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It is fucking impossible to read news about it, since that fucking period messes with the sentence flow.

"This is not meth!"

Eyeball fight!!

I also got the impression that Nikki wasn't merely being frugal: I think she was worried her extended family would disapprove of the conspicuous spending of money. In other words, she was worried what people would think, not merely being charitable and thrifty.

I also can't believe that the show would give us both levels of the happy ending when it was clear that suicide was the logical (for the story) choice. Not only does he survive but he reunites with his wife? Too much. I will choose to believe the heaven theory.

This was the least subtle we have ever seen him. I didn't like it at all.

I don't think a TV show can resist showing us onscreen the moment when two main characters get together, but it would be great if Nolan and Amanda simply keep doing what we saw last night: she rests her head on his shoulder, they stay over at Rafe's house, everyone drinks and shoots the shit about the size of

The second episode of "The Fosters" was a drop in quality compared to the pilot. (It's still good, though.) But I would definitely trade it in if it means "Bunheads" would come back.

This is the Saturday-morning doorbell-ringing of the 2010s.

Michelle and Lorelai (and Rory!) should move in together. Odd-trio shenanigans ensue.

You know, from the Sackville-Bocks?

Fair enough; it didn't occur to me to consider it that way. This episode was just great in making everyone partially right and partially wrong.

This would have been the perfect spot for the show to give Nikki second thoughts about the wedding. I guess this is a thing that is really happening!

Not only too human but British… I think there was some throwaway dialogue that might have alluded to this obliquely (a discussion of comic books).

Aye, I'm thinking captivity. Maybe we never got Human Tom back. (Gasp!)

Hee hee hee. Nicely done.

Unicycle coffee guy: I sympathize. Humans tend to ask the same questions over and over again.

Script shortcuts that, while probably necessary, struck me as not very organic and way too clunky: Regina has JUST come back, and in less than a minute Daphne bombards her with (unsolicited, unnecessary, sure-to-rankle) details about sleeping in the main house, buying an expensive lunch every day, bonding with her

This is what I like so much about the show, in the same vein as Carrie's comment about cliched storylines elevated by the execution: Emmett and Travis do a version of "Home alone! Let's throw a party!" (which has to be up there in terms of TV cliches) but from the start Emmett is against it (which is normal enough)

Pope might excommunicate her or order an exorcism?