I really liked how his caption constantly said "Matt, 23—Not Really Prince Harry." It was the sublime cherry on top of the sundae of awful/awesome.

I think they could tell these girls that the loser each week will get beheaded, and they would totally believe it. That's what kings do, right? They should have an axe ceremony.

Supernatural is preempted in my market, but I still feel like I'm watching a harbinger of the Apocalypse.

The teacher's reaction didn't seem to me to be "youthful" at all—it seemed like she was going through the motions of accepting Jane's apology because it was pedagogically correct/part of the school's "plan," but was still deeply humiliated and aware that the incident will hang over her for the rest of the year, if not…

No, I mean Janet called her 10, and then he told Amia his daughters were 8 and thirteen.

I was much less interested in the Amia plotline than the Jane plotline, to the point that I was kind of irritated for every moment that didn't involve Jane. (And uh, yeah, that was the teacher.) So far I don't see a lot being subverted in "guy is attracted to woman who literally can't talk to him."

There's an episode where she teams up with Kimber, during one of Kimber's little-sister flounces, iirc.

Caludia! The only girl with fashion sense even more outrageous than Jem.

I've never been part of an online Jem fandom (lol), but I've never gotten the idea that those of us who still find it hilariously outrageous now were unaware of any of this—and frankly, it strikes me as beyond naive to think children's products have drastically changed to an entirely altruistic market, or even that…

It seemed to me that Philip and Elizabeth were treated as such highly valuable assets, though—why would the Centre give them such a rookie? Especially after what happened with Claudia—it seems to me much more likely the Centre would want them to THINK she was a rookie than actually assign them one—they are valuable…

I've been suspicious of Kate from the beginning—she just seemed way too young and uncertain for the job in a way that made me think she was playing that up to hide something deeper. I love Elizabeth locking on to the wrongness of her meeting Jared not in disguise.

Sue Heck wins! My heart skipped a beat when I thought Ehlert was going to screw her out of her victory, but Sue Heck is going to Disney World!

Gertrude looks damn good for 80. Were other people bugged that Tessa calls it a quilting circle (and my tv info button said knitting circle) when it was clearly crochet?

I no longer have much to say about the killing off of female characters, or the way the show sets up scenarios for Dean in particular to be "allowed" to attack women.

I think that at least some part of that is not just complementary, but interrelated—like when Vanessa ask not only if Louie has dated a fat chick, but someone heavier than him. If you pathologize heavy women, there's an implication that to be heavier than your male partner—even if it's because he is skinny and you…

No two people have the same personality, so that's a really stupid hypothetical. The question is when the heavier (and apparently uglier) woman has the "better" personality (is funnier, more compatible, more interesting, whatever). Like when a skinny woman who doesn't appear to speak English is a better prospect…

It still seems. . .uncomfortable to me to say that Louie (the show or the man) is STARTING the conversation. That may be functionally true—that is, there may be people who watch Louie who would never watch those other shows, or critics who find Louis to be a more useful point to build an essay like this on, but I…

It did leap out to me she was wearing little white gloves in the elevator when she met Don. I don't think even Carol's friends still wore gloves like that.

I find Hamlin much sexier now than looking at pictures of him from the 80s/early 90s (I was too young to find anyone sexy then, although I did have a mad crush on Picket Fences-era Don Cheadle.)

Yeah, I thought that, too, especially when they came in with the forklift and the saw. Then again, I know Bob loves his kids, but from a plot perspective I didn't completely buy the speed of his turnaround time, either. But I'm not really watching this for plot.