In case we forgot that there was a slap in the premiere, we have to see Alicia also adjust her jacket… several times… from two different camera angles.

Agree, I think the sympathetic slant was a combination of the writing and the actor.

Gwen, every week you mention how much you hate Rowen.
As a palate cleanser, may I suggest you watch Joe Morton in John Sayles' Brother From Another Planet? His character is a mute.

She's the randiest 300 y.o. lady evah

totally agree, but the cloth did give him a sort of Jesus-y vibe.
Then again, dammit!

Totally agree but then again, there was more of her to be eaten.

So Euron is the hot 'speen doktor' from Borgen?
I die.

Ikr? No flaying? I'm outta here.

He seems to have the hots for Ben.

Found it offensive that 'cat fight' was used not once, but twice in that epi, Granted, both characters are villainous and cartoony, but keeping that belittling phrase in the public ear is irresponsible.
You're not helping, Shonda.

The biggest stretch was that a woman with means and a busy career doesn't hire help for a party?

*scroll, read, scroll, read, scroll, read, stop. Die*

And when Axe told him to give Wendy 5 mil:

"Because you're a criminal….Bob."

I wrote a comment last week about how tone deaf it was for Olivia and Fitz to have flirty drinks immediately after she finds out the prisoner killed himself. Thought it would be the lowest point she could sink - nope, I was wrong.

"Each side provides their opening statements:"

Yesss, he had that hoarse shouting across a ball field kind of voice. The Rock would have been perfect if he was darker.

Nailed it

So… you just find out a guy you put the screws to offed himself and you shrug and play flirty eyes with your ex-bf over a bourbon?
This show has been tone deaf before but this one was a corker.

Yes, if they paid more for a lead head rather than an extra, they would have made more of it.