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I figure it was just a plot contrivance so there was more interaction with the family and it made it more noticeable that he was doing too much.

WHY do shows feature a scene with someone knitting and not have an actual knitter show them how to make it look like they’re actually knitting? Sam wasn’t knitting, it looked more like she was just pushing the two needles together. Whatever the hell that was, it wasn’t knitting! (To give them some credit, at least they didn’t call it crochet.)

Or just keep saying “I’m getting too old for this shit”… GRUDGE!!! I was afraid we’d never see Her Majesty again! Love this! But my cats tell me the correct word is minions, not underlings.

Seriously? THIS was the Prettiest Girl on the North Shore? With those eyes? Hopefully this particular picture just didn’t capture her very well. She looks like she’s squinting into the sun.

Lucas is so freaking annoying! Entitled, arrogant, self-centered, immature. Amelia was being ridiculously patient with him while he made her place into a complete mess where she couldn’t find things, drank the last of the coffee, borrowed her car without asking… Yeah, she’s family, but since when does that entitle him to treat her home like a hotel? What’s he going to do next, throw a party while she’s out? Much as I generally can’t stand Owen, I absolutely loved seeing him tell off Millen’s brother. ETA: Shut up, Beltran. Maybe the elevator “just doesn’t like you”, seriously?

I’m pissed that they killed Asher. WHY?! FFS, it was bad enough they killed Melendez, did they really have to kill another fan favorite character? (ETA: Do the writers think this makes them edgy or something? It doesn’t. It makes them annoying assholes.) Charlie was back to being a pain in the butt this week. She needs to learn her place. She’s a med student but she argues like she’s an attending whose opinion should carry a lot of weight. It doesn’t. And why are Lim and Glassman so adamant about having Shaun work with her? That seems like it’s just a plot contrivance. What is this BS about letting poor little Steve cry his lungs out every night? He’s too little to “learn” that crying will get attention just for the sake of attention. (Reminds me of my Evil Starter Husband who insisted that our daughter’s crying was manipulative. She was 3-4 months old, FFS!) And I was annoyed that Lim’s mom felt the need to apologize to her for dating Glassman. She’s an adult. Just because she’s someone’s mother, that doesn’t mean she owes her ADULT child an explanation or apology for living her own damn life! The only thing she should have been apologizing for was oversharing about sex. Nobody needed to hear that.

Snark season indeed! My first snark of the season: I hate the haircut. It does absolutely nothing for her. They could have at least styled it instead of leaving it looking like nobody knew what the hell to do with it! And what happened to Elizabeth saying she didn’t want to go above shoulder length? Second (more important) snark: Why do I have the feeling the reason Fiona is gone is because Krakow heard the viewers preferred Fiona to drippy Elizabeth? ETA: Third snark: Here we go with the anachronisms again. Faith is now running around town in pants. And the surgeon at the hospital is a woman. How true to the period are either of these things? They seem to be implying it’s the 1920s, but it was not common in that period for women to wear pants: https://vintagedancer.com/1920s/did-women-wear-pants/ And in the rare instances when they did wear them in public other than for sports or the beach (article says they’d need to be “as bold as Amelia Earhart” to do so) they were looser fitting and flowy, not like what Faith was wearing. I’ll say it again, may the ghost of Edith Head come back to haunt the costume department!

I don’t like him either. He comes across really arrogant. You, sir, are no Derek Shepherd. (He also looks like his mouth is too small for the rest of his face.)

I felt bad for Schmidt. Bad enough Nico shows up out of the blue, but he’s partnered up and they’re expecting a baby? And then when he introduces himself it’s obvious Nico has never mentioned him and the handsome partner gets his name wrong. Freaking OUCH. It wasn’t exactly like Jo said, that he felt like Nico’s life was way ahead of his. It was more like “tell me without telling me that I was insignificant to you and you could do so much better”. I can sympathize with that. The last guy I dated before my husband, we were together for 2 1/2 years. He was always talking about how he was never, never, ever getting married. A few years later, mutual friends tell me he married the next woman he went out with. I didn’t feel as devastated as Schmidt because by then I was married to a much better guy, but I was kind of shocked and pissed off that Mr. “I Am NEVER Getting Married” not only did, but he married the next woman who took so much as a second look at him. Like, what the hell had I been, chopped liver?

