Wow, you guys are harsh. It made me laugh. The laugh track added to Horace startling Pete with the newspaper as if the whole thing is slapstick was enough to make it worth my three minutes.

Exactly. All the other fucking asshole wife beaters have died as a result of Jake, why not just kill Lee?
And yet, it'd be a bummer for all of us because then there's no show. I guess we just have to tolerate the unlikely, convoluted plot.
Let's just say the past is pushing back by causing them to have a stupid plan? …

I love the show. But I can't even think of a person I know IRL to whom I'd recommend it. I personally would buy anything Louis put out, and find the surprise drop of this show and knowing nothing about it beforehand to be so fantastic. I love it! (Did I say that already? lol) But I doubt if I could, or would want…

"You walk around like you own the place." That was a great little line tucked inside such a charged, issue-laden encounter. Of the three (cousins? siblings? … whatever! … ), Horace really might be the only one who walks around like he owns the place.

I liked it at the end where Rhonda tells Horace that she's a drunk. (Well, I mean, which of the day-drinkers at Horace and Pete's isn't?) Transgender or not, dating a drunk is something you need to know up front.

I am not transgender, so maybe I shouldn't write about this …
But I have to say, I think it's important that people who are not trans also present the issues. No one is going to argue that a majority of the population is trans, and only hearing from their perspective is not useful at all. I, for one, was cringing…

Awesome to see Joelle Carter as Jake's fiance! Too bad she's stuck in a godawful subplot, but still fun to see her.

I was watching on my Kindle. I don't know if it was quite as dark on a bigger screen, but I was so grateful that I could barely see anything that was happening. Can't erase the sounds though.

It's Tom. The dog. He makes the lesser Tascioni.

I've been thinking. If anyone is the "spirit" of this show, might it be Diane? The one who speaks for the creators? If so, it is perfectly appropriate that she screws Cary over, because that's what they have been doing from the very beginning.

Okay. I have to say it. We are to see Jason as Alicia's cure-all for the drinking? I hope not, because that is such a terrible message for anyone who is in love with a true addict.

Let me also add: at this point, I really don't care. Just wrap the damn thing up in a way that doesn't haunt me, please. (i.e. Alicia and Jason CANNOT go off to Alaska and become lumberjacks …) The past season or two have irreparably damaged my view of the show. Now I just want an end that I can live with.

They lost me a little when they even considered Cancun. No way either of them had passports on them. I'm surprised Brett even had his wallet — in his pajamas directly after, we assume, fleeing the bed he'd just puked in?

At this point in the series' run, I figure we are on the short track to endgame. So many of the directions that the plot twists are taking right at this minute may actually matter. At least, I'm telling myself that in hopes that we end the way we began on at least one issue: with Peter in prison!

I've also thought that maybe both of them are so used to viewing Pete as "less than" a functional person — both probably witnessed his breakdown and visited him in the mental hospital (maybe on the latter) — that they felt it was just wrong for this bright young girl to be with him. And that she should know.

For real. WHY did Horace stop Sylvia and then go and blurt it out himself a minute later? WHY?!? I really want to know, he was about to say why when Sylvia asked him, and then they cut it off right before he said it. Had to be on purpose but I sure hope this part of his character gets explained in later episodes.

Can I second (or whatever number we're on how, I haven't read every comment) the request to please, please, please stop spoiling Horace and Pete in the header for the review? I can't always (okay, can never) get to it before 9 pm or so on Saturday, and don't want to have to stay off of this site all day. Please!

I hope you aren't watching them back-to-back. I don't think I could do that.

I can easily see that. Frank as the killer really did seem like a not-quite-believable afterthought.

No, it wouldn't have, actually. He thinks he's a terrible person. He (may have) killed his mother; he killed Sam and forced them all to cover it up and caused so much of the craziness for the others ….