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The dress Jaclyn wore to dinner was hideous. It looked like something a drag queen would wear to Mardi Gras. I'm starting to think Mike White has a big problem with women. First the "funny" mean girls of Season 1 and now these three catty female friends. It's like the only women he knows are all on Bravo reality shows. Still have no idea what Rick's issue is. Maybe he's tied up in the same money scheme as Timothy. Who is Valentin? I'm blanking on him. I'm viewing this basically as a soap opera. If I don't expect more of it than that, it's OK. Polished and slick for sure, and lots of money thrown at it, but it doesn't much rise above the level of any other soap opera. Which is fine. I've indulged in several soaps in my day.

I forgot my favorite line of this episode: Pete: "The last thing I want is for Jay to be whacked off by a bunch of mobsters!" I swear I don't know how they get away with some of these double entendres. But "Saul jerked himself off onto Jay" is still the winner. Runners up for best line: "One of the cooks makes fake IDs for high school kids." "There shall be no hanky. Nor panky." The set decoration for the restaurant kitchen is interesting. One wall is completely covered in glass jars filled with all sorts of things. I can't imagine how practical that would be, or that Jay would need that many different spices and such, even though it looks cool. To readdress something I mentioned in an earlier post, last week (in "It's The End of the World As We Know it") Pete said he loved blood sports because he has a lot of repressed rge. He went to an MMA fight and sat in the front row. And remembers watching boxing for as a kid. This doesn't really square with him finding certain movies too violent.

The nuns cracked me up. I missed the reason why Victoria and Patel had to take a dog to Canada.

With all due respect to Wikipedia, it's an all-too common TV trope where a man is "tricked" into having sex with someone - especially on soap operas. And I am not comfortable defining these tropes as "rapes." I know it's a sensitive topic and people can get very triggered, but men being "tricked" into having sex with a woman when they think it's really some other woman? How often do you suppose that happens in real life? And to categorize it as rape, IMO, diminishes an actual violent crime of assault. I'll allow that Mark was violated, but I cannot apply such a liberal definition to actual rape.

Exactly. It didn't feel organic to me. This is a very fast-paced show for the most part and everything came to a standstill for this "The More You Know" moment. It's not the content I object to, it's the presentation. Could have been less of a sledge hammer delivery.

I don't think the area was quite as Noman Rockwell-esque as the show would have us believe. Which he failed to do. Then went on TV a tried again with us. And failed again. I think most of us understand the job of a defense attorney. My point remains, I don't know how you have to nerve to actually take that one step further and go on TV and continue to defend someone who is so obviously guilty. It just makes you look insane or delusional.

The episode did not specify that Susan is suffering from any specific diagnosed condition or is on any kind of medication. And I can't imagine her defense attorney wouldn't have made an issue of it if she had been. Rather, we were told she suffered abuse as a child. That's it. Sad if true but hardly a get out of jail free card for someone who murdered her two children. Just watched A Walk Through the Woods. Strangely, I don't think they ever explained where Libby's parents were. Her story was represented by her grandparents and unless I missed something her parents weren't even mentioned. I'll never understand the colossal gall of some of these shameless defense attorneys. Doing their job is one thing but to go on TV and double down on the charade - how do they live with themselves? The guy confessed!

This part felt a bit too didactic to me, if I had one criticism of the episode. For me, it would have sufficed to hear a line or two about it, rather than a couple of full-on scenes of this guy regaling the staff with a history lesson as they all gathered 'round in awe.

When Mark left the restaurant after talking with Helena, it occurred to me how dangerous it could be if he started having those flashes while he was driving. He'd most likely crash the car.

So that was her. Sorry, I know mileage varies and all but she was universally loathed by a lot of the audience. I know in Primetimer's AR forum most of us were rooting for her to be eliminated.

I agree this one was tough to watch. I don't even like kids but between the teen who accidentally overdosed and the parents of the girl who drowned in the pool I admit I got choked up. Damn you, show! Whitaker stayed clean again! A new record. Agreed. There are two ways this can go. If Santos is somehow validated it's going to be a woeful misreading of the room on the part of the writers. She's too odious at this point to make her sympathetic and I like Langdon. If she's right I'm going to be pissed off. She needs to go down for this to end with any kind of satisfactory conclusion to her arc,.

I think he's the big burly guy who gave Milchick his performance review. The show seems to expect a lot from us. I shouldn't have to Google who the hell Drummond is or recognize him just from his eyes. I thought the scene with Milchilck talking into the mirror was horribly pretentious. But then I'm inclined to dislike this character. I was rooting for Irv to beat the living crap out of him in Woe's Hollow. I just want to punch him every time I see him. I feel your pain. It's increasingly feeling like another Lost. Great for fans who love picking it apart and coming up with all kinds of theories but now it just seems like they need it to keep going and keep those fans guessing and guessing and guessing. Fun! Only, not for me. I'm sticking with it for now but it's not going to hold me indefinitely. Fool me once and yours is the shame. Fool me twice and I'm to blame.

I'm not a fan of movies and shows that open with a dramatic ending teaser without context, then flash back to the beginning of the story. It's an overused gimmick, and a story should be able to stand on its own and engage a viewer from the start without trying to hook us with a promise that something exciting happens . . . at the end. But I realize both the first two seasons started this way so I guess it's formula for this show. A lot of table setting this episode and aside from the flash forward hook, not much going on. It was a generic form of valium. I don't recall mention of any other kind of pill. Why? Damned if I know why people seem to love this actor. Is it because of Justified? I could never get into that show, and don't know the actor from anything else.

Who was Anna Leigh? Was she the whiny one who ran with her dad?

I have only the vaguest of memories of there being a Molly's North. Did Otis run it? And did they have to shut it down after he died?