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I grew up in various parts of Wisconsin, and I know for a fact that restaurants served the Velveeta/Rotel by the early 1970s way up there. And also that Velveeta and Rotel were easily available in every grocery store. My mom used to make it at home.

Timeline sleuthing: I'm guessing we are about 10-11 months in. There is no way that Becca was pregnant before or even slightly after the wedding. Lindsay would have been bringing it up *a lot* if there was any chance Becca "had" to get married. So the S2 season finale was probably 9 months since the wedding. The…

Paul is a grown ass man. His best is apparently to try and mold Lindsay into the Stepford wife he has in his head. It is just as much on him as on her. Stop infantilizing him.

Ask? He's never actually asked. Pay attention? How come when Jimmy is oblivious, everyone can see he's an ass, but when Paul does it even worse (he's been with Lindsay for YEARS), he's just some poor innocent nerd who can't be helped? He's just as much of a self-centered ass as Jimmy. he wants what he wants. He does…

Eh. Paul is just as self-absorbed as Lindsay, just in more socially acceptable ways. He threw out his nerd stuff… and got new nerd stuff. He never asked what she wanted or liked, and I doubt he ever has. He just expected her to go along with his new nerd hobbies.

It IS his fault that his attempts were, in fact, totally self-centered. How myopic could he be to think that Lindsay would enjoy listening to birding podcasts? It's the definition of self-absorbed. He didn't deserve to be stabbed for it, but he hardly can be credited for doing his best. He put no thought into what she…

Paul has tons of money (he has some makework finance job he clearly never does, so I assume he's a trustfunder). Even if Linds somehow has the baby, there will be 24/7 nanny care.

Sort of. The human body's ability to adapt and adjust is glorious… unless you are dealing with a chronic condition that needs treatment by medication, in which case eventually your body may decide to build up a tolerance or just stop reacting to a med at all. So most patients with chronic illnesses will need to adjust…

Wouldn't his Jewish mother use this as an opportunity to lop that blasphemous foreskin off?

They have always had a much firmer grasp on American politics and how our government works.

Jonah's campaign website confirms that (and is also vague about who was President before Hughes): https://www.jonahryanforcon…

The thing I love most about this show is that the characters seem to live outside the timeline, and we're just dropping in to see little bits of it. Every character is fully realized, so it's okay that we don't see how or when Betsy or Hank die, we know it happens, we know what happens.

It also allowed Claire to demonstrate her jaw-dropping sense of entitlement. Hasn't she only been working for Jay for 3-4 years?

Any guy who can rattle of the age of consent for his and any other state is creepy by default.

He was Gus's boss that Lou said he thought was an idiot, right?

I'm from WI, and, yeah, the Great Lakes States (though Ohio is debatable), plus Iowa and the Dakotas. And Nebraska is a Plains State, not the Midwest.

Also, I appreciated that the actual typed book shown mostly had the narration but for some reason threw in a bit that was not read to the effect that Peggy ended up with Ed because she had been dating his best friend, Tim, in high school, but Tim was killed in Viet Nam [sic], so she married Ed instead.

The only thing I'm unclear on is how her brother knew about it in the first place. I'm an only child — is that really something you share with your little brother?

It makes as much sense as to claim it was a trend in the Midwest. It was not. It was an oddball style, mostly worn by the Amish. The character is sporting it because he is supposed to be not quite in step.