I'm curious... did you feel the same way about Alison and her checking up on Vanya and Vanya's love interest? She wasn't wrong about the guy (whose name I cannot remember right now) but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way at the time. It was maternalistic in the way that Luther is paternalistic. She and Vanya didn't have that kind of relationship where she could interfere and I agreed with Vanya that it did seem kind of... well, irritating, given the failure of Alison's own marriage.