I think you're right… the biggest surprise so far was probably miguel for me… but a lot of it is debateable as to what its "supposed" to be. I also think that there are 3 distinct stories being told and we are left to decipher who and what is important to each… this doesn't play well in the early stages, but as the…

1. Frain being bad - obvious… but how bad was nuanced
2. Osip and Blake not being honest with Frank was also predictable… again I guess it's the extent to which they are deceiving him
3. Ray killing a guy that wasn't the right guy was pretty obvious to most of the people commenting…

Ya, I'll lose my mind….

I like that while the random dude Ray killed wasn't responsible for the rise and fall of Frank, he was exactly that for Blake. Small twist, but I liked it.

I could see that… I just didn't feel like a girl liking porn was all that strange (like the strange I expect here)… The knives… and the guy she kicked out of the bedroom… and her "get back on drugs" talk with Athena more so fit my parameters… but then, I don't feel like in 2015 a guy being gay is odd either… and he…

ca-ching!!!! but we still have 90 minutes left.

I believe he was arranging to buy them at a later date…

There's two sides to her, right? the side that chastises her sister and the side that enjoys porn etc… The scene where she's watching the porn is there to show she is not "anti sex" or even anti porn, this is to contrast the "damaged Ani" that would rather her sister be a junkie than be clean and Choose to…

He will buy the diamonds with some of the cash he plans to take from Osip for cleaning purposes. I think. at a cost of.. ahem… 40%.

she is having "we're F%#$@d and there's no hope… but we're trapped in this room indefinitely" sex… But again, I'd argue that she is realizing "sex" doesn't have to be perverse nor about one having control over another. Which is how she seems to have looked at it thius far… I'm just saying her liking porn isn't because…

I was fully prepared to have him die and to not feel any type of way. However, the "usefulness" of his character became evident in the second half of the season… he was the cool under pressure guy in the shoot out, as well as the party escape… add to that his double crossing lover, who felt like one of very few…

Perhaps her liking it is not because of that… perhaps her liking it "only in SECRET" is because of that. Her "desires" are not what is holding her back… her insecurity about WHAT she really desires might be…

Note: replace Vaghn with Semyon and this is how I see it played out. Frank was awkward and out of place and insecure about everything… and we saw an awkward and insecure Vaughn… I think, playing the role better than we suspected. Nothing is accidental in this show… including the "first half Frank…" which was decidedly…

She is a butch lady who outwardly hates men… also, he was speaking to the boys club…. where such behavour might brand one a dyke…

If you go back to Episode one when Frank is dressing up for the meeting and Jordan says, "It suits you better than you think"… Yes, if Frank was a confident polished guy who regularly outsmarts folks, he'd be slick and laughing etc, but he's not… he feels out of his depth… Frank is not the polished and steady handed…

Ya it took a minute to make out the chief or whatever he is…

Preliminary thoughts after first watch:
1. They did it… I don't know how but they killed Paul in such a way that I was like "No!!" barely cared about him through-out… and expected his demise… but his last 5 minutes were awesome, and by the time he got out I was invested in what was coming of his meeting… and of course…

Ray "got a new Charger…" I like that almost as much as Jimmy McGill's beat up Esteem.

Ya, dreams aren't what they used to be. I did find the bowls of Viagra amusing… HAHA! Thus far in the show the blue pill has been a catalyst (no pun intended) for people doing unnatural things… like the desire for sex isn't there… but we have this giant sex party so we'll bring the desire in pill form. Talk about…

Ok… So I think most of us are assuming Ray turns out to be the daddy… (Spoiler alert for all you Maury watchers)… So my question is: does he live to find out, or die not knowing… tragic either way as he gave up the fight before hand… but I think it matters