Gerry seems to me to be living & documenting his golden years well. He should not still be onished by Golden Bachelor for posting his adventures 8 months after THEIR experiment crumbled. If anything, the GB should have offered some advice to do premarital counseling. Seniors are set in their ways and neither wanted to be uprooted from their children and grandchildren's lives. And it looked like they wanted to get going with what look like true love. Both of them have families and are settled in where they're at so that should have been talked about prior to setting the date whether or not the GB team wanted the couple to have a televised wedding. It seems to me--as I did not watch every episode--from what I've read that Theresa was the one that was looking for her 15 minutes of fame. If the wedding officiant contestant was right in that Theresa came in to the house and her birthday suit, she was playing it with her game "face" on all the way through. Her tactics were transparent. I understand that she also made some contestants upset because she was walking around gushing about how great her date was with Gerry. She knew that she was doing. It's a good thing that the new Golden Bachelorette season is around the corner and may erase some of this Golden fiasco.

I didn't find the situation to be over acted at all. Vance's mother was in the throes of addiction, trying to work and trying to stay clean. That's how it IS for drug addicts--no matter what your circumstances are--wealthy or poor as church mice. Some are functional and some are not. Vance's mother was struggling and left Vance and his half sister in the hard sturdy, hard-working hands and care of his Mamaw and Papaw. Vance showed the barriers that his family broke through to be able to move from the Appalachian home of his ancestors. They showed Vance's hard adjustment and struggle as a kid and going into the Marines, college and law school. People need to be more accepting of other cultures rather than thinking that it was a caricature which it wasn't by far. I had a southern Grandma who was larger than life, greeting me for the first time each summer, squeezing my cheeks and saying as thick as maple syrup, "Hello doll dears! Give Gramma some SUGAR!" Just because it's not your background or experience does not mean it's overacted. That's a cultural difference and not a caricature. My brother and I would look at each other as if to say, "Is she for real?!" As an actor we are told to observe and incorporate findings into our roles, so quite often you'll see actors sitting and absorbing the essence of the person or people. This is how you get actors from England and Australia coming to the states and sounding quite American while ours go to England and sound quite Bri-ish. I was doing the play Grapes of Wrath, and nobody was getting the accent right until I ended up by happenstance hearing Arlo Guthrie half sing half talk his way through a performance. I incorporated his inflection and tone of voice at the next rehearsal and the director pointed everybody in my direction for the Okies that went to California to pick fruit during the Depression. I figured Arlo was Woody Guthrie's son and may have sounded similar.

The Kim & Adam storyline is good IMO, as it's realistic and Kim's PTSD is very realisitic if you've ever worked in police work or corrections. And Atwater is underused. Why would you get rid of the only African American police officer in Chicago? I like all of the reality of things he's gone through and it's realistic to show an officer during the time of racial profiling issues and real things like george Floyd and Elijah McClain. If anything, they need more representation from other nationalities as thats how CBS shows do it. D doesn't need to be whitewashed. The great migration from the south happened years ago so let it be reflected by the reality that's there in Chicago.