There isn't much I can say about the plotlines (eye-roll) but I do like watching the brothers Gallagher hanging out with each other (although like last week, considering how naked the Gallagher house is, I find it unconvincing no one noticed Carl's uncut status before.) Even within this asinine, pseudo-exploration of…

Agreed, especially with your points about how Ian's "100% gay" perspective is shaped by his experiences sleeping with men who sleep with women, and also the cost/risk of being out (which he certainly experienced vicariously through Mickey, if nothing else.) It's really contrived and silly to try to force this into a…

Seriously. I'm really having trouble taking this seriously as a thoughtful exploration of biphobia or identity because the set-up is so obnoxious (and I don't know if it's the acting choices or what, but Caleb is so very flat and blah.)

Oh god a Slings and Arrows prequel is everything I want.

I thought this looked awful and like something you'd literally have to pay me to watch even before I knew it was based on (ugh) Dr. Phil but I like knowing the terribleness is entrenched right in those ridiculous character names.

I did think the stunt with Ruby's father was despicable (but so was hiring the woman from central casting to pretend to be that former foster kid's mom), but I don't get how we conclude that "Beth Ann
will be fine, as her family is sure to rally around her." (I mean, I'm not sure there's any value in ranking them—it…

I'm pretty sure he did—iirc he demanded they remove his name from any and all marketing materials.

I have some kind of handbell related PTSD because as soon as those (or Carol of the Bells) play, I reflexively start miming my old handbell parts. I'm pretty cool at parties.

I played in a handbell choir all through high school—that's a pretty cumbersome and pricey signature. Also, they fingerprint like the devil. (My handbell choir eschewed gloves, so we had to polish them every month or so. I'm sure this is more handbell related info than any sane person needs.)

I found it surprisingly dull for something starting with the assets (pun. . .kinda intended?) of lesbian vampires.

Not that I should expect good science from this show, but I'm pretty sure that besides being disgusting and evil, Megan's plans to send kids to the "procreation room" as soon as they menstruate is a pretty stupid move in terms of actually building a healthy population. Pregnancy under the age of 15 or so tends to…

I feel so cheap and manipulated by those appliance commercials, but I watch them and go "awwww" every goddamn time. SLOTH CAKE THAT SAYS "LET'S HANG OUT."

I'm pretty sure the whole thing is on youtube!

I am an Alice nerd*, and there are lots of adaptations I like (especially counting media besides film**), and the first one I just found irritating. Partly because there was some super-lazy treatment of Victorian expectations for women (which is actually a genuinely interesting element of the actual book! Child Alice…

As I remember the article, it was more about the hilarious macho posturing. They eat spicy foods! They won't read anything their moms recommend! I mean, sure you CAN have a rule that you refuse to read books by women authors about women characters, but I'm going to think you're a sexist idiot who is missing out on a…

Except that men in female-dominated fields (including teaching, childcare, social work and nursing) earn more money and get promoted more quickly than their female counterparts. I've also yet to see any reporting that men in those fields experience the wide-ranging and pervasive levels of harassment reported by women…

My parents took us on a vacation to Portmeirion when I was seven and it's pretty much embedded into my subconscious like nothing else from that vacation. (Parents, if you take a seven-year-old to see the Rosetta Stone, it's not really fair play to complain that they don't remember it in VIVID DETAIL by the time they…

It's the second episode, I think—when Geoffrey finds out Oliver willed his skull to the festival as a prop.

I think the point was that those particular issues related to much bigger and rawer issues—there's a connection between Frankie's anger at Coyote and Bud's concern about her driving (a plot point I don't think was handled very well, but whatever) and her outrage that Sol lied to her "for her own good" for years—they…

Slings and Arrows.