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Shakim-Emily-Leila is SO staged. I mean, they all may be - but some of them at least come off like it's only partial staging, whereas with those 3 you can tell it's total BS.

KIM: "Her phone rang, so I looked through everything that was ever on it." That woman is nuts. I'm sorry, but I could have lived without Lydia walking around the woods singing to God. Maybe it's just me, but I found it cringey. Not so much that she did it, but I wish she did it privately instead of on the show. Although I do think she could have a happy career playing Maria in "Sound of Music" road companies.

Actually, I think Whitney handled the dental situation well, much better than I would. She was laughing about it. I'd be crying. I have a massive fear of abscess pain. On the other hand... I could not with her poor-me sobfest over the French man. Hundreds of thousands - maybe millions - of people's lives were ruined during the pandemic - losing loved ones, financially ruined... It would be one thing if she had said something self-aware like "I know millions of people are going through things a million times worse but I just need to whine a bit" but she didn't. Yes, it can happen.

The health of people in their 60s varies widely. Granted, we haven't seen any kind of impairment in Jenny, but she might tire easily. I do and I seem otherwise in decent health (except thyroid).

It's really suspicious to me that we saw no even microscopic traces of this gold digger temperament in Season 1. It feels very cooked up to me.

Jenny's in her 60s, yes? So she's actually of an age where people should be starting to help her out with things, a little more and more as more and more time passes. She definitely shouldn't be expected to pick up after or cook for a 30 year old (lookin' at you, Sumit). And a 30 year old can damn well cook his own favorite dish. I feel like Sumit is using the skills he picked up in Catfishing School to deflect her objections. And while I tend to like Ari and Bini equally, and get annoyed with them equally, it was pretty skeevy of her to not set up the baby's operation date while still in Ethiopia. By not doing that, she prolonged the separation. And from what I remember, Bini's parents died when he was a child, so he likely has bad separation anxiety and abandonment issues, even without a first wife who took his child away.

My vote would be for Lindsey. I love the running gag of there being no time for him and I'm not a big Jason fan.

Meh, IMO, maybe especially when compared to last week's episode. I did like "What's Up"... and it was fun seeing Isaac Oscar/Oscar Isaac (???) out of his Scenes character, but it made me wish they had also done one last week when Lindsey Buckingham was there. Ego is always SO good. WU = always good. Cecily's expressions in the Science sketch were hilarious. Not feeling the new Biden impersonation.

That parody was on the-the-nose hilariously perfect! I especially loved when she was mad he didn't show up for their kid's (soccer, I think) game and he said, " I was having a heart attack!" And then she flounced out, even madder.

I know! I wish she would explain it as thoughtfully to Linc.

Who is sweet and simple in adulthood, though? From what I remember of being a child, even children have more going on under the surface then people may think. Part of being in an adult relationship is being able to combine with another complex being in a way that works for both. And nope, not projecting any MIL issues. And also, Olivia DOES see a therapist. Too bad more people on this show don't go to one.

Well, my heart sank when Moriah let Kim off the hook and pretty much made it okay for her to be as manipulative as she wants in the future.

I think she told Kim not to come. Which Kim, true to her narcissistic self, ignored. It would be interesting to know if Kim was like this before the awful accident. It may be that her severe need to control everything is to stem overwhelming terror that now comes up when she feels out of control. That would be understandable. Someone (looking at YOU, Barry) needs to insist she see a therapist. And you don't get to ruin your kids, regardless.

I'm with you. I intensely dislike Kim, especially after the stunt she pulled at Moriah's gig. Playing pretty much as a "solo act" for the first time with her own material was going to be stressful, and Kim not honoring the request to stay away was disgusting. All she did was intensify Moriah's nervousness, and anyone who could think beyond herself would know that would be the case.

I'm guessing cut, because I didn't see Brutal Marriage Story until I came here. I think it would have been the funniest thing on the show, maybe tied with the Prince audition sketch. They nailed it.

I must have seen this. Maybe because I wasn't expecting him in this episode, it really stuck with me. And everything else I've seen him in was dramatic. He's such a good goofball.

Having watched "Scenes from a Marriage," I have to say - "Brutal Marriage Movie" was almost perfect. (I just wish they had snarked on the ending a little, too. But that's just me.) Best line: "I just had a heart attack." So well done.

It was so much fun seeing him do comedy. I've never seen him do that before.

Does anyone else think maybe Karen wasn't telling the truth and Royal didn't apologize?

She came back once or maybe twice, yes? Once was when her brother had parasitic worms in his brain (yecccch) and Derek removed them.

Does any one else think the producers set up that fake disappointment for a cliffhanger?

WHITNEY: "I can't have nice things." ME: "You have a TV SHOW, ffs!"

Considering how invasive and nosy and trouble-making the mom and Chantel are, I don't blame River for wanting to keep it private. And even without those qualities, kids are allowed some privacy. He's grown, not a child.

I think the reason why, whereas I never liked the out-of-character intros, I did like the 4th-wall break at the end, was that at the end I was relieved to see them go. Especially Jonathan, who turned into a dick. The acting throughout was excellent but by the end I didn't like them very much as people. At the end, I actually liked her more than him, which was a complete 180 from how I felt in all the earlier episodes. They may be worse than Goldilocks!