ItCouldBeWorse

Yes, I thought I remembered seeing her swap cards, which I assume meant she swapped hers for his, and would thus want hers back. I can't remember; do they have actual pictures or names on them? If so, how likely is it that Julian wouldn't have noticed the swap?

I certainly hope that Getty, Trevor, Alberta and Thor filled the other ghost and Sam in on Elias's visit, and that she warned Jay to watch out for demons, but I fear not.

Hetty does it too. "Sit Down, John/Open up the Window" 1776 is possibly my favorite movie musical, and it doesn't matter if you're interested in American history. There are so many memorable songs and wonderful performances. Long-time television fans will recognize many of the actors (William Daniels as John Adams; Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson; John Cullum as Edward Rutledge; Blythe Danner as Abigail Adams Martha Jefferson), some of whom also starred in the Broadway musical. Howard da Silva is an excellent Franklin, and Ron Holgate is a wonderful Richard Henry Lee (he sings one of my favorite songs.) You can watch it for free (in the US) here: https://tubitv.com/movies/691740/1776?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed

Det. Rivers was cartoonishly over-the-top. It was nice to see Elsbeth aassert herself multiple times with him, even before she invoked her actual reason for being at the police department. Jordana Brewster as Chloe was very good; although I figured out that she had administered the fatal dose at the victim's request, I though it was to spare him the embarrassment of the trial. I thought it was a little strange that on Elizabeth's first visit to Chloe, she was allowed to overlap with her next client; you'd think she'd be more discreet, but maybe she knew the client wouldn't care. So the wife got financial control, but the architect husband had hidden away enough money to buy a 10 million dollar Cezanne? Kaya will need a new wardrobe once she becomes a detective. I wonder if she'll go shopping with Elsbeth.

Has Julian not noticed that he's been missing his id card for a few days? Did he simply get a new one, at which time his old one should have been deactivated? Or did Maddy swap hers for his, in which case, if anyone checks their records, their locations will have also been swapped? Does she have to slip Julian's card back into his pocket/swap back for hers?

I assume this episode was inspired by the Panera Bread Charged lemonade: https://www.cspinet.org/cspi-news/panera-stop-selling-charged-lemonade-following-lawsuits What if Maddy had mentioned Ellie and the opioids? Even consuming half an edible seemed risky. It's also nuts how the defendant was arrested, had an immediate Mapp hearing (suppression of evidence following illegal police search), followed by an immediate trial. Just crazy. With regard to the Mapp hearing, the prosecutor Olympia would have pushed that the DA to show evidence that the police knew about the open house policy that day at the sorority before they entered without a warrant. And of course the girl who did spike the drink should face charges for her criminally negligent behavior. When the DA came to visit Olympia to return evidence in person, I thought at first he was going to ask her out, not tell her that she was his "bear." So that's twice that an attorney on this show has inspired another attorney to declare a feud (the 1st having been Sarah and Maddy.) Didn't enjoy it then, won't enjoy it now. I'm also unclear on how the DA got to her office without her knowing he was in the building. Can anyone walk freely around the office without being approved by security? Any lawyer? Seems dangerous.

I was surprised that no one suggested that if Thor committed to eventual Hell, he'd likely be separated from Flower in the after-afterlife. (She did rob a bank, but is probably not condemned to an eternity of torment.)

I had some trouble believing Isaac didn't have an older ruffle of his own. Had he never attended a formal occasion? I would have liked a remark about how his old one(s) had been destroyed by the laundress using too much bleach or something.

I agree: 100 Cheerios, pennies (that won't be a thing in the future, I guess), etc. It did take me a little bit out of the show wondering how every single student in Barbara's class had parents who could afford wigs (and possibly special clothes). Or who were all into the project enough to powder their kids' hair, or whatever.

She helped found The Roots (in 1987!) with Questlove! That's 38 years ago.

Many people on the internet agree with your theory. If it turns out to be true, it will not be the surprise that Mike White thought it would be.

I watched Walter Goggins in The Unicorn, which was a cute sitcom with a very good supporting cast. "A recently widowed father with two daughters is encouraged by his friends to re-enter the dating scene. To his surprise he becomes highly sought after due to his status as both an eligible widower and as a devoted father. The show is set in Raleigh, North Carolina."

