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I am confident that you didn't miss anything! If a crush has ever been implied, it was beyond subtle.

What, you mean to say a hot pink, bejeweled sweater vest over a short-sleeved floral print dress over a long-sleeved floral print blouse isn't to your taste?! The floaty dress was lovely on her. She's beautiful, but that often gets hidden. Fingers crossed!

That was outstanding physical acting from Claire Foy in the scene where she tells Philip she's only ever loved him and could he say the same. She fully embodied Elizabeth's righteous, controlled anger and nailed the rapid breathing and taut body language. Also thought it was a good creative direction to have their fight in the car be visible but not heard, told in flashback. God, I hate Philip. It would be helpful to see the real painting of Churchill. Most commissioned portraiture is expected to be at least a little kind so I'm sympathetic to his displeasure. And while I agree with the artist that art should be honest, there's a range of honesty. You could catch me in the morning light with a double chin and puffy eyes and that would be totally true, but a picture of me would be equally true from a different angle in better light. Harsh reality has its place in art and portraiture, just not generally in a portrait for hire. I get what the artist was going for and perhaps Churchill was just being vain, but this just doesn't seem like the right deployment of that kind of character study. I'm also a bit surprised he wasn't able to preview it before it was unveiled. That said, Churchill seemed to be in quite a bit of denial, so a kinder portrait may still have upset him. Oh, Winnie. When I was in college, I had a drawing class that required me to do self-portraits a couple of times a week for an entire semester. It took more than half the semester for me to stop making myself prettier, with more idealized features. It was extraordinarily difficult to get real with the mirror.

Wasn't it also implied she was romantically involved with Eve in the Loom of Fate alternate timeline (before Eve died)? That's how I read the scene. She's definitely more than a little bi. Not sure why she didn't hang around with Estrella for a little while! They did not explain this. It was a good episode but that's a pretty glaring continuity issue. Jenkins was amazing! Surely, the vampires zip fast enough that he shouldn't have been able to take out like 8 of them, but hey it's Jenkins so I'm happy to handwave that.

Nope, not just you. He's the worst. (Well, one of them.) Don't flog too hard. We promise to mock only a teeny bit. :)

"I'm just a girl, towering over a boy, asking him to admit he loves her."

They've shown us the exterior of his place, which is in the village. He pointed it to Eleanor and chided her for never having taken any interest in finding out where he lives. I've ranted about this in an episode thread...this inconsistency is odd. Why do some soul mates apparently have one home (Jianyu/Tahani) and others don't (Eleanor/Chidi)? How can everyone get their perfect home unless they live solo? Isn't it a weird waste of space to build everyone their own home assuming at least some (if not most/all) of soul mates would eventually live together? Does soul mate have a different meaning than romantic partner in the Good Place?

I stopped in for a couple of episodes today as background noise. Such a mistake! Caught a couple of super spoiled, entitled brides wanting something no one has ever seen. One (Amanda) spent 30K of her parents' money on a custom Pnina to achieve maximum bling and volume. In her talking heads she informs us she dislikes anything that looks cheap. Which made me think some very uncharitable things about the quality of her straw hair and bad tan. I really need to stay away... bitchiness is not a good look on me.

Welcome back, Show! I adore you. There are very few shows I evangelize for -- I live in the land of people who claim they don't watch TV, plus it's awkward to have recommendations bomb -- but everyone should give this one a try. Sharp, clever sitcoms are so rare.

Yeah, why IS Renard against Nick now? Can anyone explain how/why he turned so completely?

I pulled up the video to confirm (because it makes me itchy to state definite opinions without verifying) -- Nate is absolutely talking to Commander Steel, not Rex!

I remembered being irritated with the story, on the verge of bailing, but didn't realize just how little I retained until I couldn't follow the plot. I forgot about Diana and her voodoo dolls. Didn't know who Bonaparte was (still don't). Forgot about the stick. Sigh.

Loved that the AAA guy not-so-subtly tipped them off about resetting the car to the primary driver's settings. Who knew Eddie would remember all the smooth/cool jazz stations? Jessica's harshness can make the show nearly unwatchable, so I'm always glad when they give her softer moments.

To me, the elimination challenge dishes looked delicious! I would have happily eaten everything except the chicken livers. Great to see clean, modern southern food, getting away from some of the clichés.

While I don't watch sports and wouldn't know Lynch from Adam, they did explain it in-show so I got the joke. I understood there was a celebrity witness who Rosa admired and wanted to meet because he never talked, yet he rambled on and on. (I'm sure it was funnier to someone who knows the story.) Every time he said quesa-DILL-a, I cringed.

