I really just got lucky and got to the post early enough to punt it in.

So they’re *literally* trying turning it off and then back on again?

It’s definitely *intended* as irony. I’m not saying it succeeds, but the intent seems clear to me.

Really, I slightly suspect it’s at least partly a “What would Rachel Bloom do?” thing. But she’d be a little clearer about the reasoning.

Whoa. I had no idea, none at all, that that’s why the show was canceled. I’m genuinely shocked.

I can’t speak for anyone else in the thread, but I meant borderline personality disorder. She does have some features that are similar to bipolar, and I wouldn’t necessarily have jumped to borderline before this week, but like I said, that “failed intervention” scene... that particular read on paranoia felt very…

Super late to this conversation, but I agree. I am an absolute die-hard permanent no on the topic of kids. I love kids! I have nothing against kids. But I will never have any, and it bugs me when characters who don’t want kids and are secure in that decision get hated on because, really, isn’t it better that they/we…

Seriously. I don’t have BPD, but I have several friends and a relative who do, and that opening scene where she tore into everybody was incredibly hard to watch for me. I’ve *been* in that room. I can only imagine what it was like from the other side.

I made exactly the same comparison. The show has gotten VERY Bojack lately.

I *sometimes* think the Danson praise is overrated, but after this episode is really struck me that I have absolutely no idea what’s going to come out of Michael’s mouth when the show picks back up, and that’s almost entirely down to Danson and his wonderfully enigmatic performance. I’m going to go back and rewatch…

Mostly ditto. I like him in very, very, *very* small doses, but one scene of Derek would have been enough for me.

I absolutely loved it. That’s another show that’s been getting better and better as they understand and commit more and more to their characters, and I thought everyone (except maybe Garrett, who didn’t have enough to do) was on their A-game. Of *course* Jonah would think he had the ultimate solution, and of *course*…

“Tom Cavanagh’s performance feels a little off in his first couple of scenes (as if he had to shake off some residual HR before fully inhabiting Harry)...”

Oh, good. I’m glad it’s not just me that thought that. There was some definite HR lingering in there.

I’ve been thinking about your original post since I read it and I’m really wondering the same thing. Is his only way out to eschew the points system entirely and figure out his own sense of morality?

Totally agreed. I love that even when she’s trying to warp herself into a “bad girl” to make this whole Nathaniel 50 Shades revenge fantasy life work, Rebecca still has that foundation of blunt stubbornness in her (and I mean that in a good way) that won’t let dumb little patriarchal things like that slip by.

Thank you for being just as much of a Monte Cristo stan as I am.

I just rewatched this episode on Netflix yesterday, by coincidence, and you’re right: they make out and then Rebecca starts to initiate a blowjob, but then starts crying.

I think the implication is that if John bites it, baby Sara still has Lyla.

And no, I didn’t make a mistake, I just refuse to acknowledge Barry’s stupid new continuity.

Starred purely for “Special Agent Junk Chain.”

Even if I have to admit I didn’t recognize her at all.

I’m still not convinced that Batman exists on Earth-1, at least not yet. The only direct references to Batman are on Earth-38. The rest are kind of coy side jabs.

Then again, Ollie does go off and do extracurricular superheroing (see: Vixen), so it’s not impossible. I think if Bats is on Earth-1, Ollie knows who he is.

“Just like a doctor under the Hippocratic Oath, someone made the moral decision for Michael and he just unquestioningly went with it.”