In general, I dislike those things so much* that a show has to be doing something really provocative or interesting to win me over when it uses them, and I don't think this one did. I don't actually think the public proposal was out of character for Rafael—I found it kind of flashy and superficial and ostentatious,…

Do you really need me to make a list of every time Jimmysteve has lied or manipulatively withheld information from Fiona? Including his final scene? Because frankly I don't have the time. (And Jimmy AND Kev saved Monica, and they did it by basically not being in the same amount of shock as the immediate family…

I'm contemplating moving, and I totally would move into a basement if it meant Lillian were my landlady.

I think Pawnee is actually a little more cosmopolitan. Also, if the mole women had been in HER town, Leslie Knope would probably personally have dug them out.

I had the same reaction. A lot of the wit, but also more heart, I think. And the darkness feels a little more specific.

I've accepted I may have weird taste, but all this raving about so much charisma and how devestatingly gorgeous, and I literally don't get it. And there have been actors who I didn't get it until I grew attached to their character, but 15 chapters in and I'm still, okay whatever about him.

THANK YOU I WAS BEGINNING TO FEEL LIKE A MADWOMAN!

I think the idea that you feel you need to see that in detail in order to empathize with Kimmy is something the show is slyly critiquing.

This is the first show I've actually felt compelled to binge-watch, rather than somewhat obligated to. I wanted more, more, more!

I think this is very intentional on the part of the show, and it's again, part of the ongoing implicit commentary of the assumptions we make about how "victims" are supposed to act.

I'm less Team Michael than Team Meh on Rafael, but I do love how he wanted to immediately tell Jane about Angelique, and how in the flashbacks they are engaged in such a cute way—how he teases her so affectionately and she twinkle-snarks back. Yeah, I'm the dullest person because ultimately I find melodramatic…

Ugh, this was my least favorite episode—maybe made worse by a two week gap, but still. One, I LOATHE surprise public proposals, and I hate the way they create this implication of magnified guilt for a person refusing. Two, I HATE "tests" of someone's love in manipulative ways.. Three, I CAN'T EVEN with shlocky…

I'm not generally a Martin Short fan (at least in performance mode, he seems fine in interviews) but the way he could make his voice "normal" by pushing his lips cracked me up.

Yes, it's shown several times that none of the girls in the bunker had any idea what Donna Maria was saying.

No, but so far I'm still enjoying it.

There is so much that felt like it could have been stereotyped, but somehow from the first I felt like it totally became that this stuff is TITUS stuff, not generic gay guy stuff.

hysterical but also heart-warming. Kimmy's not letting anyone be trapped inside on her watch!

No. And part of the point of the show is about how we project stuff like this on survivors without knowing the whole story—and feeling entitled to that story for no goddamn reason.

The Baby-sitters Club reference? AMAZING. If I hadn't loved the pilot anyway, that alone would have owned me.

This is the first show I've literally binge-watched, like had to tear myself away at three am binge-watched. Ellie Kemper is fantastic. It has these moments of very Tina Fey wit, but I think with a lot more warmth, and deeper characterization, than 30 Rock got, except for (somewhat) between Liz and Jack.