I can't stop thinking about her son. That poor boy. What a thing to carry with you. I hope he is surrounded by love and support.

What I love about The Secret History is how effectively it manipulates your sympathies. By the point of Bunny’s murder, you’ve fine to feel that it’s perfectly reasonable; that of course he needs to be killed... and then later your feelings are flipped back and it’s recognisable as an awful thing.

I’m fascinated as to why they didn't just stick with Charlie...?

My baby is known to my friends as ‘Alan Gordon-face’ because I told them how I don’t understand the whole ‘I’ll see what name the baby looks like when they arrive’ because all newborns basically have a face that looks like it belongs to an Alan or a Gordon. 

Came to say this.I thank you for your service to the south west.

I don't know if you can get them in the US but if you can, try Snag Tights. Very stretchy, never fall down, and they come in loads of interesting colours.

There is a particular oddness to being really pregnant and therefore stocking up on things in a way everyone would normally consider perfectly ordinary and reasonable as a precursor to a big life change that will keep you at home for a while, at the same time as it becomes socially much less acceptable to stock up on…

The two previous seasons (the BBC ones) were also awesome. Different presenter and different female judge, but Keith was there and burst into tears at regular intervals, and the format and location were the same. I was so excited when it got picked up by Channel 4!

“... and, yes, there were some people that didn’t like it, and as is the world we live in, those who didn’t like it were the most vociferous”

“In time you’ll drop dead and I’ll come to your funeral in a red dress” is one of those lines that I’ve always secretly longed for the opportunity to use in real life. One day...

Don’t forget Zeal Monachorum...

I’m so frazzled this afternoon that literally the only thing I took from this is ‘There is a human person called Darlene Superville!'

Don’t I know it. I made one joke, one time, to wind up my friend about being the only person in his family without a mattress named after them, and mattresses stalked me around the internet for months...

Oh, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

This whole anecdote neatly sums him up...

He messes his hair up on purpose before appearing in public. It’s a deliberate, disingenuous thing to play up the idea of Boris the amusing buffoon.

I’ve also definitely seen interviews with Tan where he’s talked about having to tone down some British tendencies for the show - like, recognising that the tone is more earnest and less sarcastic than the average British person might be.

I’m fascinated by this discussion because in the UK, surrogacy is essentially altruistic - broadly speaking, expenses are paid but not compensation.

I find epigenetics - in particular, the idea that gene expression is influenced by the gestational environment - super-interesting in terms of how it’s presented in different circumstances. As someone using an egg donor, you hear people bang on about it all the time: “Even though your baby won’t have your DNA, the…

I didn’t find the show as a whole to be particularly dimly lit. But there are some scenes where it’s specifically supposed to be dark and where nobody really knows what the hell is going on - mainly in the first episode - so it's probably more about the context.