The Paper will never be forgotten as long as there are journalists who yearn for the days of drinking heavily on the job and the ability to BS your way into a police station to guilt a captain into giving you an off-the-record tip that you can chase down into a page 1 story.

I’ve been rereading the Nero Wolfe canon and kinda had Raymond Burr in my head but OMG, John Goodman would be a fantastic Wolfe. I picture Archie as a square-jawed guy who looks good in a suit, like Jon Hamm or Chris Evans.

I really wonder what Nathan is after. Can he just not help himself whenever he sees Ed, he needs to take a poke at him? Or does he think, ‘this time, we’ll really bond like guys!’ and only then remember, ‘oh yeah, I don’t like this guy.’ That seems like Nathan-level thinking. Ed’s ‘holy shit, can you not just leave me…

Absolutely agree. You can tell this is where Perry got his ability to goad Celeste into a reaction, except his abuse was physical instead of verbal.

Violence is terrible and all that, but I had a momentary flash of satisfaction when Celeste hauled off and slapped the shit out of her mother-in-law. Then I felt terrible because you know Mary Louise is going to store that up to use in her custody fight.

If I were Madeline, I’d never have let her in the house to rain all over my pumpkin party.

“sit down with Trump and talk about the issues she has with him”

Someone really needs to do it. It would be delicious.

The lyrics of “You are 16" are indeed creepy and problematic but damn if my breath doesn’t catch a little every time they get to the part of Rolfe and Liesel’s dance where he twirls her off the gazebo bench and around in a circle, and her skirt billows out. It was the most elegant, romantic thing in the world to…

That hair is truly unfortunate.

If I’d been on a date with a guy who grilled the waitperson about the provenance of the fish, I’d look around for the Portlandia film crew. And then I’d never go out with him again. That was obnoxious.

Is there no other psychologist in Monterey that Madeline and Ed have to go to Celeste’s? Not that I’m complaining about seeing more of her - if I ever need a therapist, I would hope she’d be as tough and real with me as she is with Celeste, Madeline and Ed.

I get the conflicted feelings Celeste and Bonnie have. Bonnie because no matter how terrible a person Perry is empirically, she did kill a fellow human being. That’s gotta stay with you, especially if you can’t talk about it to another living soul.

Celeste’s therapy sessions were the absolute best part of Season 1. I’m glad she recognized she needed to restart them. More of that!

Exactly! As far as I can tell, Abigail is perfectly drawn. I cannot stand her because she feels pretty true to life. So good job, actor playing Abigail!

Nathan is still the worst. Who asks his ex-wife’s husband to take his own wife out for a lunch date and then act like a jerk when the other guy points out this isn’t appropriate - nor would it solve the actual problem?

I loved that they made Abigail exactly the same self-centered, entitled teenager she was in the first season. Every 17-year-old is like that: thinks they’re more observant than their parents, actually knows nothing, but loves to talk as though they were the first ones to discover income inequality, racism, climate…

I assume Aaron hired the Ghost to kill people close to him, so he wouldn’t be suspected (killing people who’d stop his moves to sell the company’s secrets). The women he killed were purely for personal ‘pleasure.’

Eve is impossibly naive if she’s shocked (shocked!) to discover her boss was using her and her hired assassin/buddy to defuse an MI-6 target and was not entirely truthful about how they were doing it. Is she so ignorant of spycraft (even if she wasn’t a field agent) she doesn’t consider reverse psychology to be a…

I remember when the Birmingham ABC affiliate refused to air the episode of ‘Ellen’ where she came out and that was like 20 years ago so clearly nothing has changed and in Alabama it’s still 1882.