I see what you did there, turning his preoccupations back around!

Not a reach at all given the stereotypes/assumptions Asian women have to deal with in the US, going back to the fetishization of the Geisha as an main Asian female image in pop culture (before K-Pop). Anita was our intro to synths & she was quiet, obedient,subservient, young, modest and anglicized Asian beautiful(no…

Or watches it, instead of a another version!

Yes, the actor playing Joe has been kind of one note hangdoggy all along, but he did look particularly hangdoggy after Anita didn't even fake an orgasm—the least you should get with Adult mode,I'd guess—and his experience did not match whatever fantasies he'd constructed of how great sex would be with a doll who din't…

Yes and he also misses every single one of the implications of that: some people will project tender emotions on them because they are programmed as reliable caregivers/servants, while others will express their frustrations sadism & violence because they are programmed to be acquiescent, non judgmental & subservient .

Yes, that's why Mattie, the one character so far who grows in terms of empathy/changing her thinking about AI?synths is so popular has been the audience, Her commitment to try to save Mia from being imprisoned in Antita was the highlight of the episode, and Brandon Nowalk completely missed that excellent scene, where…

Yes Brandon Nowalk is in his own head, having already planned out his talking points & focussing on those.

It's no "Halt and Catch Fire" or Mr. Robot, for sure.

Is that an expression in British? In US it's "I could kill for___"

Plus, George speaks straight American, which is "I'd kill for an ice cream<" not "I'd murder for." Maybe it's idiomatic in British and didn't care enough to correct?

Yes on a literal level, but maybe the writers are as clever as S'allGoodMan & the repetitious glitch works on another level.

Wow! A sentimental old man pining for his beloved wife…who he killed! Of course literally Odi is glitching on repeating the last thing George said in the car,"I could murder for an ice cream," how delicious if it was a "meaningful" glitch. Emotionally it really works with George's sad, pathetic yet angry,bitter &…

Brandon, Nowalk please review the show broadcast in the US, not the one you are watching. If you were comparing the version we see to the original & pointing out that it's weaker or stronger or just different, okay, but you are not reviewing the show that is broadcast Sunday night in the US. It's worse than spoilers!

He doesn't rise to the level of snark. He just drones on.

Great points. Not sure the writers of the show are as subtle/thoughtful, tho, even tho they explicitly pose moral questions. Maybe for them it's as simple as the more like humans synths become, the more violent they become?

She is choreographing plays in NYC so will do less this season on SYTYCD according to July 9 profile in NYT.

Tho the manufactured conflict,banter and fake trash talk between the judges has been cringeworthy and a major time suck most seasons.

If only they would let two husbands or two wives dance a story like this or a romance, they might not keep perpetuating homophobia.

This whole series had a shot indoors studio set feel to it. Mr. Robot makes overused NYC seem wild, varied, dangerous and full of contrast between outdoors & indoors, but this one seemed to use stock shots of the stge set surrounded by mountains, etc. Boring.

With you except that to me the early episodes had unintentionally funny howlers & overacting, & hit -you -over- the head characterizations that never developed, just switched and lots of boring repetition(Ethan is clueless, blunt, and not crafty, again and again; Kate won't share info with Ethan—again; Ethan's wife is…