I can't even get my SO to watch ('Yeah, I will…' *watches Iron Fist*)- it frustrates me that I don't have anyone to talk to about it!

Yeah, I don't know if I want another season- it feels like we might end up treading old ground. She had that sad looking off into the future gaze at the end. I worry it would mean all the growth that Mindy's gone through so far is irrelevant- she'll break up with Ben and she'll fall into a pattern of dating…

I basically spent the last ten minutes screaming 'WHYYYYY' at the screen.

+1

I loved that running scene too- how we see Jane running by herself and then joined by Celeste (wow, Nicole Kidman's form when she runs- and she looked like she didn't even break a sweat) and Madeline. Even though it felt like they were, in a sense, 'holding' Jane up (sort of like your running buddies do when you've…

Indeed- I don't think Julius needs a 'reason' to be conservative (as though the 'reasons' for the 'liberals' in the room are obvious/a given). It's less about his conservative beliefs than that he's a plot device (and was in TGW too), and we don't actually know anything about him. If they'd actually invested in…

I was so excited about seeing Carrie Preston back as Elsbeth- she is such a delight! Watching characters meet her for the first time is absolutely delightful- Adrian's expressions were fantastic as he tried to follow Elsbeth's thinking and general air of whackiness.

'The Skype scene is really interesting because it is one sexual act that is instigated by Celeste and is not preceded by violence. So there is definitely a lot of grey in the situation.'

co-sign.

The sex-facetime scenes were brilliantly done- the tension between them just rising, and always broken by a not-quite-in-focus look at that massive bruise on Celeste's shoulder. In the second scene (on the bed), as things got steamier, I was constantly aware of that massive bruise and how it's still there between…

Am I the only one that cheered when we saw Charles Abernathy? And JULIUS! It's nice to see characters who basically disappeared off the face of the earth/relegated to Alicia Florrick's shadow/beneath her notice get fleshed out a lot more!

I'd kind of promised myself I wouldn't watch this show. I wouldn't. I just.. I would not. I wouldn't get sucked into it.

My favourite exchange this entire episode was Oliver and Conor on the sofa as Oliver continues trying to get information off Analise's sim card:

Michaela and Laurel's budding friendship is interesting- I like how Michaela covers her concern and worry for Laurel with irritability. Her snapping 'I'm good at everything I do' was a lovely touch to how realised a character she seems (which wasn't always the case). I think this season has been an interesting study…

I don't think that was particularly well executed, but I think her comment on being 'born free' and that her son would always 'be free' was linked to her fear that if she did this for those people, they would own her and Wes. They would always have this hanging over them and their lives- they would never again 'be…

I think there's definitely an element of 'time' and how people
understand sexuality now (even their own) and what kind of spaces one had to explore it in the past.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan's half smile/half smirk is just so bloody attractive- even with whatever they've done to his hair!

This episode made me cry a little bit.

I find it a bit strange that the writers set up a really interesting look at racial profiling, had Alicia cotton on to it, and then 'end' it with the mother stealing the sweater. It doesn't, in any way, do justice to the themes it was attempting to explore. I was all 'yeah, fight this!' about the racial profiling and …

'the banality of evil', indeed.