putting my theory hat back on, I think we can all agree that something happened to white pearl right? she did not pop out of the ground with that giant crack. she’s also the only pearl that doesn’t have matching gem placement with her diamond. sus.

The show massively expanded its time commitment after Fontana signed on. He lives on the opposite coast and didn’t want to be away from his family for that long, or have to pass up career opportunities.

Yeah, I definitely feel like there’s a story there, especially since it doesn’t seem like the showrunners even considered bringing back Fontana. I suppose it could be as simple as “He didn’t really enjoy doing the show,” rather than anything interpersonal. (And given that he stuck around in season 2 long enough to…

He even had a whole song dedicated to him, asking that he not be a murderer!

This is actually very much like Season 1 Josh. Before they dated he would regularly be a source of insight and support for Rebecca. (Like when her party was underattended, or when she revealed [part of] why she moved to WC on the party bus.) He was even a good boyfriend the second time they dated, before he freaked…

I was cringing near the end because I was expecting Rebecca to reveal her career change to all those judgey women. That’s what would have happened on a lesser comedy. Good for her for realizing that her life is no one’s business.

I would very much like to see the Doctors Akopian’s views on Rebecca and Josh as roommates.

Best line reading of the night, hands-down.

When they first appeared I thought they were going to do a mother-daughter JAP battle thing. 

Actually, a triangle has multiple centers.

I sort of liked Audra’s lack of focus this episode, she mattered to the old Rebecca that still believed she was a rival, and cared about who was winning. Audra’s arc on the show probably ended when Rebecca told her “I hope you are happy.”, because after that moment Audra stopped mattering, at least in the scope of the…

Neither, since there are no rules and you award yourself any points you want.

Jason, after he throws a Molotov cocktail.

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Right, and she’s still apparently got physical symptoms and anxieties left over from before she stopped believing in this kind of stuff. Her experience is not less valid because she’s genetically fortunate and she does whatever she does to maintain herself. She’s right that there’s still a massive cultural issue here,…

And yet - sexy giraffe though she be, even Jameela was not impervious to the harmful pressures those celebrity “influencers” encourage and perpetuate, and which led to her earlier eating-disorder problems. Nobody, and no body, is immune to their shaming effects.

She’s not really deriding the “ideal” body type so much as deriding the culture that tells people that they must fit that body type and people who push snake oil “miracle” products to prey on people who have bought into the culture.

Jameela Jamil makes me feel like Eleanor Shellstrop does about Tahani.  But seriously, this is fantastic.

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God bless her. She really is putting herself out on a limb -- people do not react well when you come after their money stream. This is a thankless task and she is doing good work.