I swear to god, he's one of those "I'm seeking custody to stick it to my ex" people. Doesn't give a shit about his kids, just wants to hurt their mom. And maybe pay less child support.

"A fun kind of predictable" is exactly the way I would describe it. I really enjoy the show, even though most of the twists I've suspected ahead of time—I don't really care. The characters, acting, and the writing are strong enough that it doesn't matter.

Didn't he also have giant, absurd forearms in the video for "Get Back?" I figured this was just a continuation of that…

Heck yeah, Tessa Thompson is awesome and it's great to see her in bigger projects like this. The whole trailer was really exciting and fun—I'll gladly see this in the theater.

I completely agree. The trend of associating genius with churlishness/abusiveness/juvenile incompetence is long worn out. I would go even further and say I want more characters like Columbo on television—people who are kind and smart but don't make it obvious just how smart and kind they really are. And being…

“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We
thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo
and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing
because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get
in on the merits, and they did not.”

This reminds me of Craft Corner Deathmatch. What are the odds that there would be more than one competitive crafting shows hosted by comedians?

That's if the criteria are met for the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, as it's classified as "mental suffering." However, both the parents are saying that the kids have NOT witnessed anything. If this therapist is an LMFT, she's got to be extremely careful. Reporting DV can be considered a breach of…

Oh gosh, and that would really make sense why she suddenly decided to move. I assumed she just wanted more freedom and knew that her dad wouldn't be a very present parent and Bonnie would be the chillax step-mom. But if Ed's done something to her, of course it would make her want to leave—but she wouldn't want to…

I'll have to go back and watch again. I have pretty well honed creeper RADAR, but maybe I'm biased because Ed is my favorite character and I just love Adam Scott so much, too. I don't want to believe he's leering at his step-daughter—but people keep seeing it, so I'm going to have to revisit.

Well, "allowed to" is a tricky concept. It depends on the licensing board involved—the counseling board is different from the psychologist's board and the family therapy board, for example. In terms of billing, she wouldn't be able to bill insurance for that session as a couple's session, as that would be fraud. If I…

I think there's some connection between Saxon and the rapist, though. Like maybe they knew each other or went to school together or something and that's why the rapist used his name?

They typically don't, but as the therapist said, she made an exception due to the risk of danger to Celeste. Therapists can't report domestic violence, but they have an ethical obligation to maintain a standard of benificence and nonmalificence. She had to weigh one obligation against the other and pick the course of…

It flashes back to him pouring the drink differently. Saxon doesn't pour the drink the same way as the rapist, and she remembers that—she's realizing it's not the same person. That's how I took it, anyway.

One or both of the twins ripped the hippo's leg off, though.

I keep seeing comments about this and I'm completely clueless—I did not pick up in it at all. I'm going to have to go back and watch to see what I think. Any scenes in particular?

What? How did you get that? I thought the takeaway from that scene was that it was the wrong guy?

I love that therapist so much. Her scenes with Celeste were top notch.

Yeah, I really hated Abigail during that scene. I get that it's hard to get pushed constantly by your mom to get into Stanford, but come on—there are bigger problems out there. It came off as a bit dishonest to me. I think she wants to have more fun and have her teenage rebelliousness go unchallenged. Well her life…

I think her flashbacks are supposed to be a little muddled, maybe to keep things ambiguous. If her rapist is someone in the community, I imagine the miniseries doesn't want to make it totally obvious who it is.