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Well if she is a perfect choice, the role is miscast.

That "old woman" is Lois Smith. She was James Dean's girlfriend for a short while and did a wardrobe test with him decades and decades ago. James Dean and Lois Smith in 1954

Ray and Molly just do not fit. He would never go for her. He goes for "babes" or smart mouthed women like Abby. She seems way too normal a choice for him. That connection is too contrived. That made no sense at all.

I do not think it has to do with Jewish prejudice. I think the producers and writers wanted to introduce other ethnic groups into the cast to make it more diverse and to cast actors of other backgrounds such as Asians and African Americans. I think the first season appealed mostly to Jewish audiences. Now, more viewers can relate to the story.

Well, I am concluding they wanted to make the cast more diverse. And it works. I totally believe the Shy Baldwin plot line and like it. However... I have problems with Sterling K. Brown as "Reggie." He is bringing too much of the Randall shtik to this character. It is almost like "Randall doing Reggie." I think that part was miscast. In a side note, season 1 was about a very Jewish girl. Almost every episode was infused with Midge's Jewish heritage. I think that is what made it so funny and unique and such a true period piece. Somewhere along the way, that aspect of this series became diluted and lost the way.

But he had told her he also had pics. So I was thinking at another time she might ask for those backstage pics.

I loved episodes 1 and 2. And I hated this episode. It was so flawed it crossed over into making the entire unfolding plot preposterous and tiresome. 1. How can Darryl produce the backstage pics with the star of that show that he claimed he had taken to prove he was there when he was not there and there are no pics? 2. Mickey has already been seen by Mac's wife and kid and Claudette saw him in the car from her window. Too many people now know he is alive and one will talk when questioned. And I think others saw him as well. I could go along with Ray killing so many people and never getting caught but this Mickey story line where he escapes death in that bus crash and is going to be framed for the cops' murders is too much of a stretch for me. Even Sandy is a joke. And what's with this Terry plot line? It just does not fit or make sense. This was one of my least favorite episodes of the entire series. It is just asinine at this point. They are caricatures and maybe it is time for this show to end. This episode as a stand alone piece was a total disaster. ETA: I hated the episode but it should have included the reactions of Bunchy and Terry and Bridget and Daryl and all of them when Mickey showed up alive. Why did they leave that out?

I do not watch The Bachelor/Bachlorette so I can be objective and say from week 1 that Hannah stood out as one of the best in the bunch. I think she deserved to win. She was fluid, flexible, graceful and skilled. Her leg extensions were amazing, her splits were on point, and she was amazing.

This was one of the most amazing and excellent episodes I have ever seen on television in a series. The concepts, the execution and the music made it extraordinary. It deserves an Emmy.

The writers needed Mickey to be alive for this plot to move forward. They obviously want to pin some murders on Mickey and since he is dead he cannot be charged and this allows Ray and Darrell and all the others to get away with it. So they ignored those details. The whole series is preposterous. Liev Schreiber has called Ray Donovan a "serial killer." I watch the show and suspend disbelief because I LOVE THIS SHOW.

Wow! I am loving this season. I have never found Ray more compelling. He is such a great actor. He is the exact opposite in real life of Ray. I think Ray will come around within his sessions with Alan Alda (I forgot the doctor's name). I just love how the story is unfolding and revealed in surprising ways where it all comes together and questions are answered (like the music guy's association with Bridget). Will Amber McGrath become involved with Ray? And of course the final scene was predictable.

Did the judge ask Nicky if he is on the spectrum, or am I mixing that question up with some other TV show?

OMG they are making too much of a big deal about all of Jack's "firsts." It makes Kate and Toby look to me like lunatics who quibble over every single damn triviality. I know parents who have kids and they are so busy juggling so much that they do not even pay attention to these "firsts." Big deal that Jack had avocado and Toby did not feed him his first solid food. Toby and Kate are so wrapped up in so much silly minutiae they will give each other meltdowns. They seem so unprepared for the realities of parenthood. What will they do the first time Jack crawls or takes his first step? It could happen when he is being watched by a babysitter and they both will have nervous breakdowns. ETA: and I honestly think their style of parenting would never produce a "normal" kid. They would drive a kid totally crazy and make a kid totally unable to cope with the harsh realities of life and all the angst connected with growing up.

Why do you say that? So much happened it could not be 3 months. Kate was pregnant for almost 9 months.

