I have been lurking here for a while and have enjoyed reading the posts. I couldn't believe that nobody had posted about the last episode as of this morning, so I registered for an account! I started out hating this show, but it has actually grown on me. I do feel it is missing something, though and it is not nearly as funny or engaging as it should be and as the previews built it up to be. It is trying too hard to be Sex In the City. Abby is supposed to be Carrie and Phoebe is Samantha. I guess Janine's character is Miranda?' No Charlotte. Maybe the new character will be Charlotte. I like Abby and Lyla (sorry to see her go), but can't stand Phoebe. Hate her character and hate the actress. Find her very annoying and her smug sexuality is just way over the top. The actor that plays Jake is very good but the whole situation with his young girlfriend bugs me. He is just so average looking. There is no way a successful young TV actress would go for him! Average looking and wildly successful, maybe, or really good looking but a loser perhaps, but not an average looking loser! Maybe the character was supposed to be really good-looking but the producers were wowed by his audition and cast him despite his looks. In any event, it is bad casting. The younger boyfriend is also terrible casting since he and Abby look about the same age. I found it a little hard to suspend my disbelief when Jake was making fun of how young he was! The part should have been cast with a CW type young hot actor! Speaking of (formerly) hot young actors! I totally cringed at the whole C Thomas Howell storyline, right down to the green polka dot socks during sex! I can't believe that this was the same hot young actor from "The Outsiders" Wow, has he aged. Sorry to get off track, I realize that episode was last week. Anyway, in response to the last poster, they didn't say what the caseworker decided, but the implication was that it was not good. I read that Janine Garofolo had stayed on after deciding to quit so that they could wrap up her character. I have a feeling that with the forced leave of absence from her job and potentially losing her kids, she will end up either leaving town or going off the deep end.