Ugh, ewwwww, you’re right; that’s a very plausible theory.

THIS has been Claudia’s new deep cover assignment the whole time!  Take that, Gorbechav! 

Eh, I can’t say I’m surprised that they weren’t close as a cast. There was a real disparity in ages between the young set and the older cast and their shooting schedule was insane.  I’m sure the likes of Peter Gallagher just wanted to get home and spend time with their family, and the kids were busy being invited to…

Yet another reason it was always best to be Team Summer.

Eh, Marissa sucked from S1E1. Rachel Bilson was a delight and bringing much needed levity and comic timing that Barton could not pull off.

Agreed, Season 3 was the absolute low point of the show, and killing off Marissa made room for Taylor to come in and shine. The only thing that may be worse than season 3 is the back half of season 2.

I’m going to spoil the play here, but the Wikipedia plot summary doesn’t exactly get it right.

I am not the Queer Farmer’s Almanac, but yeah, drag queens is still fine.  Drag has more performance aspects than a typical cross-dressing, I think.  In other words, LW’s son may be wearing dresses to explore his gender identity, because it gets him off or just because dresses are more comfortable than pants.  Drag is…

Though if it turns out Roland’s behind Erin’s death, I would not be surprised.

Yeah, but Mare herself isn’t married into the Ross family.  Her best friend is.  I have met a few of my best friend’s nieces/nephews but beyond being able to recall their name, I don’t know much about them.

What?  She was a laugh a minute in Watchmen!  (I’m not being facetious here.  Watchmen is a serious show but Jean Smart was definitely part of the comic relief.)

Yeah - they ran a DNA test to match against Mare’s ex and Dylan.  It would have shown that the baby’s Y chromosome had too much similarity with the X chromosome if the baby had been Kenny’s or John/Billy Ross’s.  (Unless Erin was not Kenny’s biological child!)

How is a ten year old going to be out at a creek at midnight and killing someone far bigger than him?  I just don’t see that working.

I may be more likely to jump to my conclusions map, but you’re right; I probably wouldn’t expect it in a more light-hearted show.

I don’t know. I think in almost any show (okay, maybe not Schitt’s Creek or something), any scene in which a parent is whispering “this has to be our secret and don’t tell anyone else” to their child in their bedroom is going to look like CSA.

Beloved Character Actress Margo Martindale was made for playing a disgruntled DelCo townie.

I assumed Mare definitely snagged the bottle for testing. She looked at it way too closely.

I am loving her renaissance lately.  (As must HBO, since she’s now been in three high profile shows for them in the last few years.)

Although I loved most of this episode, I didn’t appreciate the bait and switch when it came to John Ross and his son. It’s pretty shitty to introduce the potential storyline of a young child being sexually abused by their parent unless it actually adds something to the story, and in this case (so far at least), all it…

Honestly, if the film is at all faithful to the book’s third act, then it was always going to be a mess. When I learned that this book had been market researched* to the extent it had, I had to deeply wonder at the motivations of my fellow Americans. Because YIKES.