I theorized last week that to some extent Anezka is trolling Petra (and everyone), for lack of a better real world term—she's testing them, as part of her nefarious plan and/or her own (possibly bitter) amusement—to see just how much feral/naif/dopey Bambi shtick she can get away with.

One big very happy family! OT4!

I genuinely believe my gym classes did the exact opposite of what "physical education" should do, in that they made me associate exercise with humiliation and failure. It's taken me years to undo that. (And still, fuck that damn climbing rope. My body—even with a handful of chronic illnesses can do plenty of other…

Uh, because it's stupid as fuck to believe a program based on treating obese people like freaks whose suffering is entertainment, and by many accounts, feeding them poor quality food, exercising to the point of permanent physical damage, psychologically taunting them and isolating them from normal support systems, in…

The one season I made myself watch, I was horrified that for the final challenge they sprung running a marathon on the contestants with a few weeks notice. So much on that program gives me chills.

I completely related to her in that moment, to be honest.

I do! And I say it in my head even more, directed to people who I probably shouldn't actually say it out loud to.

I think considering the competence level of the Durnsville court system, the failure to charge the reverend with rape is pretty meaningless. Also, as much as the trial made me cringe on the symbolic level of what it demanded from Kimmy (besides the Marcia Clark stuff, which I think is the weakest material from both…

I'm trying to think of a single example where an artist has triumphantly and convincingly shown all the critics they were simply interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.

Upvote for Young Doctor's Notebook.

I'm someone who normally is pretty neutral on spoilers, but I think knowing it was Lisa Kudrow would have set up some expectations beyond what we already knew about the exact way her flakiness/self-centeredness would play out.

Ah, that could be. But it still seems unlikely to me for him to do it within the next couple years, because he'd either need a nanny entourage, or he'd be leaving infant Anna and Elsa for a month, which would send some pretty confusing mixed signals. (I really hope those two girls don't end up with a complex…

Oh, I agree with that (although in a lot of ways I don't think there's a huge difference, at least externally—I mean in these sense that Kimmy's individual generous and kind acts aren't somehow undermined by them not coming from some completely Platonic well of goodness inside her; I don't think that's what you mean,…

Honestly, I haven't been reading all these reviews because I was so disturbed by the derision of Kimmy's alleged "selfishness," in the pilot and really, the more so since I commented on it there. It seemed to me so completely out of touch with Kimmy's repeated and extended denial and self-sacrifice. This is someone…

Based on how easily she intuited how to get Jane in big trouble with her
school and how relatively easily she navigated the website, I would
guess this is Anezka overdoing her role as naif country mouse—or
possibly having fun with it, to see how much she can get away with at
convincing Petra/Jan et all how "childlike"…

I also feel like the vacation length makes a big difference depending on how old he is? I was being flippant when I posted it, but assuming he's at least school-age by the time Rafael does this (so that he remembers it and can actually tell the difference!), it's pretty different than going a month without seeing…

Um. . .I also enjoy helping people with their college essays?

I'm 100% not surprised that "cryptic" quote has a #nodramaqueens hashtag.

If you haven't seen it, you might find this article interesting:
http://www.vanityfair.com/m…

I've always felt that was very purposeful on the part of the show, to flip the "typical" dynamics. I think most people on some level still often feel a little uncomfortable at seeing a mother be the more ruthless, pragmatic, loyal-to-a-greater-cause one than they would seeing a father in that role. Media tends to…