No Fosters thread yet? Not sure what to think of the episode — I thought it was pretty solid, although the Jesus-Lexi dinner and everything surrounding it seemed messy. And I hate how the show is handling Mike and this "hero" trope. Felt like a cop-out, just like Haddie and Cornell on Parenthood.

She can still be weird and not have that awful hair. Ugh.

Her commitment "to their country" really is no different literally to an executive's quest to maximize shareholder value, a lawyer's drive to log more billable hours, etc.

Lady Hasselboe is blonde. Sanne (Iben Dorner) is the redhead.

I genuinely don't think it's a gender thing (as least as much as you're making it out to be, or as an overt primary theme).

And yet that episode was perhaps the best Borgen episode of them all.

TVDW, if you think this Kasper episode is awesome, just wait until you get to the Kasper episode in series 2.

I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think the show be all deaf-centric/switch-ramifications all the time — at the very least, those motifs can't be obvious all of the time.

Yep.

Considering how f*'d up Kasper is (you'll see as the show moves forward), it wouldn't surprise me in the least that he's an awful, evil ghost. And Katrine is just as complicit.

I'm gonna miss the bfgfbff action

If it isn't driven from her own volition, Lauren Iungerich being axed from Awkward. is a huge mistake.

And at the very least, The Fosters seems a lot tighter than SaB was early. I've never been a fan of how SaB handles love interests.

I was just about to start a comment thread. I enjoyed this episode too! Best element so far has to be the well-realized relationship between Stef and Lena still being so great.

This is ABC Family we're dealing with…

It wasn't terrible, and it's kinda nice to have a very low-stakes episode once in a while.

Spoiler:
Birgitte's personal life won't be eating its cake for much longer. If the clues weren't already obvious. And towards the end of this series, it gets bad for her politically too.

It's worth going running through the first "season" on Netflix (it's like 30 episodes, IIRC — crazy ABC Family scheduling), but you're not missing much if you started in Season 2.

I don't think personal histories and love triangles are necessarily a bad thing at this stage of the show. We're 3 episodes in, and there needs to be some plot-driven stuff to drive the character work.

grr