If Latrice were better at styling/wardrobe she'd be a shoo-in for the final three… As it is I'm worried her runway is going to bring her down before then, and I don't think she'd fare well against some of the more overly expressive contestants in a lip-sync.  But I'm still cheering for her to win, although I'm finally…

No lie: that may be my single favorite line from all four seasons of the show… I've been mostly annoyed by Willam, but I wanted to stand up and applaud at the carpet line.

I'll go so far to say that it's my Top 1 episode.  It's got everything the show does well with no fat, and I find the ending deeply disturbing (in a way that sets up the finale perfectly.)  I tend to gravitate toward meta stuff, though.

Well, Branson pretty much cornered Sybil and told her how he felt - whatever the power imbalance, he was the one who threw the ball in her court, so to speak.  I didn't get anything from Jane that wasn't servant-deferential, if happily surprised that her employer took an active interest in her life.  (To be quite…

how in the word is it creepy, when she's been trying to get him to hit on her every time she sees him? do you actually think he would rape her?

Here's my biggest problem with season 2, and it was especially glaring in this episode: in the first season, Fellowes maintained a good sense of barely ordered chaos: every meal had the staff scrambling, and we got to see how the quiet elegance of the upstairs was contingent on constant panic downstairs.  And god…

Exactly.

One line to sum up everything the show's done wrong before: at the beginning, Glen says "We've lost people before, but Sophia was different."  She was?   Did she have any lines in season 1?  Did we see anyone actively interacting with her?  The show wants us to develop an investment that it hasn't laid the groundwork…

Actually they're best known on YouTube for covering Look At Me Know: that's the gig that made them internet-famous and scored them a guest appearance on Ellen, where everything took off.

You could say that Macbeth is a proto-version of this narrative

I agree, but they had nothing nice to say about Mondo's work.  Rami just needed to keep his jacket closed.

Good points.  I dunno if I found Arcade all that attractive, but I liked his character and can see where you're coming from.

That Kenley line made my night: it doesn't matter if she's mean-spirited or clueless, it was still perfectly awful and perfectly timed.  I'm a little surprised they kept Mondo after reaming him on the runway, given that they at least liked Rami's jacket quite a bit.  But if Mondo is the whole raison d'etre for the…

It's sir, but I'll take whatever I can get.

One word: pacing.  My god, did the gags fall flat without their usual razor-sharp timing and editing (for what it's worth I loved the 5th season live episode, because they compensated enough with goofy energy).  Just painful to watch, and probably my least favorite episode they've ever done.  C- is right on.

I'd agree, except that Basinger's final line is the best of an overall brilliant screenplay:

Spinoff: RuPaul's WTF league.  I would watch the shit out of that.

I'm sure more people have seen Psycho, but Martin Balsam might be better remembered as the foreman in 12 Angry Men, because he gets more focus and more to do there.  The only thing I remember about him in Psycho is the (spoilers?  Is that necessary?) awkward falling-down-the-stairs shot.

I like Sean Avery well enough, but has there ever been a guest judge who looked less comfortable to be there?

—Nobody can deliver a line like “He’s a white man with hair, Lemon. The sky’s the limit!” like uber-alpha-male Alec Baldwin, God bless him.