I agree that Bonnie's feelings seem unrequited. I do think the show is going to use those feelings as motivation for nefarious action somewhere down the line.

Agreed, although I'd love it if Frank just assumed that Bonnie was sleeping with the husband. I'm all for a blackmail plot where Bonnie is aware of the professor-student relationship and threatening to expose the husband to Annalise. Probably won't happen, but it'd be a way to subvert the trope.

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Keep going. Of French's novels, I thought The Likeness was the weakest. Her next ones are better, Broken Harbor especially.

Oh yeah, Spinner was shot. I totally forgot about that! I don't know why, since that was part of the "Holly J becomes less horrible" arc and I loved what they were doing with her character. Between all the shootings and the JT stabbing, I'm more concerned about the kids going to school than for Sean and Anya who…

I can buy that Liz would be against abortion based on the circumstances of her own conception and the choices her mother faced. Frankly, I prefer that motivation to the usual route of showing religious nuts fixated on harassing terrified expectant teens under the guise of "saving them from hellfire," which always…

I'm willing to concede on Jimmy. Surviving a gunshot wound is pretty badass. By that metric, I guess Adam is pretty badass too.

My previous comment was more a crack on how boring Mia was than anything else. I get what the writers were going for by comparing Mia to a meatball sub and it made sense that JT wasn't going to just come out and say that he felt like an asshole about dating Mia primarily to work through his own regret about not being…

Mia was pretty but boring. It made sense that the character, consumed with being a teen parent, started out not having anything interesting to offer besides being a teen parent. But it really bugged me when the writers refused to give her any interests besides being pretty. Mia's mother took on greater…

The Sinclairs losing their money was the best thing that could've happened to Holly J, as far as a kickstart to character evolution was concerned. I know she gets more issues later to deal with, but it was the first sign she was going to get more to work with than being horrible to everyone as her sole character beat.

I found it weird that Mia was the meatball sub because she was so incredibly bland.

Alex is the #1 badass, followed by Jane. Besides Jay and Sean, there are no male badasses at Degrassi. As much as I loved Spinner, even when he was the old guy who refused to move on, a badass he was not. And even if he was, that ended the second he soberly married Emma.

This is my first ToB, so I don't really have anything with which to compare this year's list. While there are some books that I absolutely loved that I otherwise would have missed (The People in the Trees, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Long Division), there were others that were disappointing (The Son, The…

I'm also working my way through the ToB shortlist, although I still have a few books to go. I just finished The Signature of All Things last week and was pleasantly surprised by it. Gilbert is far better at writing fiction than memoir, imo. I just started The Goldfinch and am really enjoying it so far, which is a…

Absolutely agree with you on the high points of the episode.

Season 1 of Happy Endings: Casey Wilson and Adam Pally are great, but I found the season as a whole to be just OK. Maybe Season 2 will be better?

I agree. Shosh has never been shy about talking shit. Up until this point though, it has always been cloaked by her neurosis and filtered through her fears about what her life could become. The other girls could ignore her before because it was just Shosh being Shosh. All drunk Shosh did was drop the shallow…

Nothing is worse than Under the Dome. With that said, I was disappointed that there was yet another incompetent Latina cop. Borrowing from Under the Dome, even in this small way, is such a bad look. As for the lead, I like her despite the writer's need to bash viewers over the head with the notion that a female…

I'm reading my way through the Tournament of Books shortlist, so I read The Lowland, Long Division, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Eleanor & Park. I usually enjoy Lahiri, but The Lowland was disappointing. I really enjoyed the others I read though, especially How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.

Not crazy talk. I have a soft spot for On Beauty, but I do agree with you that time and distance has caused me to look more fondly on Autograph Man now than I did at the time I read it.