Diane isn't only mean-spirited, she's a Machiavellian genius.

I totally thought Jamie Lee Curtis's wink-wink meant she was going on a "trip" to the Isle of Lesbos. I'm not sure if that puts me on the dirty side or the naive one.

It's weird to me when I hear people describe Rafael as "emotionally vulnerable" (I agree with you so often, Linda Holmes! But not on this!). I often do really like characters who are self-contained because there's a bigger crisis going on (I'm an Elinor, not a Marianne), but for that to work, I need to have a sense…

The acting would definitely be better. Especially if they replaced all the spying sequences with catnaps.

More kittehs, less Mario Lopez and Regis Philbin, please! I am cat-biased, but the writing for Puppy Bowl is a lot better.

Well, for me it had to do with Xo and Rogelio actually openly laying out and discussing the problem, albeit via Jane's mediation. They used words and stuff!

#TeamVillaneuvaFamily. But I do find Rafael bland and weirdly empty.

" Rafael’s emotional reaction isn’t the priority here anyway." Well, it's a problem to ME, because I still have pretty little sense of his interior life. I feel like I know WAY more about what is going on in Luisa's head. And Petra's. And Alba's. And Michael's.

Apparently there is a vast reservoir of completely neutral and absolutely true "facts" just waiting to be gathered up! Information is not colored at all, even subconsciously, by the people who collect it, for what purpose it was collected, how it is presented, and who looks at it.

The opening description of Hector makes me want to watch this even less. Oh, woe, another upper class middle-aged man who feels unfulfilled and uses that to justify lying and/or inappropriate sexual behavior, wah wah blah blah. I don't care how well it's played; it's just dull beyond words at this point.

I had to have most of my baby teeth extracted, because I'm a freak and the roots never dissolved enough for them get loose and fall out. I still have sympathy mouth pain this morning.

When the "smartest" person on the show distinguishes between "rape" and "rape-rape," I'd kind of prefer they all shut up forever.

Doctor's waiting room? I have a feeling it skews my blood pressure results.

It's a fistula, possibly anal. Woo, grad school.

There's an updated version of the book which is actually worse, in that the 2012 Judy is way more spineless than the original, and no one from the elite grad school she attends ever points out that the set-up is both unnecessary and ooky.

so far the vibe is more suggestive than exploitative, as it would have
to be to stay out of NC-17 territory. This doesn’t mean the sex will be
chaste or sanitized, but that the focus will be on what it means for the
characters, not just on what it looks like. No doubt to the
disappointment of some fans, it will be…

I think I'm just not a shippy person, in part because I find that relatively often if two characters I like get together, they will both get ruined by how the relationship is actually shown, or they will get broken up for stupid drama contrivance reasons. I've had way more times where I was rooting against a…

Lucy Maud Montgomery also hated being pushed by her publishers into making Anne and Gilbert canon, although that was less ship war and more, ugh, most everything be romance and marriage?

Well, there is a link in right in the article, and when it first came out, there was a ton of coverage along the lines of it being a Good Thing for feminism that women were openly consuming and proclaiming their love for a piece of erotica, and that criticizing the actual content was born out of prudishness,…

I see your slippery slope argument as implying that we can't critique anything, less we be accused of being Puritan censors.