How so? I took it as "the ardor is cooling, we've each got shit to do, we'll catch up tomorrow or whatever".

YES!!

The loud noises part is true. I have four kids, and it's a big mistake to train your baby to need absolute quiet to sleep.

Yeah, I loved the Ray-Aidy romance.

I would have liked some dialogue to clarify. I didn't know they had broken up until Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow said so in the "Behind the Episode" segment! (Yes, I saw her crying; but I have four kids and know very well that pregnant women cry at anything and everything.)

I loved the episode until the last couple minutes. I'm not happy they retconned away all of Rick's emotional growth. And if he was just bullshitting everyone, how to explain when he was floating away into the void that one time after sacrificing himself to save Morty, and mused quietly "Be a better man than I was,…

Ohhhh. I didn't know that was their last name. You're right, that's weird.

Not catching your reference there.

If I were looking at it *strictly* that way, there would be more than one episode I was dissatisfied with. But Ch. 6 just didn't bring a lot new to the table, other than the dance which was cool.

After Chapter 5, I thought that one was the best yet up to that point. So a couple weeks ago we would have been pretty close to agreement.

Really? Last week they just spun their wheels, staying in the same place for virtually the entire episode. This week they got out of multiple pickles and into another one.

After last week's dud, this was a reassuring return to form.

I liked it. I mean, it wasn't one of the show's very best, but I'd give it more like a B+.

I cosign all of that. I was surprised by all the fawning here too, but over at Uproxx Alan Sepinwall (who loved the first five episodes, as did I) called this one a "wheel spinning…strikeout".

Yes, and I tried to search to see if such things existed but it does not seem that they do.

Fair point.

But it DID have a filler episode! This was it.

Yeah, I was enjoying this little detour at first. If it would have taken up the first third or even first half of the episode, great. But the whole thing (other than a minute or two)? No.

Finally! Skimming through hundreds of reviews above yours, I was shocked to see literally zero people making this complaint. My metaphor was "spinning wheels", but "treading water" works too.

Oh, everyone got it except me?