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This made me realize that this show is just not doing justice at all to the source material. Rosaura is nowhere near an unhinged, psychotic bitch (but I agree that that would be an accurate assessment of Show Rosaura). Adding the thing about her intercepting Pedro's letters made no sense and it only served to turn the layered and nuanced Tita/Rosaura relationship into something that would fit in better in a telenovela (Tita would never have spoken to her the way she did in the kitchen right before Rosaura goes into labour, not because Tita is a pushover but because she was never that immature and possessive about Pedro marrying Rosaura). At least they did justice to the scene where she delivers Roberto, which was what I was most looking forward to/anxious about.

And yet there were nowhere near as many comments about the insurance guy being annoying last season as there are about Houlihan. The way Loftus treats her, gaslighting her and using his position of power over her to threaten her into covering up HIS crimes, is despicable, but sure, she's the annoying one. I wonder why.

Didn't Grace have them with her when she died but they couldn't find them in the wreckage? Or am I completely misremembering? Seemed like a small pile of bills to make up 20k, too. 🤔 Regardless, goddammit Loftus, I was rooting for you, man! Kind of a bummer if Angelica is the death the sisters will be covering up this season because I've changed my mind and now I find Ian shady as fuck. I feel like the show has spent so much time making us hate Angelica and think she's up to no good that the REAL bad guy is gonna turn out to be someone we wouldn't have suspected, and Ian is being wayyyy too nice to Eva (and doesn't seem remotely as devastated as her for someone who just lost his wife). I found it interesting that Eva thought nothing of the inconsistency in the story of how Ian and Grace met, and they made a point of emphasizing how she's afraid of Angelica but not of him at the police station.

That was my first thought, too, but given that she said "I know you killed your first husband" in the scene at the church, it seemed like a wild leap to make unless she already knew. However, I also question whether Roger actually told her, as she claimed, so IDK, maybe she's just a naturally evil-minded person and got lucky with a wild guess. It wasn't very clear.

That escalated quickly. Yeah, I wonder whether the actress wasn't available for the full season so they needed a credible way to write Grace out. If so, I suppose having Grace move abroad would not have opened up too many storytelling avenues. It makes me sad that those were the last words she said to Blanaid (that she could hear). I still think maybe this is a red herring and Ian isn't actually dead, but it's hard to explain away the fact that he just disappeared and didn't take his phone or any of his stuff. OMG for some reason I misremembered/misunderstood Angelica's introduction in episode 1 and thought she and Roger were dating!! Well, everything makes SO much more sense now. 🤣 DID Roger actually tell her everything (as per what she said to Grace) or did she piece it together from overhearing the sisters' conversation in the car? I don't remember a scene of her and Roger talking in the previous episode, either, and the way she said that to Grace suggests she did know and wasn't just fishing to get her to confess. I hate to be that person, but it seemed to me that Nora overreacted a tad to what Angelica told her. At the very least, get Bibi's side of the story first instead of blindly believing an outsider (who you don't even know where they got their information from). That kind of fabricated drama really bothers me.

So happy to have this show back! I know it was a limited series and so this second season could be hit or miss, but so far the setup is intriguing enough, and as I've said before, I could watch an entire season of just the Garvey sisters drinking wine in Eva's kitchen and shooting the breeze. The sisterly banter is still top-notch. I wonder if they felt like, without JP, they needed another character for the audience to "love to hate," and so that will be the role of Fiona Shaw's character. I don't think she'll reach the levels of visceral revulsion that JP evoked in me, but I could see her becoming a very uncomfortable character to watch (the scene at the races where she lied to Roger about making the bet, seemingly just to spite him because of how excited he was, was a huge red flag). I'm not sure why, but my money's on the dead body in the trunk being Becka's boyfriend. I think they could be setting him up as being another "prick," starting off subtly with his lesbophobic comments in this episode. Becka having a nasty eye bruise in the body dump scene could also be pointing in that direction. Loving the addition of Det. Houlihan. She's absolutely adorable and clearly a smart cookie, and she makes a good comedic pairing with Loftus. I hope we see him grow to respect her as the season progresses. I thought exactly the same thing, both about the throwing up and the pregnancy test in the opening credits. Lastly, Eva looked stunning in that mustard-coloured pantsuit at the wedding. My crush on Sharon Horgan is back in full force, it seems.

Glad I'm not the only one wondering about this. Like you said, yes, she could be bi, but the fact that she's been shown expressing attraction to TWO men makes me think that the writers have simply forgotten that she was originally introduced as a woman happily married to another woman, and it's not sitting well with me.

I was SHOCKED. I genuinely expected that last scene between Máximo and Julia to be him asking her to give their relationship another chance in the future and the show would end there for good. When he kept going on and on about making Las Colinas great again (heh), I thought it was just his awkward, roundabout way of doing it. I yelled at the TV when the episode ended without us getting to know Julia's answer. I don't know how I feel about this, because if there is no season 4 this is just a really deflated note to end on, and the way things ended for Máximo in the 80s was not the most uplifting, either. I really hope they did this because they know they have a reasonably good chance of being renewed and not as a last resort to keep from being cancelled. The resolution to Sara's storyline, while heartwarming with how Nora and Esteban were involved, was also a bit meh since she barely said two words after the big reveal, and we didn't even get to see Nora interact for the first time with her daughter and a girl she was (sort of) going out with. All that being said, I desperately want a fourth season because I just adore the universe of this little show. They really know how to warm the cockles of my heart in a very natural and organic way, and I love all of these characters so much. Also, I thought perhaps they found a non-Colombian actress to play older Julia and that was why most of her solo scenes with Máximo were in English, which didn't make much sense in the context of the show. In any case, she was HAWT.

