I had a hard time suspending disbelief with that, too. Even a slightly more realistic 'would you rather' scenario would have worked for me.

The old lady's insistence on calling her "Bianca" was a perfect microaggression for that character.

That detail about Tricia was devastating.I also didn't know prisons had cemeteries, so thanks for that opposite-of-fun fact, writers!

I laughed so hard at Sister Ingalls 'spitefully' calling Gloria "Latino!" because of course she wouldn't bring herself to say an actual slur.

Those who are well educated in their evil are always chilling.

I think it's a perfect name for Cal and Neri's kid; it's old-timey but not entirely expected.

I hope Vinnie eventually finds out the real story. I wonder if even just googling Morello would do it?

Neri, too, is capably portrayed as a weirdo without falling into any of the stereotypical "quirky female character" trappings.

It…never occurred to me to put sugar on Cheerios. That must make them so much better.

Much is (rightfully) made of Healy's weirdness with women but Caputo's also clearly got some major issues.

I thought the crack scene was really beautifully shot/framed. There was a hazy surreality to it, pairing the bleakness of smoking crack and experiencing existential despair while in this small patch of vivid, green life - that's then complicated by the secret buried beneath it. I think it's one of my favorite scenes…

But it was different because she was "selling out" or something!

I really miss the time when Having Opinions wasn't so pervasively a culture unto itself.

Thanks for inspiring me to put on the Lemonheads for the rest of my workday! Spot-on observation.

Piper and Nicky are an interesting contrast to each other since they both come from backgrounds of relative wealth and definite privilege. Piper has a lot of egocentric, sheltered naivete that counts as a shallow kind of 'worldliness' because she's educated and well travelled; Nicky actually understands how people/the…

I almost wrote a bunch of spoilery comments for the same reason. Weird how well these two in particular blended together.

The range of her facial expressions alone in that scene was so perfect.

When I started working out after…never working out, ever, I was like "huh I wonder when this muscle pain is going to stop". Then I looked it up and was like "oh…never."

3/4 done with The Deep by Nick Cutter. Not as viscerally disturbing to me as The Troop was, but it could still be a pretty crazy last 150 pages!

Damn, fuck that. Best of luck and healing to you.