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I always preferred eating in my classroom anyway! :)

Coming from part Southeast Asian heritage, that's so funny to me! I grew up on condensed milk in coffee and tea. And, well...like, basically every dessert ever. LOL.

Really glad they're dropping a second season. I think it makes so much sense, and is healthier, to deal with what happened rather than ignoring it.

This doesn't really surprise me. An actress I like, who has directed for The Goldbergs a few times, mentioned on her podcast once that a situation had happened one time she was directing where one of the cast members stood there and screamed at her for a pretty long time, and how humiliating it was, and how difficult to keep her composure...the point of the story being that, in order to maintain her professional authority, she couldn't just break down in that moment. She had to act unfazed and just continue to do her job. I remember at the time thinking about who it could be, and the only possibility was Jeff Garlin. There was just literally no one else in the cast it could be, based on the really warm and lovely things she'd said at various times about legitimately every single other person in the cast. LOL.

The scene in the dress shop when Paula has the realization about how sweet life is and how she's not ready to leave yet was very affecting.

I know the show made a point of saying she was 18, probably as a shorthand to leave the legalities of statute of limitation etc out of the plot, but it doesn't change the fact that he was her teacher, she was his HIGH SCHOOL student. If the two "relationships" were concurrent, it wouldn't be cheating. The teacher was/is a predator. One that probably very specifically studied the law and waited until after her birthday to make his move so that he could have all the fun of abuse and none of the legal consequences. The "relationship" between him and Gabby was not a relationship. It was abuse. Maybe Justin is evolved enough to understand that, or maybe the timelines don't overlap, but either way...it wasn't cheating. It was abuse. I also thought it was interesting that Monica was the one who felt that way most vehemently in the production meeting. I would imagine in her industry, she's seen a fair amount of predatory-authority-imbalance-age-gap relationships and knows better than anyone in the room how damaging they are.

Yes, that's exactly it! I'm just too depressed already. I just CAN'T with Big dying.

Going through this series again. Great acting and a lot of the stuff I remember I loved, but DAMN is the look back on the prevailing views on social issues (even what is presented as the "progressive" views) SO incredibly painful. Like, right now, I'm watching the episode where Kimberly kisses Lisa Finn, and OH MY GOD, the way that Jimmy rails and screams at his ex-wife for having once been honest with Kim about having a lesbian fling in college is just....so hard to watch. In fact, I'm noticing through this series that Jimmy spends a LOT of it screaming pretty violently in women's faces as they speak back to him relatively calmly, all because they have the temerity to disagree with him and not back down, and it makes me SO uncomfortable in a way that it didn't when I watched it on airing, and didn't even when I did a rewatch about ten years ago. Nothing against the show. I think the way that it hits me now is indicative of how time has marched on. Which is good! But it's shocking to view through this new lens.

I taught at an urban school on a really crowded block, and there were 5 or 6 little delis and corner stores and other places where you could buy a sandwich within a two minute walk. We used to buy salads or soup or sandwiches, etc and bring them back to the staff room or our classrooms. I don't remember ever eating at the place, though! 🙂

Wow, I'm so sorry you went through that! That's awful!

Ha! Perfect metaphor! 😄

SAME! And I'm familiar with both of their significant others. I was like....WHATTTT???? THE HELL HAPPENED???? Haha.

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OK! YES! Something was tickling my brain during that scene, some sense of familiarity, and I just couldn't place it. That was exactly it!

And he was great as Tyne Daly's boss on Judging Amy!!! Agreed!

I was pretty convinced that he wouldn't end up being the serial killer, but rather one of the victims. So...a ghost. But apparently, no. 🙂

Exactly!

This season really MUST be gearing up to T-Lock getting killed at some point, and I am HERE. FOR. IT!!!!

Not trying to be mean, but he's...not their best advertisement. At least not on this show.

Maybe Jerri has a thing for him, or maybe it just felt nice that he was showing interest, and then it hurt to realize that his interest was just a way to get insight on Cassie. If I were Jerri, I would have been tempted to do a, "Cassie, Cassie, CASSIE!" rant, a la Jan in the Brady Bunch. 😂

Yeah, instead of course correcting the idiocy of the teens this episode, they doubled the fuck down. And her name is Janina Gavankar. She's generally pretty awesome, although I thought she could have done with a little more quiet menace here and a little less cartoony "Instagram influencer meets serial killer" energy.

Yes! So much this! I was raised in a fundamentalist Pentecostal environment, and even though it was nothing like the Plaths (my family was normal, that was just the church we went to), I still have hangups and traumas that surface to this day--largely surrounding the purity culture aspects. No fun. No fun at all.

Well, I just sobbed for 45 minutes straight. I knew going in it was going to be rough. But, damn. That was rough.

And that he was the first director on Broadway to use a real corpse onstage. Haha.

OH. MY. GOD. SO. MUCH. THIS!!!!!!