I think the Doctor intends for it to happen, and makes his (or her) choice of companion primarily based on the likelihood that it will happen. Notice it’s always the young and pretty girls that wind up falling for him in a fanatical sort of way, and all of them have a certain obsessive nature.

I think that is part of the Doctor’s neuropsycopathy—he or she keeps doing what he/she does in the way that he/she does so that a naive young companion will become infatuated and ultimately obsessed, only to be dumped (or killed) so the Doctor can start the whole sick cycle over again.

I’ll preface this comment by saying that I am gay, so this isn’t a question of being homophobic—but why, exactly, do they need to make Miranda gay? Yes, I know the actor playing Miranda is gay...but she’s been gay the entire time she’s played the character. They didn’t seem bothered by it before the actress came out…

They are all beginning to look like Wayland Flowers’ “Madame” character.

If you’re not too far away, you can order through postmates or uber-eats or something. I am, unfortunately, outside of their delivery zone.

Lifeguard.

Bludsoe’s isn’t even so-so. It’s bland and tasteless and small-ass portions. If you really want good barbecue in L.A., you have to go to the valley and find Dr. Hogly-Wogly’s Tyler Texas Barbecue on Sepulveda in Van Nuys. It’s a pretty well-kept secret. I grew up in Texas, and it is better than any barbecue I ever had…

From the promo for next week:

I’ll be glad to see the end of the Jodie Whitaker-version of the Doctor. She’s seemed like a diluted-yet-frantic/surface-only impersonation of Matt Smith, with little of the charm (although she doesn’t seem to realize that fact) and none of the childlike wonder or barely repressed malevolence. And the companions they…

You don’t have to convince me. I’ve often felt like the only Lawrence defender in existence in the comments for past seasons of Insecure. And the Lawrence-hate was brutal and sustained. I always seemed to understand his motivations and reactions (even if I didn’t always agree with them). He was treated unfairly a lot…

I like that they aren’t getting straight into the alien stuff. If anything like that really happened, people wouldn’t know everything about it right away. No one believes in aliens or space invaders—at least not enough to jump to “alien invasion” over “terrorist activity” to explain the explosions and tech…

I could not even get through the first episode of “Under the Dome.” That show was the worst thing I ever saw on television (until “Walking Dead: Millenial Edition” or whatever-the-fuck that third series is called).

So what was it that caused your perspective shift about Lawrence?

No, it’s 4 comments in which I deny the premise that she “raped” Luke. That wasn’t a rape, no matter how much you want it to be.

Wow, I couldn’t disagree with this review and the sentiment in the comments more.

I sound like a douche bag because I think you’re an idiot for looking over qualified applicants because you are weird about tattoos. Got it.

Yeah she could have admitted she had goaded Kai into it and explained why. She was never going to be turned in to the police by the Mossbachers, and she and Olivia could have probably convinced them not to press charges.

Be sure to watch Murray Bartlett in the canceled-too-soon series “Looking.”

What possible reason could justify not hiring an otherwise qualified candidate for a job simply because you don’t like where their tattoo is applied? You didn’t even qualify that the tattoo must be offensive or racist—you discriminate based on the existence of the tattoo, regardless of the content.

So what’s the next series after Loki? And is the plan for all these shows to mesh into a single narrative at some point, or to lead into the plot of the next feature? Or are they just standalone shows that happen to involve different characters from Marvel, with no crossover storyline?