That's an interesting way to look at it. I never thought of it that way. If they'd both made smart decisions instead of sacrificing themselves to spend more time with their loved one, they could've both been saved and gone on to live happily ever after. I don't really mind that she didn't stay on the lifeboat and then…

You're not the only one. It's always been my biggest problem with how the film is interpreted. The way some people talk about Rose, you'd think that she held his head underwater and killed him herself instead of merely choosing not to die along with her. Titanic wasn't even really the story of their grand romance, it…

I feel like Supernatural was a show that actually benefited from a procedural format. Its early Monster of the Week episodes were such much fun and so inspired and I never felt like the season-long arcs ever lived up to that.

That's true. That is what she said. I guess I just interpreted it less as her dismissing them and more as her trying to stay as detached as possible so she could make the decision she needed to with the smallest amount of self-hate. Maybe I'm giving her too much credit.

In hindsight, I think my favorite season of this show was probably its first. It was just a small cable comedy that'd gotten middling reviews and mediocre ratings. I liked its biting sense of humor and ability to present its characters as bad people who were still people and not just cartoonishly awful caricatures. I…

I don't remember her saying the decision was obvious as much as she didn't want to talk to them because she didn't want them crying to her and telling her why they needed to stay.

I agree. When Detox mentioned that it was bitchy of her not to pull the bottom girls aside to talk to them one on one, I disagreed. If I had to pick who to send home out of three girls I respected and loved, I don't think I'd want to do anything to make myself feel guiltier about what I had to do.

Normally I'd agree that acting challenges are lame, but this one was worth it if only because of the caliber of performers and the chance to see Miles in drag. Alaska's makeup was on point too. Her resemblance to both Lil Poundcake and Baby Jane were uncanny. Phi Phi's ability to age herself up was impressive too and…

"This isn't another sequins moment is it?" absolutely killed me.

The characters were still a little more cartoonish and obnoxious than I would've liked in this episode, but they were definitely much closer to the people I know and love than they were in the first two episodes.

That's interesting. I don't necessarily think the two are mutually exclusive, but that might explain why I didn't love the arc as much as pretty much every reviewer. Would you mind elaborating on that?

Those are all valid reasons not to be interested in something like this. I really wasn't trying to cast aspersions on anyone who didn't automatically love Better Things. I was only trying to acknowledge that the poster who I originally responded to had valid reasons for suspecting some people for not giving this a…

Thank you. That's very kind and considerate of you. For what it's worth, I appreciate your insight as well and I'm incredibly grateful you weren't insulted by my first reply to you.

That's fair, I think. I know someone who talked about how happy he was that FX was making an effort to hire more female directors, yet seemed to go out of his way not to watch anything that was too feminine or female centric. I guess some people are eager to champion women in Hollywood as long as they don't actually…

I agree. I always love her looks, she's a pretty good lipsyncer and she's also surprisingly funny for someone who doesn't consider herself a comedy queen. She hasn't really stood out in the past two episodes, but I 100% think she deserves her spot in this season.

I'd love to see Max come back again. She was my favorite in her season (yes, even above Katya) and I hated that she went home the first time she screwed up, lipsyncing against someone who was booted in the next episode anyway. The idea of a season of returning queens who had potential they didn't get to live up to…

Reading through the comments, it seems like having a female ensemble might be the problem for a few people. I don't know that everyone who felt meh about it is a misogynist though. Whether it's fair to compare the two or not, Better Things is superficially very similar to Louie and having the creator/ star of the…

I agree Lindsay and Edgar's plotlines were much better than Jimmy and Gretchen's plotlines. Jimmy and Gretchen's especially painted them as so cartoonish and childish that it overwhelmed the half-way redeemable parts of the episode for me. Even though this is an ensemble show, the two of them are still the leads, so…

That's a perfect way to describe it. Either way, it just felt like an attempt at a YTW episode by someone who didn't fully understand the show or its characters.

I thought the music was a bit overblown too, but the rest of the show was understated enough I'm willing to forgive it.