You summarized it perfectly. I stuck it out to see who the last man standing would be (so to speak). Then hate-reviewed it to spare my readers the trauma of loving Murder House but being faced with Freak Show. Called it "Ryan Murphy thinks society is the real freak show and he tells us over and over and over".

Yes. How could they screw up a great concept + Morgan Freeman + Scarlett Johanssen? I can only assume it was on purpose. ;-)

This this this this this this this this this. So awful. And I love crappy superhero movies. Ended up hate-reviewing it out of pure self-defense ("If I can spare even one of my readers from seeing this…") http://maryjanicedavidson.blogspot.com/2015/01/ryan-m…

I love articles like this! I've read way too many books on the Tudors, the Plantagenets, the Hapsburgs, the Borgias, Ferdinand & Isabella, Wars of the Roses, etc., and can't get enough of stories about them. More like this, please please!

That is goddamned brilliant, Donna. I kind of want you to explain *everything* to my redneck anti-choice Republican parents now. Feel like a monotonous frustrating vacation in the wilds of Missouri? I'll pay for you to go for a long weekend, but it'll feel like a year. ;-)

"Let myyy…Cameron…goooooooo…"

That actually does help a little. Thank you.

Oooh, me too! Sorry to hear you're on bed rest, hope all is well with you and the little one.

Oooh, me too! Sorry to hear you're on bed rest, hope all is well with you and the little one.

Me, too! We should hang out. :-)

Thought it was a laughable episode beginning to end (cue Troi flailing through space shrieking, "Where arrrrre youuuuuuuu?"). Except for the morgue scene. I might have hidden behind my couch for a couple of hours.

"Jesus, you scared me! Don't sneak UP on me like that."

Love love LOVE SBTB. Cannot say enough about them. Always on point, always good for a giggle. They're funnier on my worst days than I am on my best (that goes for Jezebel writers, too<g>).

"I shall go down in history as a man who opened a door!"

THANK YOU. (No, I'm serious!) I'm a Tudorphile (long before Showtime cast a slender small brunette to play a gigantic obese balding redhead) and big fans of Catherine of Aragan (the infanta of Spain before she was England's queen) and of course Anne Boleyn. Loved that you knew that. :-)

May I be in your family, please?

In their defense, their newborns don't really *need* their big toes.

I like Liz Lemon's Night Spanx! (And Lutz's.)

Ohhhh, yeah. I want her to have a nice Christmas, too. Their mortification tastes like candy canes...

Yup. My agent has an assistant whose main job is *just* going around to these pirate sites as they pop up and getting them to cease and desist. Those rotten pirates impact the number of Ramen Noodle packs I can buy! (You can buy 1,000 for $2.99) But at no time did I feel Ramen deprived. Ramen noodled? Ranoodled?…

Agree! I love Deadspin; it's the only sports blog I check every day. They're funny and their snark has just the right amount of bitchy for me. And racists/sexists posts get regularly stomped by other commenters.