Silky’s win was very forced. I didn’t find her Oprah to be a particularly good impression at all. And dear god, my political science professor partner was half-listening in the background and cringed when she talked about registering republican to change gerrymandering. That’s not how it works, girl! Hope you learn…

Historically, the best solution to people like this is the guillotine.

to be fair, he did crush that number. 

One of the smart things the show is doing is showing the love interests growing in their own ways, too. So if Rebecca does wind up in a couple as the show ends, it’s because they’ve both done work on themselves before coming back together--and they’ll probably acknowledge the choice isn’t necessarily permanent or…

The audience extra to Paula’s left also had the best “eh” face.
I also liked Beth’s retort “You’re mad at me. I can tell from the yelling and overt anger.”

Random thoughts:

Yep. “Good Bosses and Friends Let Their Employees Soar Elsewhere if Need Be” didn’t resonate with me.

She should take Cheri Oteri’s job, or set up her downtown version of a contemporary musical theatre troupe.

“You got all that out of ‘Apple Man’?”

Paula and Valencia’s girlfriend’s horrified looks during the “pirate king kidnapped and forcibly married me” song killed me. Great critique of all those old Carousel songs that are just like, cheery descriptions of domestic abuse.

Goddamn did Chris get big, he had a massive growth spurt since the last time we saw him.

That whole pinning so much of yourself to something you love is such a borderline thing and I could relate so hard. This show has been so amazing with mental illness and I am so dreading trying to fill its void once its over.

Writer Jack Dolgen Tweeted that this episode’s song is “The stupidest song I’ve ever written”, and that includes songs he wrote when he was 15.

I’m starting to think perhaps the end game is Rebecca setting up a musical theatre company, troupe or whatever you would call it. Perhaps with a particular outreach to people with mental illness as a kind of art therapy thing.

Nathaniel!!!!

Reggie Lee (Sgt Wu from Grimm) as the fraudulent insect forensics guy!

Rosa & Gina are Sophias, Boyle & Amy are Roses, Terry & Jake are Dorothys and after listening to him talk about barrels, I think we can all agree Holt is Blanche.

I’ll be in a Sexy French Depression now until CXG comes back in a couple of weeks.

As soon as I saw those words, I knew Sexy Getting Ready Song was going to be in my head the rest of the day. (Really, I’m grateful. It temporarily knocked out Don’t Be a Lawyer.)

I thought The Good Place handled the situation with Tahani’s terrible parents pitting her and her sister against each other better (they eventually bonded by agreeing their parents were “wankers.”)