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I dunno, I'm ready for K5 to go die in a fiery blaze and just watch the Annalise, Bonnie, and Frank show. There is literally nothing critical to their existence that would have changed Annalise's ability to A) let them take the rap or B) pin it on Nate if the prosecution came for her anyway. And rather than saying thank you and considering a lifetime indenture to The Best Defense Attorney Evah a good deal, they all keep trying to screw themselves, and Annalise too. What part of this ridiculous *bleeping* digging does Wes think won't come back on all of them? The way they crowded around Bonnie like a bunch of jackals (ignoring the fact she's been in this world waaaaay longer than them), so self-assured in their accusations was disgusting. They are all the literal worst. At least Annalise/Frank/Bonnie are horrible people who are damn good at it. The K5 are all horrible people desperately trying to ruin as many lives as possible as they sink faster than the Titanic. They're like a nexus of stupid. I'm half-convinced they would have gotten themselves into prison some other way, even if Annalise had never taken them. I pretty much assume anytime Annalise has her "game face" makeup on and starts crying, she's working someone. I only trust her reactions when she's alone, with no makeup or wig, even more so if she's getting her booze on.

Michael's response to creepy photog trying to blow his guy is to go make an appointment with the same dude? Wth? You're supposed to revenge sex someone else, particularly someone hot. That boy's head is as empty as an old biscuit tin. And the actor has a total of three facial expressions, so I can't even figure out what this character's motivations are. Pregnancy aside, I can see Rhonda acting so freaked out simply because Andre has made a sharp u-turn in behavior with absolutely no consultation with her. They always did things together, they reminded me of a low-rent Frank & Claire from House of Cards. The only time I've seen them this dissociated was when he was deep into his manic phase and she couldn't reach him. Now he's just quietly cut her out and is reconstructing this fairytale marriage between upstanding people who don't do the sexy times at the office. And that's ignoring the whole "God is telling me what to do" bombshell from before. She needs a whole new gameplan now, as she's got to fight the bipolar and Jesus. Tall order. Seems like Andre has spilled his guts to the new preacher, for whom I have massive side-eye. Who hears all that crap and is like, oh yes, please do bring your rich and murderous family to my church, we'll heal them with the Lord? He's obviously not dumb and should have been running down the street to the FBI asap. He's working some angle, which will disappoint Andre again and send him spiraling. Cookie, I'm glad you love your kids, but no, you and Andre are fundamentally NOT good people. Y'all make MacBeth look like an after-school special. Further proven by the Lyon family acting a fool in church, when they were given the front row, even! You don't get to just show your ass front-and-center in church your first time out. I wanted a cut-away of all the judgmental church biddies who were forced to move to the side for one sermon. Classy that Rhonda is still exiled to the "not blood family" island. Cookie and Lucious would sit the infant between them and leave Rhonda out on the sidewalk, if they could. Hmmph. Also, yea Andre, go ahead and start shit with Thirsty. The guy with a dead body detector. The guy who helped you find your own personal dead body with said detector. That you confessed murder to. Idiot.

How is saying someone is childless because they're an uppity ice queen not spiteful? I am disappointed in that, he was one of my favorites. Ugh, just ugh.

I'm still so mad they put Jeff and Tasha on the same tribe, they were my favs. The minute it happened, I knew one was going to have to take the other out, Highlander-style. Abi and Woo can't strategize their way out of a wet paper sack, ofc Tasha and Savage were going to zero in on Jeff. He was the only one capable of keeping everyone focused on Pangong'ing them. I'm glad to see someone on Survivor finally cut the head off the snake first thing. How many seasons have people settled with voting out a puppetmaster's minions and sit back, not realizing they would simply acquire new ones? Tasha appears to be doing an excellent job of staying on Savage's good side, he seems to respect her despite the fact she's not a 6' glamorous supermodel and the lord intended all women to be. Hope she makes it to merge. I don't know what the point of even trying to retain "challenge threats" on that tribe is. They would have to win every reward challenge to remain even slightly competitive. Savage looked like he was out there for hours and all he found was a flipping snail, that place is a wasteland. Imo, it's more efficient to just annihilate yourself as fast as possible so you can reintegrate into one of the other two tribes. The other tribes are plenty strong, even before this have-not bullshit was brought into play.

