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Well, now we know why the editors played up the “Erica vs Kym” angle for most of the season. Honestly I feel like, while Erica got the prize, Kym will end up the real winner long term. They didn’t lean into the reality drama the way Erica did—the most the producers were able to get from them is “we’ve been each other’s competition since day one” and “I came here to win”—and the end result is they came across as professional and good to work with while Erica was left looking like that exhausting person who needs constant emotional caretaking and has coworkers walking on eggshells all the time. IMO Kym’s food always looked a lot more innovative and exciting than Erica’s, as well.

I mean, I’m sure a lot of it is editing. The “anyone but Kym” could have been a cute bit of ribbing had it come from someone who had not been shown eye rolling, whining about not being in the top, claiming “betrayal”, etc. As it is, she just looks exhausting to be around. Andrea’s getting a “peaking at the right time” edit so I am wondering if the final 3 will be her, Kym, and whichever of Erica/Josh gets their head back in the game faster

“I don’t care who wins this one, as long as it’s not Kym!” All you’ve got to do is cook a better dish than theirs, Erica. Simple 🤷🏻‍♀️

Interesting to see Anna Maxwell Martin go all Victor Frankenstein here after seeing her play Mary Shelley in The Frankenstein Chronicles. This show needs to find an aesthetic and stick to it. We’ve got Sherlock looking like Season 2 Umbrella Academy Klaus, hypnotic singers styled like pre-Y2K prom queens, Evil Colonel Saunders from America, genderfluid teens in 1950s face veils, all crammed in with Looks Like Victorian With Crazier Fabric Patterns. I can’t tell if we’re in an alternate timeline of a fever dream.

Very, very unimpressed with Erica in this episode. Not only was she a sore loser, she made everything all about her both during team selection and at Judge’s Table. She’s certainly not coming across as someone I’d want to work with or to hire.

Watson is a notoriously unreliable narrator so I am up for a new interpretation of his character, Holmes’ character, and their relationship. Flipping the script so that Watson is the actual smart one keeping their business afloat could be an interesting take, if that’s where they’re going. Seeing the characters from the outside is interesting too. The anachronisms are doing my head in. Unchaperoned teenagers making out on the lawn, “hey you guys”, etc. The love triangle is boring already, especially as the two boys look so much like each other. I agree with the previous poster that said it would be better if the main characters were younger. Right now I’m feeling this is very uneven—interesting elements clumsily applied and executed. First episodes can often have that problem so I'm willing to give it a chance.

On to the more important question...did anyone catch what book Sousa was reading in his final scene?

Isn’t Jonathan pretty committed to the body positivity movement? I figured that was one reason he was not hiding his “imperfections”.

This is a standard Moira response to stress and upset—lock herself in the closet with booze and drugs. Pretty sure she did that at the beginning of season 1? I know it’s been talked about before.

Also, didn't someone (was it the influencer?) comment on the earrings? I have a feeling the the earrings will figure into the story further down the line. I feel like they must have made sure her old earrings were in frame too, because in earlier scenes I noticed them despite the fact the old ones weren’t, in and of themselves, remarkable; then they gave her the new ones; then Influencer Girl Specifically called them out despite them not being flashy or noticably “special” either. Strange.

How else is Paul going to call us? 🤷🏻‍♀️

The Junkyard Killer was mentored by The Surgeon, who met him as a hospital employee, so I think it's safe to assume that he is knowledgeable enough about medicine to keep someone alive after amputating their hand. I was! It was very useful during Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, because we had a phone that didn't go out when our power went out. We still have the phone in our basement, though we don't have a land line to plug it into anymore. As for the private line still being paid for...I'm glad they addressed that even if it was a little hand-wave-y. I don't have to stretch *too* hard to see a small, obscure line item get carried over year after year till no one managing the accounts really knows what it is and just keeps paying it. I am highly suspicious of Eve, and I don't like the idea of her and Malcolm together, but i *do* like the way he is nervous and flustered around her. Given his notoriety as "serial killer's son!", the way he reacted to being called a "friend" a couple episodes ago, and the bit at the end of this ep. about his former colleagues not liking him at *all*, I get the feeling that the relationships he's forming in NY, with the NYPD and otherwise, are something new to him, and his reaction to Eve is a nice way of showing/reinforcing that IMO.

Trashy Grandma and Leland had what must have been the single most uninspiring screen kiss...which was even more obvious given it was paired with the amazing one between David and Kristin in Kristin's dream. That, combined with the ridiculous/clumsy pickup lines last episode, and the lacklustre bedroom scene this episode (all those flames couldn't make it hot), has me convinced that there is something not-natural about her attraction to him, and that there is something else at play. Honestly, she woke up the morning after sleeping next to what looked like a corpse. How NOT sexy is that?

Patrick is the kind of guy that marks every month’s “anniversary” with a gift. OF COURSE he sent a “thinking of you” card. I was amused to see the “spa in Elmdale” actually exists.

Well,he did explicitly say he’s “damaged goods” and needed some time, so...my feeling is, eventually, but not that night?

I don’t think this is ultimately supposed to be a “betrayal”. But remember, when Rachel showed up at the table, the statement that she was Patrick’s fiancée was originally made in *present tense* (Alexis said “Patrick is your fiancée?” Not “ex-?“, or “was?”, but IS). And Patrick leading with “what are you doing here” would not have helped. So, despite the ultimate explanation being much less serious, that first shock of “the boyfriend who has been telling me to trust him is cheating on me and secretly engaged to someone else” has *already happened*, regardless, and that emotional hit would be what David is reacting to, not the idea that Patrick broke an engagement before they met.

Actually I thought that Patrick was leading him on the whole time, right up to the spoken introduction, encouraging him to believe it was going to be bad and embarrassing. Perhaps to enhance the surprise, which quite frankly took a lot of planning. Patrick has always struck me as very self-confident. He doesn’t mind people doubting him, or even playing on those doubts a bit, if he knows he can deliver in the end.

I think last season proved that Johnny had been out of the day to day work of creating and running a business for quite some time. And given that he continually works on pen and paper instead of on a laptop, had a lot of difficulty learning how to use the front desk computer, and was the genius behind “find us on tweeters/tweet us on Facebook”, I don’t think his focus is online.

I feel like Carrie missed a golden opportunity to say her worst fear was running out of time and coming to judging with an empty plate. And I actually really liked Joe's QF concept. I thought it was clever in that it was creepy and easy to translate into a dish.

Moira uses a dot matrix printer. And does an incredible Burnadette Peters. “I’m glad he found someone stable” almost made me cry.

Did you see the behind-the-scenes video for this episode? http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1151323715983/

Can we just take a moment to appreciate that the plungers and toilet brushes actually ended up being good sellers? Because...

So...have a good night David? Cause you look like you’ve been knocked sideways, there.

I think one of the reasons I like them so much is that it's more complicated than "jaded/experienced vs naive" or "weird guy vs straight guy". Patrick was introduced in a scene where he confidently ran circles around David, threw a fair number of sparks his way, and closed with "here's my business card--you're going to need to call me". He's easily kept up with--and often trumped--David's trademark barbs. Other than one moment in their season-ending scene in the car he's been the one to initiate/drive the relationship and it's tone. David, on the other hand, has been flustered and emotionally guarded, insisting he's not Patrick's type, and avoiding being alone with him outside of work. His dialogue in this episode makes it clear he is not used to emotional honesty and for people liking him for who he is rather than what they can get from him. It's interesting to see how these themes are picked up even in small things like character wardrobe, etc.