I've said this before, but I'm actually rooting for Olivia and Fitz to get together. No, no, hear me out. Think of it- frantic copulation in their picturesque Vermont cabin on day one, moony eye-gazing on day two, attempted jam-making on day three, surgery for Fitz's third-degree burns on day four, an attractive buxom…

Dark, that. I wonder, though. The show seems to be suggesting that Rudy One is being compelled to grow since Rudy Two is coming into his own- essentially, that he needs to regrow and integrate Rudy Two, since Rudy Two is insisting on being his own man.

But that's precisely it. Finn may well put Jess on a pedestal, but he's seen her piss herself, and that hasn't stopped him idolising her or following her around. So why would watching Jess take a shit (and aiming at the porcelain, mind you, not soiling herself) be so much worse?

Yeah, a B+ from me too.

Why would Rudy think that watching Jess take a runny shit would put Finn off her, when Jess pissed herself in the freezer when Finn and Jess first met, and he still followed her around like a Nice Guy stalker? That said, we don't know that it has worked, do we?

I'd pay good money to watch him as Benedick or Mercutio, And I'd REALLY like to see what he'd do with "Hamlet".
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I liked this episode very much, even though I wondered a little at how angelic Rudy Two had become mostly off-screen. I like that Rudy Two's growing into his own as a person, but I'm not sure how I felt about the show hitting the "Rudy One is Bad/Immature and Rudy Two is Good and Responsible" beats quite so hard.

I suppose that it's a measure of confidence in the showrunners? You're right that we are not owed a definitive answer to the question "What does Virginia want?" but at times I'm a little alarmed that the showrunners don't seem to care to ask the question.

Hmmm. I agree that Gini's presented as something of a cipher, which Caplan gets around by being a terrific and likeable presence. I suppose that Johnson's health and joy in her own sexuality are designed to contrast with Masters's many pathologies, but- especially during George's "magic" rhapsody- I began to get…

Hmmm. I actually really liked "Tower of David". The post-apocalyptic wasteland slum, the paedophile doctor-philosopher, the pragmatic gaoler, Brody's Antigone-esque desperation to accord the thief his last rites… (shrugs).

I think my problem with Fitz is cognitive dissonance. I'd enjoy him so much more if people, in-universe, treated him as a whiny, selfish, emo, incompetent twatmonkey with Daddy issues. Instead I am told that he is the only man in the world who can make the Queen laugh, that he is charismatic and brave and able and…

Do apostrophes "do shit"?

How about Colin Morgan, though? He made a rather good Ariel in the Globe's "Tempest".

Or Roger Allam?

Cumbers has any chins at all? And I say this as a Cumberbatch fangirl.

It's not really an answer, but Shakespeare drew heavily on Bandello's 22nd novel, which was set in Messina, and featured a Don Piero and a Lionato.

adored allam as falstaff. fantastically dynamic in part 1, and heartbreaking in part 2.

Yeah, I like Hiddleston, but I liked him TOO much as Hal, who's always struck me as sort of a sociopath. One of my favourite characters in Shakespeare, but there's a kernel of ice there.

You…. you say that like it's a bad thing.

I did too.