I really loved the character detail we got there (even if I'm in the minority of thinking Stan was at least grudgingly admiring of Martha having the wherewithal to procure and abortion in 1964, even if we would happily use it as evidence of her being a lawbreaker.)

I noticed a longer than usual shot on his wedding ring while he and Elizabeth were in bed at the beginning of the episode, too. (And I generally am awful at registering things like that on my first watch.)

Me too—I loved it as a character detail revealing a bit of Martha we don't know. Especially in season 1 I felt like sometimes she was played as a bit of a frumpy sad sack, but this makes her feel more like a determined person keen on controlling her own life. And not lacking in courage—I would assume DC was probably…

I think sometimes we act like "selfish" is this huge, absolute thing to accuse people of—what Titus did can be understandable and sympathetic AND selfish, and it can be acknowledged that for him, "escaping the bunker" meant hurting other people, who also have feelings.

I think "acts pretty selfishly to live the life she wants" is a pretty big overstatement (and not even really the track of the episode—it's very little about the life Kimmy actually wants).

First, yaaaay WGN for not booting it for stupid baseball this week!

OMG, I would so pay to seek a Kate McKinnon/Yael Grobglas eye-emote off.

In general I find most of what's been done with the MFA/writing to be one of the more disappointing aspects of the show. Very little growth for Jane and populated with a lot of stock characters with no depth.

Most of the cast of the first Kevin Sullivan Anne of Green Gables (we don't speak of anything that happened after the second one.) Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Jonathan Crombie—even the "smaller" roles like Patricia Hamilton as Mrs. Lynde.

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This is one those Too Stupid to Live tropes for me—the flip side of keeping your Evil Plans in a folder labeled "Evil Plans." If the only way you can get drama out of a situation is requiring people to act like idiots, you need to write a better situation.

Speaking for myself, I'm bothered by the comment because of the notion that "half a day of professional training" is adequate or goes to the real issue—why do we baby supposedly intelligent, highly educated men—one of whom in this case worked at the EEOC!—by pretending this is a matter of ignorance and not hostility. …

Some of it was definitely class-oriented. But in general, I'm—as someone who was a kid when this happened and in high school when the impeachment hearings happened—often really saddened at the way a lot of feminists reacted and continue to react to Bill Clinton. I recently read for the first time some "feminist"…

Some of the Senator castings were eerie, but Kinnear especially was Biden.

Despite knowing at least the outlines (I was too young to process much of this at the time*) of what was going to be said, it was harder to actually watch than I anticipated.

Wow, plausible deniability is both the most honest and the most ridiculous defense I can imagine for why it's okay to contribute to the weddings of every other kind of "sinner" than gays. I mean, I'm not sure exactly what Scripture you'd use to support it, but then again, I'm unaware of the Scripture or any…

But these movies/production companies aren't interested in "sense." They have a very specific agenda that is very purposefully built around stories of attractive white Protestant Evangelicals. It's either ridiculous or disingenuous to suggest it would make as much "sense" for them to do something that has nothing to…

The consumption of cake, to my knowledge, is not a part of any Christian wedding ceremony. A reception is not a religious ritual.

Would you also ask every straight couple who came in if they've already slept together and give them the same speech? Or is the problem that a gay couple can't hide their gayness?

Proving that as in David Rakoff's (RIP, still heartbroken) hilarious essay/interview with Robert Knight, once they get revved up your pure-minded Christian homophobe is a lot more obsessed with sodomy than your average going about his day gay dude.