Glade

I'm obsessed with Christian's crescent moon printed trucker jacket; I want one! This runway was painful to watch, the way the lighting washed out most of the looks that featured subtle colors/details and the clearly uncomfortable cold/wet/dark/glare conditions are just inexcusable. They should have canceled this and filmed in the damn studio where we could actually see the looks properly without them getting wet! I didn't realize that Damballa, the god invoked in Chucky/Child's Play was real, but I would have sent Praije home, not Kara; it's really heartbreaking to see her go. And I wouldn't have given Bishme two wins in a row either; Raimi's was the more stunning look. I didn't get the praise for Laurences long too skinny skirt that looked like it was only staying up over the panty because of how tight it was. Ugh.

I thought last episode was the midseason finale, which would have made more sense given it's cliffhangers while this episode just dragged along until we finally saw Scotland again. I think the Abernathy plot is ridiculous, I don't buy that he just randomly runs across Ian's dog in the woods and knows who it is, and I find the idea that he has the time/energy/ability to stalk Ian equally implausible. Maybe Roger/Buck should have split up? Buck runs to Inverness to see if they're still awaiting passage, while Roger flies to North Carolina before going back in time and like, waiting in the general region of the caves? I guess communication would be extremely difficult if not impossible between the two afterwards, but still... Maybe it will make sense next year if Roger is supposed to run into J/C/I in Scotland or something.

It was really inconsiderate of the boys to just claim opposite beds without even asking if Nick and Charlie would obviously want to share one.

Big was a mistake. Personally, at the end of season 1 I hoped we would never see that stereotypically emotionally unavailable, older rich guy again and Carrie would move on to be with someone better. I resented the fact that he kept coming back. But even if you leave aside whether dating/marrying Big at all was a mistake, cheating on Aidan with a married Big (after the ahole told her he wasn't the marrying type) was obviously a mistake.

I loved how the on-screen text told us the scenes are January 2000, and then the words 'WINTER 1999' flashed, followed by a timestamp saying it was January 1st... This was just boring and ridiculous, those scenes of Megan and Isabella arguing right after leaving the cabin were so pointless, just restating things we've already heard. Why did Megan the superhacker just HAVE to get to the video footage first, before the police? And then she HAD to stupidly confront Steve in person and then talked of telling the police about the footage they already had. It made no sense, like most of the character's actions here, they are just empty puppets for bad writers. Also, I'm pretty sure there would be records about the lake camera existing. Megan's mother was in remission from....SOMETHING? I don't care, but the writer's should have; I wonder if Tommy Wiseau was part of the writer's room this season? Tuition at UW would have been $3,858 for Megan's freshman year, and since her mother was low-income, she would have been eligible for a pell grant and subsidized loans...after annoying us with the scholarship plotline for so many episodes, maybe they could have showed Megan realizing that she could still go. Please cancel this trash! But I wish the S1 showrunner/writer got a multi-million dollar deal at Netflix or something so we could get something as good as S1.

Open, free dialogue (truth and reconciliation) is what will heal rifts, not dinners where people are supposed to stay silent and ball their fists under the tables. I didn't care for this episode, but I also absolutely hated 'In The Pale Moonlight,' which was just a celebration of American imperialism, a country where people are encouraged to think they have a right to wage illegal wars and then say 'oops,' and now we also have a self-righteous, uniquely American narrative in favor of the death penalty as "justice" with no genuine rehabilitation or reform possible. I don't think it's a powerful exploration of gray areas, it's just a nod to the audience that no one really takes the Trek utopian ideals seriously.

That was a really sweet ending, Tom Holland was brilliant throughout this series. Perhaps the prosecutor felt that cross-examining Danny would only help the defense's case in the end. I'm glad this episode didn't end in full-scale preaching of 'you have to forgive no matter what,' because it is not necessary for healing to forgive your abusers or their enablers, whether they're your parents or not.

I wasn't really very moved by anything here, there was just so much plot that the characters were drowned in each successive trauma, barely even remembering that they sent their son to a cabin in the woods with some guy. Full circle from meh to meh.

