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I finally got to watch this episode last night, and I actually think Jimmy just has a really bad case of "foot-in-mouth" syndrome. He says everything that pops into his head because he trusts Chelsea and feels close to her, and doesn't think about HER perspective. i am 1000% like him in this regard. But he was EAGER and clearly excited when they were in bed together. It was all over his face. Yet Chelsea kept negging herself and being the downer. She has really poor self-esteem. I caught her covering her belly when they met (I think he spun her?), and she slouches and sits in ways to make herself look smaller. Trevor was right- she would have said yes to whoever asked first. I think Jimmy is anxious about being so exposed on camera too. did you see him cover his nuts when he took his shorts off? even though he still had undies on that were pretty much same cut/fit as the shorts!

I was really sad that this title wasn't a reference to Matthew going to get whatsherface who left after hearing he had pre-proposed to A.D. using exact words said to her. I want to see him awkwardly pissing everyone off on the honeymoon shows!

That was the season finale?? it was such a bizarre episode. Definitely felt like a clear metaphor for Whitney in labor, complete with her trying to pull Asher with the towel (aka umbilical cord). I was expecting him to get out of the house or float away and we'd cut to the baby fully born with both parents present. I suppose what made this episode most interesting is not knowing whether the events were supposed to be real or dream/fantasy.

I just binged this show over the weekend. Can "Uncomfortable" be a genre? Neither funny nor dramatic, I have just found this show to be unrelentingly tense and uncomfortable, which I think is compelling in its own right. It's almost like a highly funded student film or a thought experiment. The acting is interesting, as this awkwardness is probably how we all present in real life....

Did anyone else have the feeling something ominous was about to happen in this season finale? Charlie outside in the dark, finger hovering over "send" for his "i love you text." They've said it to each other already, right? No reason to hover. I kept thinking he was about to get hit by a car or something. driven by Ben.

I've kind of had the impression that Irina is the mean girl, and Micah just finds her antics amusing. I appreciated that she acknowledged her own wrong-doing by not shutting Irina down while they were in the pods and Irina was antagonizing all the other girls. So I don't think Micah is a shit-stirrer on her own, but she's also not above laughing when someone else stirs it. Where I think Micah's flirtiness with Kwame was different than Irina's flirtiness with Paul is that Micah wasn't planning on pursuing anything with Kwame, and she certainly didn't go and tell Chelsea that she was interested in Kwame. Irina broke up with her dude (Zack), had been flirting with another dude (Paul) before that, and then told her friend that she was interested in the friend's dude (Paul). Irina made it clear that she was interested in pursuing Paul, where Micah was still being flirty with an "old flame" but planned to stay with her guy only.

i saw it as "payback" for Cynthia intervening with Gil at the school (when Cynthia saw him getting rough with her). I think she legitimately thought she was helping Cynthia. as for "proof," I wouldn't be shocked if they had a baby camera kind of setup in there. You wouldn't be able to hear alarms in all rooms of the house.

When Nick and June were split up, and then June was taken off the bus, I was CERTAIN that Serena was going to kill Luke in front of her. That would be "eye for an eye" behavior, right? But as soon as Serena had the gun, I knew either she would shoot Ezra, or June would somehow get the gun and shoot Ezra. I think Serena dying in labor and June keeping the baby would be some just kismet. Finally, I loved June's prayer for the girls at the end. I'm not a religious person, in part because i so often see selfishness in the guise of religion. Altruistic prayers for your children (and others) to have a peace and safety is how I imagine religion SHOULD be.

it's explicitly stated in the book, and I believe in season 1 also. It's why the supermarkets have symbols instead of words on all the food, and why allowing June to read a magazine and to play scrabble was so exhilarating to her in the moment. I don't remember the details, but recall TV show Fred also shot Serena down at least once about offering to help him write something or to look something up online, and Serena was very upset that she went from writing a book that helped create Gilead to not being allowed to read/write in Gilead- she seemed to have expected to be an exception to the rules rather than subjugated like all the other women.

