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While handled well, this ep was too heavy for me. Messing did a great job for sure, and the storyline is sadly very true to life, but I don't exactly look to W&G for sobering #MeToo commentary. I felt very depressed after watching. The best man B-Plot just dragged, no pun intended. I was surprised they didn't use it as a tool to further the implied romantic subtext between Will & Jack with a reference to their college years or something. I don't think the writers will ever go through with Jack's wedding and they already had a "regular" breakup so I won't be surprised if they start toying with tension between Will & Jack as the wedding approaches and then some kind of revelation happens at the wedding that leads Jack to call it off. The show doesn't take Estefan seriously and they wouldn't drop Will/Jack breadcrumbs if they had no intention of following through (although I know many are skeeved out at the possibility), so I'm morbidly curious to see where they take it, lol.

"I love sitting on the thing and....shooting one out."

Ariana apparently was not amused by that promo. God, they're such petty children. Who was Pete's first engagement? At least they can't circle jerk him about the engagement anymore. He'll ride the exposure boost regardless. If they had gotten married, the opening credits would've become all shots of Pete walking around NYC.

Always good to see Zac Anner again! Although his character leans hammy for me. It's a testament to the weird age compression that happens with cerebral palsy (I'm a 27 year old woman with CP and ho boy, the teen purgatory thing is real) that no one batted an eye at a 32 year old taking an 18 year old to a rave to pick up ladies together. I did enjoy how delighted Maya was that JJ thought the "Iron Men" ladies were hot. Off topic, but I definitely have a crush on John Ross Bowie.

Thanks for clarifying. I forgot that she said that. Yikes. Well that's...harder to talk your way out of.

Based on the article, she has a valid complaint. It's not just that the show is making her look like a jerk – editing it to make your whole family seem like self-loathing racists is pretty bad, especially with how vicious and judgmental people in social media can be with that kind of thing so I understand being exasperated by the false narrative because that's a different level of character assassination. But the thing is, don't just whine about how annoying the producers are or how you wanted to quit the show, just quit the show! A flurry of childish, passive aggressive social media posts isn't going to change the edit or people's perception of you. It's just petty self gratification. Just refuse to let them film you anymore and quit while you're ahead.

That made me gag! I had to keep reminding myself it was probably applesauce. The recurring gag of the corpse roommate was the funniest part to me. "Is she sleeping with her eyes open?" "...yeah… Let's go with that." So they're still doing will they/won't they with Jonah/Amy but now with defining their relationship? I thought the premiere already confirmed that. This is getting tiresome. And I know their dynamic is to have Amy be uptight while Jonah is more easy-going and affectionate, but it's wavering into borderline coldness. Having Amy fight their relationship at every turn and constantly keep Jonah at arms length isn't fun to watch. I was hoping we were finally out of that phase now that I thought they were officially together. Having her dig in on being emotionally withholding is starting to hurt their chemistry because it gives the impression she takes him for granted. Jonah has been nothing but accommodating to all her fickle mood swings and he's been vulnerable and honest with her from the beginning. It comes off like he's putting all the effort into both their courtship and now their not-relationship. Is their wedding episode just going to be Amy insisting that she doesn't know if they're there yet while Jonah desperately pitches himself and massages her cold feet 5 min. before they walk down the aisle? Your partner shouldn't perpetually have to convince you to be with them or wait around until you decide. I just wish Amy would show any kind of warmth or affection. Ironically, as they get closer to becoming a couple, I'm less and less sure that they should be. It's just kind of exhausting to watch him be totally loving and open towards her and her endlessly hedging about her feelings. They're not seventh graders. Jonah deserves more. tl;dr I really don't like how they are writing Amy. Normally I find Jerusha very irritating and unfunny as a character, but she was actually very sweet and endearing here. Trying to help Dina win over the doctor by saying she'd go gay for her. Convincing Glenn to go in the OR. Reassuring Dina with "They've got all kinds of fancy equipment in here. Computers and wires, the whole nine!" More Dina/Jerusha please.

Because this show exists to exploit people's insecurities and create relationship dysfunction with stressful, artificial deadlines. Bobby and Danielle are evidence the experts don't care about the supposed point of the entire show - they're everything they've been dreaming of, madly in love and pregnant in a few months. But the experts are essentially tasked with creating a reality show, so where there is no conflict, they go out of their way to try to make some. Bobby and Danielle, entertainingly, don't seem to give a shit and brush off their bullshit attempts to create drama.

I honestly think the baby is the result of a broken condom or drunken/heat of the moment quickie. Both of them stated they wanted a year or two without kids. Then, HEA came along and they took the opportunity to make the best out of their accidental pregnancy and make it an extension of their lovebird image and bask in solidifying their place as franchise darlings while Shawniece/Jephte crumble and Ashley makes herself jealous with her own insecurities.

