I was vague. I meant the episode where they met. There imagining there meeting as being some cosmic moment where they knew they were friends forever, but the actual episode where they meet doesn't exactly support that.

Exactly my point. That was a terrible thing to do, but it was hilarious to watch. As viewer, it makes it feel more forgivable.

I don't know if that is the reason. One thing that does occur to me is that Mickey's big asshole move this season (making up the fake question), while being a terrible thing to do, did make me laugh. As a viewer, I find a lot of the bad things Mickey does to be genuinely funny, while the bad things Gus does have me…

With gaps between seasons, it's nice to have those little reminders of just how recent everything in this show has been.

Also them retroactively declaring they had known they would be friends since they first met, which nothing in that episode supports. It was both a nice moment, and laughable at the same time.

Is Mickey cool and fine? Last we saw her with her friends she was amusing herself by trying to blow up all their relationships for her amusement. She's also been attending meeting on substance abuse while hanging on to an impressive stash of drugs. The whole evening was her scheming to do shroom. First by getting…

I am oblivious to this show, actually.

That would be a solid cast.

I never found it puzzling why Jamie was depressed. I find it tiresome when shows get too heavy into explaining a character's emotions. When every character's emotions are carefully explained and cataloged, they don't feel like people. People have some mystery to them.

Having just watched it for the first time, I think the C+ is fair. This is passably average episode, on the whole. The concept is more clever than Sims gives it credit for in the wake of recent events, but it's still not a great episode.

That's sad to hear.

You'd be better off going with the "spiritual reboot". Don't call it the Golden GIrls. Don't use the same characters. Just make a new show that draws upon it, and be very open about your influence in interviews while promoting it.

That's a damn good point. Yet Gus constantly fucks up his work life. Mickey actually comes off as pretty solid at work, while most of her attempts at socializing result in disaster.

You are a bad person.

It would be tough, but I don't think it would be a bad idea to try. It's not like TV is overrun with shows featuring older women.

I'm not sure if those musical numbers are genuinely improvised. I just meant that are a kind of improv game that that characters on the show are playing. Perhaps the actual cast are really improvising, or maybe it's a scripted imitation of improv. Maybe they are kind of mediocre on purpose in an attempt to make fun of…

It is happening again.

Sure. Looking at my comment, it is kind of harsh, and I want to make clear that I wasn't really aiming that at you. It was a reasonable question.

They already had a perfectly good excuse to sour their relationship with Gus unthinkingly getting her character killed off. A normal, human level of resentment over that could have killed the relationship.

That's a damn good point.