I thought the whole Police Deputy suddenly being nervous for an interrogation confusing until it was immediately clear what was going on, which I found absolutely adorable. Even the name “Baby Cloud” is cute. Phoebe was also at least more consistently accented this week.

Second best moment “I didn’t want ginger kids.”

Good recap. A couple of things. Bella really did say that Schlafly was the most liberated woman in America. For a “housewife,” she spent remarkably little time at home. And did no housework. What’s her name’s comment, “you have to know how to hate” is a perfect moment encapsulating what the Right-wing’s next stratagem…

This show should have been on FX proper so it could have a bigger audience.

I appreciated the aging up of Gloria in this episode quite a bit (she also looked a little less fake).

She and Frank Langella were maybe the best actors in The Americans. And that’s saying something - lot of talent on that show.

yeah, I know the character was technically called Claudia, but Philip and Elizabeth called her Granny, so thats how I know her.

I was wondering about this, re: Gloria! I was really confused by that moment because of how adamant Gloria was in her interview with Ann Friedman in Call Your Girlfriend. I wonder if it has to do more with my own ignorance on the intricacies of decriminalization policy, though.

As a minor note, I was initially really surprised that Midge was the same sex relationship story beat here after the Brenda episode, but then I realized there is no way in Helll Brenda would ever discuss that subject with Bella.

“And Tracey [Ullman] I talk to, you know, several times a week through just emails and stuff, and pictures of her grandchild.”

Thank you for your review! I always look very much forward to them.

For me, one of the absolutely strengths of this show is how much it loathes Phyllis Schlafly. Which is really remarkable considering how much popular culture often struggles with female villains.

Jodie Comer was so great in that final scene on the train. Normally I watch Villanelle with such massive aesthetic distance because she’s such a piece of highly stylized art with no verisimilitude, so while I get that she’s brutal, it’s an engaging brutality that makes me feel something like art appreciation. But that…

Yes but she didn’t mock it, and seemed to really have fun.

I feel like Villanelle is almost the next iteration of Tatiana. Her mother is cruel and manipulative, but wants to hide it, so she creates the fiction of being a good mother and only abuses the people around her. Villanelle, however, wants to be seen, wants to be noticed. So she spreads her wings and finds ways to…

The cut after Villanelle starts to sing along was perfectly timed.

There was the kid in the hospital who lost his whole family in the car wreck that disfigured his face, Villanelle thought she was helping him out by killing him. She knew she would not want to live like that so she figured he wouldn’t either.

That’s probably as much as we’ll ever learn about Villanelle’s origins. At least, if the showrunners are smart, that’s as much as we’ll learn.

Carolyn: “Couldn’t we be sad and listen to good music?”

This is actually a very good point!
Also, Villanelle checking out the water pressure in the bathroom made me laughed so hard, because yes, it is important! Thank you.

I haven’t seen this discussed anywhere, mostly because the show starts with a Texan South-East Asian pilot from Mars.