Eh, it isn't all one thing. Jane wanted to explore her feelings for Rafael, which is understandable given he'd been her crush and was now the father of her unborn child. Michael inadvertently pushed her in that direction by freaking out a bit about the pregnancy - which it's hard to imagine any man in his situation…

I think she can get by fine in English, but she's more comfortable in Spanish so that's what she uses at home. Most people who grew up with one language find it takes a lot more effort to use a second one, so it makes sense she wouldn't do that around her house even though she can.

Which makes sense, except that she was so bad as a bank teller. Seems like if she had customer service or waitressing experience, she'd have known what to expect and handled it better.

Yeah, but Michael is our leading man, so obviously the abuse of power is squicky (and I absolutely love Jane and Michael together! But that scene was a low point). Rose is the villain, so our expectations are that she'll behave in unforgivable ways. His job is to be liked, hers is to create drama.

To be fair to you though, you were separated from your baby much longer than Jane from Mateo (it was 12 hours or so?), even though a kidnapping is more traumatic.

That makes sense, but they should have realized and she could have taken Plan B.

The most telling line in this pair of episodes is Lorelai's announcement to Sookie. She says "I'm engaged!" Not "Max and I are getting married!"

No double jeopardy, AND it's not hearsay. People's own statements can always be used against them.

I enjoyed the commentary on the way men get enormous amounts of praise for acting basically decent where gender issues are concerned. Men's baby steps toward feminism/inclusion do tend to be fawned over. And it was a funny cake.

My parents took us on a lot of trips when my brother and I were kids, and I think travel is mostly wasted on anyone younger than a teenager. Around 15-16 they'll start to appreciate (and remember) it. Before that they're just snots who'd rather play video games in the hotel room.

Since Jane only gave her salt shakers, I figured it meant pour salt from one into the other so each had the same amount. I'm a native English speaker who has only ever heard the phrase in these TV gags, but then I've never worked in a restaurant.

Nicky is supposed to have grown up rich (raised by a nanny rather than her mother). Lorna's home seemed more working-class to me, not to mention she got her nice clothes through mail fraud.

Rafael now has 3 kids?

The fact that commenters here are split on whether ~40 minutes without major traffic incidents should be a dealbreaker for Jane and Michael's house tells me the show did a good job of choosing that conflict. My commute is about that and obviously it's inconvenient - I definitely wouldn't want to do it more than once…

I agree that the show dropped the ball when it came to race. Right out of the gate they're critiquing the treatment of black women in dating shows, but then UnReal goes on to ignore theirs, which becomes especially noticeable when we only know the white contestants in the final four.

Late to the party (just finished the season on Hulu last night) but I have thoughts so I'm going to post anyway.

Obviously it makes sense for Xo to talk about men some of the time - the same is true for most women and men in the world. But she would be a poorly developed character if she had no interests other than sex. That's how the Bechdel test works: it isn't about failing a work where women discuss men at some point (that…

The reason the Bechdel test exists is because the stories many people (especially men) simply want to tell have few to no women in them, and those who exist have little to no role outside of their relationship to men. Many viewers (again, especially men) don't notice or care about this at all, because that's how…

Yeah, that was a little weird, since it makes no sense to apply the Bechdel test to every single scene. People are social animals and so obviously do talk about other people, and half the world is male, so it's not as if female characters shouldn't talk about men at all, ever - just that they should also talk about…

As to whether conversations about Mateo pass the Bechdel test, I say no, because to me the purpose of the test is highlighting the way female characters in fiction are so often defined exclusively by their relationship to the males in the cast - whether the guys in question are their lovers, fathers, bosses or sons,…