OMG, that was *Tink* ??!!! *Runs around screaming* That is so cool. So unrecognizable without the sarcasm and the babies locked in random cages.

Anika has no place because Lucious and Cookie are both all about their family and their sons. They try to backstab each other constantly, but their enmity only goes so far because even if one bests the other it will all go their kids after they die anyway. Anika was ready to hand over their legacy to their Arch White Nemesis, clearly unforgivable. I fully expect her to wind up pregnant with Hakeem's baby, that's about the only thing she can do to "prove" she's now a loyal Lyon. GG Cookie on finding an out, I was cringing all through her flashbacks thinking she'd sell herself out to avoid prison again. And, of course, DA dumb dumb fell for it. Damn is Porsha going to get it when Cookie gets back to the studio. I don't know if Cookie can afford to fully jettison her, though, she knows an awful lot from being her PA for so long. She probably knows more than enough for DA dumb dumb to break Cookie's parole. Oh, poor Andre. And poor Rhonda. Lucious is just dying inside, with enough information to bring them both to heel and an incoming grandchild to snatch away and screw up. Cookie probably didn't even realize she was setting Andre up for failure last episode, Lucious probably never told her about his bipolar mother. Meh, I'm not even that upset at Hakeem. He's a kid and too scared to really go after his dad, so he's going after Jamal who's taken his place. It's got to burn to realize your status as chosen child was all a sham. He doesn't realize that Lucious still has his hopes still pinned on him. Let him got season on the business side with Cookie and then put together enough goodies to lure Hakeem back when the time is right. He'll probably go back too, because he will get fed up with Cookie even though she is hard, yet honest, with him. Michael, shoudln't you be in culinary school? You are proving Lucious and Cookie right in their evaluation of you. Go apply for Top Chef, something, jeez.

Agreed, Kass's move was idiotic for anything other than trying to get cast for another season. She wanted the "Chaos Kass" moniker and engineered a way to get it. Babying swing-votes is not new, heck she had to do it herself later in the season. Tasha was one of the nicest people in her season. She blew up one time when Garrett was literally trying to monitor every gameplay discussion in the tribe, and they were letting him! She got stuck with a bad mix, and lasted a pretty respectable amount of time considering no one would listen to her. What can you do when you try to warn someone of their blindside and they literally won't even talk to you?

It'll be interesting to see what happens if she makes it to merge. There seem to be quite a few people on the other tribe that don't seem like they would be interesting in playing her game. Her whole strategy really seems to rely on the other person backing down quickly, or being passive aggressive. I wonder what would happen if someone who intimidated her actually got in her face (never saw her past seasons, so maybe this already happened).

Shirin is annoying, and yes she was bullied, but I don't think she had any more responsibility than any other tribe member to go soothe Abi's hurt fee fees. Abi is the definition of the mean girl bully who ruins your life, she just happened to tick off one too many people in quick succession. If you do nothing, Abi comes for you, if you try to vent somewhere private, Abi comes for you, if you apologize Abi still comes for you. Even then, if she had stayed focused on making Peih-Gee's life miserable, no one would have done shit to step in and redirect it until they were desperate for PG's vote. Saying her and Shirin's situations are anything close to the same just because Abi is good at flouncing off and pouting is ridiculous.

I was totally expecting Savage to mention that it was the five year anniversary of his wife's diagnosis of cancer or something, the way he was carrying on. It was like half a Greek tragedy, no one likes half a Greek tragedy. Except Jeremy, because of course. If only Val could give him the pregnancy so she could go play Survivor, she wouldn't be out in the damn woods crying like a baby over the most basic of love stories. Abi is such an infantile instigating crybaby. She's like a kid when they first figure out how to be devious, except you can't train it out of her. Eventually she's going to do something to irritate everyone, and that's when the minor alliance needs to strike. Otherwise anyone with half a brain will just keep her pinballing as an extra vote as long as they're willing to put up with her hysterics for 3 days at a time. I never liked Spencer, like him less now. Every time he feels even slightly comfortable, he launches into these hyperbolic THs about how dumb/onerous/annoying someone is and how they're screwing up his gameplay. That's what Survivor is. It always sounds like he thinks he'd cruise to the win, if only all these people would just get out of his way. Varner one-upping on him is giving me the vapors. I hope Varner doesn't get too cute and end up shooting himself in the foot. So far he's been super perceptive about everyone's strengths and weaknesses. And he can probably limp along with the 'oh shucks me?' befuddled granddaddy oldschool for at least one more tribal until new school realizes he's orchestrating their pangonging. I'm getting kind of tired of all the dudes who think they're alpha players trying to tag in on everything to save the day. I hope some season all puzzles get assembled in a sound-proof box so the puzzle solvers can just focus without the scent of Frustrated Men Who Think They Can Do Everything But Want to Act Like Team Players (I'm sure there's a German word for that!).

