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8/10
Sick and Tired: Part 1 (#5.1)
ComedyFan201012 February 2014
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Dorothy is very sick, so that she can't do anything anymore, but all the doctors keep on telling her that she is fine and it is just the age. She even goes to New York to a neurologist and he says the same. Dorothy is devastated just as Sophia. And Blanche wants to become a novel writer but has a writer's block before writing anything.

A pretty food scenario. And Sophia's speech at the end is so well done, one really feels for her. Also it makes one really wonder what is it that Dorothy has.

And Rose is bringing us lots of humor on her trip to New York, especially with her wonderings about King Kong.
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7/10
Too tired to respond to Blanche's wisecracks.
mark.waltz14 December 2019
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"Remind me when I'm better to kick the crap out of her" is all Dorothy can come up with when Blanche indicates that Dorothy always looks sick. She's also too tired to run from Rose's St. Olaf stories. This first part of "Sick and Tired" deals with her three month illness (covering summer hiatus) and the doctors who can't find anything physically wrong with her.

Meanwhile, Blanche decides she's going to become a romance novelist even though she can't even name any other famous southern writers. This leads to one of Sophia's most memorable retorts as well as Rose referring to New York City as the "Big Potato". Rose also tells the story of someone accidentally buried alive. There are a few funny moments in this generally serious episode with Jeffrey Tambor making a cameo as one of Dorothy's doctors.
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10/10
Dorothy is sick for 5 months
pamsidhu30 September 2020
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Dorothy had the flu and 5 months later, she is always tired and knows something is wrong. She consults doctor after doctor, even going to New York to consult a specialist and they run every test available but still they know nothing. They suggest she might be lonely and to consult a psychiatrist, which she has and they say there is nothing wrong with her. The final scene of the show is heart-breaking as Sophia is so very worried about losing her daughter and something is seriously wrong with her and she is dying.
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