and had the toys replace all the female heroes’ big moments with male ones (most notably giving Black Widow’s motorcycle drop from Age of Ultron to Captain America).

Perlmutter is also the reason it took so long to get movies about Black Panther and Captain Marvel, fired Terrence Howard the second he started making waves because “no one can tell black people apart,” and had the toys replace all the female heroes’ big moments with male ones (most notably giving Black Widow’s…

I work at a law school. Some of the nicest students are in the Federalist Society. It really hits home the difference between niceness and kindness. And how endearing or charming people who are capable of eliciting sympathy are really the most dangerous people you can know because usually the sympathy isn’t unearned…

Considering that Germany, Canada, France have higher and better standards of living, and lately, more stable governments than the US in many metrics, sounds like the Parliamentary system is better.

The worst thing about her this episode, is that for all her talk about letting the country slide into fascism, it wasn’t enough that she’d be willing to blow her secret deal and relationship with Matsson. If she really cared that badly about Mencken winning, she could have warned Nate that ATN is going to preemptively …

I always find this take interesting as it implies there’s some vastly superior government system. Most Parliamentary systems lead to leaders or winning parties who get the minority of the votes (Germany, Canada, France) while the pure 51% votes lead to large scale corruption as there’s no counter balance (Russia,…

I think, weirdly, the best social commentary this show has done yet was Ken’s slowly recognizing and dreading the world he’s creating for his kids. It’s a classic, uniquely GOP trait: a total, biological resistance to empathy... until something happens to them personally. Whenever you hear any of these right win…

“I’m not a fascist in my heart. I’m just friends with fascists, financially and politically support them, and constantly repeat fascist things,” isn’t very convincing. Also, Roman supposedly calling out Joy wasn’t sincere. It is a common fascist tactic to call out hypocrisy as a way of avoiding criticism.

Except she’s never shown any indication of being a remotely competent person who could achieve something like that. She is the most ineffectual of all of them, probably even including Connor. Just taking L after L. And she knows it too, which is why she didn’t even bother trying to get an actual promise from Nate and…

Don’t they actually just lose because of an asinine system designed to empower wealthy landowners and a half-century of concentrated gerrymandering?

That’s the whole point. You’re totally allowed to dislike it (it’s not for everyone), but the tone seems to work for a lot of people. There’s a lot of appeal in how caustic it is. I also wouldn’t say that the characters are unsympathetic. They are totally terrible people, as illustrated by this most recent episode.…

I disagree that her apology was purely a strategic business decision. I think she meant it and she was taken aback that he didn’t apologize. I think the writers have written that relationship as real, with both of them actually caring for each other and also hurting each other. As Tom said last week, Shiv is a very…

That she wanted to have that conversation with him at that moment and then spring the pregnancy on him was insane. I was in shock on his behalf when she went in to apology mode as she was clearly trying in influence the professional situation. Another illustration of how she says one thing to him but demonstrates how…

How about Angels in America? Talk about playing against type.

Unbeknownst to her, Shiv’s second biggest mistake (the first being the fake phone call) was coincidentally giving Greg the same threat that Kerry gave him, and in almost the exact same location. That was like five or six days ago, and I bet it (and how both of them turned out) was still fresh in the Egg’s mind when…

I was just about to say this. ATN doesn’t actually control the election count, and they calling it early by mistake, before it’s revealed that Jimenez actually won, can set up the end of Waystar Royco and the end of the kids controlling the company. The share prices plummet and Mattson buys the whole thing for much…

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Roman.

Kendall was right about people being crap at making deals. Shiv suffers the biggest loss in the show to date, as does the nation, due to not making even an offer to Greg.

Maybe this is just copium on my part, but I don’t actually think ATN calling it for Mencken will actually make him win. Part of the Roys’ whole journey is them learning that they are not, in fact, their father: they have immense power, of course, but they cannot bend the entire world to their whim just by saying so. I…

Roman and Kendall are the most disgusting brothers. Roman this episode was someone even Logan would think is slime.