I agree that he was being ridiculous with Rayna, but reminding Juliette not to be a total bitchy primadonna with her manager and her staff wasn't such a bad thing. Someone certainly needed to say something, and she hardly listens to anyone else.

Ah, okay! I was thinking I would have loved to see that Rayna/Juliette scene!

It's okay if it didn't make her comfortable. Then she shouldn't have let him stay, or should have found somewhere else to go. I just didn't understand why, after agreeing to one night, she had to be so openly hostile. But she just has this general dismissive attitude toward most people she talks to, and the show seems…

I'm confused. "Plus, it allows for a nice scene where Rayna gives Juliette a bit of advice while the two ride in an elevator together." Am I the only one who missed this scene? I don't remember that at all.

That's why I said "in part" and not "only." Youre right about 1-4. They are all factors. As is his bad boy notoriety, due in large part to his conviction and time served.

I'm plenty old enough to remember his boxing career (alas). (The alas is about my age, not his boxing!) And I think I could still watch old matches of his and appreciate his talent there, just as I can listen to an old Michael Jackson record and appreciate his. I cannot watch Mike Tyson play himself poorly on screen…

Ted has a palace apartment on the UWS and a big house upstate, he's been on the cover of magazines, he's pretty much the youngest architect in history to design a Manhattan skyscraper, he's a professor at an Ivy League university. So he's well-known, successful, loaded-rich, and decent-looking. If anything, he could…

Some people don't hold friends' babies because they have zero instinct for infants. I don't think it's self-absorbed and mean, there are always tons of people around dying to hold practically any baby they see. It's not an obligation.

I think Robin loves Ted but I don't think there's much about him she takes seriously enough to ever be in love with him. Lost cause, timing or not.

I really think part of the problem with Mike Tyson is that he is not an actor. You can list tons of actors, directors, etc., with criminal records who returned to their work (or somehow got away with what they did). Mike Tyson hasn't returned to his work. His notoriety is what gets him these cameos (he cannot act his…

He also happens to be a terrible, TERRIBLE actor. That he gets cast often can in part be attributed to his notoriety for that very rape conviction, so it's hard to root for it.

Yeah, he's a bit of a thinly drawn straw man character who serves only to make us root for Scarlett and for Gunnar. A little cheap. They could have done a lot to show us that this is how you get ahead in such a business (don't tell me Rayna and Juliette didn't step on just as many toes to get where they are, but…

This was definitely my least favorite episode in a long time, too. Way too predictable and nothing particularly hilarious. Even the food poisoning didn't work for me because I was too distracted with why these people went to work (and HOW) if they had been up all night and literally couldn't move their limbs.

Well, except in FNL Season 2 when so-and-so killed somebody. Low point.

This is my favorite casting news for a sitcom since… this is my favorite casting news for a sitcom.

Still cannot stand Scarlett and all her adorable quirkiness or Clare Bowen's weird acting and terrible accent/diction, but I appear to a loner on that front! This was the most I've liked Gunnar, though (but not for hitting Avery, that was a little too easy and obvious for me).I did think it a LITTLE silly that someone…

I think the "most sympathetic" thing has to do with the parity between our sympathy and her goodness. A pure, wonderful, selfless, good-hearted person is not particularly noteworthy as a sympathetic character (and is a little dull). That she has this ugly, human side and yet is still a clear hero is much more…

Clare Bowen continues to be intolerable for me in every way. Her accent gets worse each episode, as does her diction and any effort to be heard at all. She swallows half her dialogue in an attempt to execute the wispy-waif pixie thing at every turn. I hope Avery accidentally kills her and then himself in the next…

I actually assumed the twist was that the bully wasn't her son. It was a surprise to me, honestly.

Definitely hot. And quite a find, talent-wise. I've been impressed with other actors on the show exceeding expectations, but he's been the only one I wasn't already familiar with that's really blown me away on this series. Particularly the range he's shown between the first two seasons. Can't wait to see what he does…