Yeah, it doesn't feel earned. In all media, you assume the main characters are safe from a certain amount of destruction - in Breaking Bad, you knew Walt was going to live to see another day because, if he didn't, the show was over.

This whole season I kept waiting for the maneuvering needed to make Claire become president instead. I don't see how they could make it happen (without getting rid of Spacey), but I feel like it's going to lead there somehow next season.

It was like the big Dunbar problem conveniently just going away without the Underwoods having to do anything. I guess I'm glad there wasn't another murder to deal with, but sometimes their biggest threats go away a little too easily.

I was disappointed that Frank had met his match with Durant, but it was almost immediately dismissed with a conversation that was basically:

My problem is when HOC starts to believe it is a prestige drama, which I think basically summarizes last season for me. But this season was much, much better. Give me ridiculous plot lines and enough action that I don't have to think about how ridiculous it is. To me, it resembles How to Get Away with Murder a lot in…

I think Robin Wright is pretty great - episode 10 was a particularly strong performance for her. I realized most of her time on screen is just spent smizing or looking pleasantly condescending, but she's really good at it!

Exactly. Do we really need another storyline of Doug being creepy with women? C'mon. I think HOC wants us to believe he has deep layers because he's miserable all the time, but he's laughably one note.

When Bonnie started scolding the interns about getting out with their annoying faces I had flashbacks of Paris Gellar. Which is always welcome.

For sure! I just wonder if Girls is going to stay the "cute couple" route, or turn Dill into a shady celebrity using Elijah in some way.

I kinda thought we were going to find out he had something to do with that kid's suicide.

Yeah, I hated last season and the end of the season is much stronger - because Frank and Claire are fun to watch when they're scheming and evil together.

Oh man, that was awful. Complete with a hand giving him an actual gun as a prop point.

Ha! Fair enough.

I agree. Times Square is definitely not a fun date idea if you're a New Yorker. I was thinking Dill just wants to impress him with his fame on a first date, but it was toeing the line between cute and shady for me.

Yeah, I was thinking how weird it was for her to have, like, feelings. It seems like such a character shift in some ways - but a welcome one.

I didn't think that Jessa's felt this way for Adam all along - I think the whole "I've been wanting that for a long time" situation referenced the time period we fast forwarded through, where the show implied Jessa and Adam have been growing closer.

Maybe…
The kid we saw playing kickball dies somehow. Annalise gives Wes away to his mom, because she feels like an unfit mother (like in the flashbacks, but flipped character-wise).
So Wes was Christophe until Annalise gave him away as a baby, and was renamed Wes and raised by his mother.

BTW, the whole Sinclair thing has me confused. Like, she's annoying of course. But didn't it all start with her trying to uncover the truth behind Sam's murder? And she didn't figure it out, but she wasn't wrong about Annalise being shady and, you know, actually committing and aiding crimes.

I'm definitely happy Annalise has gone full on Walter White and is being represented as damaged but overall crazy, toxic person. It actually make it easier to appreciate her as a character when I know the show isn't trying to make me actually like or root for her.

Yeah, the lack of Shonda speak is refreshing. I really started to notice when characters had speeches and it didn't follow the say a phrase, make a speech, repeat the first phrase for emphasis and dramatics pattern.