Utterly unmatched across every other single hour I've ever spent watching scripted television. In many ways: I've never seen dramatic television prior to this episode.

They're hitched. 100% confident. This show has made a small industry of dumping consequence on Sarah - the latest being her driving her only daughter to an elopement solution bc she continues to stagnate in maturity.

Spot on. The cryptic comment, the enormously-revealing look, and the categorical lack of anything Ryan-Amber in next week's preview (which makes no sense as a would-be impending elopement/wedding is not something that takes a week off) says it all - the final point being important to preserve the surprise.

I was -this- close to falling out of this show's orbit at the end of Kristina's debate prep. Both my wife and I exchanged concerned glances, she paused the playback, we took deep breaths, and traded comments of confidence that that scene had to be this show's nadir. So far, so good as the episode ended with some…