OTOH I would DEFINITELY watch a Ghost Lawyer spinoff starring Will. I mean, I know Josh Charles doesn't want to get locked into another series, but… just consider it, okay Josh?

"OK but picture this: Alicia and Peter are walking down the street. Behind them, a busker is tap-dancing on the corner! Yes? YES."

Dear lord, that cut to the oozing tumor is going to put me off my food for the next week. [visceral shudder]

I actually rewound that moment a couple of times, trying to figure out what was going on. It remained incomprehensible.

Best if you listen to it at 1/2x, unless you're also a speedster.

I prefer to assume that this was a particularly clever way of setting up a payoff for a future episode.

So many things happened (okay, "happened") in this episode and yet they still had time to spend THREE ENTIRE MINUTES on that cold open with Hakeem's spiral of despair at the strip club. Jeez, tighten it up a little, Empire, I've got places to be.

OK but we don't have time to put your face on the sign, that shit takes at least 20 minutes to get printed.

That made me laugh so hard that I had to pause and catch my breath.

Seconded! Call the vote.

Pants from Anthropologie; basic black shirt under a weird patchwork-of-generic-Asian-fabric jacket with "Chinese" coins dangling from the hem which is actually a hand-me-up from my own seventh-grade wardrobe; sandals worn with New Mexico Touring Society socks from her cycling group.

And this episode gives us a new inductee into the pantheon of Best Transitions:

AND YET! Please note that this episode of Tiago has a female director! I love that the show-with-a-show is a garbage fire, but also models an admirably diverse workforce.

"Marriage should be fun. It shouldn't be this weight, this death knell." [looks at mis-delivered funeral wreaths] [rereads line] [looks at "Rest In Peace" cake] [rereads line] [looks at funeral wreaths again]

Several excellent Harrison Wells moments in this episode, but "There was a podcast…" is my favorite. Now I need to know the Earth-2 equivalent of the pay phone at Best Buy.

YES YES YES YES YES to all of this.

[Geneva Pine enters the courtroom and opens her briefcase, revealing a dogeared copy of "Common Sense"]

That basket doesn't have Marnie's problem.

I had to rewind a few times because I kept laughing too hard to hear the rest of the dialogue.

Basically the entire musical episode, especially "Stephen Sondheim's 'Pinocchio'."