3x09 Thirty

• What a great episode, neatly fitting together all the clues into the timeline of the night. It felt like all the good parts of the show came back into focus all at once when you have Steve Martin and Martin Short together doing their thing.

• "Congratulations! It’s a podcast!" – Nothing prepared me to see Charles and Oliver as Mabel's newborns at the beginning of the episode and then as her fake fathers at the end.

• "I'll take this. [ pause ] Joy's mom's still alive?"

• Finale twist will be that Donna poisoned the cookie, but didn’t push Ben down the elevator. I feel like Loretta may have still done the push, if only because Meryl Streep is unlikely to return for another season, and I don’t know how they’d write off her character that easily.

• Did they forget about Kimber in this week's episode or is there a hidden twist?

• Howard in a shredded paper haze sent me.

• "I narrowly escaped death, and now you won’t let me live."

I've been waiting for them to figure out Ben was talking to some cookies since the second episode and FINALLY they did it. I wish it wasn't so painfully obvious but at least it's out of the way now. The rest of the episode was good, I always enjoy our trio working together, there's been plenty heartfelt and fun moments in this ep and seeing more of Ben's final moments was very interesting.

Shame the cookie twist was obvious since the audio was first heard. Seems to be wrapping up well enough though. Please don't somehow drag it out into another season