I got a strong Phillip Glass vibe, too. It reminded me of the piano piece from the BSG episode "Valley of Darkness," the one Starbuck plays in her apartment, which was a Glass piece.

Ugh, yes. That about-face on Max made me furious. So she couldn't just have wanted to do right by a fellow woman, or fellow human being who was being mistreated? It had to have been about secretly wanting to fuck her? I've hated Max since early on so my memories of this may be cloudy, but as I recall, Max basically…

I love this! I too wish I had someone to talk to about Black Sails (besides my husband, who is pretty good at it, but I always like another perspective). I flat-out hate most of the women on the show, which really pains me to admit. Max has been The Worst from day one, I've completely lost track of what Eleanor's deal…

"Before the fall must come the rise" - yes. This is a moment that has been six seasons in the making. Cersei has been behind so many of the machinations on this show, with far-reaching implications. She absolutely was always going to end up on the throne, at least temporarily. She never had real, quantifiable power…

One of the most disappointing things to ever happen on this show. Alice was great, I hated Priya and she was cheating on Leonard anyway! And Courtney Ford is married to a Superman, I mean really. They would have been great together.

Thank you! I had the same thought! Especially since real-life Elizabeth IS pregnant (though I don't know if she was when they filmed this season).

My theory is that the writers became aware that viewers found that storyline a bridge too far even for this show, and won't be showing it again, but will make occasional references to it just so we know they didn't drop it entirely.

Fair point, but technicalities aside, I think it added to the absurdism of that show, and this one too. I'd love it if Tina had a different big guest role every season and no one ever mentioned it.

Rachel Dratch had several different roles on 30 Rock. (I think the original idea was actually to have her in a different role every episode, but they dropped that pretty quickly.) They weren't big roles like Tina's on Kimmy, but I figured this is just something Tina likes to do.

I wish she hadn't given him that revelation at the end; it would be great to see her date Josh for a while, then realize that he's actually not really what she wants, dump him, then deal with the emotional fallout (and NOT just break up with him to date someone else).

And Heather, I hope!

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that I didn't love this episode much (which is about the most negative thing I can say about this show). I loved the individual parts, but as a whole, I don't think it really gelled for me.

I happened to watch it for the first time two days before my mother was arriving for a visit, and it just killed me. My mom is great and very unlike Rebecca's, but there were still some lines that were totally her (the part where she offers to buy her a bathmat is so, SOOOO my mom, down to getting distracted and…

Knowing Heather, she may have been saying that partly to convince herself (erroneously) that oxytocin was the reason she still has feelings for Greg, and not that she genuinely fell hard for him.

I didn't think about the UTI song in that way, but now I really hope you're right. I saw it more as highlighting how insecure Greg is, as seen by his excitement over leaving a "mark" on a woman, but I like the way you think too, and I think it goes hand in hand with the way I interpreted it. Why the hell is that a…

I'm a latecomer to this show, but from what I've seen, "Where's the Bathroom" is wholly underappreciated! Maybe it's just that I have a Jewish mother, but it's one of my favorite songs from this season. It's so perfect and true.

To me he's a "sitcom alcoholic" - someone who in real life probably WOULD be an alcoholic, but because it's a sitcom and real alcoholism would be too depressing to show, he just has all the tendencies of an alcoholic yet is still fully functioning and no one ever calls him on it. (I know CEG isn't a sitcom, but I…

I love this interpretation! I really hope this was a conscious choice, because it's brilliant. As someone who can ship hard at times, often when you look back on it it's disturbing how much you were willing to overlook in the interest of maintaining the purity of your OTP. The concept of an OTP is so problematic…

Oh my gosh - I thought I had heard it was Lea MICHELE guest starring, and as a person who didn't care for Glee I was internally eyerolling, but Lea SALONGA? That is completely fabulous! Now I can't wait!

So is this foreshadowing Greg killing his dad or…?