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Someone pointed out after the first episode how the Ratliff kids looked like the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" monkeys at one point. There's definitely some primate symbolism going on with that family. The way Lochlan stared at his brother's ass, seemingly with lust in his eyes, makes me think there's more going on than just looking to Saxon for guidance.

Are you referring to Walton Goggins? He wasn't on Perry Mason.

I suspect that Bruce is the easiest character to write for, and so we're going to see a lot of him, even if it doesn't make sense for him to be there.

Tonya was on the phone with Portia in season two when the two of them pieced together that Greg had set Tonya up to be killed. If Portia had gone to the police and told them what she knew, Greg would have been in deep trouble. But the season two finale gave the impression that Portia wasn't going to blab. The young British guy had warned her that the consequences would be dire, and Portia wasn't going to put her life on the line to avenge the boss who drove her nuts. If we're meant to believe that Greg collected Tonya's millions scot-free, it's outrageously dumb of him to hang out at a White Lotus, even one halfway around the world.

I'm not sure where to put this, but I have a question. IMDB says that Janine, Barbara, Jacob and Melissa have appeared in all 64 episodes of the show, but Gregory, Ava, and Mr. Johnson have only been in 63. Does anyone remember an episode of Abbott without Gregory, Ava, or Mr. Johnson?

It's interesting that Janine and Gregory are so good at communicating, because they were horrifically bad at it in the three seasons when they were courting each other.

I think Manny was telling the truth - that the Board had decided in advance that they would throw money to Abbott this year, and not the other schools. I think they gave the money to Abbott for the counselor in the end, and honored Ava's request to divide the remaining funds among the other schools. But they really weren't happy about it, so I guess they felt like Abbott played them?

I took the date comment as facetious. It's always nice to see the bus driver from Ferris Bueller getting work!

I really wish they wouldn't do the "will they/won't they" thing with Serena and Matt. I don't feel any kind of romantic spark there (beyond Matt's infatuation), and there's no way I could see Serena actually being interested in him.

One thing that I appreciate about this show is that they acknowledge that there are a ton of other people who work at this hospital, and not everyone knows each other.

Yeah, the Barbara and Jacob we know would not have been okay with getting up there and announcing that there was no winner of the science fair. Mr. Morton has become completely flanderized at this point. When we were introduced to him, the joke was that Jacob kept taking offense to his very ordinary personality (and then it turned out he hated Jacob too). Now he's this cartoonishly pompous, misogynist incel who berates the students.

Danny and Ray got the money back in diamond form, and smuggled the diamonds into the US via their, uh, backdoors. I hope someone informs Chuck Lorre that the two Boston bookies are terrible characters who will drag down season three if they get a significant amount of screentime.

Barbara was initially surprised that Janine was interested in the food at a fancy restaurant. i think the idea was that at the end of the day, Janine's tastes are very unsophisticated. That still doesn't explain why she loved the food at the golf club so much, but it could have been significantly different from the food at the restaurant.

I just learned that Gregory's issues with food are based on an Abbott writer who flat-out says that he hates food. In the episode where Gregory first revealed his food issues, he was supposed to have a line where he says he hates food. Quinta said that the network sent back a note that it made Gregory sound insane, and that they should re-word it, so they did.

As clueless as Jeanine and Jacob can be, even they should have figured out what was up as soon as they saw the kids being interviewed on video about how much they love the club.