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“Ah, Love!”

I really enjoyed this episode. It focused on the relationships of the three main characters yet included the case extremely well.

Charles had some confrontations with Joy as some truths came out. Charles had to try to find out why Joy had a lipstick found back stage in Ben’s dressing room. Of course, there was a message written in lipstick on the mirror which said, “F*#%ing Pig.” Joy did not take it well having her just recent fiancée accuse her of being involved in a murder. What turned out even worse was when she found out that Charles had not intended to ask her to marry him. These two, who had never felt right before this, really suddenly made me want them to stick together, but it looks bad for them.

Oliver lost a tooth on the pork chop cooked by Loretta on their dinner date. He took that smoothly. Oliver and Loretta went out and roe the ferry to toss the tooth overboard like Loretta would do when she was a child (the Tooth Ferry). Martin Short and Meryl Streep had a ton of chemistry, which was a surprising thing for me. I know it shouldn’t be because they are both exceptional actors, but I was not expecting such a strong connection. However, Oliver still found evidence that implicated that Loretta had an obsession with Ben. We also found out about a physical conflict between Loretta and Ben the night of the failed play opening. Charles apparently punched Ben too right afterwards.

Meanwhile, Mabel had a ‘meeting’ with Tobert at a restaurant. Mabel accepted under the idea that Tobert had a lead, and, in truth, it was more of a date. They were staking out Ben’s understudy, Jonathan, who they saw meeting with Ben’s doctor, Dr. C. When they accidentally revealed themselves to Jonathan, they went back and added Dr. C to the murder board. Then Mabel and Tobert had sex.

Oliver and Loretta had sex as well during this episode, while Charles and Joy were falling apart.

We had the return of the awesome Jane Lynch as Charles’s longtime stunt double Sazz. Sazz is always a great addition to an episode.

The three couplings did not take away from the story as the work on the play has done in previous episodes because the murder was always there in the atmosphere. We got a lot of interesting details dropped throughout the episode. I still hope that the killer is not Loretta as that feels just too contrived.

I believe we are now officially halfway through the third season and I have no idea who the killer is.