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I do believe that Alison has hidden the question about Joanie's paternity out of a selfish desire to preserve the status quo. I also think, that for Cole and Alison, the marriage was already irretrievably broken and that Alison did and does still genuinely care about Cole. She sees that he's happy now with Luisa, and the part of her that still cares about him doesn't want to screw that all up. I also refuse to believe that it has never even once occurred to Cole that he could be Joanie's father. He's not an unintelligent man, and I'm sure he's done the math. He's worked hard to move on and build a new life, and while he may have a good relationship with Alison as business partners, being acknowledged as Joanie's father would suck him back into the maelstrom of chaos that is Alison. From what he can see, Alison and Noah are in a stable relationship and Joanie is being raised by a loving and caring father. He and Alison have both told themselves that they only slept together the one time, the odds are slim, so leave well enough alone when neither of them are bringing it up. Well, this certainly explains why Helen was the one who turned up with a lawyer when Noah was arrested. I'm not surprised that Noah stayed with Alison. There's a whole lot of sunk cost fallacy in this relationship.

Not to defend Noah, because, ugh, but I'd really like to remind that literary agent that Donna Tartt and Jeffrey Eugenides only put out a book roughly every ten years and they've both won Pulitzer prizes and sold millions. I literally laughed out loud at Noah being so genuinely dumbfounded as to why Alison would lie to him. Every time he tosses off a, "I'm sorry, I was a dick," it's an entirely new revelation to him that he'll immediately forget. Edited to add that I do get where the agent was coming from, just because you know he's completely blowing smoke up Noah's ass about what a great writer he is.

Totally out of nowhere observation - I feel like you can tell that Daniel Gillies is the only one of the main cast that's a parent in real life just by how natural he is with the baby. It's adorable. I appreciate the variety of ways that they write Rebekah's story in order to keep Claire Holt a recurring character. I'm finding the offspring vampires petulant and tiresome and I can't wait until they're all dust.

On one hand, I'm not looking forward to another despot for them to be terrorized by and have to overthrow. On the other hands, I saw who they cast as Negan.

The whole time all I could keep thinking was, "Pffftt, there's no way that doctor would spend that much time with Allison. A nurse, sure, but that doctor isn't showing up until the kid is crowning."

I'm clearly in the minority, because I consider Pam the most useless character on the entire show. I also didn't find her goading Hogarth to do whatever she had to do, ethical or otherwise, to be rid of Wendy to be in line with the whole, "Poor innocent thing who just fell in love" story. Nobody on this show is innocent, which is what I like about it. Kilgrave may be the most fascinating villain I've ever seen, and Tennant is a big part of that. He manages to give him layers upon layers, he's mesmerizing.

I get why Greg is angry and upset with Rebecca, but as much as I enjoy the character, I don't entirely sympathize with him. He's admitted himself that he doesn't even *like* Rebecca, yet he continues to pursue her. He's fully aware that she's into Josh, and she's straight up told him that she's a total trainwreck, yet he's surprised when she turns out to be exactly what she said she was. Yes, she did a shitty thing, but it's not like he was never told, and even when he's trying to pursue her, he's really kind of a jerk to her all the time. Stop being a drama queen and acting like someone stabbed your puppy, dude; you got what you asked for.

I'm still really liking it. Yes, many of the characters are already unlikable, yet I still find them to be very relatable, which is what matters to me. The whole nightmare scenario of running into an ex you still have feelings for while you're looking like a total shlub and their new partner seems near perfect, and you're trying to be mature and casual and inside you are DYING, ugh. Valencia could have been played as just a superficial bitch, but instead she's vulnerable and has her own insecurities. Dream Man Josh is decent enough but maybe a little weak and maybe a little manipulative. Rebecca may be genuinely mentally unstable, but personally I don't think it's played for laughs, but instead as someone who's in genuine pain but who's trying (and failing) to grow and keep it together. I think the characters are already given a lot of nuance that's balanced with some pretty sharp humour and some really catchy songs.

