On the one hand, yes, Tammy is the worst. On the other hand, I can't lie, I've had that afternoon at my in-laws' house, so I kind of get it. (Not that I shouted "You're all monsters!" But I might have muttered it.)

The acting is also quite good — everyone talks about Jeffrey Tambor, but I also really liked Judith Light and Kathryn Hahn in smaller roles. And Bradley Whitford has one stand-out episode.

I finished a Saturday NYT puzzle in twelve minutes once and I felt like could just take the rest of the weekend off. Why load the dishwasher when I could bask in the glow of a twelve-minute Saturday crossword puzzle?

I will be heartbroken if we don't get to see Peggy at the Lifespring seminar.

And Rogelio and even Jane's mom are a little bit nuts. Really the sane non-scheming characters are Jane and Abuela (we'll see who Mateo takes after).

When I was in my first trimester with my daughter, my boss said something moderately critical to me at 8:30 a.m. and I proceeded to cry until about 3:00. I couldn’t stop. I splashed cold water on my face, I gave myself stern talking-tos in the ladies’ room. I even called my best friend and made her tell me jokes.…

I doubt it, just because — what kind of immunity challenge wouldn't favor Joe?

Obviously I don’t know this particular woman, but I do know lots of parents of middle-schoolers and high-schoolers and I don’t know any who are into making their kids take a lot of languages. I do know some who push their kids pretty hard in sports and music. On the other hand, a lot of my son’s friends are also into…

It depends, though — my twelve-year-old is on his third or fourth language, and it’s not because he’s micromanaged, it’s because he’s obsessed with Duolingo. Which may or may not be a good thing, but it’s at least an obsession he chose.

I was expecting Toby to be a puppy.

I think he's the least likable person on the island. With the possible exception of Probst.

I don't know if it's postpartum or not, but, you know, she just had a baby, which is a big stressful change in general; she's got to be incredibly sleep-deprived, which always does a number on you emotionally; and then on top of that the baby was kidnapped and the kidnapper is still at large and potentially a threat.…

The first one was OK. The second one was dreadful.

I am all in favor of taking cues from DS9 — that's my favorite of the series, and the one holds up the best to rewatching, I think.

I'm just saying, when you've been hearing about something a lot it's not unnatural to think that other people know about it, too.

If the person who posted the info lives in the area, it probably does feel like common knowledge to them — it's been all over the Hartford Courant, for example.

I sometimes check out Survivor boot lists (not for this season, though) and in some ways knowing who's going when makes the season more interesting — instead of trying to guess who's going to go you guess how this or that person is going to screw up their game so badly.

Yes, even in the middle of the drama with Terry's son that cracked me up. Of course Probst would give himself the dignity of the last name honorific.

Oh, I am in no way defending the chairs. The chairs are horrible.

Yeah, I was thinking the same way — “ugly” in this context is applied equally to both sexes. At least in my grandmother’s house.