It's a reference to a quote from Chekhov about how if you choose to introduce an element it must eventually be used. So if you introduce a gun in the first act, it has to be fired by the third, or final, act.

On a related subject, but does anyone think today's announcement about HBO offering a streaming-only service on Apple devices, with the plan to move to other platforms, bodes well for Looking getting a third season?

Most of the people who refer to Richie as Saint Richie do it to denigrate the character not hold him up as some paragon of virtue.

That's apples to oranges, though. Jon Stewart's show is a parody of news and interview shows. There's nothing about his hosting TDS that has the imprimatur of "Jon Stewart." He's brilliant at what he does and I love Jon Stewart but sitting behind a desk, throwing to correspondents and interviewing guests is exactly…

As opposed to having NPH walk around in his underwear?

And Sadie the dog who spins when she hears applause. I remember watching the dog ON Letterman and when he brought her out I clapped with glee then, too. Of course I wasn't in the theater but I still found it delightful.

But why would you book Letterman to do the gig if you didn't expect him to do a Letterman show? If all they wanted was a Johnny Bravo to fit the suit, why not book Leno?

Maybe I don't find saying you like your boyfriend better when he's sober such a "problematic" thing to say. He's only been with Brady for a few months, there's no commitment between them and they're just learning about each other. Even that Brady's a mouthy, funny drunk.

He did, but from the previews it looks like Megan's likely to go off on other things about Patrick that will likely include what she and Gus know about the Kevin/Jon breakup.

But what exactly IS Kevin's extraordinary ability that makes him so invaluable that he can't be fired let alone deported? Would Kevin really be that difficult to replace since he seems more like a project manager than Jony Ive?

Good point, and it ties into the earlier scene where he shows Agustin and Patrick the chicken window and it sounds completely rushed and poorly thought out, but neither talk to him about, maybe, giving it a more clear-eyed view.

Then when Brady's out of earshot, he says to Patrick that Brady's better when he's sober (or something to that effect). While I don't think that that's a horrible ideology to have (I think we all know and love people who are better when sober) I do think it's a bit problematic to say that about your current boyfriend…

That ties into how Patrick "blamed" Richie for making him late for work "six times" and Richie corrects him that it was only three since he spent the night at Patrick's three times.

Serial monogamist? Any boyfriend is better than facing yourself alone?

But it's a natural, human look, right? Isn't that how a lot of us act? Patrick's been nothing but demeaning toward Brady with Richie, even before the party, so when he finally insulted Brady, to his face, they engaged in some run of the mill shit talk.

That's what I meant. He doesn't say these awful or insensitive things because he's mean or wants to hurt the other person, he just neither has the life experience, nor faced the repercussions of his behavior, to know a better, more sensitive way.

See, Dom's bad decisions seemed so much more real to me than Patrick & Kevin's. Here his best friend in the world for more than 20 years, who's in a very fragile emotional state at the time and is just glad she had her best friend with her, tells him she's going to give him the money he needs to open his chicken…

Maybe each time Patrick hurts him just keeps justifying why he walked in the first place. That Patrick, after seeing Richie's look when he and Kevin were dancing, could so blithely say something so hurtful to him, and not even get that it was a hurtful thing to say, just proves to Richie that he made the right…

The visa is the only thing I'd think he'd take into consideration. Mostly because during the rugby episode he seemed hellbent on not going back to Romford. He still has time to find another suitable "husband" since he has two years left on his visa, but I'd think there are other requirements to keeping it, like…

But it's true to who Patrick's always been shown to be. He's the coddled child that no one is too hard on because he cultivates this babe in the woods naivete. So since there's no "malice" to the comment people let him slide, and encourage his self-absorption. Except, he also only ever had one relationship before the…