I'm 23 and am a fan of Zoolander as a film, but their Weekend Update slot was pretty dire.

She's really funny outside of SNL (check out the webseries she did with Nicole Byer) which makes it extra disappointing that the show doesn't know how to use her.

I think the implication was that there would definitely be homophobic backlash, but that yes, there would be some sort of push-pull between the conservative families and the more progressive students. But given the smallish-town Indiana vibe, I'm assuming the worst.

Yeah. That's opinions for you!

That's a fair point, but honestly I feel like the layers of hypocrisy revealed in the dance sequence were worth the time. And personally, I'm not fussed if something doesn't advance the story if it's a visual pleasure. But if something is trying to advance be story and falling a bit short, I feel like I get less out…

I'm talking about the craft of the show, not the dance. The lighting, the brilliance of the camera movement, what was shown and not. Mise-en-scene, my friend.

Tortorella was dynamite in that post-lollipot scene. He has so much presence, why isn't he a movie star? Not that I'm complaining, bless his sexually fluid soul.

I suppose it could be interpreted as…editing as trauma, I suppose? Perhaps they did kiss, but the show sort of takes Taylor's perspective and 'deletes' it from its memory, so to speak. I wonder how much it's supposed to say about his state of mind - he's obviously still a sexualised teenager, but how does he feel…

Yep. He's going to return to school and it's going to be brutal for him. Just as Leslie said - let the students be the homophobes.

If anything, I'd say "questioning" is probably where he's at right now, rather than any definitive label - even bisexuality. He's a teenager in, I suppose, 2015/2016. He knows the language he would have to use, but he still doesn't know which words he wants to express.

Well I think it's a shame you can't at least appreciate the craft that went into that scene. Narrative is not the only pleasure of television, being a visual medium!

This is all true, and I appreciate the small moments within these scenes which do say a lot, I just think they're padded out in this episode.

I get that, I do, it's just that I thought it was given a lot more prominence in this episode that it needed to have been, thus lessening the effect of the episode as a whole.

I'm guessing she's designed as an outside person, not involved in the crime but still at the school, who can give a different and perhaps naive/unfiltered point of view. But yeah, the narrative purpose isn't quite clear yet.

Yeah, I'm where you're at I think. It might be nothing, but with Kevin's now ex-girlfriend and then Nicky, the daughter of the doctor his parents' knew, the show's been painting him as being possibly sexually frustrated ("be fun", I think he said to his ex when she wanted him to stop feeling her up). If he is involved…

I've used Grindr for a far longer period of time than I care to admit, and I've never ever seen someone use that. Seems like it might be a bit of a relic from the not-so-halcyon days of Craigslist hook-ups, to be totally honest.

I wonder if it's another network-mandated edit.

Shout-out to Lisa Wiegand, the cinematographer on the entirety of this season. Getting that performance to look as amazing as it did was inspired.

What they're trying to show is thematic correlations between how art is used to express stories like the one we're watching, because that dance piece was obviously included to represent the kind of push-pull of gender and sexuality among young people. If nothing else I was glad it was included just for appreciation of…

Honestly, compared to the other episodes, I thought this deserved a B-. It had a lot of good stuff happening but overall it felt like a relatively minor, place-setting episode for the back half of the season. Dan and Steph's extended argument scene was really overdrawn; the whole thing about Steph's sister and her…