2 things:

My favorite element of the episode (among the many listed in this recap) was the notion that Logan in control and Logan out of control look essentially identical from the outside. The differences between the two are microscopic at best. The whole thing reminded me of the idiotic 4 years we spent hearing about Trump’s…

Really liked Freaky (Happy Death Day was similarly fun). I think his masterpiece is The Breakup — he takes all of the things he’s known and loved for and, in the hands of a director who knows him well, curdles it in a way that gives the movie a legit refreshing dramatic reckoning.

Guessing Cheryl’s anti-vaxxer marriage is keeping her off the show for the most part this season?

Ricky Jaymatti 

Robert Altman was similarly hampered with a cocaine habit during portions of his career, so maybe it makes an odd kind of sense for this Altman tribute to have a similar issue.

Trying to game out this plot in my head. The Comanches/Eastern Shoshone win and yet face ethnic cleansing and displacement at the hands of Europeans, they lose in a pretty straightforwardly downbeat iteration OR they win and, in an alternate-history twist, end up using their learnings to repel Europeans from North…

Just give Chuck Lorre a call -- he might have some ideas how to handle her exit. 

Highlights:

I’m here for John Early’s outfits. Truly, the costume designer should get all the Emmy’s. 

As your comment shows, it’s the kind of show that is immune to indecisive release strategies. Put it on fucking Tubi one ep per month for 10 months — it won’t matter. People will find it.  

This show isn’t for me but I do love that there are shows ripping up the ratings (CBS procedurals, for example) that we TV snobs pretend don’t exist. Truly interested in the “parent” TV culture. Do they do recaps? Do they have forums somewhere? Maybe Facebook? Podcasts? Really curious about this “sub” culture.

Guy Fieri - GOT crossover, pls. 

Cricket caused COVID. 

And it was a light touch, allowing them to move on quickly. 

Science is a liar sometimes.

Frank made a fortune selling deworming agents to alt-right bros. 

Donal Logue was a true delight — celebrities playing versions of themselves is old hat (Bill Murray did the self-cameo-as-vampire years ago) but of course they managed to make it feel fresh and offhand.

Love these “kids.” Interesting to see them with teenagers, shifting the height differential of the earlier era.

I feel you, but these shows take years to get underway — it’s like steering a battleship. Most of these shows started writing and shooting in 2019.