I’ll sing along with 1989 like the shameless pop consumer I am, but is anyone surprised? T Swift hasn’t had an original thought in her very short life. Her entire oeuvre is a composite of cliches.

Never forget “like sucking on a robot’s dick,” delivered with aplomb by Colin Ferrell.

B.F. (before feminism): Wife stays home, man works. Man cheats on wife behind her back. End.

In pooping voice: “It’s like I got blue balls...IN MY HEART.”

Yeah, I have to disagree here in that abortion isn’t actually a political issue. It’s a personal issue that has been politicized. Mostly so that Conservative politicians can collect filthy lucre from anti-abortion interest groups, many of which are religious organizations.

Personally I don’t get why they’re called “rom-coms” or cast as genre movies at all. Aren’t they really just “Human Movies?” Like, life is funny and sad and romantic and this genre is the one that hues most closely to that!

So familiar with constantly/desperately watching any rom com I can get my hands on, hoping for that Ephron magic. It’s torture. But good torture. Have you seen Wanderlust? That’s been a favorite and very reference-able in my semi-hippie surroundings.

He got plugs! (Husband is NBA fanatic).

This sums it up for me (from the RS article linked):

To me, it’s a film that attempts to handle very traumatic and sensitive subjects without any sensitivity or understanding of how these things impact real people, under the guise of being “brave” or “raw.”

Oh wow, you just articulated pretty much every feeling I’ve ever had about the Swift one. Thank you! Except for the insanely cliche lyrics cobbled together to somehow create a vague melange of every teenage feeling anyone has experienced. That’s the most awful/fascinating part of all for me.

So I think the details are still to be revealed, but what the show is hinting at is that in each of their jurisdictions (State investigator, City investigator, and State highway patrol) they’re the low men on the totem poll — basically people their departments can stand to lose. The Vinci leadership is blatant about…

Ok this whole debate made me think a lot...and I agree with all of your points here! So (and I am really truly asking NOT being facetious), is it always always wrong for anyone non-black to wear cornrows? Or is it 100% case-by-case and situational? I don’t want to be the white northerner consulting a person of color…

I’m guessing it’s actually about plastic surgery, given the seedy LA theme.

I agree with you on that. I think being set up and seeing the case “go away” will be the galvanizing moment...anyway, I guess we’ll have to take it one episode at a time! That’s half the fun!

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Done :)

Haha ok! I totally agree. I was just saying I think he’s doing the best acting job so far. Rachel McAdams is really believable too.

Amen all around — except I don’t think Will Ferrell is supposed to be in it? I saw a preview for something else with him right after the “next time on” thing — maybe you got mixed up!

I’m saying they were set up and chosen for the whole investigation in the first place because they’re all a bunch of fuck ups. So no big surprise that they would blow it, especially in a situation where they wouldn’t have had any way to predict that kind of escalation. Plus the whole point of the scene was that the…