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I thought the cleanse was funny without getting silly. I loved Bishop innocently asking if they minded her eating.

You missed the best bit: Blaine takes a drink. Blaine: No oscar is worth that.

I posted this on TWOP a while ago but thought I'd post it here: My problem with the direction of the show for the passed two seasons is suddenly after the first couple of seasons where the New directions and its members had to struggle for everything, the glee club and its former members are finding life doesn’t have many struggles which is annoying because the characters are there it’s just lazy writing, Take the Noobs. I actually liked them. Okay, I liked Jake and Kitty, I've seen the point made that they haven’t faced the problems that the original new directions faced in school. yet shouldn’t this group face more problems? Marley is the daughter of the school dinner lady, Jake is mixed race and a dancer, he doesn’t have the protection of the football team like his brother, Ryder has dyslexia and I imagine would face bullying because of that, and frankly I would imagine Unique’s high school experience would resemble a circle of hell. Even the problems they have had seem to have no ‘struggle’ to them. Marley is never seen to struggle with food now, they’ve forgotten both Ryder and Kitty admitted to being sexually assaulted, and Marley and Jake go from happy to him cheating and them splitting up in one episode. There’s no drama to it. The same can be said for the graduates Rachel waltzes into a broadway lead, Santana to the understudy (which is still a huge deal), Kurt gets an internship at vogue, Mercedes gets not one, but two chances at a record deal, the second of which she lays down the terms for. Not only is it crappy tv it really give an awful impression of how difficult it is to make it in the entertainment industry. Again with the graduates their seem to be a lot of missed opportunities. Watching Rachel, Kurt and Santana having to grab every job they could, getting rejected, getting chances, one step forward, two steps back, The Big Bang Theory can managed to do this, why can’t Glee. Also as much as everyone seems sad by Finn’s death, no-one seems to be struggling with it. However he died I think his friends and family would struggle coming to terms with it for months, even years afterwards.

We wouldn't think of black pudding or white pudding as sausages. (I don't see them as food, but I digress). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_pudding

But it would stop Shelagh, not least because she is married to a doctor. Chummy and Peter (despite her upbringing) are essentially working class. In those days it wasn't uncommon for working class women to work part-time, mostly because they needed the money. A middle class doctor's wife just wouldn't work in those days.

I don't like Rachel normally but both scenes with Mercedes were lovely. The discussion about Finn and Rachel's love life was dead on in its tone, and Rachel's advice was great. Reminded me of Tina's advice to Rachel before she slept with Finn. The rest of the episode was dreadful.

Like claiming to speak eight languages, not needing to learn anything, your way is better... that kind of thing?

Ah I forgot women aren't allowed to be really smart. The original post was about the best between Ziva, Kate and Bishop. But the thread title says female leads, now if we're going there then Abby Sciuto wins hands down. She is possibly my favourite character on TV. She is smart, funny, and down right amazing. And if we want to talk great acting PP brings it like no other women ever has on this show.

Loved Kate, she was awesome. Capable and smart. Loved her friendship with Abby too. I love Bishop, love the sibling vibe with Tony and McGee. Ziva is probably the worst written character on the show. The writers continually tell she's awesome: she saved Gibbs, the director and Ducky in her first three episodes, she highlight she can speak lots of languages (but fail to mention both Gibbs and Tony speak at least three), she can kill a big strong man with her bare hands (really? Cos Cote de Pablo looks like she couldn't fight sleep), and everyone fancies her, especially Tony. But we're shown her being a terrible investigator, treating her colleagues like dirt, she physically assaults Tony and threatening to kill him, and uses the death of Gibbs daughter to manipulate him to get away with most of that. And to top it off she's a murderer.