The "horny mooning" over him is starting to get a little weird to me…unless she's just sublimating all her emotions into sex, rather than dealing with her actual feelings.  (Still, though, there were moments I thought she was having some kind of breakdown in this episode.)

I pretty much agree with everything you've said here…I'm overly focused on Alicia and Will so I think I had forgotten how little Peter and Alicia have really interacted (outside of campaign bus sex) this season.  There's a certain status quo to how things stands with Alicia / Peter / living arrangements / marriage…and…

The ending felt…overly ominous?  Question: How messed up is Alicia to assume that her (sexual) feelings for Will make her a bad mother (re: scene with Grace) or that they will somehow ruin her life (final scene)?

Tommy, like all great villains before him, is just a super sensitive guy!  It's the world who turned its back on him, blah blah blah.

I guess I don't understand what the hell they're doing…Alicia's had the Will thing under control for so long and that now they've resurrected it, I just can't see the end game.

So, I'm kind of super-invested in Will and Alicia and have been kind of depressed about it because it actually seemed they were going to close that door forever a few weeks ago.  Now they are blowing it wide open and so I start to feel like Charlie Brown trying to get the football from Lucy.

Yeah, I totally agree.

Yeah, that line worked for me because it immediately made me remember happier times (Jeremy and Matt).  And because it was such a poignant detail for her to reference Jeremy with without actually saying his name.

I had deluded myself that the sire bond wasn't really *real*.  But now, like Elena, I can no longer live in denial. 

When Matt cries, the whole world cries. 

Yup, this is how to fix the show.  But the creator has no intention of doing this, I don't really think they understand what they have here and what they are doing with it.

I probably have a giant rant in me somewhere about this episode but I'll keep to two observations for now:

I really like the way you note the "impossibility of Mike making the 'right' moral choices when everything he's doing in the show is built on a lie" but I'm not always certain the show fully understands that.  Because this isn't a subtle show (I mean, look at their interactions with Hardman's return and the…

Yeah, this review is about where I'm at with the back-end of the season just not working for me (with the one difference is I really don't want to see Jessica and Harvey at odds.  I guess I just like it when they are a functioning team, a la season one.  Of course, people argue that Jessica was less developed as a…

I really agree…I know a lot of people prefer season 2 to 1, but I do miss the "Harvey and Mike show" a lot.  There's virtues to trying to develop more of the other characters and develop a serialized storyline but Mike's character is really unlikeable right now and Harvey is starting to feel like an afterthought.

Last night just felt childish to me…something about the over-the-top-ness of Hardman paired with everyone basically calling him a "dirty poo poo" (I'm paraphrasing but you catch my drift).

I was referring to the fact they showed Scotty baiting Donna about her relationship with Harvey in the preview.  I know she's connected to the main plot…

Both the Donna-slapping-Hardman and Louis-threatening-to-kill-Hardman feel like… I don't.  Writer's wish fulfillment?  And, therefore, incredibly lazy character beats that also insult the audience's intelligence (as did a lot of the "banter" said tonight.  Calling Hardman a shit and an asshole multiple times just…

I'm starting to feel burned out on this particular arc.  Harvey and Jessica together used to be aces but now they're kind of a mess.  Everything just seems weird and unsettled, which makes *sense* but I don't think this is the kind of show that can sustain that feeling and still be enjoyable.  (Basically, Harvey needs…

To me the B grade makes sense — this episode was both competent and interesting but it didn't really go beyond that.