You guys, this season. I just don't know. Let's starts with the Charming stuff, as Wayne has finally seen the light on Jacob Hale and approaches the Sons about taking him down. Meanwhile, Stahl gets wind of Tara's abduction, and so she and the B-Team stage the world's least competent money drop, which spooks Salazar. Lucky for Tara, she was able to grab a spare shard of broken mirror and slashed Salazar's lady Luisa's throat. Not-so-lucky for Tara, she kind of fucks up the step, sending Margaret free and letting herself stay hostage so she can try to save Luisa's life. When Luisa proves un-saveable, Salazar slams Tara down on the hood of the car and looks like he's going to kill her. I'm sure that has a chance of happening!
As for Belfast, Jax gets the address for the Scary Catholic Ophanage, and when he and Gemma and Opie get there, Gemma pulls a gun on a nun (inspiring the scariest book Dr. Seuss never wrote) and then holds a gun to an orphan baby in order to get the file on Abel's adoptive parents. Sorry, circling back: HOLDS A GUN ON AN ORPHAN BABY. What have they done to you, Gemma? So Jax tracks down the family and has a 90-minute sad-music pondering session about whether to let his son go and live a life outside the club. Ultimately, he does, and Gemma is seriously so pissed. But when the Club finds out that Jimmy killed Sean Casey not to obtain the location of Fiona and Jewel's Cousin but rather the location of baby Abel, they all race back to the hotel where they find the adoptive parents killed and Abel gone. At which point Jax now has the choice made for him: he's getting Abel back. Quite the cop-out on what seemed to be a pretty powerful choice.
Jimmy wants to trade Abel for safe passage out of Ireland, and Jax needs the IRA to intervene. They do, in exchange for a deal with SAMCRO in which they agree to 1) kill Jimmy back in California, and 2) agree to a partnership that will expand their gun trade in NorCal exponentially. At the hand-off, we see the other stipulation of the deal was that Ashby voluntarily gave himself up to Jimmy in exchange for Abel. Which is nice of him, since Jimmy's going to seriously murder him.
So Jax has Abel back, and SAMCRO packs up to return to Charming. They'll be returning home with more than they bargained for (Maureen snuck a stack of John Teller's old letters (including at least one which alludes to JT's fears that Gemma and Clay were plotting against him) into Jax's things, and returning home to more than they bargained for, thanks to a last-minute phone call telling Jax about Tara's abduction.
Previously: Tara and her boss lady got abducted by Salazar, the SAMCRO B-Team wondered how they'd scrounge up the quarter mil for her ransom, Clay killed traitorous Original 9 club member McGee, and Jax found out that this season-long quest to rescue his son is boiling down to a lesson in good Catholic social work.
Jax has been trying to reach Agent Stahl on the phone, but no dice so far. He spots Trinity re-stocking the shop from afar and decides to bite the bullet and actually talk to this girl who he now knows is his sister. You can't un-ring a bell, so things between these two is never going to be completely un-creepy, but it's nice to see that Jax can share a bond with a sister. Even if she's, as she says, "A sister [he] nearly shagged." (Jax: "You say that like it's a bad thing.") He kisses her on her forehead -- again, it's big brotherly except for how our memories stretch back longer than six days -- and she encourages him to go out and rescue her nephew.
Jax finally gets the call back from Stahl. He tells her that Ashby basically used the club to prove Jimmy O was a traitor, and now they've got him marked for death. Stahl reminds him (and thus us) that their deal was Jimmy O alive, in exchange for Gemma's freedom, as well as the club's. Jax makes sure she knows his first priority is finding Abel. He gets called back inside and tells Stahl he's "handling it." Whatever the holy fuck that even means anymore.
Tara and Margaret are still tied up in the attic at Salazar's. Margaret's losing it, breaking down and talking about her husband and kid. Tara, stone-faced, says that the police must've been notified by now, surely they're on the case. Margaret sniffles that Tara seems to be taking this all in stride. Tara pauses, perhaps wondering what that says about the last couple years of her life.
Officer Eglee gets startled when she comes into work to find Wayne asleep on the couch. It saves them both on time, because Eglee was at the bar talking to a friend who works in the Mayor's office and she learned that city council had an emergency meeting tonight to incorporate the Charming PD into the county sheriff's department. Just like Jacob Hale told Wayne he wouldn't let happen. If I told you this leads Wayne to hunch over looking world-weary and beleaguered, would you believe me?
