But won't Cora eventually be setting up shop in the Dower House?

That's a nice idea. He can become Marigold's Carson.

To be fair, Susan was a senator for about five minutes too. So that's ten minutes. Plus she read that whole gun bill.

I'm sorry to say Bertie is no longer a good match for Edith, anyway. To fulfill her duties as a marchioness, Edith would have to give up her magazine and most of her freedom. As we know from watching DA, the local fancy family has a lot of responsibility in exchange for their privilege. But the Edith of a few years…

It should be "Pennsytucky", anyway.

I have to be the wet blanket here who points out that a detective who dates someone involved in the case is also crossing a line. At minimum, it would cloud her judgment and make her less effective.

I can't believe there hasn't been extended discussion of Mrs. Hughes-Carson's knowing the mystery of life by now.

Am I too late to add Rachel and Joey from "Friends"? A showbiz loving fashionista and a vain actor—neither interested in intellectual pursuits like, say, archaeology—are a good match. I always thought Ross was whiny because he needed a more suitable group of Friends.

This was a very entertaining grandma. Maybe a point of the show was that if youngsters will open their minds, they might find a surprise every now and then among the senior generation.

I have some friends who once went off to a cabin for Xmas and accidentally celebrated a day late. They were unplugged and having fun and just forgot about the calendar. This was in my mind as the LMOE community celebrated Christmas. Do they have a way to keep track of dates, or are they just going by the sun?

any chance it's poison ink from the Secret Santa names Carol made them eat? The ones that are not on rice paper?

Didn't they say all the housewifery was part of a "charm offensive" to raise Olivia's approval rating? I got the sense that as soon as the American public officially accepted her as the First Girlfriend, they could all go back to being their regular selves. It sounded, in fact, like an Olivia plan. Seems she's not…

They had me at "He just drank his own fish."

Yes. I see it as an enhanced standup comedy routine.

It was never together. You have to love it for what it is.

How about if Fitz listens to his very own brain and makes decisions that way?

I was hoping for a twist, *any* twist to make this not so predictable. "Wife was true author" would have been a good one, too.

I also liked that scene because it illustrated how many loved ones Carol once had (as opposed to Phil), and how much of a people person she is. She made a very big sacrifice by choosing to go off with Phil the misanthrope.

ubiquitous

Chiming in to say that I was disappointed by Soso's empty back story. Tiger Mom, eh? How original. Perhaps if they'd carried it through a bit to show that her upbringing had prevented her from learning social skills, it might have shed some light on her current situation. But all we got was a tidy stereotype. There…