Oh great, another physician compelled to condescend to everyone, including his equally accomplished wife. No nurse wants to hear that shit either. Please get eliminated soon so I don't see you emotionally eviscerate your spouse like that couple a few seasons ago. I irrationally love the dancers if only because they spent time looking at the flipping map of the helicopter route and took notes. Who are you people, and how did you make it past casting? The green team guy had a legit case of "wanna win ALL THE THINGS!" He wanted the triple crown when what he should have down was kept his head down and tried to hold on to 1st place. I feel sorry for his fiancee if she has to pep talk him through every step of the process. I like how the southern mom was all "are you kidding me?" in the sweetest have-you-lost-your-goddamn-mind voice when the son said they could run the 2K. I kind of cracked up when they had the question be about the Cristo Redentor. Oh man, one of the best vanilla culture wonders in Civilization V and I didn't have to sling-shot it, awesome!

I think people are underestimating how much Joanna hyperanalyzes people. She has apparently been the director of Tyrell's interactions with others in their scheme to quickly rise to the top of E-Corp. She immediately put the pieces together when the police arrived without batting an eyelash, them promptly left to get a fork to bail her husband out. She's a pretty top notch profiler (imo), and Elliott is not exactly in a position to hold together, I think Joanna simply read him like an open book. Then she got carried away, threatening him in Danish. To me, that indicates that Joanna and Tyrell have all kinds of nasty things in their closest, perhaps that's why they're in America. I think that line is just setup for more backstory next season. Maybe the financial meltdown and Tyrell having his own mini-meltdown just provided an opening for some other bad actor to swoop in and capitalize. Or maybe he just had enough of a head start on what fsociety was planning that he ran out to do as much as possible to insulate himself/gain leverage on E-Corp. There's plenty he could probably accomplish in the kerfluffle besides figuring how to deencrypt the 'unencryptable' data E-Corp holds. That, and his nemesis is still dealing with the brutal murder of his wife, for all we know Sociopath Grandpappy CEO is going to encourage him to commit suicide too. The introduction of a shadow cabal doesn't bother me. I can buy that a bunch of rich economic types could forsee this type of thing is inevitable, and simply harness the boundless energy of young and dumb hackers to make it happen. That, and the Elliott vs himself, is anyone really real? storyline doesn't have much legs left in it (imo). If too many people are hallucinations, the entire show turns into a schizophrenic version of The Affair. Things have to, eventually, objectively happen.

I can totally see Evil Corp digging up as much info on Angela as possible to snow her in court, then deciding the best way to control her is to just put her on a leash (salary). It's peanuts to them to get her to shut up, and it tarnishes the moral respectability of the case. That kind of Stage 9 Douche comes charging into a business to cuss them out, accuse their child of stealing, and insult the hell out of the owner? I bet that guy wasn't even sure where he lost his money, just figured Mr Robot was a wuss and that he could bully free cash out of him with minimal evidence. It was obvious their dad was a hallucination the minute Elliott pulled up the old pictures of him and his dad. No one remains that well preserved over the years. So, Angela was feeling insecure because she was used to playing faux-sister, only for Darlene to swoop in with real sister privilege and immediately hide all these secrets from her. I guess it makes sense, as she has no siblings herself. She wouldn't last more than a month at Evil Corp. She'd be better off contacting Ollie and asking to join the Dark Army. If she even breathes in Evil Corp's direction they are going to make her sign 1e9 non-disclosure/non-compete forms and then she'll really be finished in tech. The guy who plays Colby should be the devil in another show, he is pure sleaze/evil incarnate. He intimidates me way more with a smile than Wellick and his rubber gloves. I half expect Brave Traveler is going to pop back up just to kill him just for coming too close to his hate-squeeze. Why did Joana even risk her child by inducing labor if she was going to divorce him? I guess now that he's joined up with Elliott, he could hack the police station and have all the forensics results say it was the CTO who killed his wife. Except then he'd have to kill the entire forensics team. I don't know how exactly he's supposed to "fix" this problem.

