Wait, how was it “clearly not Perry”?

I’m assuming they just dropped the aquarium in to remind us that this is Monterey. I agree that it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, though.

though I question the decision to tell him all about this upfront, even accounting for the desire not to lie; that’s a lot to dump on a grade schooler

Meryl is perfectly encapsulating that infuriating kind of woman who - instead of being an ally and supporting other women like she should - immediately rushes to defend the man. Obviously it’s because she’s his mother, she idolized him, she filled Perry with the exact cocktail of manipulative behavior that kept…

The scene with Celeste and Mary Louise brought me to tears. I’ve been in abusive relationships before and it’s so frustrating to think that you can’t appeal to the guy’s family. You assume that they more than anyone can reach him or help him improve, but then you’re forgetting that his family is largely what made him…

Yep, that’s where my head immediately went. Either that or their father did. I remember Mary Louise telling Celeste that “Raymond” had an “accident”(and I’m assuming that Raymond was the dad?), but I don’t remember if there was a timeline drawn between Perry’s father’s death and his brother’s.

I’m right there with you. It’s such an infuriating paradox: yes, absolutely Trump should be impeached. It goes against every god damn tenet of our democracy not to hold him accountable for the mountain of crimes he’s committed - large and small, both publicly and in private.

Yeah, I’m totally with you. I know that not every single viewer is going to know what T-cells or AZT are, but it just felt kinda very hit-you-over-the -head. But like you, I’m fascinated by the early AIDS crisis and origins of groups like ACT UP. I’ve watched everything from And the Band Played On to How to Survive a…

I know Trump has the memory and attention span of a goldfish but even he can’t forget this buffoon.

God how I miss Vine

I’m sure they’ll come up with their own stuff, but I don’t think it’s a problem to resurrect the old sketches if the audience for this show is all kids. Not a parent, but I doubt that kids today have ever seen any of the “iconic” All That sketches, so it’s not like they’ll have anything to compare them to.

Lori Beth Denberg walked so Aidy Bryant could run

I also thought penises were naturally floppy all the time. A few years later when I learned about sex (~9 years old), I imagined that when “a penis goes inside a vagina” it just slides in between the vulva and sex is basically a man and a woman making a hot dog.

Didn’t they also mention a reporter coming to cover one of the balls? I wonder if this season is going to make any allusion to Paris is Burning, or have some kind of documentary film maker sniff around.

I was also kind of underwhelmed with Angel’s reaction, but then remember that she’s never really been a violent person. I read it more of her naivete coming to light: she thought she had truly made it and was blinded by her euphoria. Then it all came crashing down and she felt stupid and ashamed.

This reminds me of Lunatics, produced by the incomparable Chris Lilley, which is well worth a watch.

That, shockingly, seems more traumatizing than the first penis I saw.

Ugh. Now go back and watch that show and realize how it was both egregiously bad and painfully boring. My only conclusion in retrospect is that (white) people were having seriously terrible sex in 1998 if Sex and the City was considered titillating.

I don’t disagree with any of this. I guess I just was expecting a different episode, tonally, and that’s why I was caught off guard. I completely understand that this will be a different show from the first season (by, Stan and Patty and Dawson). I just probably wasn’t ready for it to happen in episode 1.