I don't understand why your definition of a "prestige drama" is them killing Carrie and Saul.

I just fully don't understand how the reviewer is watching this show or what he wants out of the show or anything. A B? Is this a joke?

A C? LOL - At least an A-, easily the best episode of the season for me. I'm not sure how you can call this a "low stakes season" when the life of a major character is actually at risk. Not to mention the soul of the actual main character.

No, that's definitely right. Maybe I was thinking from more than just a practical standpoint.

No, they are really driving it home to show how unlikeable she is. This is her rock bottom.

Wait, what? That seemed pretty consensual to me. Aayan was into it.

It was good insurance, I suppose. I agree it fits in with her character. I hope they explore why Carrie's first instinct in manipulating people is always sex, though.

Do people really believe that Quinn's feelings for Carrie are out of nowhere? I've always thought he was sexually attracted to her since mid-season 2 when he seemed pretty hot and bothered listening to Carrie and Brody have sex in that motel. Then he refused to kill Brody because it would "wreck" Carrie. Last season…

I don't think Carrie being bipolar caused her to keep the baby out of some romantic notion, if that's what you're getting at. But, in some way, Carrie believes that her job and her illness are—and should—prevent her from fostering intimate connections with people, from letting other people into her life. The most…

Carrie is promiscuous, though, which makes it even more unlikely she wouldn't be on birth control.

I'm not so sure Carrie making the irrational, rash decision to maybe drown her daughter before doubling back is out of character for her at all. If anything, the rashness is in character. In season two she—seemingly in the span of a single night—decided to kill herself after being shut out of a debrief. Then she threw…

I don't care about male/female romance. I thought Alana/Hannibal was a horrible plot point in the show, mainly because it was just that — a plot point. It didn't make sense for the Alana we knew in S1 to fall into a relationship with a man amid this chaos.

I know Beverly was going to be killed earlier, I just don't understand why she had to be killed at all. To fuel Will's man pain? Fuller openly admitted he only developed her characterization in early S2 so that the audience would feel her loss more. She was reduced to a plot device.

One surviving CENTRAL female character. Dhavernas is a part of the main cast. The other two are not.

I feel like this entire season has been Fuller thinking they weren't going to get renewed. So he killed Beverly (why????) and introduced the Vergers and used a lot of canon stuff from later on he thought he might not get to.

Wow… I really disliked this. The entire show has felt off to me the second half of this season. Maybe it was Will's deepening darkness, or the endless Will/Hannibal scenes, or the complete disappearance of consistent characterization for Alana, but it was just off.

And just not being able to tell what's a "good time" and what's not.

I agree, but every character not named Hannah has sporadic character regression. It's my main gripe with the show.

I know Hannah's been getting a lot of shit for going to see Adam before the play, but I do believe her heart was in the right place and I don't think she was trying to make the night about her like she usually tries to make everything about her.

Marnie is, improbably, my favorite character, and I really loved what they did with her this season. I *loved* the Ray relationship and liked that she was trying to be a better person, but she is really her own worst enemy. She has no idea how to interact with other people like a normal human being.