I agree, they did a good job with it. Charles really is the same person, the difference is that now we’re seeing how his issues manifest when there’s someone actually impacted. The Camilla Love Story seems tragic until him persuing it isn’t selfishness against his duties, it’s selfishness against a real, living…

I don’t remember her popping off the screen in House of Cards though. I bet it’s hard to bring in some of the comedic energy of Maisel to something self serious.

Their Charles, so humanized in the last season, comes off as cruel, weak, and emotionally immature.

I liked Season 1 too, but it objectively was kind of a mess. It was fun to watch, but I get why it got mixed reviews.

but I feel like deadlines are malliable once you cease printing

I feel like you don’t know the difference between a blog that runs near daily in one website and a syndicated column.

Seems like it will be a bright and cheery show until the twist series finale when a feline pneumonia epidemic sweeps through the cafe because Kat doesn’t believe in the FVRCP vaccine.

She says the thought of me sleeping with other people turns her on but the prospect of her sleeping with other people only makes me nervous.

I don’t really care about this joke, but just because something is referenced does not mean they’re being made fun of.

LW#1: Given how often we’ve seen men criticized for the hypocrisy of being fine with bisexual partners hooking up with other women, but not men, it’s strange that there’s no criticism of the LW for an opposite arrangement that’s just as hypocritical.

I don’t think that’s how syndicated column deadlines work...

In fairness, everything works ten times better in The Young/New Pope than in any form of media.

I think it’s a hard sell for people to buy into a weekly blue sky show when there’s other things to binge. I mostly associate Monk with people watching the DVD’s or repeats on in the background and not tuning in at 8:00 every week. The streamers can compete with that.

Basically I’m asking what they actually want the guy specifically to do differently and give specifics beyond “stop being problematic.”

But outside of proposing that straight, white men not be allowed to have books published anymore I’m not really sure what you want the poor guy to do. Either he tries to write what he knows and about his own interests, which was the complaint about the first book, or he makes an attempt to acknowledge a pop culture…

For the record, I do remember Feel the Magic, which was great and ahead of it’s time.

Asking you to provide a list of things that would make good gifts for you and your husband is asking you to do the emotional labor of caring and being interested that your in-laws could, and don’t, do.

See, I disagree. I don’t think Charles came of well in this episode at all. I saw this episode as an inflection point, where now we start to see why the way that he was mistreated is now going to harm Diana.

It’s weird because about 1/3 of these are truly regional, 1/3 are mostly midwestern, and 1/3 are just national chains.

Fun Fact: Michael Jackson really wanted to be Jar Jar Binks, and only found out he didn’t get it when Lucas introduced Ahmed Best to him back stage at his concert.