With the club assembled, Maureen hands Clay a scrap of paper she found in McGee's dresser. It's got an address on it, though she's not sure if it's Jimmy's or Donny's or what. Clay solemnly thanks her, then apologizes for what happened to her old man. He hands her McGee's "FIRST NINE" patch, which she accepts with a "keep it together" look on her face. Like I said last week, this would all be quite powerful if we had any kind of grasp of what McGee really meant to either of these two.
Once Maureen is gone, Jax says he's heading out to meet some nuns at the orphanage where Abel (supposedly) is. Gemma leaps up and insists upon going, over Jax's repeated objections. Clay tells Jax what we all know: there's no keeping Gemma from this. He only asks that Gemma try not to kill anyone today. She doesn't say anything, but you know she's making no promises. Jax says they're taking Opie with them, while Clay takes Bobby, Happy, and Chibbs to go find this address Maureen handed them. Jax doesn't seem too outwardly concerned with the fact that Clay might kill Jimmy O if he finds him. In fact, if Jax has had any kind of plan for getting Jimmy back to the States alive without telling his brothers about the deal with Stahl, the audience hasn't been made privy to it.
, a scene of simple Irish domesticity, as Jimmy O sits at a kitchen table, glass of brandy and ash tray in front of him. Along with seven guns of various style and type. While screams of anguish peal out from the other room. Donny ducks into the kitchen, panting from the effort (torture is HARD!). He produces -- darkly funny parallel alert! -- a similar slip of paper to Maureen's, this one also with an address on it. This one's got blood on it, though. Then Donny and Jimmy talk. About things. Things! You know, typical things. Look, I can't chisel my way through those brogues and neither can you, so let's all just assume that Jimmy plans to do something nefarious at this address and call it a day, huh?
On their way out, Jimmy and Donny check in on their little font of information -- it's Sean Casey, if you hadn't already guessed -- and give him a little parting gift in the form of a bullet through the head. The blood spatter gets all over the crucifix on the wall, kind of negating the point of covering the floor in plastic wrap. Though it does offer quite the obvious metaphor for the role religion plays in Irish strife. Because, see, the blood represents violence. And, like, death and stuff? And the crucifix is sometimes used as a symbol for Catholic shit. Tell me if I'm moving too fast for you.
After the blarney-infused credits, we return to a close-up on the brain goo poking out of Casey's bald head. Nice. Clay and company bust in and realize they're too late. The teeth on the floor let them know he was tortured before he was killed. Chibbs immediately leaps to the obvious conclusion: he's looking for Fiona and Carrie Ann. Clay tells them to call Juice and have them bring the ladies to the alley. Because, yes, I'd forgotten that Juice was tasked with keeping them safe and that's why he wasn't around last week.
Back in Charming, Wayne's had Jacob Hale brought in at 4 AM, which Hale is vocally perturbed about ... until he realizes Wayne knows about the vote. Hale tries to shine Wayne on that the vote was out of his hands, but Wayne's not buying anymore. He changes the subject to old lumpy, who apparently succumbed to the beating Hale had arranged for him a couple weeks back. Hale tries to pretend like he's sorry Lumpy's head, and Wayne isn't afraid of tipping his hand: that he thinks Hale has quite the motive to go after Lumpy since his death now means his gym will no longer be an impediment to the land development deal. (Boy, between FX programming and Carl Paladino's gubernatorial run, it's been a rough month for seedy land developers on TV.) Hale is incredulous that Wayne could chalk a man's death up to a group of civil servants and land developers: "And you wonder why the vote was unanimous." Looks like Wayne's no longer so conflicted over who the good guys and bad guys are in Charming.
Second-unit photography of green-hued hills must mean we're back in Belfast. Jax, Gemma, and Opie storm the orphanage and start stomping around the various bassinettes, looking for Abel and acting exactly how your worried Americans will act in European orphanages. The HNIC (head nun in charge) says Ashby phoned ahead and told her (warned her) they'd be coming. Jax demands Abel a few times before the HNIC says that he was adopted two days ago. She stonewalls on where he is, saying that adoption records are kept confidential by a third-party mediator. Jax gets all up in her face and barely glances at the male employee (security?) who tries to pull him back. Opie intervenes, telling Jax that two days ago means Ashby already knew Abel was gone when he handed over the address. Jax gets his rage up and begins to stomp out to find Ashby, but they've all forgotten about one thing: Gemma and her bag of crazy. She doubles herself over in pain, which is such an obvious ploy if you know her. The poor sap of a security guy doesn't, though, and when he goes to help her, she easily grabs his gun from him. Then -- oh, then. Then Gemma grabs a random baby from another nun, points her gun at the poor crying thing, and threatens the HNIC, saying that unless she digs up the records, she's going to play Solomon and cut this child in two.
