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The threat of revealing the truth to his family would have carried more weight. That wasn't guaranteed to work, but it was absolutely pathetic that Gaitok didn't even try.

The characters can definitely be cliquey (particularly Melissa and Barbara, who bring out the worst in each other), but everything they've ever said about Morton is justified. He's a hardcore misogynist (his worst fear is being on a plane flown by a woman) who's straight-up cruel to small children. The way the characters sometimes crap all over Janine and Jacob, and Ava's barbs directed toward pretty much everyone, are a lot more troubling to me.

Gaitok could have said, "I know you took it, there's video footage, and if you don't want your family to find out you stole it, and you don't want to get arrested, you'll hand the gun over right now." It might not have worked - Tim might have just run back to his room and shot himself - but it would have at least been a decent effort.

When Fabian said they couldn't contact the authorities because Greg is a guest, I wanted to scream at the TV, "No he isn't!" He and Chelsea just have a home near the hotel, right? I get that Belinda probably doesn't realize that, but I would think that Fabian would know whether this high roller was actually staying there or not.

I fully support Piper in her efforts to explore Buddhism and get away from her awful parents, but she handled that absolutely terribly. She lied about the thesis, she effectively told her parents that the whole point of staying at the monastery is to reject their values and get new ones, and she called her father's career "bullshit." I don't think she really has people skills at all.

I'm not at all surprised that the show is coming back. (They never called the season three finale the series finale.) But I'm absolutely shocked that Sudeikis is coming back. Everything I'd heard around the time that season three ended suggested that he was completely done with the show.

If this was real life, I would put a lot of money on O'Shon's mother being extraordinarily narcissistic (like Ava).

Ava’s Black/Zach and White/Wyatt exclamations have been good for laughs. But I’ve never understood why she would be surprised by Jacob having a Black partner - or by Zach having a white partner. If Jacob had a white partner, THAT would have been surprising.

I was worried that Jacob was going to proclaim his love for Zach, so I was relieved when it went in another direction.

In the Inside Episode 4 feature, the actress who plays Mook strongly suggests that Mook sees Gaitok as a romantic possibility, but only if he proves himself to be sufficiently ambitious. I don't like the way she's stringing him along in case she wants him. And I don't like the way he's mooning over her like someone half his age. They're not a compelling romantic storyline for me at all.

I can’t imagine them revealing that Sritala is Rick’s father (or mother, for that matter). Mike White is smart enough to know that there would be a huge controversy if he gave the role of a half-Asian character to a white actor. (See, for example, how thoroughly the movie Aloha was trashed for featuring Emma Stone as a half-Asian woman who looks very white.)

Something about the librarian just rubs me the wrong way. I would never have expected Ava to take that weird power move lying down.

This was confusing. Krystle - the woman who recently paraded around the children with the words "slut" and "whore" emblazoned on her wardrobe - is now some book-banning reactionary? I mean, it happens in real life, usually when people become religiously born again. I was surprised that they didn't give us an explanation like that. My guess is that because Raven Goodwin's star is rising (starring opposite Travis Kelce on Grotesquerie), and she's clearly talented, Quinta and company wanted an excuse to bring her back, and they didn't concern themselves too much with consistency. I thought the conflict was resolved way too easily. Off the top of my head, it would have been a lot more believable that Krystle would do a 180 like that if she found out that her daughter secretly read the book, and it gave her confidence.

Chelsea seems downright stalker-ey. The whole "if you get me killed, I'll find you every time we get reincarnated" thing was just creepy. I'm not sure if she'd be acting this way around Rick if he wasn't bankrolling a life of extravagant travel. That said, I think she's perceptive enough to realize that he has a decent side.

Or Colby could have said to Ron, "You keep staring at my neck. Is there something wrong with it?" I could see Ron, in that situation, not wanting to lie.