Is it just me, or did this episode have more near-nudity than last season when their weekly assignment was literally "nudity"?

"Seven years of tribulations"?  Those 4 horsemen mean business, but also want to leave enough time for a syndication deal.

The full insanity of "Pressure" didn't hit me until they fanned out into a full-on "Seasons of Love" line.

Not to mention: Ivy Lynn deciding to be a mother with Derek the (hot) sleaze, despite her long struggle to find career momentum.

Maybe finales of bad series are actually *more* emotional, because I feel like I've been through hell with these people.

They also beat "Smash" to the "character sings at their own doppelganger" scene by a few months.  With Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn", no less.

When I saw the "F", I actually LOL'd.  Now *that's* catharsis, "Smash" writers.

I want to see this cast together again the same way I want to see my Criterion edition of "Clueless": I hope not sporadically.

…opened up on Halsted.  Which is just an A+ Boystown joke.

It's too bad Elisha Cuthbert wasn't the guest judge so she could finally use her catchphrase, "I wanna buy a condo with Wilver Valmarando."

The sassy chorus members may have been sidelined this season, but at least last night they got their greatest acting challenge yet: faux spontaneous choreography where they have to keep making surprised faces or lagging slightly behind to cover how rehearsed it is.  Own it.  love it.

I'll give them bonus points for robot cosplay Tina deciding to chase Kitty down the hallway.  She's more fun now that she's embraced the "single forever" thing.

They finally made an episode where so little happens, it actually retroactively subtracted plot from last week too.  (No one's guilty pleasure is catfishing?  Santana is back in the loft?)

That was the saddest scene.  Is it possible that the production cycle actually let the writers see online reactions to the retooling before this episode filmed?  And more importantly, do you think they're going to follow "Liasons" example and turn the rest of this doomed season into some kind of bonkers swan song?

They better not go the Unique route here - they're only just sorting out her storyline, plus this season already had the "Blaine likes Sam" and "Tina likes Blaine" stuff going on.

Let's not underrate the fact that this was the episode that "Glee" decided to be funny again, at least in the first half.  Loved Santana's reaction to Brody telling her that she's not a real New Yorker until she's had a makeover, which, what does that even mean?

So Julia went from a show with the opening line "Hi, I'm Marilyn," to a book so brilliant the public must never be allowed to see it?  Are they Gaslighting her?  Are they Gaslighting me?

"Let's try that again when you're not high" was another classic.

Retooling "Bombshell" to be even more about the men in Marilyn's life = steering into the skid.  Good luck with that.

I think the show's mini-revamp is starting to draw me back in, but my unresolved weakness for Seth Rogen may be giving me a false positive.