I really wasn't expecting Buck to be given such a sympathetic arc, or for Rob to wind up a kidnapping time traveler. I wonder what his motive is; I can understand just wanting to time travel, but taking Jemmy is bizzare. I don't buy that it's to find the gold; the entire point of J/C writing to Roger and Bri about it in the letters is that the gold is as far as we know still hidden in the cave in present time, so all you have to do is fly to NC and hike in the woods to look for it, going back in time and sailing for a war zone to do that is ludicrous. But hopefully we will learn more about who Rob is and what he is after. I'd say it involves something in Scotland, not America. It's interesting that Bri didn't point out, that she is also related to Buck via Jaimie, since Dougal is his uncle and Buck is Dougal's son or grandson or something? But maybe Buck doesn't know that, since he didn't react to hearing Geillis's name either. It's probably best to avoid that subject, given that her parents killed both Dougal and Geillis, anyway.

And the problem is, they came up with that simply because they wanted a shocking, jaw-dropping twist for the last scene of the final episode; not a natural development of Jeanette's character over the following six episodes, but a gimmicky, tacked-on ending simply for shock value. The finale would have been so much better without it, the scene negated the emotional growth we'd seen from the character in favor of a pointless wink to the audience.

I feel confused as to the order in which many of these scenes occurred; was the winter party where the sex tape was played after Luke already got accepted into the Coast Guard Academy (which according to google, has no costs for tuition/room/board...so all Luke's father could withhold is pocket money, or I guess he could cancel his trust fund or something but the writing on this show about college costs is so shallow and brain-dead it's not even funny)? Was that scene meant to imply that he had given up on the Coast Guard? Honestly that is a very tame sex tape, there's no actual nudity in it but are we to believe that Luke played it in order to piss off his father? When its the middle of the night and you've just tied up, drugged, interrogated, blackmailed and your best friend shot your already very drunk boyfriend is of course the best time to reveal your pregnancy. I do think that Brent's overt actions make him much worse than Luke. I'm glad this cliche teen murder mystery will finally end next week.

The trailer is interesting (the 1940's version of Theater Des Vampires!) and Madeline (if she is the woman lying in front of Claudia and nodding) looks just like she did in the books.

I passionately hated Praijie's top, it looked so cheap and out of place, he shouldn't have been in the top. Even though Fabio made that terrible decision to hide his shorts, I still thought his look was better than Korto's; she couldn't rip off a piece of fabric from hers to have a successful look. Laurence's mauve suit was also incredibly dull and didn't fit the challenge at all; so I don't see why Fabio had to go, I'll miss him. Kara Saun absolutely deserved the win her look was flawless, while Raimi's top was uninspired.

Of course Jaimie and Claire had to have their regular dramatic separation and reunion. If Roger and Bree ever go back in time, they can tell their parents about Margaret Thatcher. But Claire did get my hopes up that they would actually depart for Scotland soon. Ian and Rachel continue to be sweet together, and I absolutely approve of their bonding over a dog, even if the blackberries in that scene were very obviously potted plants with tiny, well-pruned bushes, not the sprawling thickets of blackberries, black raspberries, red raspberries...that would be prevalent in the wild in that region. Seeing Roger give his class was great, I hope he can turn it into a more permanent position. Honestly for a moment I thought Rob Cameron must be the knucklevalee/a fellow traveler after that interesting interaction. If that's who I think it is, it must be horrifying for Roger to see him show up like this after what he did; I'm glad he got a good punch in.

This was an afterthought. Jimbo's story was inspiring, despite how uncomfortable it made Ru, who couldn't wait to get back to the script. My jaw dropped when Kahana came out in her finale look; she is so gorg and her looks are to die for. Jimbo also looked incredible and Jessica Wild brought her elegant beauty, as always. It makes sense that Lala Ri would win what has turned out to be just Miss Congeniality, a prize that doesn't reflect the drag looks she brought with her this season which tended to be very lackluster. I guess the producers put in that wheel of fortune twist because they knew who they wanted to win and didn't bother filming a separate winning moment for every single queen. Jessica still deserved to be in the top 2 if not win this prize, but I guess she already won by coming back and proving/boosting herself. I'm so glad, and so relieved that Jimbo won her place in the hall of fame! The third time definitely was the charm, and I loved that they showed us that clip of her snatch game performance, which was beyond hilarious. I am officially sick of her gigantic breasts, though, and very glad I won't have to tune in to see them next week. Now please put Pangina in the hall of fame too and let her reign launch Drag Race Thailand season 3 out of the development hell it's been stuck in for years.