Now, I like the sense that Sons of Anarchy will Go There, will pull out some jaw-dropping shit -- Tara punching Margaret, poor Otto's eyeballs, whatever -- but I feel like this particular stunt was just that: a stunt. An act of indulgence from a show that figures they've taken
Gemma so far, we'll accept anything from her. "They liked the skateboard thing? Wait'll they see THIS shit!" Even if the sentiment sounds true -- when she says "I'd rather have a half dead kid than watch someone else raise my flesh and blood," you believe it -- but the visual, of Gemma holding a tiny crying baby at gunpoint, is too much. It's turned Gemma into a hair-trigger loony biker mama cartoon.Anyway. HNIC caves, obviously, and pulls the file on Katie and Mark Petrie. She says in these cases, there's a four-day transition period where the couple and the kid stay local -- they're at the Europa hotel. Opie threatens her not to tell either Ashby or the Petries about this. I'm not sure I want to tell too many people about this either. Gemma hands the baby back over, and we all begin the long, slow process of forgetting that ever happened.
Jax strides into the Europa hotel -- alone this time, which is a sound call -- and even before he can take the stairs up to the Petries' room, he spots them, and Abel, across the lobby. I have to say, I was very curious as to how Jax planned to approach this situation. Would he abduct his own baby, take him from the Petries like Cameron took him last season? Would he try the truth somehow and hope the Petries saw the situation through his own eyes. I guess technically he could have gotten the law involved -- Abel is legally his son, after all, and nothing he's done mitigates that fact -- but we all know that's not SAMCRO's style (Jax's current deal with Stahl notwithstanding). Maybe Jax isn't sure how he'd answer that question either, because he kind of just hangs back and follows the Petries for a bit.
The sequence is a beautifully put together (and acted) one, in which Jax follows the Petries on an excursion to the mall. This is white-bread, upper-middle-class, Grey's Anatomy type stuff to be sure, but Jax has obviously been thinking about what Ashby said and wondering if this vanilla -- yet undoubtedly safer -- lifestyle might not be the best thing for Abel. The nice thing about this sequence -- besides the music and Charlie Hunnam's brilliant, silent performance -- is that the Petries aren't being judged for the whiteness of their bread. They're a type, certainly, and drawn to be as opposite to Jax's own way of life as possible. But they're also happy and attentive and loving to Abel (and Abel certainly seems content with them). So it's not JUST self-loathing on Jax's part that would leave him to do what he ultimately does: He watches the Petries -- all three -- pass by him, and he lets them go.
Back in Charming, Agents Stahl and Tyler pay Wayne a visit with the news that Tara Knowles and her supervisor have been reported missing by the hospital. Wayne is concerned, obviously, but he wonders how this falls under the ATF's umbrella. Stahl, ever the expert tap-dancer, says that they're back on the IRA/NorCal gun connection, and with the bulk of the Sons in Belfast, they're concerned that the IRA abducted Tara as retaliation. She says she figured Wayne was the best way to a sit-down with the remaining SAMCRO members. Wayne asides that these days he's probably not the best conduit to the club, but he'll look into it.
When Unser leaves, Tyler is like, "What in the world? I thought we were here to follow up on Gemma. And the Sons are in Belfast now?" Tyler also reveals that she knows Stahl has been talking to Jax. I have to say, Stahl hasn't been the most well-drawn character on this show, but I kind of love how she's operating so on the fly that she's telling her partner they're investigating one thing, then springing a second for no good reason. Stahl closes the door and then tells one big truth -- that she's working with Jax to bring in Jimmy O -- and one pretty significant lie -- that Gemma's still going down for murder. Or ... maybe it's the truth? I can't pretend to know if we've seen all of Stahl's cards, or even how many she's holding. One card she is playing is the lovers card, assuring Tyler that this is a good move for them both. They start kissing, so of course that's when Unser returns. Tyler scuttles out, followed by Stahl, who swats at his crotch on her way out: "That give you a little stiffy, Wayne?" Oh, ballbusting ladies of law-enforcement. Sometimes you literally bust balls.