She still got a bit unprofessional encouraging the patient to ask Jordan out. But Charlie was a lot more likeable this episode. Mostly more amusing than annoying. I hope that trend continues. It seems like maybe she and Shaun just bring out the worst in each other. Glassman and Lim’s mom do seem to be hitting it off, but it would be so cliche if they start dating. Just because they’re around the same age doesn’t necessarily mean they have a lot in common. Speaking of cliches, attempted sex in the supply closet—what is this, Grey’s Anatomy? Are we going to have lots of elevator conversations now too? Or someone’s panties tacked to a bulletin board?

I cannot believe the official description of this episode mentions their “great romance”. This was no great romance, it was more like a great emotional torture story. Jack was a damn fool and should have listened to Paul all along. Why he was so obsessed with Alice is completely beyond me. As far as I could tell, she was a self-absorbed emotional terrorist and acted like she had BPD. Her thought process seemed to go something like: “I’m boooooored so I guess I’ll pop in on Jack again out of the blue”… Jack gets hurt again… “Oops, this isn’t going so great, guess I’ll go disappear again”. Lather, rinse, repeat. For your average guy to be willing to tolerate this level of crazy she should have been drop dead gorgeous, but Alice was portrayed as very plain. Either of the Gemmas (Chan or Arterton) would have made a far more convincing Alice. The things she did that pissed me off the most: first, when Jack told her he was married, she should have decided not to contact him again. Yet she immediately turns around and asks him to go with her to her mother’s funeral, completely disregarding the existence of his wife and daughter. If she really intended to be friends only, she should have asked him to bring his wife. Second, when she tells him that if she were capable of being with anyone it would be him… and then she disappears for a few more years and the next thing he hears from her is her wedding invitation. If he had any sense he’d have tossed it in the trash. At the very least, if he just had to have that conversation with her, it should have started with “WHAT THE BLOODY HELL, ALICE?!” Third, she runs out on her wedding because she’s apparently decided it’s really Jack she wants… but does she stick around and tell him that? No, she disappears again!

FFS, Alice. You found out Jack was married and you just couldn’t manage to leave him the hell alone. So you show up again and blow his life up. Good going there… I still don’t get why Jack is so into her. She’s a trainwreck. Served him right in the end when she explained why she is this way and told him they could never really have a relationship. First truly decent thing she’s done, but she should have done it as soon as she found out he was married.

I KNOW I hate Alice. If I’d ever gone on a date with someone and been as obnoxiously questioned as she was interrogating Jack, I’d have headed to the ladies’ room and never come back. At first I wondered if she was terminally ill and didn’t want to get attached to anyone. But after the way she was screaming when Jack went out for coffee and croissants, I’m thinking BPD. I actually do think Domnhall Gleeson is attractive. But Alice, yikes… I don’t get his fascination with her at all! She’s definitely not a woman I look at and think “dang, I wish I looked like her”. And on her, that red lipstick was hideous.

I had to laugh when Bailey was giving them a lecture about how they cared more about racking up procedures than about the patients. Gee, Bailey, exactly whose idea was it that gave them the incentive to check off procedures? Reminds me of a lot of stupid metrics management wanted us to meet when I was still working. Largely self-defeating when people start trying to check boxes instead of putting thought into what they’re doing. Malicious compliance at its best (or more accurately, worst).

This show makes me think of Z Nation minus the zombies.

The ending made me think of the “monster from the id” in Forbidden Planet.

Completely agree on that! There are lots of other things she could have been shown doing.

I’ll grant you that all the weeping and wailing about being a failure as a mother because she wasn’t producing enough milk was making it all about her. (I had the same problem when I had my daughter and I was disappointed, but I didn’t feel like a total failure or freak out over it.) But taking a break and relaxing with a glass of wine? That’s not “making it all about her”, it’s being a human being. The idea that she shouldn’t be allowed to do that sounds pretty misogynistic to me. Waiting to breastfeed until there is no alcohol in your system is not going to harm the baby. The CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/breastfeeding-special-circumstances/vaccinations-medications-drugs/alcohol.html) says: Nobody’s saying she should go out and get trashed every night. But a new mom is not a robot and needs some self-care or she’s going to burn out and that will be far more harmful to the baby than an occasional glass of wine.

