They literally have her talk with the pro-life protestor to really bring that point home.

Anybody else have the Amazon season pass for this? The episode still hasn't popped up yet and I'm getting antsy…

Yeah, I actually think both Paul and Vernon were getting better developed in earlier episodes of this season (Vernon's advice to Edgar being in particular vital to that). This should have taken it to the next level, but instead just wiped the slate clean of any progress.

Standing up in the minority opinion here to say you made the right choice. This episode cemented that the show has no interest in breaking down Paul's problems, which is a real shame.

I didn't really feel like this fleshed out Vernon or Paul, at least not in the harshly-truthful world of YTW way. There were good jokes, but all dependent on them being obnoxious in their specific ways without any real surprises or anything beyond color-by-numbers characterization. A fun episode, but think it missed…

There was a good moment where I thought Lindsey had simply instructed Paul to be "extra-Paul-like" to fuel her anger at him that she would then channel into humping another guy. Obviously that's too functional for them, though.

I know there's a good chance my ex is going to watch this episode and immediately see me/FM in it…

Both LIndsey and Paul are awful here. Their inability to communicate with each other makes any healthy relationship, poly or otherwise, impossible for them. There's a lot of comedy to be mined by keeping them together, but neither are in the right.

This would actually be a much more interesting show than what was certainly pitched.

Also very disappointed to see this not properly covered, but… Kinda a fan of this character-by-character coverage. Not that individual episodes of Transparent aren't strong, but Soloway has discussed writing the seasons like 5-hour movies and a lot of the best discussion and analysis naturally has to stretch over…

As a polite heads up, the original announcement of the series was that it was going to be an "anthology", so season 2 will have an entirely different story with new characters, it seems.

Maron?

I don't think the issue at hand in the first letter is Nazi fetishism or discomfort with one's religious background as much as it is her inability/disinterest in treating her lover like a human being with his own emotions and wants? She decides that he's been "indoctrinated" without even talking to him about this, so…

I kinda wish CBS would incessantly spin-off Mom into a million pieces? That character wasn't great. French Stewart can get pretty obnoxious. But you can see they were trying to do something more interesting and unusual with him. There just really not much room for the restaurant on the "female AA group ensemble…

Hey, I know London! Grew up outside Detroit and went to camp in the Niagara region, so drove through/past London fairly often.

Yeah, I think SofS slightly missed the mark by saying those actually moving into the apartments are moving somewhere "cheaper than their means". It's a lot more about who owns the property, not who is living there. As the owners renovate the rents will go up, which will eventually change the types of people who can…

They've done something really impressive with Nekeisha. The six episodes of season 1, rightfully, kept her almost always on the sidelines and her absence at the beginning of this season suggested that maybe she was a little too on-dimensional for sustained screentime and would be best used sparingly.

This is a great solution to the fact that the "Carmichael Show" recaps seem to get lost with the rest of the Sunday night assortment. We'll just have a feature about each week's episode put up immediately after it airs, right? Right?

I can confirm: Batman shoots people, but typically while fighting armed mobs whose guns he steals off of them. You can dislike it all you want, but the Zack Snyder hyper-violent world would make Batman showing restraint in those situations seem really odd. It's a bit much, but it's at least consistent.

This is nit-picking, but Carmichael is written in two acts with a teaser and a tag, not three acts. I assume that's mostly to better mirror Norman Lear's two-act mini-play sitcoms while providing the added commercial breaks through the teaser and tag needed to be on broadcast television in 2016.