I like that answer. Makes their inevitable reunion this week less problematic.

She was sitting on Hugo's lap making out with him at Dom's birthday party in the park.

Awesome. Thanks. Good to know they knew their potential blind spots going in.

It's like they wanted to actually get into not just the class issues but the race/ethnicity issues but chose to soft pedal back to just class which I guess is a valid option now that I think about it. Better to stick with something they can speak to than tread into waters that could get them in trouble.

The only time I remember them acknowledging it was when Patrick joked about maybe being racist when he called Agustin after the failed date with Richie. Otherwise they've used class as the stand-in. But when you present a Mexican-American as poor, uneducated and with no ambition, it's hard not to see the stereotype in…

Google maps says it's nearly a 2 hour drive from SF to the Russian River. Which is why that whole scene felt shoved in and out of place.

I took that line to be a tease of how the young waiter told him to inject his positive energy into serving the tech jerks. So Dom very unsubtly did a bad call back to it since he's never had to work to get a guy in the past.

I think Kevin's a liar who says what he thinks the other person needs to hear to get what he wants. Patrick has little power in that relationship since Kevin's his boss and Kevin wields his power to keep Patrick off center.

I'm speaking more to the writing than anything you wrote, but I do think there's an unintentionally biased, not necessarily racist, underpinning to how Richie is portrayed, especial vis a vis both Kevin and, to a different extent, Agustin. Richie is the "Latino" character they admit is Latino, he's also working poor…

Different strokes. I think Richie's borderline Picasso face (all the features are beautiful, they just each look like they should be on different faces) is near perfection.

If they were real people, I'd agree, but the only way to get Richie is with Patrick, so I want them to be together. Because I want Richie on this show as much as possible so I can look at those lips and listen to that whispery little voice. He's human catnip.

I doubt Patrick's the first guy he's cheated on his boyfriend with and I doubt there's anything in it for Kevin but the thrill of cheating.

Mine, too. But then I knew that would never happen so it was just a Richie look-alike. But I might have sighed and squeed when his beautiful face showed up in next week's preview.

I feel bad for Frankie Alvarez. He's such a pretty little puppy but Agustin was so monstrous last season that he'll always be the Kill option.

I agree. They had to develop the primary characters before expanding their universe. They only had four hours to tell last season's story. This season they have five hours (since they got a ten episode order) and we know who Patrick, Dom and Agustin are. They're established. Now they can move further into the…

Isn't Jonathan Groff the only reason Patrick's bearable at all? He's a whiny, immature little prat, but Jonathan's so cute (both physically and in the way he chooses to play Patrick's more Patricky behaviors) that it makes Patrick much more likable than he probably should be.

What exactly are Kevin's "qualities" that Patrick needs? Being a cheater? Being a liar? Being a manipulator? Making Patrick feel judged and insecure? Kevin, as he was presented last season, was a horrible person in a pretty package. As bad as Agustin. He doesn't seem to have changed, so I still don't get why he's seen…

But the people who came back were likely fans, so I don't think the pacing is a problem. Over the course of last season the show gained, not lost, viewers. People "hated" how slow Boardwalk Empire was, too, and it lasted for five seasons. If you like a story, you'll stick with the pacing, if you don't it's always…

The finale ended with Dom kissing Lynn at the pop up. They weren't dating by the end of the season.

That's reading way more into the scene than I think is there. Vincent was always an ancillary character brought on to flesh out Caliban's story. His reasoning or motivation or what he thought is immaterial to the scene.