I’m in UK and it airs Monday nights on BBC.  I see you put spoiler tag next week :) so thank you x

spoiler ffs

What did Nina do?  The Megan McCain thing?

‘Generous welfare state’. That’s the best laugh I’ve had all day. As a poor, chronically ill person with mental health problems taking more medications than I can count, I think I’d be dead in record time if I lived in America where health ‘care’ is a billion dollar racket and dependent on ability to pay.…

I have no words.  I’m glad your friend got out eventually but this is so wrong.  I knew it was bad but I did not know they were literally just taking in anyone who isn’t white on no grounds whatsoever and putting them through this shit.  I’m so scared for the world.

That thing about the Irish guy - wow.  It absolutely is ethnic cleansing.  It’s like Nazi Germany.  It’s fucking terrifying.  Is there anything we in the UK can do?  I’ve campaigned on immigration and border issues here but the situation in US is next level

I don’t think we did know she had daughters, since she’s completely estranged from them.  She’s all about her sons as they are the only children still in her life.  I imagine she hasn’t talked about them because of how painful it must have been to have them reject her, plus the guilt and regret over her choice to…

Jesus.  I just watched the next episode, too, and basically cried through all the ICE bits.  I read the news a lot less than I used to cos it’s hard not to just howl in despair.  What Cindy said: everything is broken.  

Can I just ask, tremblingly, could that really happen? Could they really take Maritza straight to the ICE camp without even giving her a chance to get her ID, or phone someone to get it for her? I didn’t think I was naive about the horrors of immigration policy in Trump’s America, I’ve screamed and cried about it to…

thanks *blushing* yours too

I agree with all your points. As a counterpoint, there are many many uninformed people who believe right wing rhetoric and demonise prisoners (I watched a show not long ago called 60 days in jail, where ‘regular’ people went into prison for 60 days - the clue’s in the name! - and it wasn’t a very good show so I don’t…

Ha literally what I just said before I read your comment!  Great minds :)

I hate to be pedantic but I can’t help myself (it’s a sickness) so: Piscatella was a prison officer, not a cop; and Lorna explicitly points out that it’s her husband who loves Mad Men.

With regard to homages, Billy’s queasy, sweaty pallor and shrinking away from sunlight reminded me very much of Jason Patric starting to transform in The Lost Boys.  And even though it’s a film from 1992 and thus doesn’t fit with the period, the scene of Billy carrying the girl lifeguard through the empty warehouse…

I felt like that was partly about asking for help, though - didn’t she say something to Theo about help will be there if you ask for it?  I read that as saying just ask Sabrina/the aunts, they will be there for you and help you in your transition without you accidentally turning into a tree because you don’t know how…

‘Grind ‘em’, I believe

Some of them he did have sex with I think because Jason put Polly in the playbook and he really did have sex with her; they got points for specific types of girls, Ethel was bonus points for being a ‘big girl’ uggghhh, some were true and some were boasts, saying dates went further than they did etc, but basically it…

Spinal tap?

I thought he had, I could’ve sworn I heard him whining off screen when Archie told V he’s not alone, I thought that must be what he meant!  Also unrelated to Archie, what do we make of FP winking at Betty behind Alice’s back like that?

Also she got emancipated from her mum.  Nana Rose is her legal guardian now, Mayor McCoy acted as her lawyer.  And the Sweet Pea/Josie summer fling was referenced at Cheryl’s pool party, Josie said it was fine for the summer but after that she had to get back to her music career