Episode 4 is easily my favorite episode of the season so far. It makes such a difference for the trio to be together + I enjoyed spending time with Cinda. Oh what familiar characters and relationships can do for my happiness.
Other thoughts:
He isn’t my favorite for the role, but Howard’s behavior this episode is making me like him more for the moriarty/mastermind role that John Hoffman has talked about (him and Oliver having a ‘layered relationship’ wherein he doesn't hand over the keys when he doesn't want to even though he works for Oliver, him being ‘the eyes and ears of this production,’ the lying.)
‘Like a sweater… unraveling.’
Okay, my hope for the Joy/Charles stuff is that he ends the season realizing he doesn’t want a (heteronormative) romantic relationship and what actually makes him happy is his found family with Oliver and Mabel and Lucy. However, now might be a good time to mention that I think Lucy might be getting Oscer’d. (A review said she isn’t in the first eight episodes.)
Oh! Kimber’s line about Ben looking like a 50 year old baby feels meaningful when in the play everyone’s meant to think a baby did it. It's a point to the theory that Ben faked his own death when he collapsed on stage.
I think this is the first time Mabel's worn white and not gotten blood on her.
Maybe Tom (piano guy) did it. I say this solely because of the lack of focus on him.