My three favorite books as a kid were Eloise, Suzuki Beane and Harriet the Spy. My parents had great taste in the books they found for me. Looking forward to reading this. 

J Lo does not strike me as someone who would have any kind of problem with lying. 

I think it’s more like his condition and the trauma are inextricably linked. He started out with what was probably a milder case of OCD, and the dual events made it a lot worse. I’ve watched that happen with a friend, who was able to mask it fifteen years ago so that one wouldn’t guess he had a problem, but it’s…

Not alone. It took me a few seconds to figure out that it was him, and whether it was just the haircut or the face that was throwing me. 

Maybe he was being blackmailed about the baby. 

Your description of her facial “wrinkles” is spot on. I caught one shot where her forehead starts to furrow slightly, which confused me, and then it just popped back smooth again. And the cheek fillers are also distracting. I find myself looking at her face analyzing the surgery instead of watching the character. She…

I think this interpretation sounds right. She killed Elena in a rage, possibly after catching her with Jonathan, and is happy to frame him for the murder, and possibly having second thoughts about that, if there’s someone else she can point the police to. I’m also wondering if maybe she was also having an affair with…

They have a whole orphanage of unmissed babies to have picked from. The photos of the orphanage were there for a reason.

She’s a hand stand-in for Myrna Loy, who had notoriously large, unattractive hands. For closeups.

The actor reminds me so much of the great character William Sadler, who has played so many disgusting, skin-crawly creepy creeps.

I’m confused by this, because Kalete is black and/or Middle Eastern. (And yes, I’ve heard of internalized racism) And he looked more like the protesters than an Alt-Right person. Is it impossible that he was merely loaded and drove up that offramp onto the freeway as an actual accident? 

Yes, that was my first thought halfway through the first song. I hadn’t heard about Maron saying that, either. Also, Godspell, which nobody remembers, but there was a period where there were a few musicals that took historical stories and wrote them as rock & roll musicals, so this is that but with hip hop. The actual…

I’m another one who does not like most musicals- the tropes that are there by necessity, the oversized gestures and acting, the obviousness, the bombast, the Emoting, etc., all annoy me. My list of exceptional Likes is the same as yours, without LSoH, which I didn’t see.

I kept thinking Elmer Fudd. And I LIKE LMM.

True, but he seems like way too much of a mess to have kept it together enough to have done that. BUT I learned yesterday, after I’d posted, that back then, one didn’t have to go through law school to become a lawyer, you just had to be taken under the wing of a mentor (like EB) and pass the State Bar. So that must be…

This show has a lot of Easter eggs for L.A. history buffs. What was the story with Clara Drake and her tin of Johnson’s Baby Powder? Or was it a reference to how popular that product became with black women, and only recently was finally discontinued, after years of J&J swearing it was perfectly safe and not…

But what about law school? Did he get his degree after the war? Otherwise, how does that get explained?

He seems to have incipient dementia, I think. He seems way too out of it to be competent. After confidently telling Emily that the new judge was a friend of his, the judge didn’t treat him like anyone he recognized, unless his secret scandal has former colleagues acting like they don’t know him, which is also possible.

The costumes are so beautiful, while still looking like things that real people wore. Lupe’s wine velvet slinky gown was fantastic, and I love Della’s cool ensembles and her striped sweater.

They might not have thought it was a big deal because some (white?)people don’t first associate nooses with lynchings and racism, they think of them as generally sinister, macabre symbols. Like the game “Hangman”- I don’t think of that as racist. If most/all of the people hanging around in that garage were white, that…