You’re welcome. I’m glad it was helpful.

I’m glad it was meaningful.

That was as illuminating as the show.  Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing this personal account! Typically, when commenters offer personal experiences in their critiques and reviews, I find it distracting and feel they are missing the point of judging a piece of media on its merits. I always want to shout, “This series is not about you!”

But in this case, it really was…

I’ve been interested to read your recaps. I’m in my 60s, and lived through all of this as a young feminist activist. I understand how a lot of this flummoxes you who didn’t live through it, so I’ll say just a few things, hoping it will give you some context. These are in no particular order, just the points that come…

Crystal was robbed. That look was incredible camp, and could have won on sheer audacity alone. Gigi should definitely been bottom two, but we all know that’s never going to happen.

Yes.

When I proposed to my Husband, did he cry? When we got married, or when we hosted or reception in the home we’d bought together, or when we celebrated our 10th anniversary, did that man cry?

Ben is still the best. God bless Adam Scott.

I read somewhere that the producers sent a lot of props to their homes for this. When Ben pulled out his Claymation guy (I compared it to Avatar! hahahahaha) I thought the same thing. Wait does Adam Scott have that little dude just hanging around at home?

You can cancel Megan Mullaly’s show twice, but nothing’s gonna keep her off NBC’s Thursday lineup.

One of the cologne ad taglines should’ve been

If I can’t be locked down in the Bells Brewery during this my next choice would be in Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally’s house. Just that snippet of those two looked like more fun than most people should be able to have together.

Maybe After BCS there’s entire series for Gene and we get to check-in on Jesse Pinkman now and then.  

Your argument is flawed because you’re stuck on this notion that Gus thinks he’s a good guy. No he doesn’t. Or that I do? (I don’t.) He knows exactly who he is. And so do we. So there’s no delusion anywhere. The way he operates is very pragmatic, but we’ve seen him sweat enough to know he’s not invincible. The key…

I’m guessing a point of the curry was to give the pottery a “patina”, to make it look old. Tea bags can often do the same thing as well.

Kim is so straight-laced, even when she cons with Jimmy, she’s takes it seriously. So this was a rare moment of true leivity from her. Jimmy goading Kim into impersonating her boss was just such a delight to watch unfold. She wouldn’t really- would she? She did! And she’s still going! They’re having fun! This is cute!…

Hm. The Mexican compound read completely differently for me, not leaning into Gus’ villain side, but reminding us of the other facet to who he is. Not the business man or the boss, but just humbly putting money to good use. Children are running around, and unlike the philanthropic persona in public, no one here has…

I don’t think is pursuing this out of a desire to win. She’s come to hate her employers, and she won’t let them do something that goes against everything she believes in. It doesn’t matter that Acker is a crank; he’s still “the little guy” in this equation.

My favorite moment in the episode is when Mike prepares to McGuyver a phone battery charger, has all the materials set up, and the nice lady goes and hands him one. Suggesting, of course, that there are times when all the elaborate plans one makes really aren’t necessary.