Fair enough, but I don't know — the tone throughout the episode just felt "defeated." She didn't tell Amelia, "Right now, I'm just focused on getting to the playoffs and winning the World Series." She didn't raise the possibility of wanting to contribute to said championship run when complaining about getting shut…

The timing was weird.

I kind of love the reveal. It reminds me a lot of the death of Lori on TWD - we lose a major character (so no one can claim the show slunked out) but one that no one really liked anyway (so it doesn't "hurt" the show).

Who are these successful gay country stars you're referencing? There's Shane McAnally, a successful songwriter (I guess an equivalent to Nashville's Kevin), but there's no out gay artist currently receiving meaningful airplay at country radio.

I saw it that way as well. I *do* agree with the reviewer's note that there was a weird romantic chemistry between Freda and Jamal, but I don't agree with how much he doubled down on the claim that he couldn't sing without Freda.

Two things:

Lush-us would be spelled "Luscious."

Never understand why these "in demand" pilot actors/actresses always end up joining such awful projects.

I double-checked. The scores I listed were the correct ones, which is why I'm confused. Kevin, based on the scores he read, should have won the Shiva.

Here's my problem with the "reveal" at the end of this episode.

There are a few isolated Tweets and Facebook posts here or there (including at least one video clip), but it's weird that I haven't been able to find any of those news stories — including the one that was spliced into last night's episode.

So here's a question:

""The Girlfriend" could obviously tell they were two people and went along with it. Two tweets."

I'd assume (see: hope) the person was referring to how the authorities/other characters seem to be letting some of these murders slide as if they never happened. Not that we, as viewers, don't know how everyone died.

— I'd like to think the ASA Nominations thing was a parody of last year's Grammy Nominations announcement. In a universally panned move, the Recording Academy had a bunch of different artists reveal the nominations on social media. It went on for hours, there was no clear pattern to which awards were announced when,…

The way I heard it, she said something to the effect of, "We don't have a warrant, but by the time you call the judge, we'll have found the murder weapon."

What's brilliant about The Affair is that the show makes you *understand* the cheating without glorifying or justifying it. the titular affair is not positioned as some sort of fairytale romance between two people who finally found each other. It's very "human" in its portrayal.

Part of my rant was saying how much these terms suck.

To clarify, those were also reasons I thought it was the funniest episode of the season.

Mixed thoughts on this one. It was an absolutely hilarious episode - I laughed harder than I have all season - but it seemed more like a contrived TV comedy than its usual self.