Elbow

I'm late to this show, but have been binging it over the last week. Lip is a monster. Fiona should kick him out of the house. She owns it. It's her house. Why is she agreeing to be kicked out of her own house? I hope Lip gets torn apart by wild animals. It was Lip's fault that the house wasn't in order when the DCFS guy showed up. It was the sponsee's fault that he decided to drink. And Lip had no right to try to foster a kid in Fiona's house without discussing it with the entire family first and having them all agree, which would be idiotic of them given how tight money is at the moment. Lip is scum.

In fairness, I’m half-convinced that my dead dad is haunting me as bees and I’m a lot older than that kid.

I only train hopped once, during my misspent youth, but leaping off the moving train was actually less of an event than climbing onto the moving train...or tight rope walking on a drain pipe over a canal to escape the police...

I thought this season was hilarious and Applegate was wonderful. Cardinelli had less to work with this time around and, cute as he is, I didn't need that much Marsden -- nor time spent on the son, for that matter. I liked the humanization of the cop, even if I found it far fetched that she'd reached some lawless breaking point. The first season definitely had more colors interwoven, but this was a solid offering. The only thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was how the Sagal cameo was used just for the payoff of Judy finally saying 'no' to someone; the mother was written as a one note caricature, whose obvious pathologies were almost used as exposition to Explain Judy. Oddly, all of the mothers on this show, aside from Jen, are kind of written with a similar lack of dimension.

Totally missed seeing this person. Had he been in the house?

Wait, is that why people on this forum are so absurdly nasty about Mia? They misunderstood the visual shorthand to mistakenly believe Pearl was biologically Mrs. Ryan's?

An ethical person will do what is right, no matter what they are told. A belief in the supernatural, by any name, has nothing to do with ethics, beyond the obvious impediment magical thinking imposes upon logic and reasoning.

It was so nice for Laurel to have screen time again. The show has been anemic without her. Michaela and Connor and Oliver are so revoltingly cowardly and so naturally inclined to be self-satisfied. I can't stand them. I still feel like Bonnie has something up her sleeve and has been playing a long game. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've just never believed she's as straight forward as she seems. Tegan's crush has entered a danger zone that's clouding her logic. Could not give less of a fuck what happens to Killed My Pops. Completely space out when he comes on screen. Maybe if he started taking his shirt off again… Frank being an incest baby seems totally absurd and unnecessary. No idea how they'll wrap this up.

That was great!

I love it. The writing keeps everything unbalanced. Wever and Gleason are both great, individually, and have fantastic chemistry. I just wish the episodes were longer.

She’s a horrible actress. Eventually, people will realize Crazy Eyes was just her being her own phony self.

Is that it? No more episodes this season?

What country are you in? In the US, ‘Network TV’ is free with a digital tuner/antenna, i.e. you don’t have to pay for a service to watch any of those stations because they are aired on the publicly owned air waves.

Also, she’s pregnant and due soon.

Does Ansel exist and have Down Syndrome in the comics?

That may be the secret right there: she’s not incompetent; she’s unworking her job out of spite because she loathes this show.

I think the timeline of events is what's relevant to Luddington in this dynamic.

I'm not saying I think he was *causing* problems -- although, his "sleep disorder" and drunken manner (during his last on-screen appearance?) in Meredith's courtroom scene might be construed that way. I think it's clear by now that the common denominator in 95% of the on-set tension has been Pompeo.

Oh just footage the cast members (that I mentioned) have posted of themselves with Pompeo and comments they've made on her behalf to the press and via Twitter. I recall Gianniotti, in particular, really playing ass kiss and making digs against Drew and Capshaw as not being team players. I don't fault anyone for having strong survival instincts, but I also don't think it's a coincidence that this has been the most toxic set in production for 16 years running and that the lead never seems to have any interest in directly addressing complaints about the tone on set made by departed and discarded cast members.

I wouldn't be so sure that the problem wasn't with other cast members. No one seems to be able to tolerate Pompeo without gritting their teeth and, from behind the scenes reveals, it's clear that at least Luddington and Gianniotti decided joining the Mean Girl posse was the path to job security.

Well, I definitely consider all three paper-bag-worthy, though, Isaac has *slightly* more forgiving features than the other two. But it's not infrequent for male execs to short-list actors they identify with, rather than those who might be physically more realistic for a role (see: every sitcom with an obese, bald, braying husband and a charming, catalog model wife). I don't find Webber particularly attractive, either, but he's definitely easier on the eyes than Johnson. And this is why, when I first heard his complaint about the recast, that I found the whole situation perplexing. I prefer to think, in this instance, that there's someone making renegade casting decisions in passive aggressive protest to committee beauty demands.

I would like to recut the series, from Patrick's introduction, to remove every second of his screen time and every mention of him. Eradicated!

Yes. Anything without Patrick is better than something with Patrick or with people talking about Patrick. They don’t have to kill him, though they should, they could just ignore him the way they’ve ignored every other character and possible plot arc since he infested the show.

Oh, I didn't mean that I found them "ugly", just that the look is so Plastic LA that it reads to me as defying a directive while maintaining plausible deniability.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but, considering the age gap between Truely and her next oldest siblings and that it was Christine who first proposed and cheerled the idea of doing the show, I think Truely was conceived with the motivation of her birth being a lure for producers. When that proved to not be a big enough draw, I think they moved on to finding wife #4. Everyone in their community probably knew that they were in negotiations because of Kody's bragging and I think that's when Robyn decided to emotionally seduce Meri and wedge herself into the New Wife slot.