I find the assumption that people who didn't like these books aren't familiar with unlikable protagonists and only want books about their fictional BFFs to be pretty condescending. (I also genuinely don't think having unlikable characters is particularly unusual—that used to be the hammer used to clob literary…

The end of the second book re: Julia infuriated me because I thought it was so cheap and lazy and trite. It's one of few times a book I felt lukewarm about in the beginning actually made me mad enough to override my completionist compulsion, so I still haven't read the third one.

Alba's story about Aunt Inez being buried at the edge of a cliff? AMAZING.

Burn them ALL to the ground, Joan!

I've met quite a few women of color who are concerned and angry about "missing white woman syndrome," actually. Why does everyone know about Laci Peterson and not LaToyia Figueroa?

If it makes any difference, you made me feel better that I'm not the only one who feels this way!

Good things happening to Sue Heck make me happier than just about anything else on TV.

Or because she was so disillusioned by how Tandy acted during their marriage.

His performance of "Agony" from Into the Woods was pretty comedically solid as well.

I'm always kind of intrigued by how many bizarro "theme" marathons they can come up with on USA.

It's funny to me that I remember critics commenting on how "prickly" and unsympathetic and generally weird D'Onofrio's character was, when now after years of House and Sherlock and their wannabes he's like a big teddy bear.

I think he's been hawking e-cigarettes.

I'm pretty sure that short-lived female detective whose name I can't even remember (I'm not even sure who she was with—Jesse Martin, maybe?) was the worst. (And it's not because she got girl cooties on the police or anything—I love Eames from Criminal Intent.)

And this didn't even cover that weird Grey's Anatomy-esque thing about young idealistic ADAs screwing all over the place, starring Alex Cabot as mean boss lady! (please tell me someone else remembers this.)

ugh, stupid baseball game stealing the tv channel. This looks like an episode I'm really going to like, although I won't even be able to watch it on my falling to pieces computer.

I've long described Lipstadt's and Richard Evans's accounts of the trial ("Lying About Hitler,") as Law & Order: Historians Unit!, so I'm pretty psyched.

I would find it really bizarre and cheesy if we saw Peggy's kid. And very discordant with the general tone of the show.

Punching everyone (a la Trudy) and saying "Hell's bells!"

(feels weird upvoting this, but in the sense of agreeing that it seems totally plausible, especially with the burst of energy/purpose people sometimes get when they've actually decided to commit suicide.)

I think Peggy could well be too proud to take him back. Girl can hold a grudge. (Which isn't to say I don't think a lot of her grudges are totally merited.)