EVERY outtake from that wine commercial is priceless!

Agreed on Murphy - but O’Hara still has the best moment overall though - “Do you like fruit wine? I know I do!”

It seems to have been a 2010's trend to have actually-great shows with horrible titles between this, Selfie, Cougar Town, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Fresh off the Boat, etc.

Seconded. I read an interview with Dan where he talked about how many women they auditioned who clearly hated the social media socialites that Alexis was based on and gave very funny but mean readings of the character. Dan knew Annie Murphy was right when she made Alexis breezy and likable despite everything. I LOVE…

I watched the finale before traveling and just got back to read the recap. A quick skim of the comments (which I will read more thoroughly) makes it look like no one posted the video of the actual (real-life) Lenny Bruce appearance on the Steve Allen show, the episode featured and shortened. (13 mins)

Yeah, I think her storming out of the venue after getting pulled off stage was just frustration boiling over that she wasn’t past such things after her appearance on the telethon.

I actually had to stop and look up who “Harry Drake” was

Yes. It’s a bizarre form of queer erasure to have a character to openly coded as a butch lesbian, yet ignore that facet of her personality beyond the surface expression. Susie must be the most out closeted lesbian in the Village.

All right, there’s one thing that’s been bugging me about Susie since last season and was left unaddressed in this one as well. Namely, why is she stylized as butch? I mean, I get that they wanted a counterpoint to Midge’s hyper-femininity, but in the 1950s, that wasn’t just a choice of looks, it had a deeper, bolder…

The brother is in the CIA? (why?)

Totally agree about the pacing. Feeling like ASP is having trouble finding her footing after network TV with 22-24-episode seasons and then to Netflix with 4 “movies” to stand in for a full year... there seem to be issues with her finding the middle ground in these 10-episode seasons!

That baby drawer was one of my favourite bits of this episode. 

Yeah, it was an uneven finale at best, and that’s how the whole season was for me. It hopped from thing to thing so quickly that nothing seemed to develop organically. The brother is in the CIA? (why?). Mom ran away to Paris? Midge gets demoted and promoted and serves as a wedding planner for a coworker whose wedding…

I’m curious about the European part of the tour with Shy. I guess we’ll find out next season. But I can’t see how it makes sense to take an English-speaking comedienne as opener to places outside the UK and Ireland. He’d surely take another musician, maybe a trumpeter, or another singer. Even in the UK, at least outsid…

Yes, Midge’s career is about to take off, she’s doing great there, but her personal life is a mess. Benjamin is very attractive but a bit of an odd duck, I think she’s marrying her dad there. Joel is less repulsive this season, but he wants to be forgiven for the practically unforgivable.  Then, there’s Lenny.  Now,…

Right? She definitely needs a sliding drawer to keep her in, or something.

Probably still in the back seat of the car.

I could not agree with you more. These are literally all the points I made on Reddit immediately after watching this episode.
I really hated that final scene. I really like Benjamin and really hate Joel, so it’s kind of a given. Even though Joel was getting a “redemption arc” this season, a lot of his behaviour made…

Me, out loud during every scene of them in the Catskills:

Please, tell us more about all the Italians who were lynched, killed, had their homes burned down and all the other injustices they suffered in the Jim Crow south. This is interesting.