MamaBird

They did give a hint of possible resolution - though it was very slight, and I'd hoped for more. Shiv made a remark about "the Wisconsin court case"; and that Mencken might not win after all.

That's the first thing I thought when she walked in! "Too bad we're in black & white, we can't see if she's wearing a purple suit!"

He was playing in a band called Spinal Tap, under the stage name David St. Hubbins. (And before you ask, Saint Hubbins is the patron saint of quality footware.)

The lead singer of "No Vacancy" had better be looking over his shoulder after they beat Lalo's band. Not that it will do him any good. You never see Lalo coming. Also, I like the Lalo/Principal Joan Cusack pairing.

I have one of those pictures too, with my firstborn. I'm leaning on a pillow on the arm of the sofa, and my son is on the pillow in the curve of my arm and shoulder. Both of us have our eyes focused on the magazine I'm holding, which the name in the margin clearly identifies as "Playboy". I captioned the photo, "Wow, Playboy's got some good articles! Daddy just looks at the pictures."

I thought of the concierge too! While traveling on business I've seen concierges perform such miraculous services, you'd swear they went to Hogwarts. And that's just for ordinary hotel guests! For a celebrity, the sky would be the limit.

The short haircut scene didn't ring true for me. Rebecca came into the salon with a picture of Princess Diana with her short hair curled and styled beautifully. I have never known a hairdresser who wouldn't have gotten out the curling iron and the hairspray to give Rebecca a perfect replica of the princess' hairstyle. No way she would have let her customer out of the chair with her hair looking so flat and lifeless. (In my experience, hairdressers love to do that kind of thing. A few years ago I came to mine with a photo of Shiv from "Succession" on her wedding day. She knocked it out of the park, and it was clear the whole time how much she was enjoying it.)

That smoke was crazy! All I could think about was that poor audience, having to inhale all that. Many years ago I attended a Trans-Siberian Orchestra show that included a lot of smoke, and I got so nauseated I almost had to leave the theatre.

Word! Rebecca urged him to give Deja some space, he agreed to wait overnight, then said something like "So what shall we do now?" I thought she might say something like, "Well for starters we can eat this lunch, then we'll go from there." Instead they left their practically untouched meals to go to a bar.

This reminds me of an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in which Laura and Rob overhear a discussion between their next-door neighbors, Millie and Jerry Helper. (Seems the two families' sons had been playing with walkie-talkies and somehow the key got stuck on the Helper boy's walkie-talkie.) Millie observes that when she makes Laura's avocado-and-peanut-butter dip, it doesn't taste as good as Laura's. She and Jerry wonder if Laura deliberately omitted an ingredient. At first Laura is outraged, but then she (somehow) realizes that she DID leave out an ingredient, accidentally. So apparently back in the late 50s and early 60s this was enough of a thing that Carl Reiner and his team put it into a script.

While we know how these characters' stories ended, we don't know what actions they took, and the other people in their lives took, that led to that ending. If we whispered to them that Deja turns out fine, their first question would be, "So what do we do in this situation, that results in her turning out fine?" Maybe the angst and drama were important steps on the road to the right decision.

I have no interest in the Deja-and-Malik storyline, and I'm disappointed that they're going to be wasting (IMHO) time on it. However, I'm eager to see Nicky's reunion with Sally. I knew it wouldn't happen, but I was kind of faintly hoping they'd do a major twist and have Randall choose the Beth door. It would be an unexpected delight for Beth and for the audience as well. Maybe they're happily walking into a restaurant down the street from the courthouse, and as the door closes behind them we see the home invader in a line of handcuffed prisoners boarding the bus that will take them back to jail after their arraignments. *sigh* Knew it wouldn't happen.

When Dexter was hacking up frozen Elric, I was disappointed that he didn’t say anything about his late brother Brian Moser. He even mentioned the convenience of no blood, over a close-up of a severed limb that looked exactly like Biney’s work. Hey, I can’t help it. The Ice Truck Killer is my favorite Dexter Big Bad; even Trinity can only come in second. That scene in Dex’s biological father’s house when Deb and "Rudy" jumped up on the furniture and played air guitar to “Slow Ride” might be my favorite of the entire series. I would have greeted a flashback to him more warmly (see what I did there?) even than Angel’s appearance.

I thought all the way back to Peter Falk in "The In-Laws", and shouted "Serpentine! SERPENTINE!"

I loved the "clipped a kid with a Porsche" line, but I found the exchange with Shiv even funnier! When Roman called over to her, "Shiv! You've killed a kid, right?" and she looks up from her phone call and says "Uhhhhhhh..... yah." Sarah Snook can deliver a line like nobody's business.