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Talking! For an hour! Yikes!

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LOL that CNBC piece got roasted yesterday.

Some of the THR piece:

There is no return coming from this. This is how he'll be known now: As a rapist whose secrets were used to shelter another rapist. NBC can never touch him again.

Wow. More: A direct link to the THR piece:

@DRW50

'Creative high' is not what I would describe anything aired on ATWT after perhaps some of 2003. No, nothing like that, but she allegedly would've been on a bit longer than she was that day and Goutman was a bit heavy-handed, which led to that appearance being cut down.

Chris Goutman had a good run at AW for maybe a year and a half or less - taking the show off the air with dignity. He then had a few good but controversial years at ATWT. That was a long, long time ago. The minute he pushed Sheffer out ATWT became unwatchable and stayed that way til it ended its run, a long slow death he regularly seemed to treat with utter contempt in public behavior. He was allegedly responsible for inadvertently truncating Julianne Moore's appearance as well. Goutman is a talented actor and director with a long, long history in daytime. He also should've been dumped from ATWT long before the end.

The stuff on Oppenheim, etc. is somehow still shocking. Hopefully this book will finally cost one or both their jobs. As for Matt Lauer, he will now be known as a rapist. He's not coming back.

Awful. Meanwhile:

He's apparently at a debate next week? I legitimately am concerned about that, for his sake. I have many, many issues with him but this is not going to be tenable for much longer.

Hmmmm: Mark Frost retweeted the above - the latter.

It's perhaps very crass to say because I don't want to see Bernie unwell, but we may just have dodged a major bullet after last time's primaries.

Episode 2: Everything with Mark was surprisingly matter of fact, and Ames McNamara is still great (and amazingly self-assured about it, which makes sense given Darlene and David's liberal background in Chicago before the family moved home). I don't know if I'd be so chill if my 12 yo came home talking about having a boyfriend, and I'm gay! I loved Dan teasing him and giving him relationship advice. And his reaction to his little friend spurning him was honestly had to watch since, as Harris says, he's a constant uncharacteristic-to-the-Conners ray of sunshine. Which I guess lends itself to his self-assurance which briefly gets crushed. They didn't explicitly list her as Kathy Bowman (though I am assuming she was Kathy), but the actress still has that great dry wit re: her grandson's deadbeat mom. Galecki was great finally being shown as an awkward parent and then actually parenting well with Darlene for Mark. And Michael Fishman is still distractingly hot, especially in a well-fitting long-sleeved top. The Dan/Becky scene at the end was sweet. And this was a hoot re: Darlene's two-timing (along with Jackie's lust for Ben and getting lost in her thoughts of his beard, and constant trolling of Darlene - with the tag at the end I do wonder if they're actually going to try Jackie and Ben eventually): Darlene: You can't make me feel worse about myself than I already do. Jackie: At least let me try.

The premiere is cute. Laurie Metcalf looks amazing. Becky gets a great entry line about her baby - 'she's watching the papers for a younger uterus and a better neighborhood!' Nice to see Chuck again at the card game as always (and Bev). Darlene got some comebacks with Harris and the boy's mom (British actress Lucy Punch, who I was not expecting to ever see on a US multi-cam sitcom!) that were pure Roseanne Conner. The scene with Dan where they fought about who raised the kids, him or Roseanne, bringing up the Lobo and the bikes, etc. was great. Michael Fishman looks very hot, ngl. I'm pretty sure they redid the opening again, though Dan still does the sausage gag. Lecy was great at the end, and I loved her naming the baby Beverly Rose. But her remark at the end, and my having not seen last week's yet, makes me suspect a twist is coming. The hug with D.J. was sweet. It was very surreal seeing another Conner baby born prematurely and in the NICU after all the Harris drama in the '90s (which Darlene referenced). Darlene's predicament is funny, but Ben deserves better treatment. I did crack up at Jackie commenting about having been with two men at once, and offering to take Ben off Darlene's hands, and Darlene's reply: "Stay away from him!"