Right. Those are the only movies they're known for. Man, you are really reaching for something to criticize.

Shoving him off the top of the stairs or off a balcony from behind?

If her mother reacted the way Renata did, I can see it. Clearly Renata is concerned about her daughter, but screaming in the child's face (and it's clear Amabella is a timid child already) isn't likely to get a clear answer, if Amabella's scared how her mother might react. Renata has bullying tendencies herself, as…

Perhaps the abuse story IS the meat.

I think I'm not expressing myself very well. My problem with the Greek chorus isn't that they're in the show. I actually don't mind that as an expositional device. I just think their dialogue isn't well written. It doesn't sound like dialogue a real person would say, it just sounds like bad writing, especially…

It just feels like they're using different writers for the Greek chorus, then. I don't mind the device for filling in the blanks, it's the dialogue that feels like it's not as sharply written as the rest of the show. It feels hack-y and cliched. "She just doesn't belong here. She's not one of us. She's like a dirty…

Yeah, are we supposed to sympathize with her? I get that her mother is overbearing and difficult, but mostly I feel for Madeline, for enduring such a mouthy, obnoxious teenager who likes to make her mom feel bad for not being a cool yoga instructor.

Exactly. And the only way to get to Madeline is to stick it where it's going to hurt most. At least she didn't use her child for that (unlike Madeline, who clearly didn't care that Chloe actually wanted to go to Amabella's party and was being prevented from attending b/c mom wanted to be Petty Patty - and I actually…

The only part of this show that's overwrought and doesn't feel true is the Greek chorus. THOSE are completely jarring b/c all of them use the kind of cliches employed in a soap opera. Or an episode of Real Housewives.

My take was that Celeste is too ashamed of being a stereotypical beaten housewife to admit to anyone, even Madeline, that it's happening to her. There are times I can't even admit to girlfriends I've known half my life that my husband and I are in a not-getting-along period, and the worst we do to each other is give…

I agree. Her arguments against Avenue Q didn't ring true because I didn't believe a woman who's that high up in tech and lives in Monterey would be that offended by that show, and Renata herself doesn't seem like the kind of person who'd even be interested in community theater - unless it's a way to get back at…

I know! It's the highlight of my Monday mornings, the commenter analysis of the previous night's episode.

Oooh, I didn't think of that! I'm pretty persuaded her bully is one of the twins but it didn't occur to me she was keeping mum because she didn't know which one. Which maybe points to the idea that it's both, and they're using the fact that they look alike on purpose to protect each other from punishment? That seems…

And her face showing up in the spilled pie on the floor was very Twin Peaks-y.

Please, you think they read literature?

"If they would rather die, they had better do it and reduce the surplus population."

You're not serious? Are you serious? Fuuuuuuuuuuck.

Anyone who hates Jeff Sessions that much is a hero.

Well, Frank can get an education bill through Congress in 100 days. That's magic, right there.

You can laugh without crying.