Nope. He was just seeking out a new sensation, as that is his drug of choice. I expect that if Angelique had not found the painting, he would have turned on her just to experience her revulsion and watch as the social hierarchy came to take their pound of flesh. Pretty sure Bronalilly was making explicit death threats right off the bat. That, and I'll give Victor the benefit of the doubt in realizing when his "children" have turned malevolent. Victor keeps seeking redemption by reanimating a pure being, but all his workings turn dark, which is just as demoralizing as realizing the love of your life has been mocking you the entire time. Hope she has some immortal spies, cause Victor's about to put a whole lot of time into figuring out how to kill her. Wait, why didn't Kali's daughters shrivel up and lose their powers when Vanessa pwned puppet-her? Is it because the contract was only with Kali, and the rest of the coven gets to survive? Maybe that's why they were magically slow enough for Malcom and Mr. Lyle to shoot? I love that Vanessa broke her vision sort of like how Malcom did. She's too broken to ever be in that painting. Ethan too. Oh great, kill the only minority character you have. Continue on with the mystical London, chock full of supernatural creatures, but not a single non-white person (unless you need a redcoat to advance the story). Someone pls go make a "white feminism" meme based on this show, it'd be pretty hilarious. Sembene would have been the one to say that leaving Vanessa all by herself now was the dumbest idea on Earth, the witches truly have won. Bye bye Putneys. Glad Mrs Putney got 5s to realize just how stupid she was before Caliban wrung her neck. So Caliban didn't go on because he's an idiot (mostly), but because he was desperately hoping he was wrong and that Asshat Baby Putney was his true friend.

Oh yea, The Lion as back on his A game. I feel like part of Jack's chucking of his wedding ring was like shedding his last bits of humanity. He didn't need Phyllis's guilt weighting him down while he was deciding whether to end Hannibal or not. Have we ever seen Hannibal be on point, so ferocious, as when he's fighting Jack? They really are two old alpha predators. That fight choreography was awesome, though I'm not sure how realistic. Does Jack really have that much weight on Hannibal that he can overcome the latter's youth/spryness? Super happy to see him get his licks in, regardless. Even if Chiyou did want to kill Hannibal, why would she hand over initiative to some upstart who suffered for what, two years? At least Alana understood her rage needed to play second fiddle, at least superficially. She's still boring though. The stilted acting for Abigail was at least interesting because you knew how much messed up stuff she'd gone through. Hmm, I think Jack presumes killing/capturing Hannibal will be cathartic for Will. Otherwise there's a good chance one of his top FBI profilers is going to go full serial killer, and pretty much everyone's screwed then.

Unfort, that was from last episode where Kali momentarily possesses (allows the master to possess?) Sir Malcom and Sembene chucks him into the dusty ballroom.

