I agree, I thought Fey and Minor were the weakest element of the last three episodes (and yes, I'm just old enough to get the OJ references; I just don't think they added much, and took up way too much airtime.)

I'm tempted to add "supervisor of pen maintenance" to my CV now. Also, I think I've been to the Best Western in Naperville.

I find calling Beth a "relentless harpy" to be pretty over the top, especially while going into labor and the immediate aftermath, not to mention having been blindsided by the case actually going to trial. I don't have any trouble empathizing with both her and Ellie at the same time, or with her still disbelieving…

I would totally not be surprised to see The Butcher and the Baker on CBS next year. #findthelegs

And that there are plenty of people who would generally rather believe in silliness/misunderstood/"boys will be boys" type justifications than be forced to acknowledge that fucked-up-ness.

It was darkly funny to me—in the same way Wanda Sykes's jokes about having a detachable pussy are funny to me, but Tosh's aren't, in the sense that I literally do not understand what the funny part is supposed to be besides "lol, rape, am I right?" Whether that's because I've had at least a nodding acquaintance with…

CRANK you for being a crank!

I really like that a lot of her "evil" makes sense in a sort of scrappy-survivor- "As God as my witness, I'll never go hungry again!" kind of way. Not to mention having been raised by that mother.

Major improvement over last week, and thank GOD Jane pushed back at least a little against the ridiculous guilt-tripping. When she said anyone who knew her would know how wrong that idea was, it finally felt like at least the potential for genuine communication was opening up.

Hamm and Buble also kills me, for reasons I can't even explain. He already had kidnapping potential!

Yeah, I was in middle school, old enough to get the joke, but it felt to me like it comparatively dragged on and took up an unnecessary amount of air in the episode. A bit one-note.

I think it's really trying to be uncomfortable—it's an (often uneven) attempt to satirize victim-blaming and the fascination people have for "charismatic" predators. (Obviously if it bothers you, it bothers you—and I do think it gets very uneven, especially in the extent of the Fey/Minor antics—but it did overall…

I find it odd to say Jacqueline's role in the show has been undefined up to now. The trope of rich-woman-using-ridiculous-consumption to cover despair isn't terribly original, but I feel it's been fully inhabited since at least episode 2. And it's one of the things that, IMO, keeps Kimmy from being a joke—even as…

Huh, sometimes in the comments for other shows I feel like I am the resident stick-in-the-mud grump who isn't interested in the annnnngst of characters as justifications for them doing shitty things, but I felt total sympathy for both Kimmy and Kmmyi. (In large part because I think even calling Kimmy a "diva" plays…

"I can't fix America!"

No, I meant to reply to the assertion that the only liberal church is the Unitarian one, and that no liberal churches ever do baptism by immersion. Totally my error. Church of Christ, United Church of Christ, and Disciples of Christ are all different, and that can be very confusing, but UCC has always been pretty…

It's not common for liberal churches (which are NOT only Unitarian, for heaven's sake) to practice immersion, but there's no reason an individual church couldn't—it's just tradition, not theology. Plenty of liberal churches even offer the option of immersion—including some Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists and…

So the United Church of Christ, where my parents were married and my brother and I baptized (in 1977 and 1981, respectively). The Congregationalist tradition, along with the Quakers, has been well and kicking in America since the 18th century, ordaining women, being involved in abolition and sufferage and economic…

ugh, replied to wrong comment—sorry!

Hate is way too strong an emotion. Boredom, maybe. I do like Fiona, and think the idea that she needs him (or that the story needs him) is crappy and sexist.