I forgot about that! Two different kinds of awful women. I don't know that Caputo was selling his soul quite as much with Fig as he is now, especially since Fig was pretty disempowered by then.

Yeah — I found the casting of Ruiz as her teenage self a weak move.

Wow — you are *good*!

I always remember that — it was like her first line, right? Total phony.

I agree re Linda from Purchasing. That 11 cents line keeps coming back to me. I wonder how much longer Caputo will be able to go there.

I wrote the same thing!

I agree. I have a lot of compassion for her, and it hurts my heart to see how hard she has tried t be self-aware since she started hearing voices, warding them off with the rainstick. Or her relief in learning from Healy (wrongly, as we already know) that the murder, cutting up and burying of Kubo's henchman was all…

I didn't even realize that a different actress was playing young Lolly, the actress was so spot-on!

Yes, it was devastating. She is really good at playing furious and strung-out — almost too good.

I had a different take on Piper. I thought/think she's going the way of Vee, esp. when she forgave/set up Stella. That was downright mean. She seems to have this, "I been in prison" kind of swagger and dead look in her eyes that feels like she's trying on a personality. I think she thinks she's more than she is. I…

I think Soso really changes this season, deeply changes, because of the meanness of Leanne et al and the depth of her loneliness. I have much more vested in Soso this season than Piper (whom I didn't have much vested in last season either), who I think is an utter selfish cipher (I just accidentally wrote 'viper'),…

And what about that smile Suzanne shows on occasion — this slow, sort of mischievous, but more so beatific, childish smile that shows her immense innocence and appreciation of some things in life… such as playing catch the turtle, or, at the end, simply standing, shoulder to shoulder, with Maureen…

I agree, a_quiet_storm, that Black Cindy's flashback (and most of the brief f'backs this episode) were pretty obvious and manipulative, but I didn't begrudge the producers that or think that it diluted BC's moving speech. That may be b/c of my own Jewish (cultural, not observant) upbringing, and how that scene put…