BYE. I'm going to hell for laughing at this. Thanks. But seriously, it's apparent within a 2 minute conversation that the man needs serious psychological intervention. It's not even a Ryan/Adam situation where they were asshole kids who developed substance problems years later. Dakota seems to be always teetering on the brink of snapping and committing murder-suicide, and has been like this since the second he and Bristol met. Why on earth would you have kids with him and yoke yourself to that instability and potential genuine fear/danger for the next 20 years?

Also "I don't want Benny to think he's on a pedestal or should be on one because he's on TV," says the woman who's threatened to quit the show multiple times when she didn't get her way.

Right?! Did he wash down that meal with the standing pickle jar of stale piss?

Tyler's mom, world's most faux-oblivious shit stirrer: "It sounds like you're mad at Cate! It sounds like you're saying she's being irresponsible leaving her kids." Tyler, giving -75 fucks at this point: "Am I?"

No, it was only the kid specifically for the narrative - a kind of cruel karma for the irony that despite years of her husband fretting over her, it was her pregnancy that finally convinced her to start eating regularly again and apparently started her recovery until she relapsed a year ago. In a last act of supposed altruism, she said that it was worth it to lose her ability to love her son as long as he wouldn't have to watch her kill herself by starvation. So she can still love her husband, whose love wasn't enough to convince her to stop starving herself, but can't love her son, who has always been her primary motivation to recover and ultimately the reason that she's now cured. But what I don't understand is, if you know that's a side effect of the surgery, can't you just… consciously recognize that the lack of emotion is because of the surgery instead of a fundamental change in your feelings toward your family? Why can't you just love your kid anyway or remember the old feeling? The melodrama of the plot was kind of lost on me admittedly. It's not like she wouldn't be able to remember that he was her son. Also, if she had been continuously battling anorexia since age 14, there's no way that her BMI would be high enough for regular menstruation (or menstruation at all), let alone supporting a healthy pregnancy full-term.

I think the man's willingness to throw his husband away for such a superficial reason made Park reconsider the dissolution of his own marriage. From the phone call, he caught his ex-wife in bed with a man who she dated for a while after the divorce, but is no longer with. He said something like "what would've happened if I hadn't caught you together?" which implies that he still has feelings for his ex-wife and only wanted a divorce because of the shock of the infidelity. Now, that's something many people aren't willing to forgive, but maybe it was a long time ago or the rest of their marriage was fantastic. He appears to regret making a snap judgement and not trying to work through it. That's a testament to his growth as a person I suppose, but in my opinion, there's a huge difference between leaving your spouse or considering doing so because you're disgusted by the mere possibility of them being fat and catching them in an affair. Whatever, it was the catalyst he needed for his personal epiphany, so that's fine.

I swear, if they try to pull some sort of narrative Hail Mary and have Lea start crying about how she ran away to Hershey because of her feelings for Shaun or (even richer) came back to San Jose because of her feelings for Shaun, I will shit a brick. You know as soon as she gets bored or needs him to do something, she will pretend as though she's been interested in him the whole time, but was "hiding it" because she's AFRAID to be VULNERABLE! (which seem to be get out of jail buzzwords and carte blanche for shitty behavior by anyone on this show). The writers do realize we root for Shaun, right? Because there is an uncomfortable subtext of "this poor hot girl was just trying to be nice to her disabled neighbor and now she's saddled with a nice but creepy autistic man and his creepy feelings." The show wants us to think that Shaun's expectation of dating Lea is simultaneously endearing and pathetic, when it's actually reasonable and logical given their relationship and the context of everything that's happened.

McKayla's grandparents (and all the other parents of this franchise frankly) really need to draw the line at one accidental pregnancy. You get one mistake for us to illustrate that we have your back and how strong our family ties are. Everybody gets one mistake. But getting knocked up again in a year or two isn't just stupidity, it's aggressive entitlement and a complete dissociation from everything you just went through. You hate your baby daddy? Too bad, you have to make coparenting work. You want to go to college? Cool, start commuting to community college and figure out day care that isn't mooching free babysitting off of our family. You wish you were dating a woman? Then why did you keep boning this loser? these kids have to learn that they can't just keep dumping babies on their family and living life exactly the same as they always have.

