I profoundly agree. I enjoy this show as a much needed ray of sanity and sunshine, but it is not the tour de force, screwball paced, incredibly smart show it started off as. It’s a very sweet sequel I like, but not the same movie.

This was seriously an A or A minus episode. It was like, classic Bob’s Burgers, hitting all the notes. Everyone was kind at the core but bounced off each other well, Louise was deeply twistedly conspiratorial, Gene wants his mom’s sweaters, it was great. Watch it again; I feel like in its quiet way, this was one for…

I was kind of surprised we haven’t talked more about this. Vicks got heavy shout-outs on both this show and recent episodes of its sister show, One Day at a Time. I imagine it’s both true and also a promotional placement? Does anyone know more about this? ...

I found this episode enjoyable, but herky-jerky. The pacing felt amateur. We bopped from one thing to another so rapidly and slapdash that it took away from my ability to accept it as reality. It felt like two episodes edited down into one. So many good thoughts, not enough time exploring them. But Rosario and Yael,…

Did we ever find out who the mysterious woman silhouette was? Somewhere in the snow, with henchpeople? We saw her from behind only and I think she took a phone call or something. I feel like it was implied it was Rose, but we never found out that it was Rose.

But we never got to hear her sing! This is the true crime. It’s like the equivalent of a red shirt.

Yes! Which reminds me... for all the studying Gina did, why does Jane say “I told you I was judgmental two days after we met!” - they met long before that!

It gives me Wonderfalls flashbacks every time. And that’s good.

I think you’re right about what she meant, but I totally think that’s nuts. Talking about the Bechdel-Wallace test is talking about how women characters talk about things. It’s not just passing the test, it’s Feminist, it’s raising awareness, it’s unlacing decades of harm.

I am here from the slightly future to say! Yup, it was super cartoony. I wasn’t laughing, not because of a needle perfectly threaded, but because it was kind of supposed to be funny and it wasn’t. Why wouldn’t they just go talk about it in the office? They sit in front of each other ALL DAY. Why do it here?

Followup: There’s definitely Graduate stuff in the show. Surprised? No. Happy to be right about something on the Internet? Well, sure!

I see a Graduate ending. The grandmother of much of BoJack Horseman.

Another anachronism, though “possibly an intentional error made by a character” i.e. unreliable memory. But it still bugged me. The three-prong grounded outlet in Bojack’s childhood apartment, when his parents were poor and the place had clearly not been updated in years. Three-prong outlets were invented in the 20s…

FWIW, it’s also what you get when you add sugar and cream (and, well, churn it, etc)

Am I the only one who thinks the quick transition of a servant chopping off the head of a bush is a quick nod to “Another Period”?

I come from the future with this comment!

When I was in college, I was writing a musical. As I did, I realized gradually how intoxicatingly powerful the writer’s role is. You can make these fictional people (and later, real people!) do whatever you want. I had them swearing, screwing, and using each other, as well as singing and such. I feel like most writers…

I come from the future to say: Oh my god that TV dinner idea is perfection.

I come here from the year 2017 to say, that is incredibly astute.

(and whoa wtf super incredibly later this had better be important)