Thanks for the info! I'd asked about that somewhere else but didn't get a response. My TiVo doesn't display Netflix subtitles at all, even in English. I used context and body language (and my very rudimentary Spanish) to get the gist of what the characters were saying in both episodes, but I assumed I missed a lot.

I watched Enough Said last night. It was a nice little rom-com, with grown-ups having interesting grown-up conversations. I also learned about the surprisingly low cost-of-living in Los Angeles, where poets, massage therapists, and minor museum curators can afford really fancy houses!

On a vaguely related note, I was distracted by how much the new guy on Selina's team (Jackson, I think?) looks like Tom Hollander. They have the same eyes and endearingly lumpy faces. I know that a true UK crossover isn't feasible for many reasons, but oh, I would love one so much.

Whenever someone proclaims that Alison is the best clone (which she is), I feel kinda bad for the others. And when I notice that, say, Helena is absent this week, my reflex is to think, "Oh, her actor must've had the week off."

I thought the "Raise a glass" sketch went on too long and wasn't all that funny, but damned if "Sauced" and the poor bachelorette parties didn't have me *howling* with laughter.

When Peggy first interviewed with Ted, he offered her $19,000/year, which would've been nearly $140K in 2014. Plus, she got the recent raise from Lou Avery, and maybe a few more small raises or bonuses in the meantime. Her mortgage probably isn't that high, relatively speaking, since she bought a crappy house and has…

Heh. I spent four years at Trinity back in the '90s, and you've described San Antonio exactly the way I remember it. SA has such a neat cultural landscape — Tejano mixed with military — that's unlike anywhere else in the U.S. I don't know if it has changed much since I was in college, but I kinda doubt it… which is a…

Ah, thanks for the recap! I mentioned the interview upthread but haven't actually seen it. My (secondhand) interpretation was pretty close to this one.

I haven't watched it yet, but apparently Danes said on Charlie Rose last week that one of Carrie's motivations for continuing the pregnancy goes back to her conversation with Saul in the S2 finale. She has always been afraid that her BPD and career leave her destined to be alone, and she's grabbing for some type of…

If nothing else, then at least Kerry Washington can hide her pregnant belly behind a wine glass instead of a big coat. (Has it been officially confirmed, btw? Her best friend apparently spilled to one of the magazines, but I don't recall a formal press release.)

I took that line as her wondering if Charlie is date-able instead of totally screwed up beyond repair. But I do agree that Quinn will end up in B613 by the end of the season.

Which won't matter in the long run because of course Mama Pope somehow got off that plane and has been lying low for the past twenty-two years, only to make a big Irina Derevko-esque entrance in the last thirty seconds of the season finale.

"The Lylas"? Hands up if your mind also went to the last day of summer camp and writing "L.Y.L.A.S." in your bestest friend's memory book.

As I started to read your last paragraph, I mentally composed a snarky reply about Olivia/Fitz (I hate portmanteaux). But damned if you didn't get me by the end. I don't want to root for this 'ship, for so many reasons, and I quite like Jake as a potential love interest — but I can't help but keep coming back to her…

She really is gorgeous. I suspect the show is trying to make her look older and frumpier, though, especially with that awful '80s Country Music Diva hair at the Correspondents' Dinner. I htink the backstory is that she and Fitz met while they were both in law school or one of them was just starting/finishing, so…

Don't forget: Fitz kinda suspects that just maybe LeBron James "let me win".

Tyler Blackburn is the actor being spun off here, bringing his generic bad boy from Pretty Little Liars’ Rosewood to Ravenswood, a town that never met a piece of Halloween clip art it couldn’t ape.

Supernatural happenings in the PNW? Whatever will they think of next!?

This might be a pointless question, but what on earth is up with ABC's ad placement department? During the first half of the episode, I counted two stretches in which they went four minutes and then five minutes of actual show between commercial breaks.

Scandal is completely ridiculous and melodramatic and soapy — and it doesn't take itself the least bit seriously. That's why I love it.