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We know that, Rachel does not. All she knows is the one night she leaves him to his own devices he somehow ends up killing the man he's had an ongoing feud with their entire honeymoon. And he seems only mildly irritated about it. Hence, why from the character's POV Shane is looking pretty sus and not worth pissing off right now.

Thank you, exactly. The man-baby tantrum she just criticized him for resulted in him murdering the guy. And Mommy in Law pulled all the strings to get her kid out and returning home in under 24 hrs without a peep from local authorities. Can Rachel withstand that kind of firepower if she tries to divorce Shane? Can her career? She'd probably have to move continents to even find a job waitressing after Shane's family is through with her. And while Shane has a reasonable explanation for said murder, he doesn't seem to be anything other than mildly annoyed by it and as a spouse I'd find that majorly sus. Wow, Tanya was really like "oh she did such a great job, so I tipped her 40%, aren't I generous?" and the parting shot was Belinda had to be grateful. Tanya called her a friend, but shoved that big envelope to directly shut her up and prevent an honest conversation about the narcissism and manipulation she displayed. The irony is that if Belinda hadn't worked so hard to jump start Tanya's remaining brain cells, desperate Tanya probably would have kept her pockets open and Belinda would be an independent businesswoman.

Agreed. I know Armond dug a lot of pits for himself, but honestly Shane's characterization make me think he would *always* have done this even if Armond provided impeccable service to make up for pineapple-gate. Armond was not on his A-game by any means, but I think a lot of his small roadblocks were perfectly reasonable because you would assume at some point the dude would get distracted by his incredibly new hot wife while on his honeymoon! I can see Kai getting off with a slap on the wrist if only because the Mossbacher's probably don't want the press attention. I do think Paula is about to get express ejected from the inner circle, though. And Olivia will be left miserable because she won't have someone stuck in an unhealthy power dynamic for her to continuously abuse and be her dedicated audience.

I think she was well aware he was garbage, but planned to use him and his family as a leg up in the competitive NY journalism arena with the idea they would increase access to important people to write puff pieces on (like Connie Britton's character). Now she's realizing they consider her a pure bred show poodle that they bought for a steal. "Haha, my son married someone who used to *work*, isn't he saint? We're so down to earth, haha!"

It makes sense if this is Connie Britton's character's (Tanya?) way for forced engagement with her family. If left to their own devices, neither of her children would see her face the entire vacation unless it was to moan or complain about some inconvenience they want her to drop everything to fix. She seems very into what families "ought" to do even if she herself is incapable of truly disconnecting and being present with her kids or husband.

Denali and Rose keep being A+ professionals and Ru keeps being "meh whatever". That they kept Kandy on stage to praise her for her performance and look but sent Denali to stew backstage is pure producer manipulation and I did not enjoy it. I really wish we could have had double winners with Olivia and Symone. They both did so well and both of their looks were such awesome bits of Black girl nostalgia. Elliott turning his nose up at the more timid performers and then waltzing out to do....that was a choice (*Tatianna voice*). Tina's humor is really just not for me, but at least she went for it. I thought Lala was going to get Elliot when they when they started playing that song but Elliott really did that. I felt that competitive Texas spirit while Lala felt more joyful but disconnected from the song lyrics. He's toast if he doesn't figure some shit out by next week, though. Not that I care because *gestures at two T's social media*.

I mean, the way he's acting is not unlike how world powers treat hostile developing nations with nukes/nuclear capability. I don't agree with it, I just find it highly realistic that he wants absolute capitulation or to nuke it from orbit with no middle option.

Agnes could be bad, but I'm starting to suspect she's a little like Monica. Aware that she's trapped and desperately working all available angles to try to achieve autonomy. Agnes plays the role of the cheesy neighbor perfectly, perhaps in the hopes that Wanda lifts some of the heavy mindwipe on her. Then she tries to make a run for it when she thinks Wanda will be heavily distracted, such as orchestrating an entire town through the motions of Suburbia Halloween. Hayward is a jerk, but honestly if we'd seen the widescale massive destruction that the Avengers have caused (purposefully or inadvertently) over the years there would absolutely be large swaths of people who hate their guts. The Avengers forced people to face the idea that they are not alone in the universe, and, not only that, they are hopelessly outgunned. I can absolutely see lots of people used to wielding power going "enough" especially when some washed superheroine decides to work through her grief by (seemingly) taking an entire town of innocent people hostage. Sure he almost certainly has a nefarious plan to make Vision into a robot supersoldier or something. But I don't find the blind seething hatred of "powered" people unrealistic . I think Pietro is the bad guy. He's absolutely goading her over and over into making poor decisions and all his deflections about their past gaslight her about her own choices. "Why don't you remember?" "Where's your accent?" "You know the folks you love are already dead" He appeared the SECOND Vision was making Wanda start to question the ethics of what she is doing ("the man is in pain"). The only positive thing he says to her all episode is that the way she's running Westview is 'ethical'.