I know chronic idiocy is sort of the lynchpin for this season's storyline, but SERIOUSLY Y'ALL? The Scooby gang has literally not had a single instance of anything vaguely approximating victory, so they decide to storm the witch's tower all willy nilly? And Vanessa hand-delivers herself thinking that Ethan/Sembene/Victor will find out, go "oh well", and have a crumpet party? Even if Vanessa's planning to recite the Big Bad Book of Death Poetry, all Kali has to do is give her a good chop in the throat and there's that. Vanessa keeps offering love and forgiveness, and Ethan keeps shoving her away. But Hecate appears, doing a piss poor siren impersonation, and Ethan fails to take the opportunity of shooting her at point blank range? What? At least Vanessa's temptations made sense because it came with the face of men she loved. And why didn't Sembene give him the 411 on the Wolf of God situation? Especially in the face of imminent death/mauling. Thanks, Putneys, for being the stereotypical Evil Human hammer to drive Brona's offer home. The whole charade with the daughter (complete with book of poetry, as a lure, har har har!) was so over the top. Of course she had to make fun of his love of literature. What a monster! Ahh, humanity deserves to be gutted! I still don't care because Caliban murdered Van Helsing for no other reason than he was having a temper tantrum. You know, a guy who was actively saving humanity. For which he has shown 0 remorse. But of course now he will feel justified to murder even more people, cause reasons. Agreed that if Brona finds him, she's going to to take the entire family apart by pieces and string it up as the latest attraction. I sort of want the Putneys to turn out to be a family of undead running a scared straight program for supernaturals too stupid to hide themselves properly. "A random blind girl asks you to go into a heavily armored cell to read a book title, and you went? Boy, no. One week's detention to think about what you've done." Yea, so I think something demented hitches rides back on Victor's reanimated corpses. I think Bronalily would even kill Ethan for boring her with his self-loathing, and I'm pretty sure Brona straight up loved that man. Dorian will swiftly cut her down to size once being bossed around isn't fun anymore. It's been forever, did Dorian literally have to return to the painting to recover from injuries in the book? I thought it pretty much transferred instantly? If not, that's a pretty exploitable loophole. I died when dead Mrs. Murray deadpanned, "how like you" as Malcom tried to shout down his past. Sembene better not die. The Pinkerton's probably not dead yet either, he'll come scrabbling back next moonlight or something. The Scotland Yard Inspector is so right, yet so irritating. Please get turned into a vampire or something so you can have an adequate load of self-loathing as compared to the rest of the cast. You are way too self-confident and at peace with yourself.

I think Hannibal is spiraling, they did zoom in to show him partaking in the Titanic Fancy Drink, after all. He knows his time is running out, and, in a way, Bedelia is his final project. He doesn't have time to carefully deconstruct her and put her back together again, he has to break and remold her, quickly quickly. He may decide he has no choice but to kill her, but I think he hates wasting Murder Protege potential. I mean, other than Will, how many of the people that Hannibal has "touched" would actually testify against him? Even the ones that hate him (Verger), wouldn't say a peep to prevent some interloper coming between them and their revenge. I think Bedelia's survival is directly proportional to her giving up control and becoming the monster he sees in her. The tub scene was Not the Sex to me. It was like taking care of a prized cow before slaughter. And Bedelia encourages it as a way to secede physical control in order to pick at his emotional scabs. I like seeing Hannibal act like a dork. No one can be uber dignified all the time. I can see him making stupid little puns to himself and being sad there was no one around to appreciate them. Mads has dork eyes in every scene with Abel because Hannibal knows Abel gets it without actually having it spelled out. If you think of Hannibal as a premiere academic (denied an audience) instead of a deranged serial killer, I think his behavior is in character. I saw Will's newest fishing lure as a big ole "F you" to Hannibal. I came, I read your fairytale, I smelled the bullshit, and I threw that book straight into the fire. What now, Hannibal? Chiyo could have been lying about the entire thing, but if not, Will just ruined one of Hannibal's longest running art installations. That's got to burn, even if Will had to fight fire with fire. No way Will didn't know he would return and try to kill Chiyo. He just figured that a half starved nutcase wouldn't last 2s against her unless she wanted to die. She must have had at least a few slip-ups over the years, after all. And if she died, she wasn't made to the right stuff to earn Hannibal's true favor and therefore would be useless in helping Will track him. So so what if she dies? It's not like anyone comes out of interacting with Hannibal without at least a few dead bodies, so she's a criminal either way.

