I think the resolution of Jeanette's storyline was the bleakest of them all. At least Kimara got her fertility treatments paid for.

Yeah, Carson needed Laurie Ann's permission to get back together with his wife. What? I didn't get that either. It doesn't make sense even in the context of the storyline.

You make good points. The writing of this show is paradoxical. On one hand, it is meant to show in very subtle ways that people have flaws and often their intentions lie in a gray area between right and wrong. On the other hand, it is very heavy-handed in that every time a character is faced with a decision between…

When the scene involving the passport first happened I would have been inclined to agree with DMW, but since then we have seen that Claire is a liar. "Don't speak French to Gabrielle, I'm trying to teach her English!" So looking back that makes her intentions seem less than genuine. Maybe she is even lying about how…

I think Claire is doing it to the nanny. We saw just beforehand several outright lies from Claire, e.g. "I'm trying to teach Gabrielle English." So it would stand to reason that she is lying about Gabrielle's alleged psychological/self-harm issues.