Re that CSI joke - I believe the CSI writers pulled a 'writing swap' with this show for an episode. Maybe that was from the ep actually written by the CSI writers…

All summer I was thinking who they could snag as part of their new firm. I was thinking Amanda Peet's character or - Yes! - Nancy Crozier.

Is there no A+ option? Because an A+ was earned here.

Ever since watching the finale, I've been plagued by the feeling that Pete's mother wasn't murdered by Manolo after all, but threw herself from the ship.

I'm not Todd, but I did just fly home from my first time at the Banff Festival yesterday. From what I experienced, it's definitely not a place for non-industry people; most of the sessions I went to were intensely 'inside baseball' affairs w talks with executives, distributors, producers, etc. about how to get shows…

Reminds me of Shailene Woodley becoming a critical favourite after The Descendants, only for people to do a double take when they remembered what her best-known role was before that - the much-hated lead of The Secret Life of the American Teenager. It's amazing what a terrible show can do to a promising actor.

Weirdly enough, I felt similar but in a different way - when they did it, it made me realise I wish they did it more. It really makes the show's universe feel realer when previous episodes leave their mark on the present in small ways.

The only reason this answer doesn't fly for me is Mulroney's performance. He doesn't seem to stop because he wants to look bad - his face clearly says, 'sh*t, this isn't funny any more, this will have consequences' when he reads the tickets. Which is what makes me think that he thought he had each of them completely…

Really? Because I'd think the 'typical' (stereotypical) female and male perspective would be for Jess to fall in love too quickly and Nick be cautious and just want to have fun. I don't think I'm doing either of those here. I think there's evidence for my reading.

I'm not 100% on with it either - if so, I think the show would have had a specific tell like they did with the tickets - but I feel like, if Jess didn't have something to that degree on her mind, it would have been near impossible to not jump into bed with Nick at the end of the episode. It took a *lot* of self…

So… I'm guessing, when it came to the valet scene, that Jess was thinking 'friends who have fun, maybe more' while Nick is already all the way to real, overwhelming feelings. Russell saw that on the tickets, realised that it would probably break Nick to hear it, and ran off to avoid engineering that ugly moment.