I think the idea is that you continue giving formula until the alcohol is out of your system.

Unpopular opinion: I’m surprised so many commenters seem to like Charlie. I found her annoying as hell. Is the show trying to imply that a person with ASD who’s obviously very smart could not have learned by her age that running her mouth constantly is something to avoid? You don’t even have to be able to read the social cues of the people around you to grasp the concept that talking too much is not a good thing. I couldn’t help thinking that someone who (compulsively?) spills the beans at the first opportunity (after invading the daughter’s privacy) is going to make a lousy doctor who violates HIPAA frequently. As to the brain operation: seriously? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: why does this hospital have general surgeons doing neurosurgery? That makes no sense! Was Glassman the only actual neurosurgeon in the entire hospital?

Putting on my “knitter annoyed with stupid stereotypes about knitters” hat: when the heck are TV writers going to get with the times and realize hardly anyone knits with straight needles anymore because circulars are so much easier to handle? (This is right up there with the outdated “10 and 2” advice whenever they show someone learning to drive. 10 and 2 stopped being recommended when airbags started breaking arms. 9 and 3 is safer.) Yeah, I know, it had to be a straight needle to be the murder weapon because a circular would have had the weight of the project on its cable, and the pointed tips would only be 4-5 inches long so wouldn’t have worked as well. But they could have had the murder weapon be sharp scissors or something. Knitters usually have a pair of scissors handy.

I just wish TV writers would get with the damn times and knock off the “10 and 2” crap already. That was before airbags, so it’s very outdated. The current advice is 9 and 3 to avoid arm fractures if the airbag deploys. Funniest part: Ebun and Dottie on men getting older.

Hell yes! “YOU KILLED MY CAT!!!” would be the first thing to come out of my mouth. I see why they wrote it the way they did since the reveal of the other Smiths coming after them occurred late in the episode, but it didn’t make any sense except to serve the plot. (BTW I actually have a cat named Max—except he’s black and longhaired—and if anyone hurt him I’d lose my freaking mind.) Cat tax: I sure hope John disabled the tripwire bomb before Denise went back home! I kept thinking that although they didn’t come out and say so, the baby or babies would be for after they quit being spies—though they’d end up on the run and hiding out like Alex Skarsgård and his Jane at the beginning of episode 1.

I’m thinking Beatrice is the most likely to have killed Daniel. Besides seeming plenty murderous enough what with encouraging the other kids to try to drown Harper, she was obviously jealous and just comes across generally evil. BTW, just how fucking stupid is Sarah? She can hold her head up and go back to business as usual if she wants to, but sending Harper back to school was criminally dumb. I’m almost 50 years out of high school and I still remember just how cruel high school kids can be. Why the hell doesn’t she? Second most likely is the brat (whose name I forget) whose dad is a cop. Same jealousy motive. Either of them would be more than happy to see Harper ultimately blamed and neither seems to care about the death penalty she’d get. Third possibility: a twist that it really was an accident and all this vitriol was for nothing. Fourth possibility: even bigger twist that Harper somehow was late getting her powers and really did kill Daniel. I really want to see both Abigail and Beatrice get their just deserts for being heinous bitches.

So Sam pulls a panel off and it’s immediately sucked into the engine exhaust and incinerated. As soon as she had to use her tether to hold the handle open I was sure the same thing was going to happen to her. It seems pretty unbelievable that when Palmer sent her flying it didn’t happen, especially after her earlier comment that she felt like she was being pulled off the ship. And what’s supposed to have happened to Sam in the aftermath? Not to mention Dev, Ed, and company? While we watched this my husband kept saying “they’re all going to prison”… though Dev is definitely not in prison in 2012. (Also, we never got to see what happened when Kelly inevitably found out about Alex’s part in the Great Discriminator Heist.) How did Ilya know where Miles was being held? Did he follow Bishop there? Margo was lucky the Soviets withdrew immunity. Any US prison can’t be as bad as whatever Soviet gulag she’d be sent to if she went back to Russia. And her involvement with the asteroid caper seemed almost as much of a screw-you to Irina as an attempt to keep the Mars program going. (I suppose Sergei’s death might explain why it was so easy for Margo to meet up with him. The Soviets probably figured he would try to contact her and followed her so she’d lead them to him.)