Watching this episode and then reading this review, I just now put my finger on why I like Mellie so much: her sense of self. No one else on this entire program is more certain and less tortured about who they are and how they behave. It is a Rhimes convention to have characters be hyper-competent on the job and an…

We didn't get invested in the fate of a minor actress. We got invested in the chaos of a major trainwreck.

I think the context here is Patrick has fucked up at every important juncture of his and Richie's relationship so far. Right before their first hook-up? The uncut remark. Meeting the friends? Let Agustin talk some truly insulting, uncalled-for shit about Richie with virtually no pushback. Going Patrick's sister's…

Cibo Matto is Italian for 'food madness', not 'crazy food'. Also, the new record is fantastic. That is all.

I always thought Lip was a self-righteous prick to Fiona before the accident with Liam. Remember his insufferably condescending "The only way for poor people to make money is to scam it or steal it" speech he spouted at her after she tried to host a night at the club she used to work at? Or his asking "How'd that…

Technically, Ian's is Frank's nephew.

Ian's actually ripped, and he trained seriously for the military before he left and throughout the series. I have always wondered why they never showed him laying Frank the fuck out; he won every fight he had with Lip.

Agustin apologized so quickly only because the guy he was talking shit about was right behind him and called him on his shit. Some abusive depressives are more comfortable shitting on their friends than total strangers- mostly because strangers are much less predictable. And I'm not impressed that he acknowledged…

With a few surprise flurries of rapid action thrown in for punctuation.

So you go all in all in. I respect that.

I can't stand people who need other people to drown in misery simply because they are. Agustin thinks Patrick is "slumming" with Richie? Perhaps he's "slumming" by having as a friend an unemployed, uninspired, pretentious and judgmental asshole paying an escort to make his own life and art feel 'edgy' and not wholly…

I think Patrick only becomes self-aware- or, more accurately, self- conscious- after he's already pissed off or alienated whomever he's interacting with. When he said "I'm slow. I've been slow all my life.", he wasn't just smoothing over things with Richie with some shallow self-deprecation. He's describing the very…

Hot Cheetos are not a black thing. They're a junior high thing.

You know what I think? I think Patrick is subconsciously aware of how embarrassing he is. His cluelessness is so rampant every social interaction is fraught; on some level, he knows he is going to fuck it up and boy, does he. Agustin's supreme prickishness would have been easier for Richie to take if Patrick had…

From a gay black man: Cheetos and black people are not a thing. Grape soda, maybe- but Cheetos? Who wrote that shit?

I love giving blowjobs. Rimming elicits amazing responses if you're good at it- which requires going all in, which requires either trust or a recently observed shower.

Fuck Agustin. That is all.

I think the day Patrick and Richie spent together this episode was their third (or fourth) date, not the day after Folsom. Richie said it was the third time he had made Patrick late for work (in the very beginning of the episode). Anyhow, best episode yet.

He looks a bit like Colby Keller. This is good.

Most gutting episode since Monica's Thanksgiving suicide attempt. Not sure I'm on board; seems a little biblical in its punishment of Fiona. Still, Ian's back if all coked-up (looks good in mascara though) and it's great to see Lip back with the family again.