That was so clearly on the line, but would be a bit like cheating, I think.

Right, but talking it over with your partner in finances is different than fessing up to friends about it.

Also, she told him in his voicemail not to worry about sending his portion of rent that month, so was that a condition of their divorce? That was all so weird.

But he didn't book the gig! This could just be a high point before a totally unsuccessful reading with the producers. He takes Dill back in a moment of professional success, feeling like maybe he has more of an upper hand this time… next episode it could all revert back to him living in obscurity and explaining that…

I enjoyed their interactions. I liked how Dill was ALMOST a comfort, almost a wise confidante, but nah, it was all driven by narcissism. Still ok company during that mediocre phone call he strong-armed her into, though.

Having been in a pawn shop while fully-employed but underpaid (and not drug-addicted), I still laughed and cringed at the pawn shop owner's assertion that no one all that good ever comes into a pawn shop.

But this is not the first time we get growth from Marnie. The beauty about her is that it never sticks. It didn't stick after Panic in Central Park (she left her marriage, but not the relationship; she realized Ray was it for her, a good, grownup relationship! and went back at it with Desi) …it doesn't usually last.…

I really hope Tom Hanks plays her mom's sleazy live-in boyfriend.

Being financially desperate can have a shake-em-up effect, though. Maybe she was feeling especially raw and ready for an epiphany.

Or, who could be sitting on their bed, smoking a joint, get THAT call, and react appropriately? Or react in a way they're proud of in retrospect? I dropped the ball on the phone with my mom last night because I was a bit high, and we were only talking about Trump and the Russians. I still feel bad.

He also hasn't been presented as the quickest guy, but what I loved about him previously was the kind of effortless warmth he had about him. So on the spot, sure, he sucked. But we may not have heard the last of Paul-Louis…

At that point it seemed mainly that Hannah was doing it on the strong advice of other people (she said as much), so after the fact, it felt devastating but also like something to check off the to-do list.

Honestly I laughed out loud when Phil made that joke about trying to photograph 10 lbs on a scale — you can't. Benevolent, confident ignorance. I love it.

Love the Chorus Line and Smash name-drops.

I think that had to be the joke in the writers' room, though — that show was such a trainwreck, especially, well, in the writers' room.

Yes! The way it was written, I feel like Gus should've just found Mickey immediately and said, "Your boss is openly hostile toward you and regardless of what might have happened between you two in the past, it's not a healthy professional environment for you and I want you to find a better situation."

Gelman keeps getting typecast as unbelievably unhinged. (Thinking of Fleabag and Married, too.) He's always forced to make these kind of unbelievable shifts, and I used to think I didn't really like Gelman, but I think I do, I just don't like the stuff that's written for him.

I thought so too, but then why is he borrowing money from Bertie?

I really dislike this trope where there's a pretty solid couple, then some rando at a party pulls one of them aside to shit-talk the other, and all hell breaks loose. In reality, it just makes the rando look bad.

Only it sounded like he said "murder."