Watching Drummer flip on other Belter ships while basically one-handed was pretty badass. Glad she showed her training with Fred and finally made the tough but necessary choice. Oksana and co were full of judgement, but I bet a dollar they are going to take that free ticket Drummer punched for them by letting their crewmate die on Marco's ship. I think they're really underestimating that being under Marco's thumb was survivable because they were hiding under Drummer's skirts. Good luck out there and good riddance. The scene of Naomi dying while in free spin and then getting rescued was beautifully shot. It was so claustrophobic and disorienting, even better than a similar scene in Gravity. If Marco hadn't been such trash and driven Naomi to despair and cynicism, I'm pretty sure she would have single-handedly rebuilt the Belter state. She is that tenacious. The angry hobgoblins were finally fed up and ate someone, huh? I wonder how long it will take for people to realize what happened? Skeleton vertebrae ship is everything I ever wanted, please more immediately and thank you!

Watching Kandy melt down over getting the tiniest of reads makes me think what an apocalyptic mess she would have been if she'd had to untuck with the S1-S3 girls. "I don't care for some of you, but I will admit y'all turned it this week" was truly the softest backhanded compliment possible. People have been comparing Kandy to Silky, which imo makes no sense because Silky actually had great faith in her skillset. Kandy's desperation for affirmation and attention reminds me more of Eureka...but Eureka was actually a strong drag queen which made her histrionics feel so unnecessary. Kandy is going to be in for a big surprise when she gets critiques again, but I can almost guarantee the next thing for Michelle is tearing into her makeup for coming across so uneven and muddy on stage. Mik's win felt like producer riggery, but one that kind of makes sense. This was a challenge truly designed for Gottmik to shine, a 100% fashion queen moment. I think producers want to get a win under her belt because Gottmik really just doesn't have any sort of stage presence in the production numbers, and those tend to ramp up at this stage of the competition.

Starting the official Hutch fangirl club, taking applicants! When she screamed for Amos so he would come back for her, I was so anxious. But they reached an immediate tacit agreement for him to flip her so she could keep fracking firing with a bullet in her back! Unlike most viewers, I've been pretty meh on the whole cross-country adventure featuring Timmy & Peaches, but this episode was quite fun. When Naomi fell to the ground and saw the frayed wire she looked so much like Filip. They did such a great job casting her and Marco's son.

Both sketches were so awful, I had to fast-forward to the few snippets that weren't terrible. What a poor showing where a committed character and a funny pronunciation of "flag factory" could win the day. I can absolutely see Rhianna emailing her designers to figure out a du-rag train for her next red carpet appearance. I never want to see them in the bottom, but dang do I want to see Denali vs Symone. Whoever went up against Denali in ice skates may have scored the only lipsync win against her for the season.

The minute Symone started skipping and those beautiful braids started swaying to the beat, I knew she'd clinched the win. I love her and hope she goes far in the competition. That entire routine was a hot mess. The choreo was trash, the lyrics were forgettable, and they didn't even have the decency to be in sync. Everyone looked SO STIFF, especially Tina Burner. Gottmik doing the drunk white girl sway in the back made me LOL, but does not bode well for her future performances. Kandy running her mouth about how badass she is and then flailing around after missing a step was just too funny. Speaking of which, all I could think of was "hit dogs will holler" as she ran back and forth dragging Elliott with 2Ts after she threw a little shade Kandy's way. The only insult they could come up with was "we won" over and over again, but unlike Bianca they're not funny. Elliott actually stuck it to them a few different ways and seemed much quicker on her feet than most of them.

It feels like Whitney's forcing herself to keep up these youthful 'sexy' antics so she's doesn't lose to a younger replacement. How you get them is how you lose them, etc etc. They destroyed two marriages and are reviled by all their former friends, so she has to prove their love is passionate and perfect. Heather needs therapy, not a hookup. She seems like someone that would start up something casual, but then be hurt in 2 months if the guy didn't want to marry her. I interpreted Mary's comment a little differently. She acted as though ignoring what her cousin does outside of work is charitable, so I wondered if the cousin was shunned from the cult church, or her life choices were not considered appropriate by her family.

It's silly, but during the Mandalorian sibling squabble all I could think was that The Armorer was freaking OP. Look how much better Mando's armor looks compared to everyone else? Even Ms. I'm Retaking Mandalore, Bo Katan. It was nice to see Katee Sackhoff again, but somehow Bo Katan felt super flat, her girl sidekick too. When Boba was like 'lol whatever Mandalore is glass' she should have been pissed, but her reaction was so mild? Mando comes in holding the one item she desperately needs in her one true quest to save her people and she looked like she had heartburn while Moff Gideon was gloating. That one Mandalorian way back in S1 that was busting Din's chops about taking jobs from the enemy for Beskar had more passion than Bo Katan's had this whole season. I agree with Ahsoka's idea of letting The Child's powers just fade and forget the whole training thing, but it's clear that enemies will never stop coming unless a Jedi steps in. And I guess his blood is chock full of Midichlorians (sp?) and Gideon is probably not the only bad guy who knows it, so Grogu's stuck in Skywalker Bootcamp*. Tiny detail, but if Gideon's crew is so barebones they should have known immediately that the pilots of the Nerd Researcher's ship weren't right. Also, who has the nerd now? The pilot was talking him up like he was super essential personnel, so is anyone going to come looking for him? *Also which creepy person is getting regular force-sensitive blood transfusions? Is it a Sith in terminal condition, or someone trying to biohack themselves?