SAMCRO HQ. Tig's on the phone with Salazar, who has grown impatient with waiting for his payoff. Tig tries to play the logic card, saying that with Alvarez dead (well, "dead"), the cops are going to be all over them, so they have to wait it out and be smart. It's so hilarious seeing Tig thinking strategically. That trip to the peyote fields last season really shook some stuff loose. Salazar gives them a noon deadline for a money drop at the park. Else the ladies die.
After Tig hangs up, Kozik points up at the monitors and says he wasn't lying about the cops, at least. Stahl, Tyler, and Unser all roll up, and what follows is a good old-fashioned information-sharing session about Tara's abduction. Tig's inclination is to give law enforcement the big fuck-you, but Kozik says they need the help. I like how Kozik's strategy makes a lot of room for cooperative problem-solving. Kind of makes him a natural ally for Jax if and when the Great SAMCRO Reformation ever does happen. So Kozik tells the whole tale, of Salazar and Alvarez and fake-dead-Alvarez, and the quarter mil. Stahl doesn't much hesitate in saying they can help out with the cash end -- she tells them to hang tight and she'll be back with the move. As Stahl leaves, Tyler once again tries to play Logic Police, wondering how this Mexican business ties into her IRA investigation. Stahl snaps at her to get off her ballsack about this. The script needs her to care about getting Tara back (nominally so Jax can focus on Jimmy O ... who he's totally not focusing on at all at the moment but whatevs), so that's what she's going to do.
Wayne joins the B-team indoors, offering his condolences about Lumpy. No one offers him a drink -- pointedly so -- until he asks, and even then Piney instructs Chuckie to pull the bourbon from the bottom shelf. So Wayne's still on the outs with the club. He admits that they were right about who attacked Lumpy -- he's sure Hale was behind it. Tig says they know who did the actual beating -- Salazar. They've got no proof, but simple logic (and Lumpy's description of a Mexican attacker) only points to one guy. Wayne says they need to bring in Salazar alive -- he's the only one who can tie Hale to all this filth. "Then we can bury that lyin' son of a bitch." Oh, Wayne, you clearly wanted that to be your "welcome back to the gang!" moment, huh? I'm not sure they're ready for that yet.
Jax returns to the Alley, and of course Gemma is all up over him about "Where's Abel?" He says he needs to talk to her, so Maureen lets them into her flat. With tears in his eyes, Jax admits that he let Abel go. He says his dad's manuscript wasn't about changing the club, it was about changing his legacy. "I don't belong here, Mom. And neither does Abel." From her bedroom, Maureen listens to all this with a tortured look on her face. Back in the kitchen, Jax says his son is with a mother and father who didn't torture a man to death yesterday. Gemma is having none of this. She grabs Jax by the collar, slaps him in the face, says no matter how many men he's killed, Abel is his son. Then she brings out the nukes: she tells him about Tara's baby. And for all that I didn't quite buy Gemma's actions in the orphanage, this kind of rage out of her is pretty perfect. Keeping her family intact is her entire reason for being -- what Jax sees as self-sacrifice she obviously sees as a complete betrayal. Plus, and this isn't mentioned, but isn't giving up Abel the easy way out for Jax? Instead of having to assume the responsibility of changing the club (something that's looking more and more impossible the deeper they get), he just gives up his reason for needing to. There's a knock at the door -- it's Juice with Fiona and Carrie Ann and Ashby, having been told by Clay to meet the
re. Gemma's all over Ashby for twisting Jax up.Clay and the gang roll up and deliver the news that Casey is dead and that Jimmy tortured him for information. Ashby says the info wasn't about finding Fiona, but rather about finding Abel. Ashby turns to Jax and says Jimmy intends to use Abel as leverage to get out of the country. I suppose Ashby would be the expert on using Abel for leverage. Jax immediately connects the dots, tells everybody they've got to get to the hotel immediately.
When the Sons get there, they find what they had to know they'd find: the Petries dead in their hotel room. Abel nowhere to be found. "I did this," Jax says. He tells everyone to go. Opie sticks behind with him, as Jax picks up Katie Petrie from the floor and lays her on the bed to her husband. He places her hand in his. Here lies Jax's ideal of a family for his son.