I really hope not, because there's been too many portrayals in the media of women being attracted to women framed as evil or predatory, one of them being corrupted by the other against her will, and it's gross. I was really worried that that was where the movement storyline was headed, but was very happy that the resolution was that the actually evil entity was framing them and the dancers just wanted to enjoy dance and be in communion with each other. I loved the portrayal of Kristen being drawn to them from the very first moment she saw this group of women dancing very sensually with each other, and that her interactions with Isabella could not have been interpreted any other way. Mad props to the show for not dropping the bisexuality label in name only just for clout points and actually putting their money where their mouth is (although, as others have already said, Kristen has been having subtextual interactions with other women since as far back as season 2. It's just nice for it to finally be confirmed as canon). It's a bit of a relief to finally see Sheryl turn on Leland. All I can hope now is that he doesn't manipulate her into not going through with whatever punishment she wants to inflict on him, because we're only halfway through the season and it seems too early for him to be "vanquished" for good. That was a very interesting discussion between our leading trio. I gotta say, I did not expect David of all people to spout opinions in the line of "women are more sensitive therefore they are more susceptible to manipulation". David, I had faith in you, man! I suppose you can't be involved in the church to that degree without some of its ideologies with respect to women rubbing off on you.

I'm calling it now, Julia WILL go to the funeral but she checked in under her husband's name or something. I hope we get to see adult Sara again this season, her banter with Eugenio Derbez's Máximo is great.

Unpopular opinion but "You talk too much" is not a nice thing for a father to say to his daughters. It's a good way of showing Andy's slow descent into asshole territory (if this episode is anything to go by), but fathers being dicks about having daughters is so normalized that perhaps the writers didn't even think about the implications. And Kristen going along with it just left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not a fan of all the "hee hee we know the girls are annoying" meta jokes. What is this, the 1950s? Little girls should be seen and not heard? Other than that, I'm so happy to have this absolutely unhinged show back (even if it is for the last time 😭). I missed Kristen being Kristen ("I giggle at the thought of you waking up at 3 am because the Antichrist needs changing" 🤣), I missed my favourite trio of skeptical/believer besties investigating paranormal stuff (Kristen being so doting over Ben after his accident melted my cold dead heart), and I missed crazy soundbites like "They think it's going to open the gates of hell... Don't look at me, it's just what it says". Wallace Shawn is fantastic in the role of supervising priest du jour. Speaking of Andy descending into asshole territory, if this is this show's clever way of going for broke and engineering a Kristen/David endgame, I am all for it. If there ever was a show insane enough to pull off a married woman/hot priest OTP, it's this one. I know it's controversial, but dammit, I love their chemistry, and why else have Kristen admit she has feelings for David after a whole previous season of not even mentioning it. I'm probably gonna be disappointed, but this is gonna be a fun season nonetheless. Yeah, I don't have the last episode of season 3 on hand to rewatch, but I'm pretty sure the party was for both Leland and her. It was made fairly clear that they were going to be parents.

I agree, I don't want any of them to die, either. I was really enjoying going from 4 original main female characters in the adult timeline to 6 this season, and I thought there was still stuff left to mine from their dynamic now that they've reunited and are actually talking about things, so I'll be really disappointed if that happens. At least it will make the thousand-year wait until season 3 less excruciating, lol. (That said, if one of them does die, I agree that it makes storytelling sense for it to be Natalie. :/)

I don't know. To me, the "truly terrible" award goes to Saskia for those few episodes in which she went full-on dictator. What the teacher did to her was awful, but it does not justify shoving Teresa's severed toe into Renee's mouth as punishment (WTF!!!) I was on Zoe's side since the beginning, when everyone blamed her for not telling them about the Pocco (heh) when all she did upon setting foot at the reunion was try to tell them that there was something weird going on but no one listened because they were too busy making fun of her. That was actually hard to watch because of how frustrating it was. And the show seemed to lean into it for the lols as the episodes progressed, like "Oh, this is obviously Zoe's fault, too!" all the while Saskia was out there starving people out for not doing their hair properly. Just didn't sit well with me. The "Forgettable Laura" jokes also got old pretty fast. I'll probably watch a season 2 if there is one because I'm in love with Genevieve (she's the exact brand of neurotic, dorky character I tend to fall for), but there were a lot of frustrating things that kept me from truly enjoying this, which is a shame because I was really looking forward to it.

What was Evil Tai in the Mirror mouthing to Our Tai? I can't read lips, and there was no CC.

Interesting how everyone immediately caught on to the fact that David 1) was a pedophile and 2) was about to rape Ellie. When he said that about how the struggle was his favourite part, or something to that effect, my mind immediately went to "Oh so he was a serial killer."