No—is it gonna make me feel better? Was it more than a glancing reference?

Yes, & it's old school, a song grandparents knew, familiar & classic long before Santana covered it. Tired of xenophobic jokes exalting "English only" proud to be monolingual, especially when it's directed at a large section of American culture. I know mocking her wife's Frenchness is one of Syke's schticks, but the…

Actually…..

Exactly, Mike, exactly. That's the attitude behind the role as written. The actress has brought more dignity & depth to the stereotype than the writers/showrunners gave her. Plus one of the most convincing American accents, if not representative of Southside or Northside Chicago—which very few of TGW characters have…

And yet the actress IS so commanding I keep hoping they have secretly been filming the season from her point of view with her as the main character.

I think Platforma meant they took the character out of the character Cary, robbing him of his life force. That is, P may have used "literal" in a quasi-methaphorical sense.

If we are supposed to root for her, it's more than a little weird not to show Alicia spending even a minute caring about her feelings toward Grace, let alone explaining how/when they changed from the mother who questioned her own agnosticism when her daughter became a committed evangelical Christian.
If we are…

Kayla, the opening montage was so tacky and generic, I thought it was a failed satire of a life insurance commercial/Hallmark Moments of their lives commercial. And, as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend underlined in a country western number, that father0daughter thing could seem just a little creepy! So I was glad they did not go…

Yes, since it represents a cultural/political point of view, it seems like what you might choose to call yourself. Similar to how some folks didn't call themselves African -American and others didn't want to be called Black for various political/cultural/generational reasons.

"Queer" went from a fond affectionate between ourselves use of an insult (similar to "Nigga")& desire not to use the quasi-clinical label "homosexual " to a declaration of embracing outsider status in culture and creativity in a time where "androgyny" and experimentation were rock n'roll —-kind of an umbrella term…

How slow moving and predictable must this show be that I could understand(and be bored with) this episode after not watching any since the first one? Even in this episode, every point was repeated ad nauseum. "Revenge" without the comedy or Nolan. Only the soundtrack & IMDBing all those "usual supects" actors got me…

Obvious, cliched, and just not funny.

According to Annaliese in this ep, Frank owed his job with her as well as escaping his dead end background to Sam. Not revealed: whether, like Bonnie, he was Sam's patient or whether Sam "rescued" Frank through some other connection.

Weirdly Amber Stevens seemed less convincing in this episode than what I remember of the first season. Didn't help that the writing made her one-note strident toward Jerrod's mother with absolutely no respect for her.

She WAS brilliant in that, but even for my favorite fantasy soap her character's politics were just the slightest bit twisted(as of course are Pauletta's): role modeling direct community involvement, youth education and knowledge of Black History through all the direct hard work of running her bookstore bit…

So true. I only watched a couple but was struck with how mean & self-centered all the main characters were. Very similar dynamic for me with the characters LCK played as well as Fred & Carrie characters in this episode. Did you find LCK charming like the reviewer did?

Yes, maybe having Annaleise, who she didn't trust at all & saw as a tool of the Mahoneys right up in her face & space heightened her feelings of futility/powerlessness. But I still feel she would have made some arrangements for Christophe to be cared for by church or work friends if she was suicidal. Until that moment…

Yes, they needed that violent bloody scene to show over & over again? Oh the good old days when it was only a spinning cheerleader!

But she didn't even know if he was safe or alive when she id it!

Yes, she was very proud, and company owner was demeaning and threatening to his Ivy League lawyer as well as to her, but she was presented as a caring devoted mother who was willing to run away & start over with her son. She was distraught because Christophe was missing. Why would she check out not knowing if he was…