Within all the commentary about this episode, your neutropenia jumped out at me. I never heard of that. I looked it up. BROS402 I hope all goes well for you. And Happy Thanksgiving.

Who is Kevin's fiancé? I liked the time juxtaposition to make us think Rebecca was lost on Thanksgiving when it was on the big 3's 40th birthday party.

I know it happened at least twice before it happened again in this episode. Mickey turned himself in and Ray managed to get him out. And again, why was Mickey in Walpole? Any replies are appreciated.

OMG I am sooooo mixed up. That was Sully getting a BJ? Sully is dead. So that was done years ago in a flashback? I am really totally lost. I tried to read a synopsis to get up to date but not everything is included in ep summaries online.

OK I watched this episode and my mind wandered. So I have some questions, after Mickey turns himself in for like what, the 4th time? 1. In season 1, Mickey is released from Walpole after 20 years for a crime he did not commit. What was that crime? He then proceeds to immediately find a priest and murder him. 2. Then, in the seasons to follow, twice before this time Mickey is in jail (I recall the time he was in some prison room with an old guy and planned to pretend he is gay in a scheme) and somehow Ray manages to get him released. 3. And why was Mickey in jail last season when Bunchy broke him out? 4. In this episode, Mickey turns himself in as part of some deal from last season in which Bunchy gets released. I can't even recall what Bunchy did last season that Mickey turned himself in for in this episode. Was it because Bunchy helped Mickey break out and did Mickey go back because of that jail break? Any answers are appreciated to help bring me back up to date. Maybe I watch too much TV and it gets all forgotten during the long hiatuses. ETA: Basically I am asking for help in recalling the circumstances of all the many times Mickey voluntarily turned himself in and went to jail and help recalling exactly how Ray each time was able to get him out.

It is obvious to me the producers TOLD Teresa to befriend Danielle. Teresa will do whatever Andy Cohen tells her to do. She loves being on the show, being on TV, and she loves her fat paycheck. It paid off her debt.

The whole show is loosely scripted so I think the glass breaking was staged. Bravo decides each season who the protagonists and antagonists will be just like when they decided Melissa and Teresa would mend fences because the show needed to change direction. I agree: Rich LOVED being on this show. He really knew how to ham it up. He played up his on cam time and always to me looked like an uncomfortable amateur. His 15 minutes are over and I bet he is all butt hurt. By the way, Dolores is a real life close friend to Caroline. Margaret is a tired bore to me and Siggy is too much fake shtik. Jennifer is decoration. Her husband reminds me so much of Dr. Frederic Brandt or even Dr. Will from Big Brother. He has a wax face.

It has been boring since the original cast left the show, including Caroline, Dina, Jackie and Kathy and Rosie.

It may have been parenting through fear, but when I grew up no kids were severely damaged by that style. Now we have kids who think they come first and every little thing triggers them. These days, many students who did not fear their parents never confided in them and did terrible things. In my day, students respected teachers and there was accessibility to guns but there were no school shootings. There is almost no discipline in school or in the home. We have produced a generation of whiners and crybabies. And I think Beth and Randall's style is horrendous. If that was real life, those girls would need years of therapy to deal with the real world. ETA: I do not think the daughters could function in real life and handle any stress on the job or handle anybody who did not talk to them in the kind measured way their parents did. If they had a demanding boss, they would break.

OMG so bad, so corny, and so silly. I can't believe they took so many episodes to tell this story. The only thing that interests me is the real location of Brooke's house because the exterior of that house looked amazing to me.

OK I am going to say this: I can't stand how Beth and Randall come off as these super parents always saying with patience the textbook psychologically right thing, for instance when Beth went into Deja's room and asked if there was something she wanted to talk about. It is just unrealistic to me. Parenting sure has changed over the decades. There is so much over attention given to the needs of the kids. I have seen blogs about this and comparisons of parenting in the 1950s compared to today. The kids of today are so indulged. In the 1950s, I was visiting a friend and she cried because I won a board game and her mother said "Stop crying or I will give you something to cry about." Shocked? I can tell you worse stories. Now I am not saying that is correct, but all this over indulging makes kids grow in to weak adults who get triggered by every little thing. And this show does NOT have parents who model proper parenting in my opinion. I think Beth should have said to Deja: "Get back down there and handle it, you have a guest and if you want him to leave, tell him yourself. I am not the messenger."