No, it really isn't. You can tell yourself it is, but they've been wildly all over the map all season with the timing.

They are if the writing is lazy and there's little interest in continuity. That's been the big problem this season. They don't know what the time frame is because there's been no arc to the season.

I hope Patrick DOESN'T implode since he'd already left Kevin once. As much as I find them problematic for reasons I won't discuss here, this is the story they chose to tell for this season. And it's dominated so much of this season that if they choose to have everything implode in the last 30 minutes, it will feel…

Except there is backstory within the series itself. The first episode begins in the summer and Patrick said he'd been hooking up with Kevin for at least six weeks.

I fear that a third season will actually feature only Kevin with Patrick looking at him adoringly/questioningly while everyone else just wanders through the scene judging them. Russell Tovey will only be wearing black briefs throughout so no one will question why the show is so boring. It will still get all A grades…

Well, they do have a lot in common. That's why they're perfect for each other.

I've complained all season that there hasn't been any kind of real arc to this season. A bunch of good-to-occasionally great scenes but going nowhere.

Exactly. What's 12 years (?) of friendship when you can live the life you always dreamed of in that cold showcase condo?

Yes.

Not being in a relationship because all the men in her life are gay has been Doris' go-to joke several times. Even on the night she meets Malik, Agustin notices him checking someone in their group and Doris "frustratedly" jokes that even in a straight bar the men are checking out her friends.

Not really. Last season's finale worked as both a season and series finale.

Except Dana's comment doesn't jibe with the fact that the season starts three months after the last one ended. And that's per Andrew Haigh. It began with Patrick already wanting to end the affair he was having with Kevin.

The time frame for this season started three months after last season. Haigh said it himself. That's were I started the count from. I'm not surprised that the writers weren't aware of their own continuity for this season, though.

Oh, I don't think they've been successful at all in presenting the Patrick/Kevin relationship, I'm just prepared for them to not have a bad ending next week. I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, but I keep getting schmoopy faces and "defiant" claims of love.

There was actually a natural ending point: at Esta Noche when Patrick actually shows some maturity and tells Kevin it's over. He even almost solidifies that growth the next week when he walks out on Kevin to help Richie.

So that means Patrick really has been spinning his wheels all season long. Because isn't that where he was at the end of last season?

Actually, I think they handled it much better last season. They suggested at the wedding that Patrick had no idea what his mother was like or what she would think because he knows nothing about his parents. He just uses them as an excuse for his own biases and prejudices.

Except Dana saw Kevin at the wedding and was all "is THAT Richie?" and asked what's wrong with wanting Patrick with someone like Kevin or Jon because "they seem lovely. They seem like Patrick."

I don't know, though. I think Patrick's growth is supposed to be his commitment to this relationship. And how it's "grown" from an affair to a real, if soapy, relationship.

They usually have a short runway whenever there's a live performance involved in the main challenge since they have to perform on the runway, too.