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“On the Nature of Daylight” gets me every time.

Lizzy Caplan was outstanding. The daughter's epiphany and suddenly becoming the smartest person on the show seemed a little unearned given what a pill she was for the first half of the season, but that scene with Toby in the synagogue was lovely.

So does no one in Russia speak Russian anymore?

Looks like Deadline made a big oops and jumped the gun in posting a Q&A with Bruce Miller regarding Wednesday's finale. Brief, but extremely spoilery summary of the episode at the beginning of article. Not sure how long it will stay up but here's the link Major finale spoilers

Let’s see. So far this season: ”Alive” - William, Teddy, Christina, Stubbs, Caleb ”Dead” - Charlotte, Bernard, Maeve, Jay, Uwade hmmmm…

Katie’s cross of Breggin has been the most entertaining part of the series thus far.

Holy cheekbones! I know Hansu’s supposed to be the heartthrob but Isak’s where it’s at. The entire cast is uniformly excellent but I get all the feelings whenever Youn Yuh-jung’s on screen. She’s perfection. And that entire rice sequence was beautifully shot.

Grandma Shultz, Judith “BAM!” Baker and Phyllis Dr. Gardner are all pretty awesome.

So Tara and poor little rich boy Leo, both white, decide to frame three persons of color for kidnapping? And pretty much get away with it while Natalie goes to jail and loses her sister and Aadesh is forced on the run? Lame.

3 episodes in and that damn monkey is already on my last nerve. OTOH really digging 355. She totally sabotaged that other helicopter, right? And I feel as though Yorick should be slightly more concerned about finding his sister than the woman who turned down his proposal, was willingly moving to another country without him and admitted to wanting to “meet” other people.

Yeah, Renn's definitely a goner by the end of this season. Death, jail or leaves town. The show's track record with its female characters (major and recurring) is pretty sad: OG Smurf, Catherine, Lena, Nicky, Lucy, Mia, Angela, Morgan. Plus Christina Ochoa's pilot got picked up, so not looking great for Craig's baby mama.

Oh Zoya, there’s a time and a place. Although I guess I found myself siding with her more than Obie. Speaking of, I can’t for the life of me figure out what Julien sees in the guy. And I know Aki’s supposed to be a little dim but did he not figure out that Audrey accidentally outed him? Or were the lamb chops and impending threesome too distracting to bring it up? Also was it ever mentioned that his father is basically Rupert Murdoch? Rafa, nerdy teacher (still don’t know his name) and Obie all still suck to varying degrees but I actually didn’t mind Kate Keller this episode. She’s tolerable with Zoya’s dad (still don’t know his name either). Kind of loved Audrey terrifying the hospital staff with some good old fashioned Waldorf hysteria this episode. She’s strangely become my favorite character. Also continue to be amused by the random Carla Hall appearances. It’s like the show films in her kitchen and she just happens to be there lol.

Full frontal male nudity on Gossip Girl. My how times have changed. That was some very Chair-esque scheming by Julien/Max. Consequences be damned. Oh and hey Beck! Guess you made it out of Joe’s creepy bookstore basement after all. Speaking of, it’s crazy how much Eli Brown sounds like Penn Badgley. Although I find most of what Obie says to be pretty cringeworthy. I get it. You’re woke. Zoya too. She comes off as quite pretentious a lot of the time. Still enjoying Julien. And Audrey. Love that they have a genuine friendship. The minions are awful but decent comic relief. And since it bears repeating: The teachers are still the worst.

LOL, Noah Weisberg singing that ridiculous version of "Pure Imagination" was pretty awesome given this:

Episode MVP: Noma Dumezweni. I am both terrified of Haley "I am not funny" Fitzgerald and want to be her best friend. Can't believe Fernando let Jonathan into the apartment let alone hold/feed the baby. That was such a weird scene. And I am officially on the Sylvia and Jonathan had an affair train.