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Unfortunately I felt like we were supposed to see that as a "poor Stephen" moment, or at least some sort of explanation for his whole pathology. (Also have we established where he does get his money? I know I wasn't taking anyone out to elegant dinners in college and I had a job.)

Disappointing installment this week with no movement on the mysterious parts of it. Also, could this show please add a "Skip Sex" button like most shows have a "Skip Intro" button? Granted, I guess I brought it on myself for choosing to watch this late morning, but it was definitely too early in the day to watch pretend teenagers doing it doggie-style repeatedly. Yikes. (Only thing I was thinking about during those scenes was how they shot it and how uncomfortable that must've been.) Also, what the hell "internship" was Stephen interviewing for that has undergrads giving legal advice?? Admittedly the scene where he manipulated the crap out of her to the point that she was apologizing to him and actually never got an answer to her question about why he never brought her out in front of people they know? That felt very real and unfortunate. Just accuse her of classism and she'll forget she even asked a valid question!

Oh sorry, I know Katey Sagal well, I was just saying she was very familiar because I thought someone in the preview might be a spoiler on here! I always forget the rules. Anyway, I'm excited to see her do something current besides the nothing she's given on The Conners. She's always phenomenal in dramas. I think it was just more of them trying to demonstrate that she usually doesn't really have feelings, since she was with the guy for years and broke up with him for practical reasons and felt nothing about it.

I don't know, it's the one thing I can relate to about Sam -- peeing after a lot of coffee and it lasting forever. This show has made me even more self-conscious about who might be able to hear me go that long at work!

All I know is that I hope if I'm ever captured and held against my will in some dude's basement, there's a therapist on the other side of the door who sings me a song I know the lyrics to. In other music-related commentary, poor Kenny Chesney and all this No-Shoes Nation(?) slander!

I think it's all sports, but you'd rarely hear about it because it's basically considered an act of violence to use the term itself. Like if you say someone has the yips, you've cursed it to continue.

Wow, this is a brutally dark comedy, the hits just keep on coming. It's sometimes quite painful to watch, but also entirely brilliant. I kind of hope we get to his actual death before the finale. I can't watch another five episodes of his monstrousness! We need satisfaction!

Well, my Marisa irritation continues. Also, is she already an attorney (a thing she apparently decided to do and managed to accomplish in less than a year), or was that just hyperbole? I liked seeing her knocked down a peg, though, but I guess she'll just get her dad to fix it. I hold out hope it actually means she humbles and grows a bit, though. Seeing her lose some of her smugness would go a long way toward endearing me to her! If it's true that we don't see JM this season, that's excellent news to me. No need to for her to steal any of the spotlight from all these powerhouses, and Alicia wore out her welcome in The Good Wife for me anyway. Andre Braugher is magical. Oddly, I'd read that this season is more realistic and has less of those quirky preoccupations, but so far it doesn't seem that way what with Diane and her new drug and the virtual stuff. Maybe it shifts moving forward. Also, did I see correctly or did they shoot an actual scene in Chicago? Or maybe it was all just CGI.

I've never seen any of those shows, so I guess that's why they weren't familiar to me! I did wonder about Bree Missal, though, if she was any relation. Thanks for the info!

So Truly. At first I thought, "Okay, I get it, I remember being young and intoxicated by sex that hot, I can see why they'd need to show it" but by the fifth explicit scene I just wanted to shower. (Also Lucy and Stephen's first hookup was pre-brushing their teeth in the morning! You can't do the lingering tease with your mouths open when you both have morning breath, certainly not the first time you kiss them!) The Lucy actress was in Nine Perfect Strangers so that's what I remember her from most recently, but she definitely looks a lot like Woodley as well. Just blonder. Otherwise none of them ring a bell for me, which is odd (I watch a lot of stuff!). Previews tell me Stephen's mother is a very familiar face, though. Oh and I guess Lucy's mother was as well? That was someone known. Yes, those were his sexy pictures of Macy. I believe that was the same guy, yes. I presume he's going to be in the "healthy choice but she's less drawn to him" archetype slot. I'm relieved that there are high-stakes twists and crimes and lies, because if it's just about an unhealthy back-and-forth relationship of comely young people, that was not going to sustain a whole series. I'm not sure why we keep being told Lucy is cold and has no feelings and can't connect with people -- she seems like she has plenty of feelings and is easy to get along with. It's odd that she allegedly can't connect with people and Pippa allegedly has trouble making female friends but both of them are squealing and gossiping together and giving advice to each other like they've been doing it for years.

Okay yeah, 23 minutes per week is going to kill me. This must be what a lot of mental health professionals feel like, in a way. Every time someone sets off a bomb or mows down a bunch of folks, it's "mental health problems in this country!" and there have to be so many therapists who are thinking there's been that kind of pressure on them -- "fix this budding killer." Like the general public is holding them hostage demanding they wave a magic wand. I love Linda Emond so much, I'm hoping we get a ton of her in this.

I thought with hot commodities like Judith Light and Britt Lower, this episode would be a bit of a gem, but it got pretty awful pretty fast. Felt like both actresses had a free weekend and owed somebody a favor, it seemed very thrown together. The actress playing the "doctor" was terrible.

