Right, I would suspsect this is true. No way Tierney and Graham can play the same character… I suspect Tierney would've been written very differentlly had she kept on the show (and I wish she did — I don't dislike Lauren Graham, but I could've lived without her, if Tierney was the alternative)

Agree — she is the best thing in this show. It is worth watching for all the "Helen" sequences.

Right, there season needed 12 episodes so we could get another visit to Montauk. I guess they feel the story was resolved enough — Cole chose the women he needs, not the one he wants and Allison made it clear she is there if he changes his mind.

Yeah, given the serious of his charges and what they would view as either a suicide attempt or an attempted murder, it is hard to imagine his parole office approving a vacation in Europe. I don't know the exact rules, but even leaving a state is often disallowed (if hard to enforce).Even if he somehow snuck into…

Yeah, that is one of the rare times where the plot would make more sense if Noah woke up in a facility of some kind and his trip to Paris — where he is lucid, sane, jovial (no shoulder pain?) and an honest, humble hero of her daughter….who he just happened to run across in Paris, by coincedence, was "all a dream."

She is also unspeakably gorgeous — well cast since the same can be said of her mother, Maura Tierney.

I liked the 2nd half — Whitney is rarely seen and rarely humanized. But if you are going to devote 30 minutes to Juliette (who we have largely forgot about), and her family (who we really hadn't met) it shouldn't have been in the finale.

Yeah, he went home and made his wife a bannana cupcake/Twinkie suprise, and it cured her depression, saved their marriage. Huzzah!

Great point…. I bet we go get that story eventually. But honestly, even if they are saving that stuff, I would've preferred any flashback to almost any part of HIS life, as opposed to the firefighter. I felt like I was watching a backdoor pilot (ie the Farm/the Office(.

Unless they have some amazing future story about the firefighter I viewed it as time wasted… in fact, for awile I didn't even realize who we were watching… I was like, "is the flashback to the granparents as younger adults."

To be fair, commenters correcting these errors are at least as annoying as the typos themselves. There are a million "let me find your mistakes and call you out" types, usually offering no substantive statement about the writing outside of the grammar, on the internet. They are so annoying and numerous that any…

Yes, Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions makes this point well. Rec it!

I nominate this for comment of the week.

I pretty much watched this because it was on after shows I like. At first I thought the husband was poorly cast or written etc… but I think they were just slow-building: I can't get enough of him now.

I am confused about the "arcs" they go through in terms of duration. In earlier episodes it seemed like the system was: Delores wakes up, drops something, meets a guy (guest, or host) and goes home to witness and endure unspeakable tragedy.

Right. Shows like One Tree Hill treat children being reared by 17-year old high school students as if they were just picking up a new hobby or something.

She has played a role in this though. She has had some self-destructive, impulsive moments that have put her ability to care for the family in question — ie cocaine//Liam, marrying a total stranger, buying a house with drug money and probably 10 things I am forgetting etc…

The kid isn't. But she is the legal guardian of all the juveniles. She should at least acknowledge that I think. She gave up the right to just stop caring for them. If she kicks Carl and Debbie out to rend an apartment isn't just ambition, it is neglect (also, Carl bought her a house, so there is that).

I, too, am yelling at the tv (in my mind) — you "agreed to be the legal guardian," of these children (not to mention Carl bought her a house!). Lip told Fiona to leave at the end of season 1.

She deserves a spin-off. I don't think they should air it, but the character deserves it