Luminosa

Boy howdy, this episode was something else. Markie had crazy/dead eyes. I did not like her at all. It irked me that nobody asked her about her current girlfriend. She gave that weird speech ending in the "I want to wear your ring" thing and I was like "Aaaaagh that's so manipulative" and I love that Nev just jumped right in and called her out on it. I was a little confused about how/why Blaire ended up in TX, of all places? Did she go with Tarah? Or she had met Tarah previously and was invited out there? I'm assuming Tarah was the connection there because of that line where Tarah said she and the baby were going to Tarah's mom's. Blaire had mentioned that the baby didn't have a mother or a father, so who the heck knows. Also, that was not an old baby -if Tarah and Blaire were so tight, where was Tarah when Blaire was so despondent and Markie was the only one in her life? Or did she meet Tarah and within a few months have such a bond that she got the massive kid name tattoo? I'm a little fuzzy on the timeline here. Also, don't you wonder how Blaire's new girlfriend felt about all this? Did she know this was going on? Also also, did Blaire really believe this ish about the kidnapping? The weather's supposed to be really nice on Monday, maybe I can just skip work and show up on Tuesday and tell my boss I was kidnapped but I am too upset to talk about it? Also, that weird-ass crazy story about "the man"? And how "the man" didn't want anything to do with Blaire? I wondered for an instant if "the man" was a separate entity that lives in Markie's head. That was boil-your-bunny unsettling weird. I give these folks a resounding "meh." I hope that Blaire's love for this kiddo will help her really get her life together and avoid drama.

He def came off as a lil pushy, but I want to know what happened to that poor girl when she was a kid. She seems very self-aware& articulate, and she's obviously very bright. I think she's someone I'd really enjoy being friends with, actually. But she couldn't get out of her own way, and Mr. Wandering Hands wasn't helping the situation...(edited to fix autocorrect ridiculousness)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there goes my night. Thanks!! (Zero sarcasm! So excited!!)

This was amazing. I squawked so loud I scared the dog, first at the dick pick (and Nev, pricelessly, repeating the phrase) and then when Max dropped the camera. I love that the two of them are losing patience with the catfish they're encountering. All the rest of us lost that patience after, like, the fourth episode of the first season. I felt like some of John's mannerisms were affected - like the Mr. Burns-style steepling of the fingers while discussing "channeling" his anger - but he also struck me as a garden-variety engineer/geek personality type who spends a lot of time in his own head and is slightly uncomfortable outside it. Adam was just...what? I think that his true personality was portrayed more accurately at the first meeting, that he wanted to be this puppetmaster, and that he was cockblocking John. I don't think there was actual remorse there, I think he was just trying to save his bacon with Ellie. Who is young and lives on a remote island in the middle of nowhere and has the people-savviness to show it... Oh!! And how dumb was it for Adam to just blather on about how he's scamming the gambling parlor? I feel like there are ramifications, legal or mafia-related, that could come about from that. No sense of self-preservation, that lad. This was a weird thing all around. Can you imagine being Adam's couchsurfing host and seeing this episode? And why would John even bother to maintain any kind of relationship with Adam? I guess it helps undermine Adam's goal of being a Big Bad Nefarious Villian Who Hurt Someone's Feelings, but doesn't John have better things to do? This was a meaty episode and I'm really enjoying this season. Agreed that the "you're too smart for this" trope needs to go, though. Can we move it to "get a real hobby"?

Up until they met the catfish, the highlight of this episode for me was Loretta - she was hilarious and I hope there's a fan page for her out there somewhere. "I will haunt you like a ghost. Just call me 'Spooky'" just about made me do a spit take. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut then, yeah, Nev! I had to pause the ep to squawk about what he did! He's usually so good-natured and puppy doggy! And the producer muttering "S---" I'm sure they had to apologize and promise a new phone because the producer has visions of liability dancing in his head, but I definitely was on Nev's side in the moment. Also, "asstojail" is a phenomenal Facebook username.