Olympia's relationship with Sarah makes her appear weak, not like someone competing for a partnership. She can be an empathetic mentor without being a push-over. I has to be Ellie's relationship with Alfie, or Mattie would have said " Drugs are destroying our relationship." This is how I took it. Ellie interrupted Matty's sentence. But now I see why people understood it the other way. I don't see how a lowly associate, and especially a female one, who is "brutally honest with no filter" could advance with those traits, unless there is a partner with those same exact traits who wants to mentor her. Exactly.

I agree with all of this. Elsbeth doesn't exactly keep all her opinions to herself with people she cares about (see Kaya and her tenant), and it's completely normal for even grown children to want their parents to listen more and interfere less. I'm not surprised at all that he was unhappy to hear that he didn't get his job completely on his own merit. I don't think she has actually decided that the judge entered the victim's apartment and beat him to death with a baseball bat himself, since that's almost impossible to imagine. I suppose she might think he hired someone to do it, though. I personally believe since she still doesn't know what the judge's connection to the victim is, she's not sure what his connection to the murderer is. He could be protecting someone else, for instance, or he could have been bribed. (I suppose she could also suspect he might have been blackmailed, but he's too much the mustache-twirling villain for that to be the explanation.)

If someone makes a threat or tries to blackmail you, you are permitted to expose that threat. And I believe the ethics rule applies to a lawyer secretly taping a witness or adversary in a legal proceeding. Elsbeth is a private citizen in her "dispute" with the judge, even though he trolled her by mentioning she was a lawyer and had probably acted unethically with regard to that client she had represented in Chicago (who had also threatened her.)

The ghost table only has room for 4. Remember when Hetty wanted a seat but Trevor shut her out? They're definitely not paying their tab, or returning the stolen art. Jay knows when to leave well-enough alone.

Are Billy and Sarah really the best people that Olympia could send to sweep for bugs? What equipment did they use? This isn't House where the junior doctors had to look for clues in the patients' homes. Big law firms have actual experts on retainer for this (and yes, I know the client couldn't pay for them, but this whole case seems to be pro bono, and if Olympia wants to win, she needs to use actual experts.)

No way he would do this. Having an attorney working on cases under fake credentials could be disastrous for the firm.

In a real highly competitive law firm, Sarah would not be getting good performance reviews. New associates are supposed to be devoted to their work and unobtrusive. Sarah is highly obtrusive and annoying.

Only after Ellie had been clean for a year. So not for 11 months.

It sounded like this was a pattern that existed before this show. Kays said that Elsbeth had a romance in Scotland - so I guess she returned there with Angus for a bit. Elsbeth really needs to start surreptitiously recording conversations with bad guys. A recording of the judge threatening "her friend," the acquitted defendant, would have landed him in a lot of trouble.

But how did the police know to go there to save Elsbeth? I suppose, but the show could have used a line to explain that.

If they hadn't gained custody of Alfie, he might have died instead of Ellie, who would then have gone to jail. They were right to fight for the child (although I don't know why Ellie couldn't have had weekly supervised visits in their home.)

Perhaps because it's a family vacation, and they don't want Saxon in a probably distant single room, if they even exist. I assumed he's using data. At some point someone in the family will need to text someone else, most likely, and they'll be using data too.

And he bought boyfriend jeans. Which are not meant for boyfriends. Me, too. It really, really bothered me that they were handling the plague situation themselves, and not immediately calling the CDC as required. Silly how Bruce and Joyce put on gowns and gloves to talk to the plague patient. They'd be wearing respirators, as plague can be transmitted through droplets. They'd isolate the patient as best they could before fiddling with the cat. It would be a very big disruption to the hospital. Yes! He shouldn't be diagnosing non-surgical patients. He shouldn't be roaming the floor. He seems to be a jack-of-all trades, not a specialist. The problem is that Ron is the only other doctor we've really met, so Bruce gets thrust into situations he's not meant to be. Don't they have an infectious disease specialist there?