My money has been on Ed for a few weeks now, mostly because there's just something off about him that I can't quite put my finger on. Whether it was that "just a hair too long" look he gave at Abigail a few episodes back, his confrontation with Nathan, or his exceedingly awkward talk with Bonnie at the yoga studio. Ed…

I feel like Amabella's abuse is a parallel to Celeste's, in a way. Amabella probably wants the approval of the person or persons abusing her, and believes they're really her friends. So she doesn't want to drop the dime on them.

You know, I never thought of that, but that could also be the case. Sex isn't always a binary thing.

Agreed. For example, I hate the way the term "Lifetime" is used to dismiss television with a female perspective. Yes, there are issues on this show that Lifetime dramas have been infamous for tackling at length in the past such as spousal abuse. But dismissing it as "Lifetime" fluff is infuriatingly reductive.

You're right. I completely forgot about the cologne being the telltale sign.

What's terrifying is that you can't really tell if it's rape or just business as usual for these two.

I don't know that the show wants the mystery of Saxon Baker's office to be about whether or not she shot him, but why she didn't.

She just comes across as painfully insincere and overly obsessed with appearances. I'm mostly thinking of the meeting at the mayor's house. I feel like she wants to be this community pillar, but it feels like she only cares about the community for as long as it reflects her values.

-I was riveted by the therapy session. Literally the only complaint I could even find about it is that it wasn't all one, uninterrupted scene. But then, I suppose it kind of needed to be broken up simply for pacing issues and tone. Either way, this was an extraordinary piece of television.

I was more puzzled by the "I'll probably never see the dad again" entry. I mean, you know who he is. You know where he is. It shouldn't be that hard to find him. But she makes it sound like he was some one night stand in Australia whose name she didn't get and whose face she doesn't remember.

REASONS IT'S INSANE TO HAVE A BABY

That's a great point. I never thought about how Abbott leaving fucked up Marnie's storyline. Still, I wonder if Marnie and Charlie wouldn't have ended up becoming like Marnie and Desi, with Charlie starting down the path toward drug use and eventually blaming Marnie's self-absorption for everything. While I don't…

I haven't been the biggest Hannah supporter in the world, but good Lord, these people were just awful to her this week. Everyone guilt-tripping her about the baby and making it about them, at a time when she could really have used the support. Granted, it was kind of shitty of Hannah to assume Elijah would just agree…

I feel like, in the past, Ray would have just grit his teeth and toughed it out because he'd imagine a girl like Marnie is the best he could ever do (although I don't know how he would think that, after getting a girl like Shosh).

This was the episode where, after five seasons and change, I finally, definitively, unreservedly gave up on Marnie.

Teddy continually insulting Bob had me rolling. Also the head movements he was making when low-key threatening Bob about telling anyone about the golf balls. It's the big things with this show, but also the little ones.

She is in the opening. It goes Bonnie, Jane, Celeste, Renata and Madeline. All of the women are dressed as Breakfast at Tiffany's Hepburn except for Madeline, whose Hepburn is a mystery to me. But that's my favorite part of the opening (and it's an opening that I think is giving us a LOT of clues), because it's so…

When Celeste got on top of Perry and said, "You think you're so irresistible, don't you?", all I could think was, "Well, if he does, is he wrong?"

I was worried this was going to be another "Boys of Bummer" (which is neck-and-neck with "Lisa Goes Gaga" for Worst Simpsons Episode of All-Time, for me), but I found this pretty damn delightful. Granted, the episode had an obnoxious tendency of overexplaining the jokes, but I was still thoroughly entertained. And I'm…

Agreed. But by the same token, at least Nathan is making compromises. For all we've seen from her, you'd think Ed was Madeline's annoying older brother and not her husband.