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If it didn't star an SNL alum, I would (unfortunately) agree. That's more what tips the scale than the premiere date. If he doesn't host, Andy shows up at some point in the Christmas episode, given how cameo heavy it typically is.

I'm guessing Andy Samberg for the 12/15 episode with B99 premiering on 1/10. Maybe they'll wait until January but I'm calling Andy at Christmas.

Not sure if you meant Kate Walsh or Jessica Capshaw but you're right either way. ?

This show let a dog run through a hospital all day long but they couldn't make this bit of meta fun happen? I hated everything about this episode except that Alex is interim chief - I was sure Bailey was going to give it to her since she stole Jo. So I'm definitely in until they destroy him again.

They are both 20th Century Fox. And that part is so small (it's going to be maybe one or two other episodes). And while ratings are similar, there are now three new doctor shows on TV and This is Us gets all the buzz. It couldn't possibly hurt to let him if they had the time. But since we're literally the only ones talking about it, I doubt it.

This is why I came here! I literally yelled "Is that you Matt Czuchry?!" but I'm 30 minutes behind and no one is talking about it on Twitter. If that's not him, that dude has definitely been working as his stand in.

Ah, if that's what she said than I agree! The roach part was obscured for me by that charming accent.

Badison was AWFUL. I've disliked the antagonists before but never have they had zero redeeming qualities. I mean, Vee was a mostly selfish, terrible person but she had flashes of caring about people where you at least got the impression that she understood how normal humans are supposed to act and tried to fit in but was just too manipulative to make it work. She had some complexity that made her interesting and fun to hate Pennsatucky was season 1 antagonist and she was actually funny, which was a plus. She also had an interesting backstory even just in season 1 where you felt bad that the orderly made such a mean comment (even though they didn't deserve to die for it). Piper was never super likable so sometimes you even enjoyed Pennsatucky's comments to her Badison - nothing. Her backstory is that she's a whiny baby that breaks and throws things and unintentionally set the wrong girl on fire. You couldn't love to hate her, you could barely hate her because you were too busy cringing when she showed up on screen. And this is the first time I cried at the finale. Diablo and those flowers... I agree that it was the twist we should all have seen coming but I didn't.

I may be the one person in America who has always loved Jay and I'm all in on this show for season 1. Jay is clearly aware of the cameras and Kristin's "on-air" personality (I loved when he asked her in the pilot why she was so dressed up and she said for work... in her home. He was clearly ribbing her because I doubt that was her work from home look pre-show) and he just has one personality always. I fear by season 2 they'll have staged him way too much but I'm going to enjoy it now.

This exactly. They shoehorned Brianna into TM2 and I fast forward through her segments or get a snack and she was at least part of the franchise. And if you want to get me the OG Teen Mom of the millennial generation, bring me Jamie Lynn Spears. She is now married to a man named Jamie and her dad is also Jamie... I will watch four 3 minute segments of that.

Commercials were frequent in hour one but I liked that the last 25 minutes was uninterrupted.

I kind of thought that he always fucked up with Matthew and wished Henry was his son and now he... kind of is? Turning in Phillip and Elizabeth destroys what will now be his only pure relationship left (especially after Phillip's parting gift).

They up the ante with more and more terrible people that you can't even remember why the original ones were bad. I mean, seriously, was Kiefer so bad? Seriously. I can't even remember if he was actually that bad.

I came in for the last 15 minutes after missing last week's episode and this appeared to just be a show where Janelle pops into rooms to scream at people and threaten to call the cops.

Who does this lady think she is to demand that her surgeons focus on her? If you want a surgeon at Sloan Grey to focus on you, then you better be dating them - and girl comes in with a boyfriend.

Why, why, WHY did we have to have that dumb Maggie backstory? I didn't even like the Jo backstory that much but at least in the context of the episode conclusion, I can accept it. But the Maggie story was just dumb. We all know that she was younger than her classmates and she's still awkward as hell so the fact that she was awkward then...nothing about it was surprising or revealing.

I'm not against Maggie and Jackson exactly. It just feels like a relationship that popped up because there's no one else for them to be with in the hospital. I kind of found it hilarious that in an episode where Jackson ran around and risked his life for his ex-girlfriend, it was a dead giveaway to April that he's into Maggie. I'm going to assume that since nothing happened, Alex's big decision about Jo was to do nothing about her. I'm on board. And to whoever said the end was the best scene of the Mer/Riggs relationship, amen. It was really endearing exchange for both of them.

My plan is to wait for the end of the season and binge it in a free trial period.

So in fairness to Emily, I answered my own question and it is only 5. I think I remembered more because she had a couple bad dishes on good teams (BBQ beans).

"If you can't execute, you shouldn't move on." Really? Then why is Emily still here?! Does anyone know how many times she's been in the bottom this season? I can think of 5 off the top of my head (which includes both of the ones in this episode).

I rewatched Charlie's song in the interrogation room four times.

To be fair, this includes the OGs so it's amongst 8.

This is my feeling too. Until the last four words, I liked where she was ending. She was recognizing that an apartment was a good idea, that some sort of direction in life was a good idea, that not every passion pans out as a career but it can be indulged in other ways (the Gazette gig), that being the sidepiece is not a particularly satisfying partnership. At 32, I don't see Rory doing what Lorelai did. Lorelai wasn't dreaming of owning an inn at 16 years old. She just took the first job she could and learned skills that suited her personality and her dream came from that. Even when we talk about Rory's "back up plan" of teaching at Chilton, it requires another 18 months of school at least! While pregnant and caring for an infant. So I'm not a Christopher person but I think he gets a little bit of a bad rap. Yes, he offered to marry Lorelai but like any 16 year old, he was probably pretty psyched to be let off the hook. My problem has never been with 16 year old Christopher but with 32 year old Christopher. He had a life of money, privilege, time, opportunity... and he did nothing with that. Did he graduate college? I never really figured that out although I know there was a prestigious school he didn't go to. When we met Chris in Season 1, Lorelai was managing an inn, raising a teenager, owned a home, and attending college. Chris couldn't afford an encyclopedia and struggled to dial the phone weekly. I think Rory might be Christopher, not Lorelai. One would hope that if she has a baby, she'll turn into a Lorelai.

Even Dawson had the good sense to call his show The Creek.

So I haven't been a fan of this iteration of WU but I thought their more laid back, conversational style worked this week.