I was really tempted to give this episode a D, maybe a D-, because the funny moments are really funny. But then I realized, there probably shouldn't be any/many funny moments in an episode like this. You know what the fascinating thing about it is? Glee is exactly the kind of show that should be capable of doing this…

Did you watch the preview for the next episode? If not then, (possible) SPOILERS ahead.

So Malcolm gets to keep his idol a secret for another few days now, but he's
also so far back on the numbers currently that I don't think it matters.
He can only use his idol to save himself at this point, and even then he can only do so for the span of one vote. I was thinking he'd use his idol in a spectacular…

That's what I was thinking initially as well. I didn't assume his "I'm the only one with an idol no one knows about" talk was setting him up for going home with it as much as I thought it was setting him up to play it in the most remarkable of fashions. Instead he goes balls out and gets Reynold to give him his idol?…

I'm not as in love with him here as i was last season, but that's only in an outcome based fashion. If his plans were working, I'd still be head of heels, if I didn't know that the ONE thing he shouldn't do with his plans is go to Dawn of all fucking people, then I'd be head over heels. But It's hard for me to love…

"But I’m less excited for any romantic sparks between Mindy and Danny.
The ground simply hasn’t been laid well enough there—there’s too much
emphasis on them as frenemies, and not enough on their sexual chemistry,
which remains a much vaguer concept, hand holding on the plane or not."

Wow, I can't think of much of anything that I would disagree with more. Or I guess more accurately I should say that you and I have totally different readings of the storylines.

While I will admit that after reading this, I was being a bit too hard on the episode (I was thinking C+ while I watched it), in no way will I agree that this was Shameless at it's best. I like the episode thematically, and I like where it leaves us off after this season and going into the next season, but I didn't…

It also throws a nice little wrinkle in the Cat/Jon story. Since the first season I've been kind of heartbroken over the way she treats Jon (the way she kicked Jon out from Bran's bedside was just horrible), but it's fascinating to find out that she really did try to love him at one point. When she started telling the…

Understandable or not, it's still a bitch move. It's exactly the kind of move she would have made towards the beginning of the season when she was getting the bitch edit. I've made this point before on these threads before, but as much as I recognize the importance of the edit in helping us make these judgements, but…

I don't think there's really any reason to dislike Cat. I'm annoyed with her for doing what she did, but I understand her position as a mother. The show's great strength is creating sympathy where it shouldn't really exist. I love Cat, I greatly respect all of the Lannisters really except Joffery. I think it's hard to…

Not one mention of the best (and most enlightening) scene of the night? Cat's story about staying up by Jon's bedside stole the episode for me. I'm very sorry to see it wasn't given it's due in this review.

I wonder if that isn't supposed to say more about those people than it does her. People tend to see and hear what they want to. Paul should be the one most apt to notice a change, but she fucks his brains out and because it's what he most wants, he turns a blind eye to some of those things. The people in the hotel…

Shit, can't believe I forgot the racial part! For all of my love of Game of Thrones, that's one place even that show is lacking. Thanx.

There was a part of me that agreed with the "average" aspect of this comment. I was thinking she should be something of a grifter or some kind of capable thief or something to put her over the edge. Mostly this came up when she was breaking into the briefcase by slamming it into wall and I thought, "If she could just…

So can we just point out that Sara is not very good at following someone. She was so obviously all up on the soccer mom's minivan that was I was waiting for her to pull over and tell Sara to back the fuck off.

Favorite moments:

One scene of Tiberius being raped would have been a more perfect end. It's not something I'd wish on anyone other than him. He's clearly earned it.

I didn't have as big of a problem with Caesar being promoted as others, but I do see Ryan's point on some of the plot elements of the episode. I'm torn because on the one hand, I too think it was an A- episode in that it set out to do very simple things (honor the dead, set us up for the finale, and generally just…

"I'm NOT excited to see more from her, though. I can't remember if I've ever seen someone get this far in the competition, and I still have no idea how to explain her aesthetic."