In this year's edition of Bryan Fuller Repertory Company Fantasy Football Casting, I've been holding my ground on Anna Friel playing Reba, but now that Molly is confirmed to appear, I'm rotating Friel to play Molly and subbing in Chenowith for Reba.

Dhavernas' performance in "Cocktail Bunny" has a solid place in my imaginary TV Acting Hall of Fame. She's terrific through the whole episode, but a full decade later, the "WHY DO YOU TALK TO ME?!" scene still gets to me. A bang-up job in and of itself that becomes FUCKING INSANE when you realize that she was acting…

…Enter Gillian Anderson's new series regular contract. I'm really hoping that little development goes towards fixing this problem.

Coven vs Freak Show is a wash. Coven had no literal rules ("Most witches can only have one or two powers, unless we need everyone on the show to have every power, in which case fuck it") and Freak Show had no creative rules ("Our antagonist will be a Murder Clown, unless we get bored by Episode 4, in which case fuck…

On one hand: the moment you realize that Maggie getting sawed in half was real and not one of this season's half-assed "fantasy sequence" fakeouts actually got to me. The moment that the lighting went back to normal and the box was still bleeding was genuinely well done.

As awesome as that would be, I'm still lobbying hard for Friel to play Blind Reba.

I'm not familiar with this guy beyond the fact that he is not Michael Shannon, who I've been one-man-campaigning for for this role since I started caring about this show, but I've grown to trust these people, so we'll see.

Oh my God, I completely forgot Simmons was still soldiering through that crap less than a year ago. Pray to whatever you pray to that Patricia Arquette gets let off the hook as easily later this season.

This is probably the darkest movie I can think of that would make a perfect sitcom.

She proudly spent $10 million just to watch her boss cry.

I wish I knew how to photoshop a gif of Milton popping toast at Sad Martha at the end of another long, sad day.

This might be the first episode of this show where all my favorite "quotes" are actually just sounds:

Crystal Bell: OUR generation's Adele Dazeem.

There are so many moments in this that hit borderline reading-Williams-Burroughs-style "AM I TAKING CRAZY PILLS" lunacy.

"Your opinion is wrong because I do not share it."

Out of all my problems with this, the bargain-bin sound editing/mixing bothered me the most. Thanks, my job.

This would make no sense and would radically reframe his involvement in the show up to this point, but… but I sort of love this idea.

I'm tempted to take this phrase out into the real world and pretend like I coined it. Sorry not sorry.

That hadn't occurred to me, but the insane desperation surrounding the situation made it intuitively work for me.

Miss Chanandeler Bong, followed by Phoebe giving birth. I more than understand the backlash against this show, and I often feel it too, but Kudrow is staggeringly underrated as an actress, and that one's a hell of a piece of evidence where you're least expecting it.