My abiding love for Joshua Jackson aside, I can understand why Alison felt she had to leave Cole. It's very common for couples who have lost a child to split up, and I can see how seeing the other parent every day can just be too painful of a reminder for some people to deal with. What I can't understand is what in the world she sees in someone as selfish as Noah. Him complaining about his children having to grow up while knowing that hers never had the chance was a perfect example of what an insensitive clod he is. This is the woman you cheated on your wife with, Noah, who was cheating on her own husband with you. Why are you surprised that she's a skilled liar?

Even Vulture agrees with us about Morena Baccarin: http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/jane-the-virgin-recap-season-2-episode-1.html#

I love this show so much. It's just so sweet and funny and awkward and absolutely true to life. Arnold's critique of "Love, Actually" was perfection. "When you're on your own, you don't have to have someone to answer to to make you realize how truly fucked you are." WORD. This show has handily summed up the entirety of my commitment issues in one sentence.

I'm with you here - what Klaus did was cruel, but Hayley brought it on herself. Maybe if she had actually had some kind of actual plan, I could buy the whole, "I did it for Hope!" nonsense, but no, she married Marble Mouth and figured she could just substitute him as her new baby daddy instead of having to deal with Klaus. Granted, that would be a challenge for anyone, but just taking off with Hope was both stupid and selfish. Joseph Morgan is truly a marvel in how he manages to still give such nuance to such an over the top character. On the other side of that coin, I will never tire of Elijah's perfectly casual yet elegant violence. I've listened to two recent podcasts featuring Daniel Gillies recently and he is such an intelligent and charmingly profane delight.

I laughed so loudly at the narrator's "I'll say this - the girl's got spunk" that I woke up the dog. I'm so glad this show is back. When all the people showed up outside her house, all I could think was, "The woman just had a baby! Let the poor thing sleep!" As soon as I saw Sin Rostro from behind and heard her speak, I thought Morena Baccarin. Curious to see if I'm right.

That was just ... delightful!

I will never tire of the elegant efficiency of Elijah's brutality. Switching it up from it being the family against their elders to them against their progeny is brilliant. I'm eager to see where it goes. Jason Dohring! This show really does knock it out of the park with their casting. I really shouldn't have giggled so hard at Klaus' eviscerating the guy who criticized his work, but I did. Lord help me, did I ever. I was so hoping that one of those wolf bodies would be marble mouthed Jackson's, but it looks like I'll be disappointed.

If Sam is apparently infected, it would make sense that the other infected would lose interest, since they don't seem to be attacking each other. ETA: Apparently, great minds think alike!

I liked it, and I'm interested to see what's next. That being said, it's telling that in everyone's version, their kids are still such assholes. You could blame it on their being upset about the divorce, but it's the exact same thing I remembered most from the pilot. I'm surprised they're not fighting to make the other one take the kids.

I started casually watching this just because my roommate had it on, and I'm actually finding it highly entertaining. Enough so that I put it on season pass, and I honestly have yet to see anything else new this season I liked enough for that. I'm finding the lead charming and it's clever without being TOO clever.

I'm still so, so mad that they moved this to FXX instead of the far inferior "Married."

According to Esmail, the reference to Ashley Madison was in the original script. http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/mr-robots-creator-did-everything-in-my-power-to-telegraph-the-big-twist

I wasn't going to watch the second season but somehow I did and when did this show get good? This season was such a massive improvement over the first season. If it isn't renewed, I would be genuinely disappointed.

I pretty much just fast forward through any scene that doesn't have Fet in it.

If you manually enter the page numbers in the link, you can access the rest of the recaps. A bit tedious, but it works! Edited to add that it used to work but sadly doesn't anymore.

I really, really hope it gets season 4, if only because it has such a uniquely talented cast, but regardless of whether it was a season or series finale, it was just damned beautiful.

This show is utterly ridiculous, but it's one of those that I can have on in the background while I'm working and just catch all the yummy JD Morgan parts. He's really the only reason I'm watching this season. I'm generally not a fan of child actors, but the young man who plays Ethan really is quite good.