For all the problems with the overall storytelling, I still want to give props to Helen Effin’ Shaver in the director’s chair this go-round. I’m nor as familiar with her directorial body of work as I probably should be (though I would have caught most of her SVY episodes), but I’m all about her adding to her list of…

I don’t know how Amanda Seales would have felt about it, but I see your point. 😉

One thing I appreciated about the episode was the call-out to Spike Lee that was Issa’s Halloween costume; think the big “Straight vs. Nappy” musical number for the competing factions of women in the hair salon from School Daze.

Point of order: Nathan and Andrew still live together, which can make Molly’s situation with Andrew even stickier, something sort of passively mentioned when Molly considers bringing Andrew as a plus-one to the mixer.

Surely there are more fascinating Park-and-Bark songs than “Let iIt Go” that queens can really sell, but if Frozen is what we have to go with…

I’m actually a little disappointed with how completely on the nose that Caleb line was. Ham fisted much Jonah?

Ten queens is still too many for Snatch Game

That would have been feasible had all of this gone down before the season started airing.. The amount of time and resources required to go back and re-edit every episode on a week-by-week basis is more than is manageable without taking a huge break in the middle of the broadcast, which is why the producers and network…

Shitty auteur, really, since he insists on writing all the material as well.

That Chekov’s gun thing that’s bookending the episode just struck me as too stupid for words. Surely it could have been handled less ham-fistedly.

Not without some requisite hair-splitting. Technically, Nate left Miller alive, and Bonnie smothered Miller to kind of hasten things along. Both Bonnie and Nate would have to go down for it, which I don’t think would help the FBI all that much in making a federal case against anyone.

Peanut butter chocolate cheesecake.

Different showrunners, same EP: Grey’s Anatomy killed off Meredith’s husband. Hard-won relationships can be smashed to bits in the name of plot at any point in time in Shondaland.

Re: who is the informant?”: I fully anticipate that everyone is going to rotate through that slot for every episode between now and the winter break.

One thing I’d like to call attention to, though it may not be necessary:

Michaela is the prime suspect, yes, but is the dead informant Annalise, Laurel, or someone else?

I found myself a little annoyed at Tegan’s ambiguous mustache twirling in this episode, but its meaning will be one of those things that will just have to unfold in its own time, McGuffin or not.

Viola is already a contender for next years Emmys based off this episode alone.

I knew there was a bizarre reason Mira Sorvino was tripping through my brain during this episode…

I still find myself questioning the use of Eileen Ford as a reference point this season. I admit to not knowing all that much about Ford as a person, but I’m mostly confused by the arbitrary deus ex machina nature of her presence generally, and very specifically in this particular episode. It wouldn’t have harmed…