SAMBEL HQ. Ashby tells the club that Jimmy has contacted the IRA about an exchange: Abel for safe passage to the States. Ashby says he's advised them to take the deal, but the council has to vote on it. Clay stares down at the table and says that none of this would've happened if Ashby hadn't decided to play God in their lives. "I'm trying to help this family," Ashby protests, which is exactly the wrong thing to say, as Clay nearly jumps across the table at him. The guys hold him back, and Jax puts the blame on himself. "I'm done listening to dead men," he says, sneering in Ashby's direction. "But don't pretend you were trying to help us." He says they were just a means to Ashby's end. "You don't give a shit about this family. And the John Teller you knew? He didn't give a shit either." So it looks like Jax has traded one brand of daddy issues in for another.
Charming. Salazar's girl -- Luisa, for the record -- lets Tara into the bathroom (with instructions to "shit quick" -- quite a girl Salazar's got there). Tara thinks quickly, scouring the room for anything useful. She finally spies the mirror, which has a big ol' crack in it. She grabs a towel, then presses it against the mirror, further splintering the cracks. Resourceful lady.
Out at the park, Agent Stahl and the ATF observe from a van that could not be more conspicuously "federal agents are spying from here." Tig rolls up and scours the area -- oh look! It's Agent Tyler and some other guy with a Member's Only jacket and sunglasses, also looking totally obvious. Tig takes off his backpack full of money and is really un-smooth about dropping it into a trash can and walking away. So obvious that a pair of no-good kids on bicycles spot him. And either they've seen a lot of movies or else this park sees a lot of ransom drops -- either way, they make a beeline for the trash can and grab the bag. Tig sees them from across the grass and is all, "HEY!" He gives chase on foot. Agent Tyler and her gentleman friend don't know if they're grabbing the money for Salazar or not -- Tig chasing after them would indicate "not." So now it's three people chasing the kids, with Agent Tyler yelling, "Federal agent!" for all to hear. Salazar's in the parking lot and sees this -- and probably hears it -- and gets right back in his car and peels away. Stahl is watching this all go down from her van and is all hilariously, "WHAT THE FUCK?" She throws out an intercept order for Salazar, then tells everyone else to grab those kids. Say this for Agent Stahl: she fucks up all the time, but never this comically.
Salazar immediately calls Luisa and tells her there were cops waiting for him. "Little bitches!" Luisa says, and kicks in the bathroom door. Tara's waiting in the shower, though, and slices Luisa in the neck. She drops her in the tub and picks up her gun.
Back to Stahl, she informs the B-team that they found the kids and got the money back, but they lost Salazar. Tig tells her this means Tara's a dead woman. Stahl, being Stahl, puts all the blame on Tig, saying if he hadn't gone off, they could've tracked down the kids and re-dropped the money, all without Salazar finding out. "This shitpile's on you," she says, and Piney and Kozik have to hold Tig back.
Tara and Margaret are hightailing it down the stairs, but they run into Salazar. He and Tara both draw their guns, and he starts calling for Luisa. Cut to the upstairs bathroom, and Salazar is obviously stricken by the state of his lady. Tara tells him he needs her to keep Luisa alive. She negotiates Margaret's release; Salazar tells Tara they first need to get Luisa to the car. He turns to the shower and crouches down to gather up his girl. Which leaves Tara an open and obvious and highly justifiable shot at the back of Salazar's head, but she doesn't take it. Even though she's already (pretty much) killed one person today. Awfully convenient, show. Anyway, Margaret protests leaving Tara alone, but Tara hands her the gun and says to shoot Salazar if he reneges. OR HOW ABOUT RIGHT NOW?
Ashby and the IRA come to Jax and Clay with their plan: they've agreed to give Jimmy safe passage to an airfield in exchange for Abel. Clay asks how Jimmy's supposed to know they won't kill him once the baby's been turned over. "There are assurances in place," Ashby says. But the Sons have to agree to the IRA's deal now. Part 1: Kill Jimmy when he ultimately returns to Northern California to complete his business with the Russians. Part 2: The IRA will help SAMCRO "significantly" expand their gun business; full access to their entire arsenal (including RPGs -- God help us all the time Gemma wants to threaten a nun) AND Jimmy's American contacts. "Means pulling up more charters, creating more alliances, organizing. You think the Reaper is up to that challenge?" Clay says they are. Jax sits by silently as the Club doubles down on the Clay way of doing business.