Unpopular opinion, but Glassman's scenes are boring. He's curmudgeonly about recovery because he's used to swinging his dick around as Big Boss. He's condescending to Shaun and pushes away his earnest attempts to help. Shaun realizes it's a front to cover up fear/vulnerability and still helps him for some reason despite him being a gigantic asshole and continuing to behave the exact same way at every stage. Lather, rinse, repeat. Don't care about his relationship with Cafe Lady bit hope it will make him...have other personality traits. Well, Lea continues to find new ways to be an insufferable dick. "Do you think about dating me? I know you do. Well even though I've spent the past two weeks throwing a tantrum that you're not obsessed with me, I just want to take this opportunity to reiterate that I don't have feelings for you and never, ever will. Also, you will have to get used to me having sex right in front of you. Because I'll never see you as a viable option. You get it, right? BUT your attention fills the black hole that is my ego so let's end the conversation by talking about how much your friendship means to me in a way that's just sentimentally ambiguous enough for you to misinterpret romantically and keep your hopes up. :)" How many times did they go back and forth about renting the apartment? And for Lea to be fighting it tooth and nail the whole episode and then at the last minute change her mind is just a mess of mixed signals. Look, no one is entitled to date anyone. Able people shouldn't feel bad or guilty for not being attracted to disabled people, as long as the disability isn't the only reason. But you have to stop acting flabbergasted we have feelings when you go out of your way to actively cultivate them AND constantly insinuate those feelings might be reciprocated. Do the writers think we've just forgotten last season when she drove him into the middle of the woods to amuse herself getting him drunk for the first time and then experiment with kissing him? If anything, the fact that she's acting as if Shaun's idea that she has romantic interest in him is some sort of childish delusion of his own invention makes that original dalliance a lot creepier because she just pretending it never happened. It's not outrageous for someone with zero social life or grasp of social cues to hope that you might be interested in them after your flirt with them and kiss them. Lea knows this but doesn't care and it's super condescending. The cases had pretty dark endings for a week where nobody died – Vain Gay Husband is going to threaten divorce the second the guy puts on weight (which imo was a huge missed opportunity to talk about body image obsession in the gay community beyond just "this one dude is shallow") and Anorexia Mom can now eat, but has apparently logically resigned herself to never being able to feel love towards her son again? Ouch. So I'm assuming that whole brain treatment kerfuffle was a pretext for Melendez to remove Claire from his professional supervision so they can (more) ethically bang in a few episodes, right? I still really miss Jared.

I laughed at JJ's chair shorting out despite the adapter - the EXACT same thing happened to me the first time I went to London!

New Geoff was fun to watch Sam Lerner play. Is blacking out during roller coasters and sporadically regaining consciousness a thing?

Believe me, you haven't known discomfort until you see the child actors on The Alienist, which is about trying to catch a murderer who's dismembering cross dressing child prostitutes in 1890s New York. Naturally, we get a lot of scenes in the child brothel, featuring actual 11 to 15-year-old boys wearing dresses and a full face of makeup, preening and posing to seduce their potential clients, who are not just adult men, but middle-aged men. The boys also frequently hit on the main character investigating the case because that's just how they are used to interacting with adult men. It's not only disturbing to watch the child actors, but even more disturbing to think that that was an actual, well-known practice in New York at one point. Given the antagonism between Joe and the boyfriend, the boyfriend's past insinuations to the police, and the fact that Paco was sleeping at Joe's place, combined with Joe's odd mannerisms and antisocial behavior, I'm assuming the final straw will either be the boyfriend physically hitting Paco or more likely, the boyfriend accusing Joe of grooming Paco or molesting him.

Asuelo and Kalani's relationship is odd. The way she bragged and swooned about losing her virginity to him, I thought he was going to be a player like Jay or a musclehead. But he talks and acts like an elementary schooler. That combined with the fact that she scolds him to stop opening doors like a toddler makes me much more bothered by the age difference for some reason than with the other couples. Kalani has a serious case of arrested development going on. She's 30, so I need her to stop acting like an 18-year-old aspiring YouTuber. Those constant little silly voices that she does for her own amusement are very reminiscent of Jazz Jennings, who is also half her age. Stop trying to act like a cutesy teen. She and her sister clearly think of themselves as plus sized Kardashians. Did anyone else notice that when Colt And Mother were talking about seating arrangements between Brazilian couples and Colt said that couples sit next to each other, his mom said something like "Maybe you'd be sitting next to me"? Yikes. And bragging about the fact that you might also be having sex at the same time as your adult son came off as Mother trying to make herself feel better about her son's pending sex life and also like she was really hoping to make him jealous? There's a lot of Bates Motel shit to unpack there. Call me crazy, but I actually like the kid from Maryland. At least his idiocy is age-appropriate. He seems very devoted to the concept of being a father and doing right by his girlfriend even if she's thousands of miles away in a country he's hardly ever heard of. I laughed when he said the only thing he knew about Russia prior to knocking up his girlfriend was the fact that they had cold winters. Dedicating yourself to raise a child in Russia for the first few months is a big undertaking for a 20-year-old high school dropout who's never even been on a plane. And all this for a summer fling that you know was probably 95% drinking, smoking weed, and sex. His intentions are good – we'll see how long that lasts once the baby arrives and the visa paperwork stays in purgatory forever. What's up with all the surprise foreigner pregnancies this season? George Washington Teeth Larissa needs to shut the fuck up. Repeating "Where are my flowers?" 27 times like a two-year-old. I'm sure saying same sentence over and over again will definitely get Colt to do whatever you want! For someone who obviously sees herself as the ultimate Internet temptress, her personality and tactics are somewhere in between insufferably pouty toddler and malfunctioning robot. @millennium was right though - It's hilarious watching her sultry come hither faces and spoiled little girl antics have zero impact on Colt, whereas Jonathan would be absolute putty in Fer's hands. "I'm not buying you $20 flowers, that's as much as I paid for parking!" HA.