I think she was playing him during the entire spiel. But I do think that part of it is true. He is probably one of the few humans capable of walking with her through the ages, because he's A) got an incredible amount of self-awareness and B) is sort of a remorseless asshole despite it. Vanessa is literally the only weak spot he has left, if shit hit the fan I'm pretty sure he's sacrifice even Sembene and rent-a-son Victor. She could have done all sorts of nasty puppet things with his corpse, but instead she left him alive and locked him in a room full of Zombie Family. She was pissed. I liked that Malcom was low-key fighting the enchantment (finally) in this episode before Sembene staged an intervention. He saw this new "love" was a mask over who he really was and was trying to wrestle it out. Have to give him some credit as he was battling a witch with a lifetime of experience in this stuff. Hecate could swing from chandeliers and she still couldn't have gotten his attention. Kali caught his eye because she was a woman, not a little girl. Funny, because Hecate's probably older than Malcom twice over. Give Sembene something to do, jeezhuss. He's making the two lines per episode they give him count. I want an extended scene between him and Vanessa, it would be epic. But not possessed Vanessa, because he'd just backhand her unconscious again and haul her back to bed. So practical, that Sembene. Caliban's an idiot. Still threatening to come back and torture Victor once he's acquired Lily? That means he literally has no recourse other than to murder you, idiot. He has too much faith in his supernatural strength. Trying to kill someone who knows you're coming is a battle of brains, not brawn, and I still bet on Victor in that fight. Heroin-withdrawl and all. Lily is the superior model, dumb dumb. She could probably rip Caliban limb from limb just because Victor put her together better. That rant was The Best of All Time. I swear I think she was going to squash him into a hundred pieces until she realized he was very easily cowed and decided to use him for her maniacal plans. I'm glad she shat all over his possessive bullshit. Even in undeath, her life is supposed to revolve around making men happy? Caliban has spent how many years ruminating on the unfairness of humanity, and his solution is to use Lily to assert his denied position in the patriarchy? I still hope she squashes him, actually. Twin brothers! Ok, I'm happy now, storyline makes more sense. Two brothers duking it out to spring themselves from prison. So Ethan's exorcism worked not because he was a stealth super priest, but because he was the Wolf of God. I think Vanessa needs to make a "Mother of Evil" guidebook equivalent for her next incarnation. Acquire a wolf of god, like, immediately. Check. All right, the last two seasons of this benevolent Dorian Grey bs was worth it just to see his innocent fluttering eyelashes while Angelique looked him in the eyes as he murdered her. The minute she found that passage way I was like "naw girl, didn't you read Blue Beard as a child?" Do not look the gift horse in the mouth, steal his money and run away. He probably would have even found that amusing. I always prefer they not show the portrait. I don't think anyone can ever do justice to what people have in their minds from the books. But then again, I guess without that people who haven't read it would have no idea what the big deal was. I would roflcopter if they made Dorian into Dracula. One of the two evil brothers finds a way to subvert his curse and is all like "naw, I'm cool with no apocalypse, they have foie gras here!"

Exactly. Myranda was on a one-way hunting trip once Ramsay got back. Did she really think Ramsay would tolerate anyone other than him putting the first arrow in Sansa's business? Oh, Ceresei's eyes when she finally made it back home. She is going to wreck the Faith Militant. Horrible, awful, things are going to happen to that nun. I don't think I'll even be sorry, she's a creepy, predatory, masochist. I see they've solved the problem of trying to cast someone big enough to play the Mountain and be able to act at the same time. Zombie Mountain! That armor didn't seem very conductive to getting blood and guts off it, seems strange considering the Mountain liked overhead impaling people one-handed and whatever. OMG, what if Melisandre was never Team Stannis? Maybe she latched on to him as a desperate schmuck to super-charge herself for her actual plan, fighting White Walkers? She's only performed one act of magic the entire show, the shadow-baby, and that was technically Stannis's own life-force, so required no sacrifice (presumably) on her part. With as many people as she's had sacrificed she should be overflowing with powaaaaaahhh. Very excited to see what she does on the wall next season. Mostly so she can get front row seats to the entire Night's Watch getting destroyed by the White Walkers. Gormless shits couldn't even let him know it was a fight, because he'd probably have slaughtered over half of them with Longclaw before they took him down. "For the Watch" my ass. Go die so Tormund can come and start a Wildlings Night's Watch division, they'd at least take it seriously. Didn't most of Dany's people leave her once Drogo died? I somehow suspect that styling herself as Khaleesi is not going to win her any fans with the Dothraki she's just run in to. Why did they have her stand there like some terrified damsel? She took great pride in being part of the Dothraki until she upgraded to Team High White-I mean Valyerian. Should have showed her calling out to them, or giving a ceremonial greeting, something. But we've not seen her Dothraki entourage in ages anyway (where they were gleefully stealing gold spoons), so I guess that says what the showrunners think of them.

