i think the major Sutton Foster homage was for the Bunheads crews, a short lived Palladino show. and this was not the space for it…give me Lane and Mrs Kim and Zack in a scene with Steve and Kwan!

way way too long. and it felt like filler and an homage to Bunheads fans, which i have nothing against, but that play duration was precious real estate where we could have had some Lane, Jess-Luke or Paris scenes.

YES. i wanted more of that. those two connected the chemistry of the golden years and added maturity—the few times they shared, they nailed.

kindred spirit on Lane and Paris. Lane is one of the best friends ever and the later seasons never did justice to her arc! MORE MORE MORE of the two BFFs who continually fascinate more than the lead they support

yes. yes. and yes. everyone looked fly as hell in this epi. and The Doc is nice addition. hope she returns.

i think it needs to lighten up—-Rufus is sort of saving the tenor with his humor and stunning adaptability to ye olde racism scenes. i say just have fun with it and acknowledge everything will change with their presence anyway.
the earnest "saving" of history is weird bc we also keep going back to the present and…

thank you. one of my major issues with this epi. it was the most blindly patriotic, Santa Ana was a devil and the Texans were a multicultural crew of freedom fighters. if ONLY it had been that scene. the fight for Texas as a slave state was HUGE and set up a lot of problematic policies we still deal with. the whole TX…

totally agree

Keith David's voice would be PERFECT.

i hope they are reading you right now ;) you basically outlined it for them. if nothing else, we are sending this to Malcolm Barrett.

that's what i thought. rape makes things ugly. murder is extreme but doesn't alter the energy in a sitcom the way rape does. i don't know if that is the effect of "cozy murder mysteries" or what but dropping "rape" in a sitcom is too dark. puts the breaks on.

WHOA> thanks for the link

and Manhattan clam chowder, not New England chowder…because hello, manhattan is the lesser chowder.

beautiful observations! and i have been feeling the same way about Jason/Jianyu he needs to have another angle before he feels almost like a strange baby. he's adoreable and funny, how to turn up the funny and turn down the straight idiot?

brilliant!

very fun episode! we are due for an episode where Rufus is the historical power holder and Lucy and Wyatt have to stand back, camouflage, deflect—-anarcho 60-70s Black Panthers? Islamic Spain? Haitian revolution? he's too good.

wahoo! Thank you! this is a point i literately have to make everyday as an instructor. true evidence of the power of a single narrative of history, the assumption EVERYONE folded to the narrative.

hi! it was called, "Things I Bought That I Love", here's an article from 2009 with some excerpts—it was breezy, witty and even though often about material stuff, to me, it showed her clever observations: http://www.apartmenttherapy…

yes.

i hear you…i sort of doggedly try to watch this show—-maybe because i think Mindy Kaling is a bomb a$$ writer (i used to follow her blog back in the Office days and it was laugh out loud hilarious). but the show is unwatchable.