I didn't understand the co-parenting plan either and, while I'm sympathetic to this heartbreak, the fact that she heard a two-sentence "plan" and agreed to it immediately was a bad thing for all of them to rest their future on. It seemed pretty obvious she's not stable enough to make a decision. The magical cure has been my fear this whole time, but I feel optimistic that since the pregnancy was not the miracle cure it had seemed to be, motherhood won't be either? But yikes. Hey, at least no Bulk Beauty! I continue to find Evan incredibly annoying. He thought Mariana abandoned her job to bang some guy? Not that she abandoned her job for anything wise, of course. I really thought the showrunners had learned their lesson from trying to turn The Fosters into a crime thriller considering how abruptly they turned it around the final season, but I guess not. Annnnnd Alice is able to orgasm now, speaking of magical cures! It's that easy! That monologue at the audition was silly. I guess we were meant to find it empowering? At least Davia and Dennis are finally resolved. I guess? Unless of course we open next season with Davia having disappeared from town this time. I love them together but I'm not interested in watching any more obstacles to their union, so hopefully it's a done deal.

I didn't say all farmers butcher their own meat! Apologies for being hyperbolic about this ridiculous show, but I was just demonstrating the stereotypical "extreme lifestyle differences" they were hammering down on us this entire series. This was not a show trafficking in nuance. That's a good point for the accent -- that they're different because Gina and Leni made them that way for their plan. I'd been thinking the show was suggesting they really did have different accents naturally at this age, but if it was strategic by design I can get on board with that! (Why I'm still trying to apply logic to this show is beyond me)

I kind of have a guess based on the cast list, but if folks haven't seen that I don't want to be spoilery!

This is good. I would love the short episodes if we didn't have to wait a week between them, but it's going to be torture.

The second the dog got screen time in this episode I knew he wasn't long for the world. The Prick certainly deserves death, but is it wrong that I feel like the sisters have lost rootability now that they've killed a dog, even though I was all for them killing a human being? I'm wondering if perhaps John Paul ends up dying not by the sisters' hand at all, but they still just need to cover up their many attempts. TV wives having affairs always do seem to have considerably more energy and hours in the day! I don't remember his mother either, that really surprised me.

I agree what they would have different accents after a while, but according to the information we had at this point in the show, they'd both spent exactly the same amount of time in each place as each other. But yes, physically it's particularly ridiculous since every year one of them has an outdoor, physically-demanding job and the other doesn't. One would have sunstreaked hair, etc. One probably eats meat she slaughtered herself!

I watched the first episode yesterday and wasn't so sure. Appealing cast and dialogue, but I was thinking there wasn't enough comedy in this dark comedy for me to get the aesthetic distance to be on board with a murder, no matter what a prick The Prick was. Tonight I watched the second episode and I'm now ready to murder him myself if they don't get on with it! And there's absolutely enough comedy. This is excellent, and now I'm sad because the way Prime does their layout I absolutely thought three episodes had already been released. Damn!

Then why did she need to practice the Southern accent to pose as Lena again? Oh, I don't know why I'm looking for logical explanations in this crazy show. There are none to be had!

Well, that was pretty bad but good-bad in a lot of ways I guess? That green screen at the big climactic fight at the falls was awful. Too funny. Poor Claudia! Karen Robinson is fun as hell -- she was pretty much the one spot of joy in the whole thing, so at least there was that! The casting for Young Dylan and Young Jack was really bizarre -- neither looked anything like Jonathan Tucker and Matt Bomer.

Episodes like this where all the gaps are filled in from the other character's perspective basically back to the very beginning? Catnip to me! Everything about this show is creepy, but creepiest might be the fact that to do the annual check of each other's bodies for new freckles and scars, these two sisters opt to do it in sultry lingerie and lit by romantic candlelight.

I think the biggest mystery here is how twins who grew up in the exact same place have completely different accents. The "one stayed and the other has spent her whole adult life elsewhere" explanation doesn't exactly hold up when you consider they swap locations every year, so they've literally both spent the same amount of time in the same places (allegedly).

This is all so silly, yet I'm licking it up. Very impressive how Leni just adds and removes that lower-lid eyeliner all day long! Oh and of course the side part and the braid. She must have magical hair that when she pulls that braid out, her hair's still pin-straight to be Gina! Seems pretty foolish to document everything they're doing digitally.

Did we know that Davia was a musical theatre girl who tried for a career on Broadway? That felt like brand new info to me. She has turned from an insecure underdog into a hot confident chick who everyone wants or is jealous of (they even gave her a bitchy Lea Michele lookalike from high school who resented her drama club successes! She was the drama teacher's favorite!), and I don't know... it probably says more about me that I'm now finding it more difficult to root for her! But I am. Even her one-dimensional villain mother doesn't really change the situation for me because Davia's whole "for once I'm not going to take care of you" speech rang kinda false since it's not like she's been taking care of her mother. Jeez, Isabella, you may be right about yourself but maybe start with "hey Gael, will you come to therapy? What would you think about being the primary parent?" Hee! Forever, or at least till season 8B or whatever they'll call it. I swear this show with its split seasons has only covered like 8 total months in the lives of these people. Why is Malika going to her broken-hearted ex with a giant smile on her face like that? And her ask is "can you keep our breakup a secret?" That's so shitty! I know the girlfriend was the one who ended it, but she ended it because she couldn't handle not being Malika's only partner, so she's presumably in pain about it. That was weird. God that salon was dumb. Also maybe Alice is just a stone top and there's nothing wrong with that. Since the point of this show is coming up with storylines to teach us all about social justice issues, seems like this would be a learning opportunity! But instead, it's somehow "the person who doesn't have orgasms holds all the power in a relationship?" What? Did y'all see in that toilet in Alice's toilet stall scene? That was nasty.