I actually love that the heavy-handed allegories are so upfront about what they're doing.

Voiced by Chris Meloni!

That was so gross. Even grosser in light of his creepy sexts, somehow.

This happened at my high school homecoming one year (with the same excuse), except the crown got tangled in the poor runner-up's curls as she tried to yank it off.

Exploring why Alison doesn't want to be with Joanie—or at least wants it less than hanging out on Montauk doing Lobster Roll stuff—would at least be interesting. And I could even legitimately buy into some ambivalence/fear about being a mother again which again, would be way more interesting than "wahh, Alison isn't…

I literally shrieked with laughter, which I don't think was the intended effect.

I myself actually find LOTR very tedious (although I Get Why it's Important, in context), but I still find his geekiness about it charming as hell.

I would have if I thought he meant it (or meant it enough to do anything but whine about how ANGSTY he is).

Noah's whole good/great "dilemma" is a self-serving false choice, and a total cliche to boot. This is not a provocative new insight he's going to bring up in his book. For a writer and English teacher, doesn't the man ever READ?

Ugh, am I supposed to think Noah's musings on good man/great man, great men and adultery, or how goddamn awesome he is for taking care of his daughter like he should be and expecting brownie points for it are the tiniest bit profound or original? (BTW, Noah, I'd be happy to introduce you to plenty of people who…

(Good Lord, I haven't seen Road to Avonlea since we still had a working VHS player.)

I can't believe no one has thought of mixing "literary fiction" with graphic sex since Henry Miller!

The fact that you use the word "snitching," unilateraly, makes me think we are never going to have accord, because I find most invocations of "snitching" among adults to be ridiculous and privileging the wrong issue. And yes, I do believe you are conflating these situations in a legalistic way—except that actually…

I don't think most people subscribe to that kind of legalistic thinking in their personal lives. Laws are written to manage populations; it strikes me as bizarre to expect everyone to use a broad generalized standard in their personal lives. To flip it, a lot of crimes have a statute of limitations, but I don't think…

Yes, I was really distracted because I just loathe him so much. (And actually, even he himself use to admit he was not particularly good at dealing with actual mental illness.)

It does bother me that Jane was able to intuit enough about the extreme sketchiness of the marriage to Milos—and I guess to support Magda's parole bid—but she isn't able to contextualize that to Petra being in pretty desperate straits. (I mean, I don't think I'm particularly saintly, but if I knew someone was pregnant…

Yeah, I always thought that while Michael's deductions weren't purely objective (if anything is) in S1, there was SO MUCH that was sketchy around the Marbella that it surprises me that people think he was pursuing the investigation ONLY to discredit Rafael. (And it still makes me think Rafael was, at best, willfully…

I'm assuming between the rough pregnancy and Magda—hook-hand edition, poor Petra is just not at the top of her quick-thinking game.

That was a pretty tame Black Friday sale? (idk, my intense discomfort with crowds of milling people going different directions utterly disqualifies me). Even if I were into it, though, I don't think I'd bring my infant if I didn't have to.

I could buy it was banned not so much because of Hitler's beliefs per se, but out of concerns about America's attitudes to the Bible—that the historical tradition from the Separatists to the assorted religious revivals/Great Awakenings would form an easy foothold for resistance if it was left unchecked. (Of course, I…