I still miss the more over-the-top, fantastical style of Jane the Virgin’s earliest chapters—a complaint I frequently had about the show’s fourth season—but from a narrative standpoint, this episode was generally well-crafted, enjoyable, and sufficiently interesting. The storylines were nicely paced and thoughtful,…

I agree. I would love to see a Warren/Buttigieg ticket.

The desire for taxes, from all the candidates, is about transparency and understanding (1) if they’re paying their fair share or taking a bunch of cuts, (2) how they’re making their money outside of politics, and (3) if they’re willing to be open to the public.

What is the way?  Dating Cory Booker?  That seemed to work for one.

Nah, because Bernie’s stans don’t care about his past sins. They still worship him even though he used to write rape fiction and wanted to dump nuclear waste on Latin communities.

I’ve noticed that there seems to be the goal of finding *anything* bad about Pete Buttigieg and blowing it out of proportion. Dude has so little dirt on him and so many positive aspects that it must be driving the Splinter staff crazy.

Another progressive has failed at perfectly progressiving? The scales, they have fallen from my eyes! Man, what’s going to happen when the campaign truly kicks off and the press starts to seriously trawl through Bernie’s past?  If the slightest misstep disqualifies you, he’s as toasted as anyone else.

Gotta say, as one of those guys who, two years ago, was saying in the primaries “. . . But I love Elizabeth Warren,” and today is saying “What exactly is confusing? I said I loved Elizabeth Warren”, I am not a little chagrined about the company I was keeping. I get that the rollout for the campaign hit a rather big…

Uh... yeah, that’s actually an acceptable response in my book. At the time, in early 2015, there was a difference between “All Lives Matter” and “all lives matter”, a distinction that has since been erased by conservative chuds relentlessly using the phrase in bad faith. The man was speaking to an audience in Indiana,…

“Basically, that there are people in the world who feel like everything revolves around them, and have a hard time seeing things from the other perspective. Is Emily an only child? Just a hunch.”

Shocked at all the food shaming towards Emily.

Also the Salty Waitress advice is so harsh. Leave Emily at home so you can eat “adventurous” food? Ditch your lifelong friend so you don’t have to see her eat a hamburger? WTF. That is some petty bullshit.

When I get together with friends, it’s usually dining out, and it’s never once occurred to me that it was my job to judge what they ate and to ditch them if it wasn’t something I wanted to eat.

Oh, wait - that’s because I’m an adult.

Jesus, they find a brand new restaurant to eat at every week? I’d be saving my money by ordering bland appetizers just like Emily.

Are you sure the reason Emily orders an appetizer is that she’s just not an adventurous eater? Could it be her attempt at limiting expenses? Appetizers are generally less expensive than entrees. I don’t know where you’re eating, but in my mind, adventurous eating at trendy places once a week sounds like it isn’t…

They could at least go someone she wants every fourth meal, it would make sense to rotate choices.

So Emily pushes back unsuccessfully, yet still goes where the group decided and finds something on the menu she can eat...Without more explanation about this “vibe” her judgmental friends are so concerned about, it sounds like they’re the ones with the problem.

Also, why do they care if Emily orders something “bland”? She’s there, she’s eating, presumably she tips 20%, there’s no mention of her complaining or saying “Ew gross!” about their food.

But these people go out every single week. Why shouldn’t they all get turns? Man, based on the other comments, apparently assholes abound here, too.

The fairest solution is to rotate restaurant selection among the four of them. While it might seem assholish of Emily to not like the food at the restaurants the group picks, it’s assholish of the group to never pick a place that will make Emily happy.