The show died for me around the time J.T. was stabbed in the street and the new school kids were folded into Degrassi.  Mia was the last character I could stand, and Peter was the first character I truly, truly loathed.  Then I tuned out.

We've reached the season's maximum Rune Approaches Peoples Ignorant Slob Tolerance levels; the Stars Hollow Committee for a Politer Stars Hollow has issued a Level 9 RAPIST Alert.

Luke's hairline gives me a boner, so I love seeing his hat off.  He looks great with a hat on too.

MissPatti.net redirects to some dance company.

I politely make a *woosh*-ing sound over your head, @avclub-6337e07e6e05d8c4b432d3c8cc1b78fb:disqus : that's kind of the joke, I think she's mocking Brad, Sondheim, musicals and all of stage acting in one well-placed barb.  Paris really gets the most vicious verbal daggers from the writers.

I want to dress like Lain, she is the best.  Love the costume notes; Luke always looks super sexy in a very casual way, I think I'm going to start dressing my husband similarly to show off his forearms.

Seriously.  His behavior around the girls of Chilton goes way beyond teenage pervacious and into straight try-you-as-an-adult predatory creepoid bullshit.  Such a lying, manipulative, misogynistic prick.

5'9" is too short?  What has the world come to.

Tristan was killed shortly later, off screen, and his soul was transplanted into the reborn yuppie douche body of Logan via a wacky set of circumstances explored in the Gilmore Girls spin off, "Love-Matic Tristan."

Like anyone would want to M him.

I hate Tristan the most.  Then Logan.  Then Jess.  I don't even really hate Jess - he is an immature dipshit, but they all are, and Jess is the best match for Rory out of the three.  (Four, counting Dean, tbqh.)

I think there is a level of gleeful vindictiveness that Rory can display about petty, personal nonsense.  She certainly comes to terms with the silliness of the town events, to some degree, as the show progresses.  I'm not saying there's any of that on a conscious or really impactful level - just that Rory knows in…

Hell's Kitchen has the hypest fucking promos ever on network TV, I swear.  They could sell an igloo to an Alaskan governor.

Lots of cutesie names.  From now on they are Howie, Jamie, Jessie, Johnnie, Jordie, Kathie, Krissie, Lucy (…), Lynnie, Bethy, Bethie and Brie. And Bime, sadly, who is destined to be forgotten by this time next week.

My guess: Lynn picks it up for the next six-seven episodes and settles into the middle of the pack, and is eliminated sixth to last after settling too hard and losing to a bunch of stellar dishes in the late game.  He seems like he knows what he's doing but is quickly shaken by harsh words and minor setbacks.

Krissi's a giant bitch who can cook so I'm sure she'll go far.

I agreed that if Jonny had gone full-dessert with his maple alfredo, it could've been cool.  I am so, so down with the idea of a sweetened, buttery pasta filled with cream cheese and cinnamon filling and topped with a cinnamon-syrup glaze-sauze.  Mmmmm.

I just want to say, the flavor of bell pepper in a pasta is a good one, but I can't see how to take it from a pepper and get it into a filling without the filling being either pasty from having to basically liquify the pepper, or too chunky from diced pepper instead of a blended, smooth, creamy filling.

Krissi seems like a boring frumpy woman who is happy to be involved in personal drama.  Omarasa was so clearly playing a character for the cameras to the point of being a fucking sociopath about it.  I can't decide which is worse - honest immaturity around complex social interactions… or crazy bitches.

Casting this season on Hell's Kitchen: 20+ people who can't reliably cook scallops for some reason.