Initially I saw Lorraine as basically the corporate version of Roy, but I’m thinking Hawley might be headed in a different direction with her (which I would like to see, especially if it means she teams up with Dorothy by the end). It may be due to JJL’s performance, but Lorraine strikes me as more thoughtful than…

As if to put a finer point on the way the Lyons operate, Scotty plays pretend with war figurines in the adjoining room...

A few weeks ago, I said Lorraine gives me Mom from Futurama vibes. Well, her husband could be Franklin Sherman from The Critic.

Am I just old (I’m 44) now? Because I don’t get the needlessly sarcastic tone I see injected into nearly everything I read on AVClub anymore.

What the ever loving chat gpt is this?

Ugh we’re going to be inflicted with this annoying theatre kid for years to come, aren’t we

You are not. I think that this new trend is really gross and it’s a definite lowering of the bar for the privacy of known artists. I mean, maybe if foul play were suspected or something, but this is just too much. Unless the family wanted it released for some reason, then these kinds of details are just none of our…

Am I alone in feeling like it’s kinda weird that it’s become standard to release the autopsy results of famous people? Why is that anyone’s business besides the family and (maybe) the authorities?  I don't know that there's really an argument that this sort of info lands anywhere close to being public interest.

That moment was the best in the episode for sure. Love it. 

Yeah that was my favorite moment.  She utterly clocked him.

Shrug. I really enjoyed this episode. Maybe Hawley is leaning a bit too heavy into what he perceives fan’s like out of the show after the season 4 reception, but it is working for me, warts and all.

Between Lorraine’s disgust with the bankers who clearly didn’t want to deal with a woman,

Lorraine in no way is a good person, but damn if I didn’t enjoy her calling Roy out on his bullshit. Baby, indeed.

Frequency is hugely underrated. I totally understand if anyone refuses to check it out because of Jim Caviezel, but there’s no right wing stuff in the story at all and it was made before he did any of his really bad stuff as far as I can tell.

Don’t care for it much either. Very briefly I imagined Seth sitting on a curb with a bottle in a paper bag, wearing ten-day old clothes and thought “It’s ok when you’re rich and famous but if you weren’t people would be judging you hard for this.”
And I feel weird when people say things they definitely would not if…

I know this makes me sound like a prude, but the whole premise of this is uncomfortable.

Starring all the people who are in literally all the movies right now.

Fallon should do a Day Drinking-esque bit and call it "Thursday."

I have no problem at all with Mariah Carey’s song. The one that bugs me is Kelly Clarkson’s knockoff of it, “Underneath the Tree”, which I honestly hear more, to the point that I wonder if people are confusing them.

I’d add 30 Rock’s “Secret Santa” to this list - classic 30 Rock style of having separate plot lines (writers weaseling out of Secret Santa by inventing a fake religion to fool Kenneth, Liz trying to get a Christmas present for Jack, Pete trying to get revenge on Jenna, Jack trying to spend time with his high school…