View the gallery I've chosen the most benign, non-spoilery cover photo, just in case anyone is trying to scroll past this quickly without seeing what happened. But if you know already... dudes, this episode was all pain. It was SO SAD. It was like putting your heart
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View the gallery In which our three central couples move their emotional chess pieces a little, and Layla gets REALLY plotty.
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View the gallery I'm not sure ANY scheme of Jamie's and Claire's is truly "best laid," but whatever. The episode titles are allowed to be optimistic. We've got medical drama, fake medical drama, and then the end of the hour
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View the gallery Poor, cancelled Nashville. The pitch from the former thirtysomething show-runners that they'd hired must have been weak. BUT, we shall stick it out until the miserable, bitter end anyway, in the hopes that they saw The End coming and saw fit to let Juliette
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* SPOILER NOTE: I'll restrict any specifics to after the jump, so that scroll-by readers who haven't seen the finale aren't accidentally tipped off. We started recapping The Good Wife here in season six. Late in the game, yes, but at first it was
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View the gallery This week, we get A Face From The Past, as well as more questions from me on Claire's concept of the timeline. And fighting. And a kilt. But no muscled thighs. And from Terry Dresbach, we get BOOTS. She did a whole post on the
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View the gallery In this episode, Juliette finally gets out of her own way, while Deacon is unable to do the same. And I go on a rant about how this TOTALLY would not be the time Oscar nominations are coming out, because I am nothing if not someone who
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View the gallery You don't need to bother with the recaps to be curious about the costuming, and in that regard Terry Dresbach is your new favorite human. I'm going to use this space to highlight the pieces she's produced since the last airing
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View the gallery Much tongue is deployed in this episode, and I'm not sure how much of it will make any of you happy.
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View the gallery This is long, I know -- it's two episodes rolled together -- but there is LOTS of eye candy thanks to the costuming. Not just That Red Dress, but also the nippletastic gown an extra wears at Versailles, a wet wig, and a great robe. Also, there
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View the gallery Surprise! My jet lag is not bad, so I was able to bang out this recap in advance of tomorrow's new episode. Juliette Barnes's hair has never looked better; Layla Grant's has never looked worse. If Avery judges by that, then
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View the gallery We get songs this week by Maddie and Juliette, the latter of which, yes, wrote it in like three minutes and had it arranged and everything. Elsewhere, Alicia Witt is conniving, Layla tees up some emotional blackmail, and Rayna is kind of the worst again, a bit.
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View the gallery Well. The show Vulture lauded for having the best sex on television came back from a break... with no sex. But I will bring you the one shirtless glimpse we got, plus some smoldering, gorgeous landscapes, a kilt, tears, and EVIL. And we'll hope for
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View the gallery Juliette is BACK. OUR PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
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View the gallery This is back from the break, and I thought to myself, "WE HAVE ELEVEN MORE EPISODES?!?" Turns out they may only be doing 18 this season. I'm guessing by then they STILL won't have any idea why Serayah's name
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