Honestly I can't not think of Six Feet Under whenever I hear people criticizing American Beauty as honestly suggesting that Lester Burnham's newfound rebel ways were meant to be something the audience was supposed to be fully on board with. Either Ball grew a lot between American Beauty and SFU or people are reading…

Plus she doesn't care that much.

So do I. Bonnie had an actual storyline last season which ended up in a touching way totally negated by her not staying dead. Jeremy has no purpose on the show.

I still haven't caught up on 90% of the shows AV Club loves, but if Filipino PLL actually happens, I'm not going to miss it for the world.

She has a Filipino mother, yes.

I know this was probably a joke, but… this is why most nations hate America. Of course, why would the Philippines not be similar to eastern Europe?

I'm a bit hazy on the first part, but the second part is definitely not true. Crowley's hell souls gave Castiel *some* extra power, but he didn't get godlike powers until the final episode of season 6 when he absorbed the souls from purgatory, including Leviathans.

We're not stressing enough how great it is that the show hasn't killed Mrs. Tran off. Let's hope this is the last time we're seeing her because she wouldn't be so lucky next time.

I'd like a Crowley/Abaddon episode too, even though Abaddon has been disappointingly one-note so far. I enjoy her anyway because of shallow reasons.

I think that if you're going to make a MotW-based show, you need to have good ideas for MotW-episodes, which were pretty bad lately. I could have done without either virginity goddess, werewolf-Garth or fat suckers. Dog Dean Afternoon was brilliant though.

I actually thought this episode was pretty brilliant. Some of the things might be problematic (the Castiel plotlines are getting kind of cyclical, but at least the Bartholomew alliance got dropped fast; the thing with ghosts staying on Earth ever since the angels fell is a good idea, but should have been addressed or…

Elaine Benes would have some words about that one.

It's been a long time since I've disagreed with a review this much.

Contrived way to start that conflict that's been a long time coming prevents this from being an excellent Girls episode, but it's still a very good one.

I generally agree with Padalecki's acting seeming much worse since they just stopped giving a fuck about his character, but I enjoyed angel-Sam.

The difference between the treatment of minority characters on PLL and on Glee is that here, they get to be actual characters, whereas on Glee, everyone is Token Something who exists mostly to address those specific issues, for which reason it can't really be a torchbearer of anything ever.

Remember that game of… strip academic decathlon she had with him last season? So close.

Not only that but his character has delved into new depths of horrible and superfluous this season. The show would be a much better show without him and I attribute the success of the two episodes before this one to the show acknowledging that nobody cares about him and his dead mama drama and keeping both off-screen.

Well, if this is your first PLL episode, you're not going to get much of it. It's building on a lot of tiny things you're already supposed to know about the characters. But the style is still amazing.

I am too overcome with joy to discuss much of this episode properly right now, but one thing I can't help saying: so Spencer being endangered by a garbage disposal while a character named Alison was standing nearby had to be an Orphan Black reference, right?