As a defense attorney, I have learned a long time ago to just ignore how batshit insane it is that an assistant medical examiner would be interrogating anyone, or doing 1/10 of the shit the have Liv do with Clive. It's bananas!

Completely agree. I think it's a pretty lazy writing technique most of the time, because it is kinda like the character is killed (in terms of tugging at heart strings of viewers) but with much lower stakes, which feels kind of just like a cheap writerly ploy, along the lines of "it was all a dream!" storylines. Grimm…

Lol exactly. Plus the show has set up Peyton as being so very credulous and invested in Blaine's new persona, that it seems like the writers are very much setting up this plot twist

I haven't watched much Survivor — I just watched the Panama season because I've liked Cirie on this season — but I have to imagine a thousand sociology papers have been written on the racial dynamics of the show. Especially in the, say, first third of each season when people are voting people off for pretty arbitrary…

I have only watched a few seasons of Survivor, so hadn't seen any of Cirie's until this one. Watching her on Gamechangers made me go back and watch her original season, Panama, recently. She really is good at negotiating among people and coming off as trustworthy and sincere, though it has been so interesting to note…

I agree. Plus is was a reward challenge! To go to … a different beach. The stakes were about as low as the show gets, so making the scene play out like Sir Edmund Hillary conquering Everest felt pretty silly.

Tony Hale is such an absolute goddamn delight

Re the Overthinking Corner - I took Lucy's misstep to mostly come from her ham-fisted attempt to emulate Charlotte. Given their age difference, I imagine Lucy hasn't had much opportunity to really pick up on the nuance of Charlotte's sassiness routine.

This is totally beside the point, but since watching this show one of my recurring daydreams is how I would fix up the Bates house. I just want so much to give it a nice paint job, plant some trees outside, fix up the front porch. Every time they do a shot of that house looming on the hill, my first, deep-down…

Ah yes, the right wing of America, where all of the common decency lies: http://cdn.blackenterprise….

I just can't with Bitsie Tulloch's acting anymore.

He is a hot pile of garbage.

I'm hopeful that the all-Alec Baldwin SNL episode will push him over the edge

It definitely gets better around season 3 or so. The stories start to gel, dumb side plots get jettisoned, and the timeline starts to close in on where Psycho begins, so it gets more interesting to see how Norma and Norman's characters (and their relationship with each other) start heading towards that endpoint.

Fun trivia: in a deleted scene Azaelia Banks pops out of the toilet bowl and shouts "What's good RiRi!"

Yes, I did think there was a chance he was just doing a bit with a novelty account, but I also found "Did you actually read the interview" to be an unnecessarily snide way of getting that 'joke' across.

This is a sincere question: I just started watching the first episode on Netflix a couple of days ago as a means of escapism from our political dystopia and my exhausting job, and I had to turn it off because I just didn't have the internal resources to handle kids becoming orphans, then adults being mean to said…

I look forward to the episode that ends in them finding an aging portrait of Adam Scott in an attic

I feel bad for her kids. Also, I have heard that her husband is a lovely man, which absolutely boggles the mind.

I hadn't gotten to that yet — a little burnt out on the OJ media this year — but your description sounds intriguing; I'll check it out.