The way each woman continued to insert crack in to their story was just fabolous. Especially Melrose, who was clearly talking about her real life experience with detox before absent mindedly remembering to mention the crack.

After someone accidently spoiled the Justine reveal in the last discussion thread, the moment Sam started explain his story idea to the crew there, my viewing of the episode turned in to anxious horror as I could already see the awkward exchange to follow.

…Dude, massive spoilers.

I absolutely loved how happy Jenny was about blowing out the candles and others telling she did a good job with the birthday. In those brief moments they just told us a ton about Jenny. The character moments in this show are just superbly handled as they are to the point you barely realize how effective they really…

Completely with you on the pregnancy storyline. I groaned out loud when Ruth started to suspect that she was pregnant, but, as mentioned, the damn test took longer than her decision to get the abortion. There were no deep discussions, tears, dramatic confrontations. Just getting abortion and Sam supporting her through…

You know, the actress who plays Justine is really good. She doesn't have a lot of lines, but her expressions constantly tell a story of her character in each moment. Here the way she just allowed herself to enjoy rollerskating or when they watched Sam's movie and she obviously hated how the other women were laughing…

The moment when Sam told Rhonda that he should go in first because he is the director was such a striking moment of the power unbalance in the relationship. Thus it was even better when the breakup scene illustrated that Sam had so deeply misunderstood Rhonda's motivations as it just told such a sad story of his…

Ruth so gets being a heel. There is still room for excitement as her grasp of the character is still very superficial, but once she grasps what truly drives a villain, she is going to be a fantastic heel for the promotion.

Yeah, I was really worried when the scene started. However, based on interviews from the actresses, I kind of have the picture that Brodus and Carlito didn't show the same level of respect during the actual filming.

I continue to like the complexity of the relationships here as Cherry first complains about Debbie not wanting to follow instructions and then goes behind Sam's back to change her own match. There was nothing wrong with it, but rather that both Debbie and Cherry got one of the core aspects of wrestling. If you want to…

Bash: What's wrong with being a Protestant?

Ruth continues to win me over as of course she would be all about the kayfabe, but also completely devoted to her own interpretation of that kayfabe. Also, she has really good pro wrestling instincts and I just absolutely loved the moment she quietly guided Debbie to switch the hand to hit that flashy move. Seeing…

What made that scene with the Wellfare Queen so brilliant for me is that as much as Debbie was being a diva, she was also completely correct about about the Queen being a really bad heel. Pro wrestling is ultimately about two people working together, but Tamme was completely focused on putting herself over. I think…

Gregory was all kinds of awesome in this episode and I loved his Russian discussion about why he brought Ruth there as he just has difficulties saying no.

On a more positive side, this show did give us this gem.

While I wasn't shocked by Carmella's victory, especially considering they closed Raw with a female face victorious, I really disagree that Becky and Charlotte didn't need those briefcases either. The show has done little to give either of them momentum or make them feel special. And while they could probably go out…

That ladder match was really weird. They got a lot of time, true, and I agree that it was good, but for some reason they had less big spots than the PPV match, which in turn didn't have that many to start with. It also had these weird story beats that almost indicated that they didn't want anything to overshadow…

I think the rematch was planned from the start with the attempt to get some more heat on Carmella while improving the ratings.

I adore how the show keeps making it clear that Melrose is deep down is really boring and really sad. I mean, of course she immediately narced out Debbie to Cherry because what else was our non-boring girl supposed to do?

Something I really liked in this episode, as a wrestling fan, was how it hit on how having the look is not enough. Debbie clearly has the look, but she lacked the passion before she understood what wrestling was about and you could just see the change when she looked at her reflection at the end of the episode.…