On part rewatch, I noticed in the scene where Grace is telling Sylvia by phone about her conversation with Jonathan’s mother about his sister and how his parents thought he reacted, that our first shot of Sylvia’s side of the conversation is a blurry reflection of her on the table?, right when Sylvia is repeating…

A) That thread was way too long

The ending was pretty satisfying; Ethelrida finally being the hero. I’ll overlook they never really justified her badass-ness by having her earn it; she was just that way from the beginning. If she had been the focus of the season, we would have seen her flaws and how she overcame them to become the hero. As is, her…

Ha, last week I said there were only two suspects, Franklin and Sylvia. Since Donald Sutherland has played so many villains, Franklin as the killer is a feint and so it must be Sylvia. Early this episode, I wondered, “Are they making Henry into a third possibility? That would be stupid” Then I forgot about it, which…

Sample entry: “You—come to my room at 10:30. You—come at 10:45. Man, I hate Christmas. Wish I had the power to cancel it.”

It would have been cool if he co-edited this with his daughter, who I hear had a part in the film.

An actor’s politics is a fact of his/her personal life. Audiences and fans have come to know about actors’ personal lives just fine without allowing that knowledge to affect how they see their characters. Why would their political opinions take you out of the movie more than, say, the actor’s relationship status or…

I’m glad Lynch’s character shot Phillippe’s, because I was wondering if Kelley somehow failed to notice that his hero was obnoxious and creepy. Before that, I had the thought they were going for quirky and badly misjudged how repellent he was.

I submit that torture scenes are boring, dramatically insipid and inert, and should go extinct.

I didn’t like this episode much. It felt surreal for the heck of it and pretentious symbolism without meaning. I’m seeing the show with commercials, so if the plot is slow and nothing happens, it’s dragged out too much.

I appreciate that Donald Sutherland here pronounced the word, “coke-sucker.” Kidman can’t say “walk” without slipping back to her native Aussie accent.

So you’re saying I should write it as a screenplay? Okay! It’ll be a romantic comedy where a female colleague of his is an expert on the history of morose men.

I’ve had, for a while now, a wisp of a short story idea: A Holocaust or genocide studies professor likes his job, even though it is emotionally hard, because at least he can react to the day’s very negative news—say an attempted coup by the president of his democratic country—with a better, cheerier attitude than…

Ah. Thanks. I usually don’t read reviews of movies before I see them.

I thought this movie came out--and was reviewed--a month ago.

The Republican Party is contributing to the Balkanization of America. A less safer, more controversial analogy is that we’re on the road to liberals being the Jews in 1930s Germany. It’s alarming, to say the least.

These horrible experiences of POC actors on set are the go-to example of refuting Republicans’ beliefs that Hollywood is so warpishly liberal. (In media, it’s “both-sides-ism” and covering what Republicans want, no matter how much crazy nonsense.)

You know, how can we have empathy and compassion for our fellow citizens who voted for Mr. Trump--as they complain we never do--when some of their leaders act like this? 

I felt like we finally got the American allegory of this season being expressed through character instead of speeches this episode. It’s clunky and not clear, but I think that’s what Hawley is going for, like his intention S3 to talk about the Trump election. So maybe Oraetta Mayflower is a representation of the…

Interesting character work here. The first episode, we see Jonathan and he appears to be a fine husband, loving and funny. Now other characters tell us that he was a major narcissist whose ego was so big that he didn’t care about others or was capable of physically hurting them. But so far, we haven’t actually seen…