Yeah, I think this one past its “give it a chance” episode number for me, though I have a feeling I’ll stick around just to look at pretty things and pretty people and to nitpick everything they get wrong about long-distance trains (and to celebrate the few things they get gloriously right).

Maybe this is a weird question I should already know the answer to (or maybe my sampling size is too small and my impression is wrong to begin with), but did this show deliberately roll out some sort of social media discussion about every episode based on “who do think is in the right in the following scenes” for…

Yes, but also that then saying “I’m going” implies that she’s not taking the space?

Unforetold riches, mailer-daemon, and “can’t block the curse with your forearm!” were the bits that had me in stitches.

That tugged at me, too, but I also don’t believe nobody in that outdoor square saw Dasha putting the baby in the garbage bin (at least out of the corner of their eye, at least realizing it after the fact, etc). In a way these things are just presented as parody, so I just go ahead and ignore even the idea of disbelief.

What was the line? “It’s just Stanley, I can see his neck?” Something like that -- regardless, hilarious.

I was pleasantly surprised. Sitcom wacky-situation births are one of my least favorite tropes, particularly the “woman in labor hilariously screams a lot!” bit. Yet somehow Amy’s screams were hilarious!

Isn’t Brooklyn Nine-Nine just at 8:30 on NBC? I don’t understand this 3:01am on FX on Hulu business.

I was going to say! Staten Islanders get very upset when conflated with Long Islanders!

Some very good acting in there. But apparently subtext is out of vogue, so we just go with sledgehammers now? A very disappointing adaptation of a stellar novel.

“Mia basically takes Pearl from the people who would be, effectively, her adoptive parents” is an odd way to describe surrogacy. I suppose Madeline would be an adoptive parent, but Joe is the legal and biological father.

They seem to save their energy for movies like that one, the “based on a real scandal” stories, while the others seem to be thrown together in a weekend.

Hey, she also played Mama Menendez in that Menendez Brothers movie a couple years back and was pretty good!

I need to ride one of these special secret trains that have bar cars that are open all night! Also (and yes, I’m going to be nitpicking this stuff, I know it’s not actually important) they were on a train to Chicago and somehow it just kept going but she got off?

Is it his money? I thought we didn’t really know the job/finances situation there.

I think in particular that she put Molly on the spot about it was icky. A sotto voce “hey, is it cool if we invite her?” is one thing, but forcing Molly into it was awkward.

Yeah, the scenes between Schlafly and her crew are so good that it makes my skin crawl because of what they did, so it makes it hard as hell to watch.

I’ve spent weeks looking for the right show to actually escape this moment, and damn did this hit the sweetest spot.

Blanchett is wonderful in this, but I’m already irritated by Byrne as Gloria Steinem. (This is probably addressed more in reviews of future episodes, but I haven’t gotten that far!)

I really wish I’d never read the book so that I could have any sense of whether this series is good or not, but I hate nearly every deviation from the book so much that it’s hard to watch. They might as well have given Elena a mustache to twirl.