So… "Busted by Lee Russell" is going to become the show's theme song now, right? Because I want to hear that every week.

Oh, yeah, great point about the way sending her kids to private school complicates her, too: does she not trust the public schools? Is it another socioeconomic tell? (I'm waiting for the possibility of Brown's sons taking up horseback-riding, making it more likely that she might find out about the brooch.) It's a…

If you're willing to think about Gamby's motivations and nuances, why not Brown's, especially given that this episode spent a lot of time deepening her character? She's gone through a recent divorce, and apparently a messy one, given that she accepted a job in another city just to get away. She's moved from school…

I'm sorry for an inhospitable vibe to the comments section. I hope that if you keep watching, you also keep commenting.

I think so much of the drive behind trying to figure out how any given work of art "feels about" its subjects stems from either insecurity ("I want to know that I'm right to feel the way I do about this") or superiority ("I want to make sure this artist has the correct opinions" or "I, a Good Person, understand that…

I've seen a couple interviews that hinted that we'll see some slightly less monstrous sides to Russell in coming episodes, but yeah, there's absolutely a distinction between "guy willing to create crude graffiti about his boss " and "guy willing to burn down his boss's house and dose a bunch of teenagers with LSD." …

Random bonus detail: Belinda leaves both vice principals in charge of cleaning up the manure pile-up at the beginning of the episode—Lee even forlornly checks to make sure this is just getting dumped (pun intended) on them—and then the next thing we know, somehow only Gamby is doing anything about it, and of course…

In another context, maybe, but if embracing the cliche of Lee Russell's glorious walk is wrong, I don't want to be right, so yeah, bring on Russell as faculty adviser for the drama club, and I'm sure it will somehow hit the exact right amount of campy deliciousness. (My first thought, honestly, was that because he's…

His series of "I told you so" looks as the Percival principal criticized Neal's fountain prank was priceless.

That really is great, and your comment nailed it. I've seen a handful of articles that have posited Gamby and Russell as prospective Trump voters—and those voters as the definitive bogeyman of anyone reading the article—and then stopped there. That strikes me as overly reductive anyway—feeling defeated by one's own…

There aren't enough upvotes in the world, honestly.

Russell's venom-spitting "I don't give a shit about athletics" somehow contained the exact right word choice. Between that and being willing to destroy the trophies (he's got his chair-throwing technique down at this point), my bet is on him having a jock-grudge from high school. He has just as bad a case of…

As soon as they started fighting over the water cooler, I thought, Oh, THAT'S why they were shooting light out of their hands in last week's preview.

Yeah, I feel like the show clearly presents Gamby as a sad, petty, socially tone-deaf man who constantly reinforces his own isolation and Russell as a cowardly, manipulative, passive-aggressive snake in the grass. They're both kind of unhappy—Gamby more obviously so, but I'd say Russell too—and going brutally,…

Lee Russell wardrobe win of the week: the striped socks at the pep rally.

Aww, thank you. I kind of want to—I figure if I'm going to stay up later than usual to watch it, I might as well stay up late writing about it, too.

Yeah, I feel like the only way either characterization moves forward is when they're together—Gamby's the only one Russell reveals his inner creep to and Russell's diabolical awfulness is the only thing that breaks through Gamby's insulating delusions.

That shredded Bank of America statement cracked me up because I'd just been about to get snarky towards Russell for mostly just pulling Facebook info—and then the meticulously-reassembled bank statement.

Not enough Goggins for a proper "best of Lee Russell's wardrobe" post, but I'll give an honorary point for his disdain over the prospect of Gamby wearing shorts.

I'm 98% sure Dayshawn was thinking they'd hooked up when he saw their staggered exit from the woods.