This finale had it all—the supportive mothers, the down-and-out homeless has-beens, the contrite apologizers, the triumphant success stories, the deservedly decimated upstarts...but, I do have to say, they poured it on a little thick with Elektra’s short career as a bag lady.

She said the same thing last week about needing to see “queer women of color next season.”

It still amazes me that the actresses playing the opulent, scheming Lydia Quigley and prim scold Florence Scanwell are also in the cast of Mum, as the sweet, unassuming Cathy and status-obsessed self-centered Pauline. Cathy is everything that Lydia Quigley is not (and the same is true of the characters of Florence and…

One thing I’m hoping to see more of in season two is queer women of color.

Actually, I was asking Absurdist1968 if she is unable to enjoy any dance sequence she sees in any movie or television show due to her cursed knowledge of how the sausage gets made.

“It’s a little unfair, but this show doesn’t really have room for Patty’s struggles”

“Everything about the dancing sequences is off for me, because I know the dancers aren’t dancing to the music we hear, but rather no music at all (one of those things I learned from a behind-the-scenes feature for Queer as Folk). If there was just dancing to music without needing to record dialogue, it wouldn’t seem…

You’re hilarious.

“...the more successful and commercial the show has become, the more jaded and out of touch Ru becomes.”

Is it a good science fiction show that doesn’t follow the standard mass-appeal handbook? Then yeah, no, AVClub won’t be giving it any attention.

I don’t mean just the oppressed of Gilead...I’m looking back at how defeated nations have been treated historically and a lot of it was not nice. The victors tend to view anyone who lived in a defeated country as complicit. I don’t believe that (especially with the bitter partisan divides that plague the world) the…

One man’s torture is another man’s violent resistance.

I’ve never understood that mentality. Stark misery and bleakness is the foundation of this show. If you can’t accept and appreciate that, why would you want to watch?

It looked like bargain-bin Randy Jackson.

I’ve never watched Paris is Burning, so I don’t know whether they are projecting from that or not—but, I have a feeling that things are going to end up very bad for Angel eventually. Conservative possessive closet-case image-conscious social climbers like Stan are not known for their unwarped, open, accepting,…

How did I know that a show that I enjoyed would be nitpicked and ripped to shreds by the good ol’ AV Club commentariat? Easy, because if it isn’t The Americans or The Good Fight or some other show that’s easy for white heterosexual Americans to relate to, it always gets dragged here.

At least on GoT, there’s a familial link that could be seen as justification. Major and Liv have no legitimate claim whatsoever.

It would have been a nice callback to the previous episode where Elizabeth had come upon the scene of an accident and just left the people to die. Also, something about “falling asleep at the wheel” seems an appropriate end for the Jennings...

While Elizabeth and Philip were asleep in the back seat, they showed a rear-view of Arkady Ivanovich yawning behind the wheel and—just for a second—I thought they were all going to die in an automobile accident. After all of the life-and-death shit they survived, for the Jennings to be done in by something as prosaic…

Also, why would Major suddenly be the head of Filmore Graves and Liv suddenly not be guilty of a capital crime simply because they murdered the previous leader? Why would they not have been immediately taken into custody by that guy who set up Major last week? Is murder not really a problem? Is Seattle a feudal…