He does this thing with the shape of his mouth that is both amazinf and grotesque. It's like a reptilian pout or something.

I liked that both Marcia and one of the defense attorneys (I think it was Cochran, but it might have been Bailey) immediately say that. It was a nice bit of narrative symmetry.

I loved that it felt for a second like it might be awkward—her deadpan-ish delivery of the line about the sweatshirt ("Why not?! It's a 100% cotton and can get you out of speeding tickets."). Like, there was this tiny frozen moment where they're all kind of assessing if she's the strident harpy woman As Advertised on…

About once a year I have to use the one we still have in our office, which means I have to look up how to use it, because damn if I'm saving memory space for that.

I had to carry my fairly hideous high school handbell choir* uniform in a garment bag. I think mine was a promotional item my dad got from American Airlines at some point.

Credit where due: I watched the last ten minutes with my hands over my eyes, peeking through my fingers like at a horror movie, because I was so damn tense.

The main guy at the commune's reactions to Debbie were creepy, right?

I didn't exactly quit, but pretty much stopped watching Grey's Anatomy by attrition (DVR backlog seemed like a chore) after George died. Not because I adored him so much, especially after the whole Izzie-affair, but it seemed like such a pointless, over-the-top, manipulative and kind of mean-spirited way to do it,…

I really hope they're going to include just how overtly sexist his treatment of Marcia Clark was—that's not the media, that's him, specifically. And although she had many faults, she had plenty of experience navigating court as a woman; she was the only female member of the Special Trials Unit; this wasn't a naif…

Yes, but he deliberately lied by evasion to Darden (he said he collected World War II medals).

I've always felt Petra's action were perfectly understandable as her backstory unfolded: she's a scrappy survivor from an incredibly dysfunctional and abusive background who will do anything she can to keep from being that powerless again.

Yes, this has been one of my complaints all along, from a story perspective—we've seen most of the other characters (even Petra) in a variety of relationship contexts that inform their personalities outside of just love/wanting romantic love. Rafael still feels so comparatively blank to me.

I also feel like there's something a little bit classist going on—that Michael would ALWAYS be a threat because he works as a police officer, instead of a luxurious murder hotel/crime hotbed. :eyeroll: And although I suppose if Michael actually has/does quit, it provides some plot opportunites for him to work for…

I kinda question starting a political thriller with your subject advocating the controversial position that children should NOT be kidnapped and sexually assaulted in bunkers for ten years.

But the fact that she didn't recognize it didn't mean it wasn't real. That white women in general weren't listening supports Pilot's observation rather than disproving it. I don't see that as saying she should have been exceptionally enlightened; it's just pointing that out as one of the many factors that led to the…

Nicole filed for divorce two years before the murder. Even if they were sleeping together, she was not a married woman. I don't think most divorced women would be thrilled at the idea that sex with them two years out is an "occupational hazard."

Daniel Holtzclaw seemed to be doing some of that, at least in still photos.

I hope it does, because it's pretty hard to separate from the sexism issues—a recent article I read mentions a time when she had to rearrange childcare due to having to stay at the DAs office and her ex called the press with this "evidence" she was a bad mother. The idea that it's "bitchy" for a mother to ever "not…

I had a similar experience with a family friend (actually the man who left work to drive my mom and me to the airport so we didn't have to mess around with long-term parking on what turned out to be the day before my grandmother died). And I absolutely believe the evidence that he did the terrible thing he was accused…

Especially when said woman is prosecuting an (alleged okay) murderer (of the mother of his children) and domestic abuser! If you aren't allowed to be angry about that, when exactly are you allowed to be angry?