So…I thought yesterday's ep was pretty good? The Irisa-Nolan stuff, specifically.

Haha, yeah, old people "in love". Such a riot.

I dunno, that was a bit anti-climactic, especially since someone here predicted just this ending. And they spent like half the season making us hate him, were we supposed to be at all sympathetic when he was kicked out?

I liked that as soon as they did find a real honest to god alien, they threw …it? out of the airlock.

Heh, I was like, omg, they're being attacked by giant scarred babies.

I was wondering how they were going to top last season's theatrics at the end (even if I was underwhelmed with how quickly Mina was gone) but I'm actually totally pleased we're jumping right back into it with a new but related villain.
And they did well to keep Vanessa at the center of it, even as the others'…

Think that second point is missing something? Yeah, though, I do love her disdain for Tandy (which, by the way, if there was a time to come up with a harmless lie, why not think of a better middle name). I think why she's coming across so weirdly is that she's not acting like a typical sitcom character, in that she…

Seriously, how are his barrage of self-serving lies and potentially harmful actions (potentially only because they were discovered, not because they weren't terrible) on the same level as a woman honestly telling a man that she appreciates his "I love you" but isn't in the same place?

Aw, I really did like the Jay-Alex moment. It was definitely a busy ep, Gloria and the boys was fun but very quick, Phil and Jay, the usual. The money arguments probably benefited from being spread over so many characters, and with that sweet moment from Jay at the end, but it was a pretty regular episode as far as…

Whoa, strongly disagree. Visually, yes, it looked stunning, but the actual ep was kind of awful.

Same, she's been very nice to Carol and Todd.

My only quibble would have been a bit more focus on Crickett's story, which seemed to mostly play out offscreen, but it was such a sweet, lovely ending, I can't really dock many points. It's just nice to watch something and be happy.

I thought it was something like that too. He seemed clueless far beyond mediocre acting would imply, like it was deliberate. I wondered if it was because he was younger and he somehow blended it in with the truth in his head.

I'm fine with the show as it is currently, in that him being unlikable AND unrewarded is okay. I was just responding to the concept of never having asshole protagonists.

Yeah, I don't entirely mind an asshole protag, but I don't want him to be rewarded for it. At least not when there are reasonable decent people around who he's playing off, and especially not when he realizes a lot of what he's doing is dickish.

Though, I wouldn't say that final speech to Melissa was a twist on what we'd seen earlier. Everything he said was so shallow. It's basically the same thing we've seen so far, his very soul-deep heartfelt lust. Suddenly there are other people around, and one of them is a woman who looks like January Jones, and he still…

For a sec, I thought it was a new third brother and had to rewind and compare to check that it was the same.
But then I mistook Prudence for Ophelia, so I thought it was just me.

I was so SO scared Melissa'd somehow be convinced by that final monologue or give him an opening, I started fist-pumping when she said no, then politely stopped as he pretended it was for Carol, then started again when he was leaving.

I wish they'd foregone whatever other future mystery they occasionally flashforward to. Whatever happened with Sarah and Danny and how they're handling it now is so interesting already. Cardellini and Mendelsohn in particular handle the current moments so well, where they realize again and again how their…

Forgot to mention this earlier, but Rose going blonde probably has a lot more to do with Bridget Regan on Agent Carter than any plot point, but presumably they'll actually use it on the show and not just for the hilarious telenovela wig reveal. At one point near the end, when the camera opened the scene behind Petra,…