Oh snap. this felt very penultimate. There’s a lot more to go!

It made me wish we had some good patriotic songs that don’t involve God at all.... I guess we have This Land is Your Land...

I took it as a nod at the way Western countries and diplomats today will go out of their way to show “respect” for other “cultures” that oppress women by trying to make them comfortable. They are probably told that the Wives choose not to read.

oooooooh boy. Ok. Here goes.

I heard Masha Gessen (who is brilliant) say once that the problem with current day Russia that Germany post-WWII didn’t have: There were no clear lines between the Soviet bad guys and the victims. Everyone was bad to someone. Everyone snitched on someone. Everyone was snitched on. Everyone lived in fear, everyone was…

EXACTLY MY POINT: Lawrence was still “in” the game, so to speak. Once a host “wakes up,” they realize they can override their programming, like Bernard and Dolores choosing not to feel pain. For us, the point of blood is to bring oxygen to our muscles and brain. They don’t need oxygen, thus they don’t need blood, not…

I don’t buy that. If pain is just a program, according to Bernard, then they don’t have nerves, per se. Not real ones. So why wouldn’t blood loss also be a program? We humans need blood to keep our organs functioning, all in service of keeping our brain functioning. They don’t need any of that to keep their brain…

i for one don’t understand why bullets are harmful to the hosts. it’s not like they actually NEED blood to function.

can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not in the PS, but I thought that was fairly obvious....?

This was BY FAR the most relatable of these columns, ever. I shop the same way, I rely on recommendations the same way, I also only barely understand makeup and rely mostly on mascara and some blush... and I also live a life of intensely monotonous routine. The only thing is that I haven’t yet figured out how to…

Dollars to donuts Eve’s husband is a goner, right? (I don’t know how betting works, are those good odds?)

People said that about Ivanka’s book and her clothing lines and both have tanked.

Same here, kinda. I was #blessed with relatively good skin in my teens (which I didn’t realize then. Thanks, Seventeen, et al, for giving me a complex about black heads that I didn’t really have unless I used a magnifying mirror!) so I never learned all these things... I use SPF most days, mascara, and sometimes a…

so, the opposite of face book’s changes? Weird. Almost like, they don’t *really* care about us connecting better with our friends and family....?

I’ve been trying to cut sugar for a year or more now. I’m convinced that I’m actually addicted to it like a drug. So, if you have a secret for how you did that, I would love to know.

Yeah, the image of her horse comes almost immediately in the start of the pilot. it was an amazing easter egg.

I had my second viewing of the pilot almost immediately after i finished watching the movie for the first time. Hit me like a slap in the face. :)

The Man in Black in the movie, the robot that glitches and starts killing everyone, rides a buckskin horse with black mane and black tail. It’s very prominently featured in some riding scenes. Dolores is the only character in the pilot who also rides a buckskin horse with black mane and black tail, also prominently…

Yeah, there were a lot of brains. (which I am now going to call cupcake brains- thats hilarious)

A note on a rematch: The first shot of the episode is of the record label spinning and it looks a LOT like the maze game Dolores had last season. (Also the song is hilarious, given what ends up happening to Jim-bot at the end of the exercise...)