This reminds me a lot of how my father described Cuba, where he is from. Tourists to Cuba were only allowed to go to certain places, where things looked great and people seemed healthy. Actual Cuban citizens (that were not part of the dictatorship itself) lived in squalor, received rancid food rations, were not allowed to go to tourist areas, they were not allowed to eat beef because that was for tourists, and even had to bring their own bedding and sometimes even their own food to the hospitals. Gilead would likely do the same- tourists see the Commanders mansions, and the kids at their school playgrounds, and get a trip to the theatre, while the handmaids are raped and hung on walls, and others get sent to the Colonies...

Totally agree with this, especially together with Tuello's comments to June at the end. Canada isn't even a little bit sad that Fred is dead- they just couldn't diplomatically do it themselves. Like the US wouldn't have been hard-pressed to convict someone of murder had they killed Bin Laden in International Waters. "Oh gosh, the terrorist is dead? Sure sucks it didn't happen on our soil or we TOTALLY would have done something about it..."

Kyle made such a great impression. The stuff I've read about him is scary though. Deb dodged a bullet (or a roofy), and now doesn't have to be "tortured" about who to choose. I TOTALLY agree about the 3 Casa Amor girls. Even funnier is that 2 are from NY, and one from NJ, and my husband keeps pointing out the wrong one as being from NJ. I thought the 3 of them were similar to Kat from the villa also, so it's funny that Chazz seems to have shown interest in all 4 of the them. He certainly has a type. Kat is adorable and bubbly, but she seems like a little "too much." not drama, like plastic orange sydney, but like a little sister with ADHD. I checked out one of her mukbang videos and it was super disappointing from what I expected. She didn't come close to finishing, was completely neat eating also. It really was just like sharing a meal with someone, not the messy binge I had expected.

My theories: Krepps is Glitter Guy but not the killer: he texted the crew to get out last season (even though we don't know why). He suspected the crew knew SOMETHING they weren't sharing, and when THEY reached out to him thinking he was the other detective, he took advantage by making arrangements to get the evidence they had. He's also got glitter and a shoulder injury. Seems too far to go to just fake us out. BUT, he was also the one to tell them she was away on maternity leave, so why would he blow his own cover to get the evidence? Lion King actor just happened to sneeze when Lucy heard him. They seem to be able to hear through the walls in those corridors (although no one can hear the corridors through the walls?). He's a fluke. Could Tina Fey's character be the killer, framing the others? seems like a long shot,but her assistant really felt she was capable of anything. Alternatively, could she just be the one setting them up, so that she can have a better podcast? So I guess I have no idea who the killer is. Maybe it's the "dead" painter (Rose?). Charles' dad is really Bunny's dad, and Rose is getting her final revenge?

I can see that to some extent. Billy was the Samantha, Stanley was Charlotte, was Suzanne the Miranda? And obviously Michael was SJP. honestly though, I think Michael had more motivation for his behaviors, and more character growth in one season than we ever saw in Sex and the City. The other characters were largely there as a reflecting pool for his growth though. They weren't complete caricatures, but they also weren't fully fleshed out. I still loved the show though.

I honestly felt that had we left out the last scene (Colin in the apartment, wanting Michael back), this would have been a perfect one-season series. I loved the whole thing, and Michael's whole journey. He went from blind-sided and self-involved, to learning how to be independent and there for others. I honestly had never realized just how good an actor NPH was. From the point of view of a cis-white(ish)-bi-female in a monogomous hetero relationship, I can't comment on how realistic the portrayal of gay lifestyle was on the show, but it definitely reflected the life I saw a few of my gay male friends live in NYC while I was in school. Including the Grindr app. I very clearly recall going to a club with a friend, and him coming back from the bathroom telling me how he had just gotten a BJ from someone while back there. I know that life isn't all gay men by any means, but it's also not a fallacy among gay men in NYC.