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Nice, my picks were reversed – Bojack then YtW – but both excellent shows. They both have such strong female characters – Gretchen on YtW, Diane and Wanda on Bojack.

I'm not sure how I feel about Lindsey and Paul getting back together. On one hand, she never seemed at all happy when she was with Paul. On the other hand, how crazy she went after they divorced indicates that she loves him, in a way. It seems kind of poisonous…but they're also pretty cute together…hmmm.

I don't see how Transparent's first season focused only on Maura…there were so many plot points about the siblings' marriages, friendships and childhoods that only very tenuously relate back to Maura's transition. Maura's transition drove the plot in the first half of the first season. But by the middle of the season,

Yeah, I can totally imagine this.

I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but why do all the titles of Jessica Jones episodes begin with AKA?

All the moby's dick jokes are just too tempting.

Question for the audience: has there been any indication that Gretchen is/was taking antidepressants? It seems like she would be if she was diagnosed with clinical depression at age 8. It also seems realistic that she would either stop taking the meds or the meds would stop working for her.

Until this episode, I thought the show was called Peaky Binders. In my head "Binder" was just another one of those British words for asshole (bugger, wanker, etc)

Jimmy's reaction makes sense, but I feel like Jimmy should at least be worried about Gretchen and trying to convince her to get help.

Have you listened to the song?

I agree that movies that start off badly seldom become great – and I feel the same way about novels (if I'm not interested by page 30, I'm probably never going to be) – but the same thinking definitely does not apply to TV. TV shows have so much time to change direction, develop characters more thoroughly, and

Same here – I don't usually walk out on movies. I sat through Across the Universe but regretted it (I was about 16 when I watched it, and I was enjoying it much less than my mom and sister and therefore felt like I should stay).

Totally agree, this episode was awful. It kind of seemed like the show decided to be a bad 80s sitcom for one episode – not a tongue-in-cheek take off of a bad 80s sitcom, just a plain, straightforward bad 80s sitcom.

Haha, yeah. Honestly, I was really surprised that it hit me that hard, as someone who loves horror movies.

Mine is the play Hamlet. I wasn't scared of it in high school, but when I reread it in college and actually understood what was going on, I had nightmares about it and ultimately couldn't even finish reading it. The sense of dread was just too palpable, and knowing that everyone was going to die just made it seem more

Agreed! Hakeem has been an asset this season, and Jamal has been seriously underused and underdeveloped. It's fine with me if the show wants to transform Jamal into an egomaniac, but there was no transformation: he was vulnerable and ambitious – but still basically honest and loyal – in season one, and suddenly in

Trees with the same hole have never been so terrifying.

Can't believe Tina and the Real Ghost wasn't name checked.

This episode reminded me so much of Bojack Horseman (Jimmy = Bojack, Edward = Todd)…there was even an improve comedian named Brian.

I don't have a problem with using the word as a legitimate genre descriptor. However, what is labelled as "indie" seems more and more dependent on who listens to the music and less and less dependent on the music itself.