Maureen is at home, reading one of the many letters John Teller sent her. In this one, he talks about how everything in Charming -- his family, the Club -- seems strange and unfamiliar to him now that he's back from Ireland. "My grief and introspection terrifies them. It drives Gemma mad." Sounds familiar, to be sure. "And Clay's pity has moved into profound loathing. I see my best friend and my wife growing closer and closer." But, John writes, he didn't feel jealous. He felt nothing at all. "Not even fear. And I know I should be afraid." Maureen closes the letter and lies back, anguished. What is with these Ashbys and their intense internalization of Teller family matters?
Jimmy O and Donny pull into the alley to meet with Jax and Ashby. Jax takes his baby back, and Jimmy, being Jimmy, tells him that he wanted Ashby to return the kid as soon as Cameron showed up with him. "He's the one that kept him from his Da. Forced the situation." Ashby doesn't even bother to defend himself this time. I think the sad, sorry results of this grand plan to take out Jimmy (the dead bodies of both Casey brothers, of McGee and Liam, of Chibbs's cousin, or Katie and Mark Petrie) have beaten him down. Jimmy then tells Ashby it's time to go, and Ashby heads to Jimmy's car. Jax is confused. Jimmy says he knows the only way he gets out of this country alive is with a hostage. Looks like Ashby is it. "He's going to kill you," Jax tells Ashby. And instead of telling Jax "Duh-cakes," or something like it, he simply touches Abel's head and wishes him well. After Jimmy drives off, Jax holds Abel close and promises him he'll never let anyone take him again. I guess to reassure us that he's not going to drop him off at the first Child Protective Services he can find in California. Change of heart caused almost entirely by outside influences like Jimmy O and thus negating the genuinely powerful moment when he decided to give Abel up: complete.
At the Charming PD, Tig and Kozik show up, and Wayne and Stahl inform them that Margaret has returned. They tell the tale of Tara taking a slice at Salazar's girl and how she stayed behind in exchange for Margaret's freedom. Nobody thinks this looks altogether sunny for Tara. Stahl even feels bad enough that she apologizes -- sincerely, even! -- to Tig.
Belfast. The Sons toast the return of their little boy, and it's a pretty festive atmosphere. But it's also time to pack up to head back. On their way out to the truck, Opie and Bobby give a nod towards Trinny and ask Jax if he hit that. He says no, but he declines to reveal why, just saying it didn't feel right. "That'd feel right to me," Bobby leers, and Jax has to push both of these creepers out the door. Trinny then comes up to Jax, and he asks her how she's doing, and it's all still very awkward to watch. He then asks how her mom's doing, which gives us a chance to peek in at Maureen, who is currently sneaking a stack of John Teller's letters -- including the one she was reading earlier -- into Jax's things. As bombs go, it's a pretty effective one.
Meanwhile, Salazar had driven Tara and the recently deceased Luisa out onto a deserted road. He's rapidly unraveling, and Tara telling him Luisa is gone doesn't help matters. There's a moment of silence between them, where Tara is clearly contemplating her move, but her options are seriously limited, and before she can think of anything, Salazar screams out in rage and slams her down on the hood of his car. He puts his gun to her head, and that's where we leave things off for the week. Best of luck, Tara!
The Sons load up their truck and prepare to shove off. Bobby fields a phone call and hangs back to receive whatever news it is. Meanwhile, Maureen offers Gemma a handshake and gets a hug in return, which is awkward, social graces-wise, for a number of reasons, not least of which because Maureen just slipped letters that may or may not prove that Gemma had something to do with John's death into Jax's things. But the moment is still nice, to see these two old ladies reach across the divide to each other. Gemma thanks her. Mo gets another hug from Jax, which is nice work if you can get it. Jax also gives Trinny a hug goodbye, but that's interrupted by Bobby with the phone. It's not Oswald's guy at the airport. He says Jax should really take this call. ...And here we go again.
Joe R should note that as crabby as he's been about this Ireland arc, he still adores this show and was happy to recap it for a couple weeks. He can be reached for lavish praise and nothing but at joseph.reid21@gmail.com, and you can listen to him yammer on to his heart's content on the Extra Hot Great podcast.
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