All of his critique of her speech was based on style. He did suggest more substantive changes, but only in their private secret meeting.

Franklin was actually originally supposed to be in Hamilton, but the scene (which would also have featured John Adams) got cut.

That wasn’t the case at all. Several of his suggestions were about content, not delivery. That’s why the episode ends with more common folk being invited to the Palace.

I did a double-take on realizing that it was Whelan playing the secretary (and future Baroness Altrincham, as they got married a year after the events depicted here). This sort of episode spotlighting now obscure figures like Altrincham is one of my favourite details of the series.

I’m disappointed we won’t get to see Kirby act out the gradual disintegration of Margaret’s marriage in the coming seasons.

Miguel sings to his great-grandmother, Coco - A predictable payoff that nevertheless packs a phenomenal emotional wallop.

The Black Hood plot has been executed really well for most of this season, but I agree the finish was a bit underwhelming, though the grave setpiece was pretty solid, mainly due to Lili Reinhart’s customarily great acting.

Any significance to Cheryl spying on the Betty-Archie kiss? Please tell me she is not into Archie again, too.

I sometimes speculate what The Crown would be like if this was more in line with British royalty dramas set in more remote time periods, i.e., with more dramatic license. In that version of The Crown, Lascelles kills Eileen with that rifle he was reintroduced holding, as a way to keep a lid on the scandal.

Alabama proves not-irredeemable, by the slimmest of margins.

A grieving thirteen-year-old girl hires a terminally ill, acerbic philosophy professor to prevent flunking the seventh grade. What begins as a homework assignment blossoms into an unlikely friendship and a new appreciation for life that neither will forget.

Comedy TV Actress continues to be ground zero for recognizing new performers on TV. This year has Brie, Brosnahan and Shaw all for their debut seasons. I’m torn between the first two to win.

Relatedly: Is spending time in a tropical climate actually good for your health? Or is that just old timey medical advice like balancing your humors?

Someone should take the bit where Elizabeth asks if they’re colluding with Egypt and replace Eden’s reply with Trump’s “no collusion!” sputtering.

I’m not sure that “great power” joke makes sense in a universe where Spider-Man is real, rather than a popular fictional character.

If there’s one weakness in this episode, it’s that Jorge is such a barely-there character that there’s not much weight to that side story. When it looked like Alba was going to say yes, I was kind of surprised simply because we’ve seen so little of that relationship.

1. There Will Be Blood (one of the greatest films of the 21st century)

In case you hadn’t gotten enough of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard having UST after a past relationship in the first movie, they broke them up again so that they could do it over.

Assuming the final scene is where this is going, that would mean both Archie and Betty going for the easier (and cruel) choice.

Obscenity laws were sufficiently broad back then that, yes, they could be applied to public performances of that sort. Lenny Bruce was arrested multiple times over the course of his career for excessive profanity. Obscenity laws collapsed from the 1960s onward.