To me, that was the cherry on top of the turd sundae that is Beck's poser personality. Who immediately seeks to monetize the death of their best friend? Beck really is an opportunistic snake. And she still couldn't write for shit even after being handed a book deal to write about her favorite subjects, herself and her pain! What a fucking loser. She constantly blames everyone else for everything, yet can't be bothered when the exact opportunities she's been whining about not getting literally fall into her lap. This asshole is infuriating.

I haven't read the book so I don't know how prominently featured as a character Karen actually is, but I was disappointed in how quickly she was wasted. She really was a breath of fresh air in a sea of ditzy insufferable millennials. Obviously Joe's infatuation with Beck was never going to die and his fling with Karen would always have an expiration date, but I feel like they introduced her for the sole purpose of having Joe cheat (which was inevitable), rather than letting her play detective first and making Joe sweat a bit. Instead, she just kind of fizzled out and became quite a cliché antagonist... that last scene with Beck was so cardboard and cringey. All that was missing was a mustache for Karen to twirl. At least Joe didn't kill her. I thought it was interesting that his obsessive tendencies didn't latch on to Karen, yet he fixated on both of his girlfriends prior to her. What makes her different? Is it because he weirdly respects Karen for being a kind and stable person and is only set off by and drawn to other toxic personalities? Paco is a nice foil. I know that he exists to give the audience more empathy for Joe. He's very sweet, but in my opinion the actor is one note and his monotone mousy delivery stifled the emotional range of what were some pretty heavy moments this episode. The whole detoxing of his mom didn't work for me. So her job isn't going to question where she was for days? More importantly, she's not going to question why her friend and her boyfriend just had a random dungeon in a basement where they essentially held her against her will?...Alright then. Dr. John Stamos has definitely already put together that Joe and Beck are talking about each other. He's either going to die or have something to do with taking Joe down. The montage of him absolutely not giving a fuck and smoking weed while Joe and Beck have sex was hilarious. They're too self-absorbed to even realize he's onto them. The boat sex was weird/implausible but the other sex scenes in the montage were pretty hot, minus the exaggerated butt groping in the closet which made me laugh. What was happening there? God, they're both terrible people. I'm glad the cheating wasn't dragged out another episode. Penn Badgley continues to kill it (no pun intended) with the line readings. "It's a date - SHIT!" while chucking his phone was probably the funniest moment of the episode for me. I also think his internal monologue after running into Beck while helping their friends move single-handedly established the entire atmosphere and all the tension for the scene – and made it all the more creepy because Beck had no idea that he basically couldn't contain himself. It felt very sex predator to be literally aroused at the sight of her. Given all the creepy masturbation scenes we've had, I'm surprised she didn't walk in on him whipping it out. Something about the way Penn delivered "they're just knees, they're just legs" was so disembodied that it really gave you a stark reminder of just how unhealthy his fixation is and how detached he is in his objectification of her. Disturbing! So Beck has a designated masturbation pillow? I hope she washes that shit.

Because her two "phantom children" are romanticized abstracts she'll never be responsible for. I think Cate's immense fear of shitty/absentee parenting is a self-fulfilling prophecy. She'll always have wistful nostalgia for Carly and The Baby because they represent unfulfilled potential - they're aspirational blank slates Cate can project her idealized "would've"s onto and subconsciously shift blame onto them for her own shortcomings in motherhood and marriage. In contrast, Nova and Rainbow are harsh reminders of that disillusioned reality - she's miserable with Tyler, horribly unhappy with her looks, totally disinterested in or even triggered by parenting, and is so depressed she has to be perpetually stoned, asleep, or eating just to cope with every day. Frankly I don't even think she likes motherhood or parenting, but will continue to have babies in a constantly failing attempt to psychologically redo/reset the Carly situation and to please Tyler with a boy child.