I felt as though we got two halves of two potentially good episodes but ended up with neither. I'm with the recapper, the monster of the week storyline started out strong (and a nice shoutout to Gaeta) and actually pretty scary. But then we took a hard left turn into the personal story. I felt like a terrible person,…

Exactly. It's nice to know their friendship is that solid they know it can survive their fighting.

I do love how, even while Isobel and Violet are screeching at each other over the hospital merger, they'll still have lunch or tea together regularly. The definition of frenemies who, in the end, actually do like each other's company.

If it does, then we're both terrible people. Whenever she opens her mouth, my first thought is always, "Woman, WTF is your problem?"

My husband, once we figured out what the tone of the episode was, enjoyed it as much as he's ever enjoyed a TV show. He laughed constantly through the entire second half of the hour. He'd been having a craptastic day, so it was nice that an old favorite could still charm him that much.

Me too! I've only ever heard it on the soundtrack album but it's one of my favorites.

The long tracking shot at the beginning while Jessie J winds her way through the sets and dressing rooms singing "Grease" was pretty impressive. Loved the staging for "Freddy My Love," which I had never seen before, since I've only seen the movie version. Vanessa Hudgens, whom I am too old to have heard sing, was…

Not only the singing copied the movie, but also the delivery of the spoken dialogue. It felt like every joke was just mimicking the movie version.

You think they drink wine? The Debbil's Juice??? Good Christian moms don't even drink communion wine because Jesus bled grape juice, you know.

This show, and Parks and Rec, have, on several occasions, made my day better. I did not think a mere television show had that kind of power over my mood but I'm glad to know something so simple as a well-timed joke delivered perfectly can change a day.

Exactly! It makes me squirm, and yet I still laugh like a nut. I also still say "use your goddamn pronouns!" in my head at least once a week when I see some grammatical mistake that makes me crazy.

I LOVE Murder by Death. Saw it first as a child, didn't quite get it, but it just gets better with every review. "It! It is confusing! Use your goddamn pronouns!"

I just came here to say that! I'm still in the middle of watching the seven-hour Godfather (jaysus, it's brilliant) and that scene just kills me.

I noticed that too. I actually had to look away a couple of times because of the amount of blood.

I can smell him from here and he smells like a flea market.

Yes, for Robert, a posh accent too often connoted competency where it wasn't warranted, as Lady Sybil discovered to her detriment. I'm STILL angry at Robert for that and it sucks that Cora had to give in when it was Robert and the fancy doctor who essentially killed her.

I'd forgotten they even HAD a lawyer.
If Robert had had a brain, he'd have left the investments to the financial guy, but that was his character all around.

Seriously, how difficult is it really for Mary to run the estate? She just has to be slightly not-as-dim as her father and they'd be pretty good. Even when she got the credit at the fat stock show for the pigs - that was all Mr. Drewe's work! She just selected the prize-winning pig, on his recommendation.

You are wrong. Just…so wrong. That slap he gave to the neighborhood pre-adolescent bully? And then throwing the kid's bike into the bushes? Genius.

The minute she talked Ben into going to the nursing home, I turned to my husband and said, "they're dead." It's just too bad it was Ben and not Karen who bought it in the end.