatly" or as an adverb as in "this was very impactful". I also despise the verb "incentivize". But all of these are in common usage now, so it's like howling in the wind to protest.

So true!

Boy, have you pushed a button on this one! The use of the word "like" actually makes me angry and it has become so commonplace that it is no longer a fad or a tic. Some of the worst offenders are intelligent people in literate professions. Just listen to Terri Gross on "Fresh Air" or Ira Glass on "This American Life." The 2 best female comics working - Amy Shumer and Tiffany Hadish - use like so much that I can't listen to them for longer than 2 minutes without getting so annoyed that I turn off the t.v.

I was a dancer in a company of "Carousel" about 30 years ago. The music is glorious and it is famous for its "serious" book but I found being in it, in spite of very challenging and beautiful choreography, a chore. It is not a happy show. The revival for which Audra McDonald won her first Tony was remarkably good and beautifully sung but it's still a show that requires a lot of work both onstage and in the audience. Some consider it R&H's best score and the music is thrilling but the spouse abuse, the suicide, Billy's return from heaven only to slap his kid doesn't make it a show you leave feeling happy to have spent 3 hours watching.

I watch the show regularly and because of the apron, I can't tell if he's muscled or just a big man. The curiosity is killing me!

Watch him and Lombard in "To Be Or Not To Be". That's all you need to see to understand his brilliance.