I wish they reintroduced Barb. I was so confused by her connection to anything by the time this season started going.

I tried to find the exact moment, and the first time Ali talks about it actually is with Leslie in the hot tub. But in that moment, she's talking about the relation of "vagina to holocaust" for her entrance essay topic. As far as I can tell, the last episode is the first time "metaphorical holocaust" is used.

The one and only thing I can assume is that Emmy felt the need to try and present polyamory as nonthreatening, but the only way she has tried to normalize the concept is via a direct sexual encounter (like with Leon and foursome).

The flashbacks mostly hitting Ali's character, and especially in that raid/burning scene in this episode where she is the parallel to grandma Rose is what doesn't work though. If Maura is the Gittel analog for Ali in the present, where exactly is her sense of grief or loss? It almost read like Ali connected with an…

Would she even qualify for alimony, considering that she was at fault for the breakdown of their marriage?

Compared to how the Jessica Jones binge reviews worked out, the Transparent run has been disappointing. Both in terms of how little was written for each episode, but also the timing. JJ is a longer series in episode length and minutes yet this didn't stop great shooting from the hip analysis. Not sure what happened…

FYI: Ali brought up the concept of imaginary holocausts before with Syd. The final episode is not the reveal of her viewpoint here. (In case you missed the conversation they had previously)

At most I could say imaginary holocaust deniers is the proper parallel.

Raquel isn't being self-centered at all here. And honestly, the interaction at the very end can more be read that the implosion of an experience that was this big family gathering necessitates Raquel and Josh to address things before Colton could live with them, not that he wasn't wanted. Rather, the exposed wounds of…

The final two episodes make the flashback connections to the present explicitly clear. An you'll understand why certain actors are used again there.

Jessica's reaction makes sense. I'm not questioning that.

I guess they couldn't have someone yell "SHE's 16 YEARS OLD" in back to back episodes ;)

Laura's return at the end of the last episode made sense if it read as her finally coming around after the encounter with her teacher. But then in this episode, it largely played like she just needed to be conveniently around to have one more blow up with her mom. It felt so so so false.

This review is basically an A+ assessment of this episode.

Hmmm, you really read Jeri's one statement here about Kilgrave's (alleged) powers as more than just an off the cuff musing and instead as a real interest?

It seems like the show made it that he had to be cruel for her to get it. He doesn't need to apologize for dating her mom. He didn't do anything wrong.

By that same logic, just because they never show JJ smoking a cigarette across twelve hours, you could still claim that she's a regular smoker. That's not how storytelling works.

No man has said so, nor was it shown or ever implied. There are plenty of diversions from the comics, that I'm comfortable saying its not happening in this version of the story.

I know, I'm talking specifically about the current scenario of imprisonment. She was definitely help capture for a long time her first meet up with Kilgrave. But this time seems to be barely a work week.

Just like what @Ponsonby Britt:disqus said, it seems that the writers are making her a narcissist. At least partially.