The "invisible driver" car seat prank was an actual thing a few years ago, several videos went viral of comedians rolling up to drive-through windows hidden under the fake car seat cover. It's dumb, but it's not new and it's a "costume" one could buy. (It's surprisingly effectively when you see video of it.)

The last frames didn't make sense to me (in more ways than one). After the bus exits the screen I expected to see Amy and Charles behind the bus, reacting. Instead, we get a totally different street scene where no one is aware of what just happened. I guess that must be the other side of the street. But why show that, instead of the reaction from the people she had turned back to face? Too horrifying, maybe? I do not know where they are going with this. I know it's a weird thing to be focusing on, but it was a shocking moment that already didn't make sense. This felt like an alternate reality, Gina gets wiped out and everything changes. People just going about their business.

Maybe they thought it was too easy? I love pickled stuff and like it as a thoughtful alternative to the classic bean/potato/mac sides, but my first reaction was it was awfully simple for TC. And since each one of them owned a dish, it had to stand alone for that chef.

Yes. Several judges noted the consistency and vegetables were terrible and no one had anything positive to say. When then recurring words are gloopy / murky / mushy, you're in trouble. It sounded like a good idea -- I imagined a niçoise type treatment with the brightness, acidity, and herb of a salsa verde. But I had a Mexican salsa verde in mind. What she served looked really gross. I liked her & thought she would go the distance. That team really tanked. All 4 dishes got lousy reviews for their flavors, well beyond not being "traditional" southern barbecue. They didn't support each other at all.

Quite right! Ezekiel should have gotten a "plus" like I gave the other two: thief plus technology. That was his future -- a library run via tech. Cassandra led in a magical way. Jake followed the Flynn / Indiana Jones style. Like I said, I like both versions. An ensemble is interesting and offers more angles, much better for TV longevity. My point is simply that there are some big differences in the adaptation which I believe leads to the disconnect many feel when Flynn is present.

Mostly I like all three of them as well as Flynn, but the show struggles to combine them. For me it's due to the downgrade of what makes a Librarian in the transition from movie to show. To make it an ensemble show, they changed some fundamental stuff. Flynn follows the movie model, one Librarian with broad knowledge capable of solving all the riddles and being a swashbuckling bag-and-tagger. He is capable of doing the entire job himself, even without a Guardian. Whereas all three of our new baby librarians together make up one Librarian: one can break in and steal anything, one has arts/culture/language knowledge to decode ancient challenges plus can fight, one can compute plus also has a talent for magic. Separately, I don't think Cassandra or Ezekiel would be enough on their own. Jake I think could be. (Yes, they showed us the futures where they all succeeded, but again that's a new definition of a Librarian.) That Ezekiel would have been asked to interview for Librarian is a non-starter based on what we saw in the movies. Especially considering he was still a teenager! It's a retcon IMO. So it makes sense we have a hard time putting those two halves -- the new parts-of-a-whole team and the original solo everything Librarian -- together in a story. And they have changed Flynn, too. Either version is fine with me, but it feels disjointed when they are combined.

That's my favorite episode of the series, or at least in the top few. The casting and credits were just so much fun! When they all find their jackets and immediately fall into a routine...only to stop when they realize they're still mad at each other. Shawn's face all lit up watching them sing, and his fear of losing Gus. (If Shawn was "jealous", it was only a desire to be included and join all of them.) I also liked that it gave Gus / Dule got more to do. He's my favorite character! Love his faces. Also love Despereaux. Don't love anything with Yin/Yang.

Keller isn't my type physically, but count me in! He is always twinkly, you can tell he's having a good time. He has passion, gentleness, and light-heartedness that are all very attractive. (And, duh, he speaks French.) I've never been to Burger Bar. Union Square gives me hives! So many idiots. Maybe I should go so I can see Hubert!

I assume it was intentionally stylized to evoke comic-book NYC, not real NYC. The Harmony Shoal building even had a spinning, Daily Planet-like globe on top. However it definitely didn't look anything like the city -- it had that generic Gotham / Star City look that could be any big city but none in particular so for storytelling's sake it probably should have been left unspecified.

I actually thought it was a trick when he "won" the Eye of Ra so quickly. It was way too easy. He didn't have to get anything right, simply be honest ... and even at that he got several tries. I also didn't love the spoon feeding of the situation -- the intervention and the fight in the airport both gave him the exact insights he'd need to pass the chess test. It was repetitive, cycling through "Flynn's a self-centered PITA" three times. The intervention could have been cut to make room to slow down the island sequence.