This was absolutely amazing. I have never seen anything like it. How do you even write an episode like this? How do you direct it, film it? Let alone act in it? However, it helps of course that some of the greatest actors are at work here. Can we please shower Jamie Lee Curtis with awards for this?
I have been critical about the show, but this episode truly is a piece of art. Basically a short film within the show, which makes all the more sense if you watched the show from the beginning.
I love that it explains so much about the characters we are already familiar with, without being heavy-handed or too on the nose. Like that Carmen basically follows in his mother's footsteps, cooking for everyone, while nobody makes "anything beautiful for him" (which, it seems, is about to change with Claire in his life). It explains how Carmen can handle the noise, the shouting, the stress in the kitchen - because he grew up with it. Wonderfully done. Impeccable.
Congratulations to everyone (!) involved in this.
It's a masterpiece.
I have been critical about the show, but this episode truly is a piece of art. Basically a short film within the show, which makes all the more sense if you watched the show from the beginning.
I love that it explains so much about the characters we are already familiar with, without being heavy-handed or too on the nose. Like that Carmen basically follows in his mother's footsteps, cooking for everyone, while nobody makes "anything beautiful for him" (which, it seems, is about to change with Claire in his life). It explains how Carmen can handle the noise, the shouting, the stress in the kitchen - because he grew up with it. Wonderfully done. Impeccable.
Congratulations to everyone (!) involved in this.
It's a masterpiece.