At least on this show, it was a kindler, gentler version. No mention of whether the Target employees get doubletime for working on the holiday either! though I'm guessing they only ask part-timers to work that day/night & don't give them enough hours to qualify.

Good points, but Michael did get all that credit, gratitude & admiration for finding Mateo & Rafael didn't know at the time that Micahel was honest with Jane about letting Nadine go, so R had a while to be grateful and yet jealous with his rival playing the hero cop. When he finds out that Michael's role was more…

Or a nanny instead of a baby sitter. I like that Rafaell did not push for a full-time nanny, which may very well be what he and His sister had. Instead he is both supporting Jane's values of family support and participating much more himself as a father.

There's one (ex) wife left, the one Solano paid off to disappear. wonder if she had any criminal mastermind talents, or should that be criminal matermind talents?

Sounds terrifying.

It's when the speech rhythm of one character is exactly like a completely different character(in Scandal) that I lose any involvement with the story & wonder if they even do a tableread.

Guess I snapped when I read "snapped" in the last sentence & conflated your precise and subtle analysis with the many many comments above & below it that seemed to forgive /justify his actions because Sinclair was a bitch & deserved to die. All apologies(seems like the right catchphrase when it's not all good).

Brilliant!

Thanks! Totally missed that.

Thanks for the explanation! Maybe it was an homage—it sounds like a great episode & I am living proof that people still alive didn't see it back in the day. Guessing that Shonda Rimes might have been a fan of TWW since she says she loves C-Span and created a show that spends a lot of time in the west wing?
No idea how…

Credit where credit is due!

Never saw that show. Was the filibuster in that showfor women's rights? Was it by a Republican woman? I only knew about the relatively recent state legislator who wore adult diapers to filibuster & was touted as a prospective governor or national candidate afterwards("Where Is She Now"?).

Did they have that warning before all the Huck torture episodes?

Does it help to substitute marriage to Fitz which Olivia has the legal right to do (and would not have had 50 ish years ago before Loving vs. Virginia) as an example of something you might have mixed feelings about for her as a character, while of course unequivocally supporting her legal and moral right to make the…

Yes, especially with Laurel & Frank approximating an actual relationship…tho Annaliese's taut implied she also might have done some hands-on"fixing" for her father, we haven't seen her do anything violent yet, have we?

Church heels!!!
PD Wes always seemed more like PTSD Wes then Puppy Dog with his lack of affect, but Kid Wes, who just lost his mother seems more lashingout/angry than shocked or bereaved. Did I miss any info last season about his mother? Was she involved with drugs? Was that part of his immediate fascination with goth…

But at least in this show the recurring don't all monologue with similar pace and tics, like they do on Scandal.

Well said! It does seem to me that the supporting actors are showing better acting skills this season than last, even when they don't have juicy scenes or much time in a particular episode.

Was Sinclair implying his father was involved in the gang rape? Not just to help his son cover up, I mean? He fdid get really angry when she said something about the terrible things his father did. It did seem that she meant something specific & that Asher did know what she was talking about.
But he did choose to…

He didn't "snap." He was driving away, stopped and chose to back up, knock down, and run over Sinclair.