The first episode totally sucked me in. It's a difficult show to evangelize, though. The concept sounds fluffy (and not nearly as biting as it is in practice) and it's completely over if you mention Lifetime.

I don't think it was drug testing related. Allegedly she was saying things about being tired of always being touched and prodded as she was shaving her head. Considering the frequency with which she was having extensions sewn in and replaced over the preceding decade, it seems more like her hair represented all of the…

I definitely got a SWC vibe from it. It has a similar structure of Important Lessons never actually being learned or being thoroughly subverted. It has a more peppy tone, though. The first episode wasn't my favorite but I was sold on the show after the second episode, "Bisexual Because of Meth."

I thought the season overall was lackluster. They didn't really go all in with any of the changes to the status quo (location, etc) so it was weirdly static and meandering.

Honestly, I could see them playing this season off as a dream sequence or a Krieger-induced shared hallucination. Or they could just not explicitly address this season as part of continuity and just make joke references to it and wink about it. Anything seems plausible.

I think the scene with S and Duko was supposed to be kinda unfulfilling. Revenge doesn't help the pain.

She was definitely tripping balls. Lack of sleep, booze, and any drug she could get her hands on could produce hallucinations. Using inebriation to manifest a character's inner demons and articulate their overall frame of mind is a pretty well worn trope.

Touché. But it still indicates a level of of success in the industry and that she hasn't only been getting roles because she's beautiful.

Also, Knightley is a private person who actively avoids a celebrity lifestyle. She's not Lindsay Lohan. It sounds like he's talking about Lohan.

But surely he could find sexy 18 year olds whom he could treat like shit for longer hours and with fewer breaks.

Michael Bay has lowered our expectations of professionalism across the board.

Yeah, it made like $64 million on an $8 million and the film AND Knightley received positive reviews. That's a success. And the supermodel comment seems based on her accepting a lucrative spokesmodel deal, not unlike Oscar winner Charlize Theron. He definitely has some lingering resentment that seems to go beyond…

He wasn't trying to pick holes in his own work; he brought her up repeatedly and unprompted. The interview was about his new film and he used it as an opportunity to talk shit about a two-time Oscar nominee he worked with on another project 3 years ago. The whole thing sounded like he's bitter that she didn't sleep…

Anna Torv would be my first pick but I'm more than okay with Envy Adams.

Wait, why did they even have underage extras for a club scene? That requires totally unnecessary (and probably overlooked) adherence to child labor laws FOR EXTRAS.

Is it really that odd for women to be addicts, though? Especially adderall addicts? It's a drug that gives you more energy and suppresses your appetite. You can be thin and have it all! Just like society expects!

Yeah, I don't play any multiplayer involving chat with strangers. If I wanted to be called a faggot repeatedly, I'd just drive out to the suburbs or beyond.

He had a John or two before the odd duck morgue guy, whom he dated briefly before disappearing completely.

The MK Uptra monologue felt very Chekov's gun; there needs to be a payoff for a speech that long. If you believe conspiracy theorists, the timeline doesn't even matter. Between the use of child subjects and the project still being active (again, theories that are not my own), Veronica's age is irrelevant.

Yeah, that was an explicit political statement but that doesn't mean her storylines can't be problematic. Her main stories have been her super quickly intense relationship built on deception and her illness/near death (skirting the "tragic gay" trope).