Quinn is too close an analogue to the Carrie of past seasons: right without realizing it, written off for being nutty and paranoid, slated to endure the more annoying frustrations that are inherent in a plot that hinges on dramatic irony (how many episodes are going to slide by before the characters piece together…

I think Claire sold the emotion of being a very different kind of person who finally found someone she loved and then had to deal with losing him. I agree though: that's not what the show should have been about.

The problem with SexFrench is that her realistic problems made it very clear how narratively bulletproof Noah is. It reminds me a bit of the end of Mad Men. Joan is dealing with the realistic ramifications of being a woman in business. Better is dealing with the realistic consequences of smoking and also of being a…

It worked when the focus was on two people who didn't know each other yet. It even had occasional value when we were able to see what Helen and Cole were up to. These days, it seems like the writers are just incapable of writing for more than one character at the same time.

I'd read that the showrunners intended to kill Brody at the end of season 1 with the suicide vest but the network made them change it.

I love Quinn but the show jumped the ship with him. I feel like they put him through the gauntlet last season with the intention of killing him off but decided to bring him back at the 11th hour. If they had always planned on having him survive, they should have gone with a different injury.

Dar has never been a consistent character. The show plays him as shrewd enough to know when to play devil's advocate but the writers really just use him to push random plot elements into place without having to bring in new characters.

I think it matters that Alison isn't part of Noah's life anymore. I think the writers took a possibly losing gamble on just showing us Noah's life without her instead of examining it a little more.

Noah subscribes to a mode of thought that I've come to think of as particularly toxic: the notion that you can think of yourself as a good
person who merely makes mistakes. Which doesn't account for the fact
that your "mistakes" are living breathing human beings who are being
destroyed by your actions.

The show has glossed over the fact that they gave Helen a prior DUI (the weed candy I believe) and that she was drunk when she hit Scotty. I think they've chosen not to beat up the Helen character too much, for whatever reason.

I don't think it's that deep. We've all objectively known that someone might be a logical and sensible match for us even though we have more chemistry with someone else. The "we're related" thing quickly ended the Jess/Robby relationship in a way that won't leave Jess sad and needing time to recover. It was mostly…

I mean it makes for some killer popcorn.

I actually liked Connor from Angel :/ And I thought Megan Draper served a functional/meta purpose even as the character ceased to be interesting. It takes a lot for me to deem a character worthless.

In season 1 Alison was telling her friend about how Noah gave her an electric feeling that she no longer got from Cole. There was a small flash of Alison and Noah together, both wearing memorably bright outfits. In a later episode we saw Noah and Alison in those outfits and in the same location (in a Noah POV) and…

She has to be one of the most universally disliked characters of all time.

I was struck by how Alison felt no guilt from Helen's perspective. It could potentially come up later that Alison doesn't remember telling Helen while Helen thinks that Alison was callous about the whole thing.

Unless Helen's wholly wrong and she thinks Vic said yes when he really said no, I'm not going to overanalyze that particular exchange.

Nah, Furkat is ridiculous on purpose. I enjoy a good lampooning of pretentious artists. SexFrench is presented as someone we're meant to take seriously and nope!

If only because of the coconut oil nonsense.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing that a doctor would be so chill about dating someone who drove drunk and killed someone.