This episode diverged too far from the book for me with Mia’s treatment of Lexie. 

YES!  And then they show pictures of the nanny he chose, which means that she must have accepted the position and even agreed to have her face shown on the docuseries as “hot nanny for hire”?  Oh boy.

I had a Kate Spade bag that looked very much like the top one. I always thought it looked like a bowling bag, but I loved it. 

I’d first heard this story on the “Over My Body” podcast but the series raised even more questions. Biggest for me is, where did all the footage come from? It seems someone was filming everything, all the time, for years. And yet the producer of Joe’s internet show says everything was lost in the fire, including what…

Their publicists made very good selections! 

One departure from the book I found interesting was changing the race of Mia and Pearl. As your review points out, there’s a lot of racial tension in the pilot, whereas in the book it was much more class-driven, at least between the two families. Asking Mia to help out around the house in the novel felt more like…

I saw “Safe” when it first came out in theaters, and one of the things that struck me (more than when I’ve rewarched it on a smaller screen) is how the camera slowly retreats from the actors, putting Julianne Moore further and further from the viewer and more and more in isolation. 

How about boogers and ear wax?

I mean she was married to Mr. Peanutbutter! It’s hard to improve on that. 

I haven’t thought about “Swimming with Sharks” in a long time, but definitely not a bad Spacey movie to re-watch now, considering what happens to his character.

Yes! I forgot about that one. 

Great insights! One trend I’ve also noticed is the increased number of “side events” that are added to the celebration. When most of my peers were getting married (late 80s and 90s) a rehearsal dinner was just that - a dinner for the wedding party after a walk-through of the ceremony. Then, people started inviting…

Like, if she owns that little shop, then selling it at the prices that were available in the Upper West Side commercial property in the late 90's would have set her up for life.

Thanks for sharing you second point. There are often blind items about an A+ list actor with an America and apple pie reputation who is secretly [fill in the blank with some heinous thing] and people always jump to the Hanks answer. I just can’t see it. 

He’s also a great mentor on the latest reincarnation of Project Runway, where he manages to pull off supportive, critical, and humorous all at once. And Project Runway has become much more inclusive with models regularly representing different body sizes and gender expresssions - enough that it feels integrated into…

Maybe it’s the hand he uses to hold the iphone his baby nurse gives him to remind him what his parents look like. 

This one isn’t quite my disaster, but one that sticks in my head many years later. A friend’s Italian grandmother offered to help our girl scout troop earn our cooking badge, and so a half dozen of us crowded into her kitchen to learn to make meatballs and sauce from scratch. Her meatballs were ground beef and pork…

I’ve always enjoyed cooking for friends, but after one was diagnosed with celiac disease, it wasn’t as straightforward to plan menus without a weirdly segregated “the food on the left counter is for you, the right is for us” vibe. So one night I decided I’d make gluten free homemade pizza for everyone to enjoy. I made …

At least he still has Rosario!

That’s where I have an issue - I feel like he would be so caught up in his own minutia, he’d be pretty selfish in bed. Has he ever really done anything on the series that wasn’t driven by his own self-interest?