During my rewatch, season 2 was the worst. Ana Lucia was such an unlikable and frustrating character, and so much time was wasted waiting for her to stop being a dick. I'll sit through any number of plot lags if a character is written and acted well (see: Brienne of Tarth) but Ana Lucia just sucked. Season 5 is…

I rewatched Lost earlier this year and it was enjoyable. However, it was wildly uneven and a good deal of the characterizations are hard to swallow in retrospect…pretty much all of the long-running crucial characters besides Jack are murderers. Even Desmond and Richard accidentally killed people. I'm not interested in…

I liked that part, but I disliked how Frank said he was Ian's father. That's the one kid he can't really play that card with.

I can see Margo not wanting to keep Fiona on the payroll now that she's the owner of a business that competes with Margo's real estate empire.

I've been remembering how well Fiona's cup job was going until it suddenly went to shit. This show does have a history of letting the characters settle into their bad ways before it's time to pay the piper.

It's possible they have some other narrative goal in mind, like centering plots around this new location.

I thought that was the point, that Ian didn't like vaginas before but is now willing to go there for someone he likes.

Ugh, we're getting back to late-season 4 levels of Jess making stupid social mistakes that are creepy and off-putting, not quirky. I don't quite like the idea of Jess ending up with someone Cece used to date. It's like Zooey and Nelson have chemistry, so they've reworked the Robby character in ways that don't jive…

What bothers me is that it all ends up being a lot of conversations for the benefit of the audience, not for the "plausibility" of the plot. Ford has been essentially thinking out loud this whole time.

I'm rooting for Ben Barnes and James Marsden to get naked, maybe together.

Yeah I keep coming down to how it's just not entertaining enough. I'm watching it for now because my tv schedule is open but meh.

I'm liking this direction for Ian. For all of the "potential" exhibited by Fiona and Lip, it's interesting that Ian is the one who's doing well without much fanfare.

That's what I mean…I don't think the twist is implausible or illogical, but I still don't entirely buy it, partly for the reasons in this review (it seems too basic to cling to, but having trustworthy - or at least knowable - linchpin characters is crucial in a show that's still announcing its intentions) and partly…

Which episode was the cutoff before the retooling? I'm wondering if it was the plan from the beginning to have Bernard be a robot or if it was a twist that was inserted during revisions. While it's not entirely unlikely that robot-Bernard would have an "inner life" that wasn't being performed for an audience of…

Dave's statement indicates that he feels Women might have consented to sex with Trump (when they wouldn't have otherwise consented to a man of his age/looks/demeanor) because they wanted to sleep with a celebrity. There's a difference between "lowering your standards when the guy is rich and famous" and "I'm being…

I'm still with you on this. I can buy that Fiona would act how she's acting. What I don't buy is that, tonally, the show seems to want us to be fully on board with Fiona's choices and motivations. There's a reason I keep referring to the "grammar" of the show.

Thank you, this is exactly where I'm coming from with this. In the abstract, if I said, "Hey, would you lock up a woman who went on a bender and her carelessness caused a child to overdose?" everyone would probably say YES. But since that storyline was attached to a character we already knew and liked, it got wrapped…

It's like when you're a server and you make great tips one day and you make the mistake of assuming every shift is going to be that profitable. You can't factor random awesome one-off days into your overall income. It's actually a bit troubling that she genuinely thinks that holding the party "turned the place…

I'm not disagreeing with the validity/reality of what's playing out. I'm saying that I nonetheless expect more of Fiona, or I at least want the script to start addressing this stuff. Fiona got a lot of cred from viewers for taking guardianship. That cred doesn't sustain itself indefinitely; she can't keep banking on…

I think we're meant to understand that Fiona THINKS bought the laundromat and upper apartment space, because otherwise Margo-the-real-estate-owner wouldn't be on the fringes of the plot right now. She even thinks she's being a little savvy about it, since she got June Squibb to sign the papers for $20k less than the…