If you're being stalked by the devil, I think it's a pretty reasonable position to demand you refrain from turning into a black magic using, bloodthirsty, murderer. That's not even taking into account the amount of self-flagellation Vanessa undergoes for horrible things mostly outside her agency. Ethan doesn't think she can bear the weight, and he's probably right. With enough self-loathing she absolutely would deliver herself to Him, as she almost has before. Ethan just wants to be your sin-eater girl, let him take of it for you :P. Sir Malcom has been Vanessa's number one believer and advocate. He shot his own daughter for her, ferchrissakes! The minute he insisted it was "female hysteria" everyone's head should have snapped on a swivel, and they should have instantly known he's been compromised. Glamour and sex-based magic is like, perfectly plausible, compared to the other shit they've seen and fought on a regular basis. I don't blame Vanessa for friend-zoning Ethan. Magnetic attraction to someone has never worked out well for her, so yes I would expect her to anticipate Bad Shit happening if she got down with EC. Oh, there's the twisted Dorian Grey I expect! He is having the time of his life trying to jog Brona's memory.

No wonder Miss Claudette had so much respect for her, Chang is hardcore. I half expected it to be her asshole brother who was brought back and beaten to a pulp, he's the one who basically threw her to the wolves.

Huh, I actually ended up really liking Piper's arc after all. She seems awful lot like a proto-Red, I can see her having several enemies sent off to max for messing with her bills. And like Red, she's surrounded by family members who apparently don't have the brains to do anything other than leech them dry. I'm absolutely disgusted her brother and his wife decided to rip off a jobless, prospectless woman in prison because they couldn't think of any other cash flow solution to moving out of his parent's mansion. And Piper effectively used her guard connections, those younger COs were having a total ball pulling all sorts of illegal stuff out of every nook and cranny of Stella's space. Tucky is safe now, but only puts another victim in her place. Boo should have tried to position herself to take the job before Tucky faked epilepsy. I somehow find it unbelievable that Cesar's family is not well-practiced for Fed raids. The minute a well-spoken white dude was at the door, that girl should have been gone. And where was Cesar trying to go while still holding Daya's baby? Was he gonna pole vault building to building with her strapped to his chest? I guess I do slightly admire his commitment to family, he could have just ran and let the kids slow the cops down, but instead he kept fighting them when they laid hands on the kids. Morello finally found her equal in the crazy. I'm a little afraid what happens when she gets out, as neither of them appear to have sanity anchors (dammit, Nicky). Poor Soso. I hope the black girls officially adopt her, I think it's the best placement for her.

Yea, Aleida's pathology hasn't really changed. She loves kids because they're impressionable and she can fool them making her the center of their world. She lashes out like a baby herself when Daya showed even a modicum of independence from her. She had 11 of them because she kept repeating the baby high, not because she actually wanted any of them. Didn't her man even (statutory) rape Daya? And her only reaction was jealousy. Pff, Sophia is going to bring a whole tractor trailer of misery on them when she finally gets out. The fact they turned on her so quickly is disgusting. Haha, Taystee's the mom. I knew that was coming. Black Cindy is only getting more insufferable, I know a lot of her increased bravado is basically PTSD from V, but I still can't bring myself to feel that sorry for her.

So Healy and Caputo are cut from a similar cloth. They do a nice thing as a way to run up a bill on someone and get mad when the person refuses to acknowledge the transaction. Caputo totally noticed Judy (?) eye-fucking Hank and swooped in the opportunity to have a woman out of his league and an instant family. But she also went to him knowing he would do exactly that. It was gross how she tossed him like used laundry and told him it was his own fault. Being a "stand-up-guy" and expecting to be rewarded is a total recipe for failure. He needs to find self-satisfaction in the action itself, not in people's approval for it. I am so glad that Big Boo absolutely will not stand for Tucky justifying her rapes to herself. I don't know wth they're going to do though, they need Lorna to get her psycho jail fanatic legion to go after him.