Me neither. I feel like there are a handful of ways we could take that smile.

So they don't address the lie at all? We just assume that she gets away with it?

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If I'm going to be serious about it, I read it in so many different ways that I have no idea what was intended. She could simply be happy that her friend is alive. She could also be happy that her friend is alive and doing well (compassion, oh dear!)

Now that I've looked at it again, it's definitely a tricky moment to read emotionally before she starts mentioning Margaret. I still think that she merely starts out verbally mourning David just to please Adam, but the way she reads the line, it feels as if there may be some aspect of what she's saying that's…

Ah, I had to look up "Councilman Jamm"—I haven't seen more than the first three episodes of Parks and Rec!

Season three increasingly seems to be shaping up as a season about how one is supposed to live, about finding the right partner and line of work and having all the right responses to all the right things.

This episode was fucking astounding. NOTES:

When Adam changes his body language and it looks like he's going to call Hannah on her bullshit, I definitely thought either 1) he was going to tell her that he knows that that's a lie his sister tells, or 2) that that really happened.

I'm not gonna lie: for a split second, when Hannah was telling Ray about David's death, I genuinely thought the show was going to imply this.

I completely disagree. I'd call this the best episode of the season so far. I appreciate it when the show decides to be ballsy, and I thought it paid off super well tonight. The Gawker diatribe, the casual callousness of characters, the awful awful awful decision to retell the dead cousin story, Jessa's realization…

I agree with all of this, but did ANYONE read Hannah's emotions as genuine in that scene? I thought it was very clear that she was reaching to give Adam the breakdown she thought he was asking for, especially once she cribbed the Margaret story, which is bound to bite her in the ass.

Like you and Todd, I was also on Hannah's side up until she decided she had to make some ridiculous attempt at faking sadness. It's perfectly reasonable to not feel devastated when someone you've only known for a brief period suddenly dies. I was actually confused as to why so many people were giving Hannah shit about…

I couldn't fucking believe it. What a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad call to make.

Her line readings in the first episode are just too good to pass up making her a regular character.

Notes from my second viewing:

Team Tako, forever.

Weren't we just talking about needing more Tako in the comments for the last episodes? Because as soon as I saw her, I immediately perked up.

So, I'm working my way through the series again (I'd like to have it fresh in my mind for this season), and I just watched the Tako scene.

It's worse when you have a film degree, because nearly everyone you hear about who's extremely talented and successful right now started young and didn't bother going to college to learn their craft.