Yeah, it’s sort of all the supporting and recurring quirky character stuff from Good Wife made into the primary story. I like it more than I liked the back half of TGW mostly because I grew to loathe Alicia.

Yes, I agree that he’ll probably cooperate and/or turn himself in. And probably throw himself on his sword and refuse to say a word about Walter.

Oh, thank you for that info! I had no idea. So they sometimes use the metric system and sometimes don’t, so it actually makes perfect sense that someone would make that mistake (and that it’s a good way to trip up someone who’s lying about military background).

Very convenient. Also convenient that nobody in that whole office was pregnant or in recovery or just was like “no, I don’t want red punch.” Also a weird discrepancy that Alex herself didn’t actually seem to go unconscious, she pretty much spun out and then was right back up wondering where they hell she was. And she…

Me too. I liked how specific it was, I liked how funny it was, and everything seemed to have a function beyond just style and atmosphere.

Oh he’s absolutely liable. Practically every employee of his company has now lost their memory, it’s not like Walter even needs to tell anyone about it for this to become a massive scandal! It’s not like all those people lived in voids. It’s not like nobody took a personal day that day.

My favorite thing about this episode was that her limits were so real. Yes, she’s a good fixer, no, she’s not like one of those absolutely impossible superhuman fixers of other shows where there’s just nothing that you can throw at them that they can’t handle. An actual prestige TV character who is plausibly excellent…

Why did she go with the metric system, though? That’s what I didn’t quite get.

It certainly wouldn’t be, but why is that the only alternative?

“Documentary crew, I wanna eat you, so, so ba-a-ad”

It’s a good point about the women-vs-women thing because in the series, the men all seemed pretty okay with the ERA whether they were right or left, as it was almost certain to sail through until Schlafly got involved. I can see how Steinem would resent that because it really isn’t accurate. I do think she helped set…

Okay, nevermind, now I see anyone using Roku or Amazon Fire is just out of luck. Oops!

I know HBO Max has other content, but I’m saying it sounds like I don’t get HBO Max just because I have HBO (on my cable subscription). I’m so flippin’ confused!

Okay so basically I get nothing new if I already have a cable subscription to HBO (and the accompanying HBO Go), yes?

Wait, so if we have HBO and so then HBO Go on, say, our Roku.... does the app just change itself? Or we now get an HBO Max channel on our cable lineup? I still don’t follow.

These past two episodes have been my favorites of the entire series so far - I’m always a sucker for “going back in time to see how we got to where we are” reveals, so it’s been satisfying. I liked last season but thought it occasionally dipped into style-over-substance but I feel like the story always comes first…

Yeah, I was going to say - we definitely knew she was up to shady shit already! The prior episode erased the possibility that she’s a hero (well, maybe she will be in the present day, of course).

It’s just weird! I’d get it if she were someone who was wildly overexposed and you just couldn’t seem to avoid her, but two slightly-over-an-hour streaming specials 2 years apart is not exactly the ubiquity I’d expect to this kind of resentment.

I’m curious how it’ll translate to the screen — I saw it during its NYC run and quite enjoyed it (oddly my favorite thing is how she managed to yet again use a lot of her art history knowledge for a framework), but I feel like the comedy that came from the visual aids won’t really work as well in this medium.

I’m almost mad at myself for giving this repeated chances and seeing it through to the end. But at least I’ll never wonder if it got better.