Yep. He doesn't think Anika will use her knowledge of ALS for her own benefit, as Cookie undoubtedly would. It seems to me that they show Anika as fully loyal to Lucious and the marriage.

Bingo. It's like "Nashville" - family drama with a country background. I remember some folks being frustrated it wasn't the other way around, but drama = ratings. Representation of a particular world may get you more critical acclaim, but its not going to bring in as many eyeballs.

Critics complaining that they thought the soap about the music industry was going to be more about the inner workings of the music industry and less soap-y? Sounds exactly like the charge made against "Nashville", which took a few seasons before critics started saying Nashville is a fantastic evening soap that y'all…

Agreed. While watching this episode I was thinking, "wait, are they trying to say that racism doesn't exist anymore and the only people that see it are overly hysterical people like 'Dre?". It was ridiculous. Was not a fan of this episode as it seemed like the message was stop trying to find racism in everything (not…

"The issue (at least from my view) was that the show took on Ferguson from the perspective of the people who the protests only impacted in a tangential, superficial way" - To be fair, isn't this how most people reacted to Ferguson? (Or perhaps most potential viewers of "The Good Wife"?) How many people actually went…

No, Bretley is correct. Mary said she DID want to marry again, but she did not want to get divorced.

But recall that Gillingham even stated that he didn't replace his valet, mostly due to money reasons. So there is a question of how wealthy he actually is at this point.

Agreed with the A grade. I hardly ever comment, but was just thinking "Wow, this is fantastic" so often while watching the show, I was shocked to see a C+ here. That's just a ridiculously low grade for the episode.