I've been putting off reading Where'd You Go, Bernadette since it came out, even though I knew it was written by an Arrested Development writer, because I was afraid that like most celebrated bestsellers it wouldn't live up to the reviews. I picked it up from the library this week after I saw you mention it in last…

I am so excited to take part in this finally!

Darn it, should have read all the comments first. I remember him as Steve Dibiasi in Larry Crowne. He was very convincing (and adorable) as a stoner doofus.

"probably, and regrettably, best known as the reanimated pharaoh in the Night At The Museum movies"

Normally slow-motion running would be eyeroll-inducing, but the looks on the prisoners' faces were so joyful, especially Norma and Gloria, that it worked. They needed this, and so did we.

I wonder if it will come back to bite her if any of the prisoners whose contraband she stole decide to get revenge? Otherwise, it was definitely an effective way to establish her prison cred.

I don't know about bigoted (well, I can kind of see your point, with the whole money-laundering joke), but it's interesting that of all the awful things the inmates do, Cindy's blithe thieving affects my opinion of her worse than most. She really is selfishly uninterested in how her actions affect others. However, I…

I HATE ALEIDA. I wish Gloria would call her on her bullshit. She had no right to undermine Daya's decision and deserves to be cut out of her life.

I kind of agree with you—she doesn't annoy me too much, but it does seem like she doesn't have much personality outside of being a follower with a generally irritable attitude. But I think if the show did explore her further, they could probably make her more interesting.

One of my favorite aspects of last season was the way they expanded the storytelling to include the guards and prison administration and showed how they're just as complex as the inmates. I especially loved how Caputo obviously wanted to do the right thing by the women under his care, in spite of his sleaziness, and…

Ohh, good point. I also like the idea that her attempts to understand other points of view last season translated to a wider intellectual curiosity.

Yeah, there was a definite look exchanged between them when Luschek realized Nicky was worried and gave her a "WTF?" look. I really can't blame him for not taking the heat for that, since she's the one who pulled him in to the drug deal and the one who held back some of it for herself. Not to say I want Nicky in max,…

I just want to say that I love your assessment of Healy, and reminders, that he is a garbage human (I think I remember that from last season's reviews?). This show is so good at making me feel occasional sympathy for him when he manages to overcome his ego enough to do the right thing and actually help someone, but he…

I was already feeling so sad for her just from seeing her optimistic flier for a "transformative" sunrise(?) service. Seeing how she kept the faith all those years and continued to love a man who was obviously a fraud was so heartbreaking. It made her moment with her followers at the end really cathartic—they might…

Did anyone else play that as MASH CDP growing up? CDP = Castle, Dream Home, Palace. Also we had a category for what color wedding dress you would wear, which never made sense to me because I assumed everyone wore white and I always imagined these bright blue or green dresses that seemed horrible. Plus, it's a dumb…

I've always loved Pennsatucky, and her taking a clueless guard under her wing made total sense to me. Somehow, even when she was under the influence of fundamentalists, her scrappy naivete was charming (at least when it seemed harmless—and Piper's beatdown squashed any sense of threat from her). She's also pretty…

Also undercut by "You had me at flavor packets."

Yeah, it seems plausible that Jack doesn't really think his dad is still alive. I doubt he's thinking of his dad as in heaven, but he could be in denial about the fact that he's dead, or he's just speaking rhetorically and suggesting, like you say, that alive or dead, Christian is more of a drunk than Jack is. I do…

I love that moment when Jack says "You get my father down here, and if I'm drunker than he is, you can fire me." I think that may have been when I caught on that it was a flashforward (if not before, when the other people in the pharmacy were calling him a hero), because as much as it seems to confirm that it takes…

I only remember two that I'm certain came through a mail-order source (I can't remember if this was through Columbia House or BMG; I think BMG): Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing and Sixpence None the Richer's self-titled album. I'm a little hazy on whether I got Sister Hazel's Fortress at Best Buy or by mail. I might…