MsMollyD

Re: the episode title, Too bad they Might Be Giants are totally the wrong time period for this series, because I Palindrome I would have killed it as a soundtrack for Floyd and Dodd's relationship. http://tmbw.net/wiki/Lyrics:I_Palindrome_I

So I originally read the Buffalo guy's question to Mike, "who are you, Otto's kid by the maid," as just generic racism. "Oh so you're taking this over? You don't LOOK like a Gerhardt," but as a commentator above pointed out it actually was probably confirmation of my theory from last week that Hanzee was Otto's bastard kid and everyone knew it. If that really was Hanzee's mom that Mike let go in "act of mercy," I really wish we had gotten to see more of what it must have been like for her and Hanzee to live in that house all those years. I mean, we can imagine, but... Poor Mike. Thought he was set to be King of the World, but he ended up one swingline stapler short of working in a cube farm. "Typewriters! They're not just for women anymore!" I thought Peggy's speech in the squad car was meant to show us the extent of her delusion. All the societal pressures she described were and are very real, but she also never saw that the way she ended up where she ended up WAS through her own choices. Driving home with Rye in the windshield. Not taking Lou's advice to fess up, because the Gerhardts were coming. Stealing all that toilet paper from work. A woman who could taze Dodd Gerhardt and truss him up like a Christmas goose could have hit the road for California if she wanted to. She just never saw all the choices she was making as choices. And so people died.

What about this for a theory: Hanzee IS a Gerhardt and finally got tired of no one acknowledging the fact. Otto brought Hanzee to the compound as a child. While giving room and board to an orphan in exchange for labor was certainly a thing, what if Otto did it because he's Hanzee's dad? Hanzee shot Dodd right after Dodd called him a mutt and a half breed. What if he's as much a Gerhardt son as any of them and that comment was the last straw? You have to admit he would have been a way better capo of the family than Dodd.

Is no one going to mention Mama Mamè's look of horror when she saw her daughter's racy modeling photos? Her face clearly said, "girl, letting you grow up in America was a HUGE MISTAKE."

Tasha's really in the power position for the next episode, unless someone else shakes up the boy/girl split. Right now the women think Tasha is 100% on Team Girl, but she could easily oust one of them by sticking to her original alliance with Jeremy. Or she could go with the women to get rid of one of the guys. I'll be very surprised if whoever goes next isn't determined by Tasha. (Unless she tries to oust Wentworth and the idol comes into play.)