This episode was solid and delightful. Rang ALL my JtV bells. Everyone was on point and wonderful. Some of the best acting. Anezka was interesting! Luisa was sympathetic! Rafael was conflicted and cute and did a good thing and learned! Xo was smart and sexy! Lots of good smart groundbreaking sexual identity…

I’ve heard a lot of criticism about the on-the-nose songs, but honestly I feel like that’s part of the joyous lark that this show is. It’s super meta and super commenting and you can practically hear the songs clear their throat before each one comes on, like AHEM, NOW I SPEAK ABOUT THE PLOT. And I am FINE with…

I miss the ability to look at top comments. And the ability to see how the community rated the show. And the ability to find the shows by season and episode. I might be dreaming that last one. But I do miss using the arrow and page up/dn keys to navigate better. I don’t miss having to re-expand everything after…

Agreed that Paula knows stuff and it’s weird to lie to her, and go for her knees, and I wasn’t onboard.

Agreed, I think they were trying to fake us out about that, a little.

Agreed on really not liking this episode. It feels like the show veers into and out of a deep, deep mean-spirited cringeyness that I just can’t get behind.

Yes, I wondered if the turtleneck thing was a reference to “Turtleneck and Chain”

He does so by taking off his shirt

Criswell predicts: The deal will go through, Rafael will confess, she’ll reneg and plan to keep it, and all will seem lost. Just then, Louisa’s fire is set, and because the insurance still names Rafael, he gets (some of) his money.

Love your observations; this is closer to what I was hoping to see when I got past the annoying pop-up sign-up form which loses your place and read the avclub review.

As Arbiter82 also said regarding:
“The ending definitely implies it, with his reluctance to use Discovery to save her.”

With you there.

Yeah, I thought the Jane personality gag was unusually dull. Totally seen it a million times, totally fake looking outfits, totally lacking in real emotional substance. If they went deeper with it - if the two sides of her weren’t such clowns - it could have surprised us with how emotionally affecting it could be.

Asi…

Agreed: She was just that mad at him that everything he does pisses her off. I love that the show did it on purpose and the narrator called her out as Douche Jane over it.

OK so I’m still very frustrated trying to use the new comment system, including how for no apparent reason avclub shows multiple reviews from multiple shows I don’t care about in one incredibly long page, and sometimes repeats/collapses the comment threads so I’m seeing them over and over... but I press on to say, I…

THANK YOU.

“I think this is actually basically correct, and explains (other then tribal psychology) why political discussions never go anywhere.”

You’re telling me!

I haven’t gotten any further than this episode, so I don’t know if this has already been hinted at more / resolved here in 2017. But for the record, having Mateo make animal noises (while I didn’t really laugh) to troll the dialogue was like baby’s first Latin Lover commentary narration. So, there’s that.

I’m saying it, so I’ll say it, because I’m typing it, so here it goes, and here it is, it’s like this: This was the worst episode of the series up till this point. Its jokes fell flat, its plot twists were predictable, it totally lacked the subtle subversive smarts that make the show work for me, plus the characters…

Someone must have made this point, but