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.

My favorite was "Holy filet of fuck!" - and I have used it many times! I always loved Deb.

Kudos to all of you who have been slogging through this mess, week after week. I started recording it when the first episode aired, watched that, the second one, and part of the third. I kept thinking that it would get less depressing, that something interesting would happen; but here we are. I came here and read the comments to determine whether or not I should watch the episodes I haven't seen - and right now it's looking like "No". I started watching for Maura Tierney and Jeff Daniels, but even their characters don't do anything for me; and the others are idiots. To me this looks like somebody tried to write a parody of "Mare of Easttown" (which I loved), but forgot to make it funny.

Poor Deja. She's situation that can be hard for adults to come to terms with, and she's still so young. When you commit to a partner who has a child with someone else, you're committing to (at least possibly) have their ex in your life as well. Jennifer wasn't around when Deja and Malik got together, but it's a looooooong time until that baby is 18, and anything can happen. Both my husband and I have children from previous marriages, and when we married, his youngest was 13 and mine was 11. We were old enough to understand and accept that we were looking at several years of dealing with each other's exes on the children's birthdays, graduations, sporting events, etc., as well as the usual visitation and holiday arrangements. (My husband had custody of his kids.) And even with all this maturity and understanding (hee!), there were some very difficult times. I can't imagine trying to deal with that as a teenager.

My experience with the epidural, back in 1991, was that I was in such pain that the needle was the least of my worries. They had me leaning forward so they could insert it, and I started having another contraction. The nurses were going to stop until after the contraction passed, because I had to stay perfectly still. I said, "No, keep going, I'll stay still" - and I did. I stayed motionless except for one hand, which I kept flexing in and out of a fist during the contraction. Then the contraction was done, the epidural was in, and the entire lower half of my body disappeared. That was something that bothered me about Madison's delivery - the way she still appeared to be feeling pain and strain. Maybe epidurals aren't as strong now as they were in '91 - but after I had mine, I settled back on my pillow and picked up the book I'd brought, and read peacefully. Every so often a nurse would come in and check how far I was dilated, and after one of those visits, she left the room and came back in wheeling a table with (I assume) everything the doctor would need for delivery. "Oh, is it time?" I asked casually, putting the bookmark in my book. Even when I pushed - which they had to tell me how to do, since I couldn't feel anything - there was no strain.

That was incredibly unsatisfying. Too many questions were left unanswered. The previous episode ended with Adam on his way to meet Fia's father. What happened at that meeting? What was the point of the whole "Mom had an affair" subplot? It ended up going nowhere and meaning nothing. With regard to 2 above - add me to the list of posters who didn't recall ever seeing the "previously on" scenes regarding the photos the mother took, that supposedly revealed the affair. Where did that supposedly fit in? I also care what happened after Adam got shot (although I probably shouldn't, considering the mess this series has been). Did anyone see Eugene as the shooter? If not, does he get away clean? Does he try again to kill his brother's killer? How much (if any) of the story comes out? Does Michael get exposed as dirty in Carlo's trial? If not, does Jimmy Baxter own him now? Does Michael's friend still get to be mayor, or does he get exposed as well? I wasn't expecting to see any of this acted out, but I did think they might tell us in title cards.

So true. I watched that scene and wondered, "Why doesn't she just call a cab and leave that cold, unwelcoming place?" --And then I remembered my own 19-year-old self, in May of 1973, two weeks before the wedding that had been almost a year in the planning. I dropped my lipstick in his car, reached under the front seat to get it - and found a baggie of marijuana. After he'd promised me that he wasn't going to do that anymore. With the invitations out, some gifts already received, my notice given at work, my dad's tux already rented, I truly believed I had no choice but to go ahead with it. And there weren't even any tea towels with our faces on them. The marriage, which thankfully produced no children, lasted less than a year.

I went to "On Demand" last night and watched the pilot. I was surprised to see how much information we learned about the Pearsons in that very first episode; over the years I'd kind of assumed that some of it had come out in subsequent episodes. The very first time we see Kevin he is with two adoring fans/groupies - shortly before he flips out on-set and quits "The Manny"- and he delivers a Pearson monologue about how things started to go wrong for him when the Challenger exploded! He says his school was watching it on TV because of the "Teacher In Space" theme, and he was devastated when "pieces of sweet Christa McAuliffe rained down" on live TV.

Something I don't understand, and haven't seen explained anywhere: the grey-haired woman that Axe is seen conspiring with in a restaurant, who then shows up in the scene where the bitcoin mining case (or whatever it is) gets taken away from him. Chuck was going to make it a civil rather than criminal case at Axe's request. And Axe's mole intervenes to take it away from him? What did I miss? Is this just supposed to be an example of Axe playing 11-dimensional chess - and if so, to what end?

THAT'S where I saw it before! I kept trying to think of what hospital show it was on. And you're right, Scrubs did a better job with it.

I agree with the posters who would like to see an alternate reality in which Kyle survives. I too have wondered why nobody ever makes any reference to him. Rebecca and Jack were both looking forward to having all three children; they gave them names. During my own pregnancies I remember that I felt "in communication" with my babies, especially in the later months when they started moving around. Kyle would have been a real person to Rebecca, and probably to Jack too. Maybe the three babies they did have kept them too busy to mourn him, but it's hard to believe that nobody - not Rebecca nor Jack nor either of his surviving womb-mates - ever mentions him.