Yes, exactly. it took any pathos, drama or audience empathy out of the scene & made her a laughingstock.

I din't see that, and I guess Lindelof & Richardson didn't research prior uses of the song in recent pop culture! Lazy!

I get the cultural/historical/emotional element. It's kind of how I feel when talent show kids sing "Feeling Free." I know Nina Simone din't write it, but I heard her sing it live it was a freedom anthem for a generation and they sing it as if it's about getting to skip high school classes to be on tv. Turns out it…

Yes, their music supervisor is an artist!

Yes, it seems they did it by title search! I gave them points for humor, but it seems they weren't trying to be funny.

That would have been a great question to ask Liza Richardson: do the licensees tell you who else they've sold the rights to recently, so you can choose something that won't have been famously used in the same or recent season? But I do think that their deliberately choosing songs by literal title match begs for…

Those "on the nose" song choices were midnight movie level mistakes. The connection was so literal as to be borderline funny! Also condescending to the audience, as if they wouldn't know that Meg was snorting cocaine. Also lazy, as if the acting/directing/writing wasn't done well enough to establish the importance of…

He had such immediate sympathy/empathy for the two who look the most like him that he took on the reward. Maybe part of it was fatherly feeling, but he really does not seem to consider Tasha as a daughter or even a person just a type he has no desire to spend any time with or get to know. And she has been so measured…

Jeremy is kind to Tasha & treats her like a woman,/sister/friend in contrast to Keith & Spencer, who keep her at arm's length & treat her as an abstract threat to their games. He is comfortable with her on a physical level. But for sure he respects her as a smart independent player who makes her own decisions &…

From what's shown, she seems not pleasant at all but very focussed and determined. She is incredibly able to overlook the subliminal racism of good ol boy Keith,which makes me sad because it makes me think she's been used to people like that. Tears.

True that, but I was looking forward to the handstand balance this week if he'd stayed!

Even with immunity this time!

Even with immunity this time!

So Virgil is "The Wiz?"

She really is good with her american accent! So many times I get taken out of a movie or tv show because the character's accent is so in & out and sounds phony even when it's in—-even when I didn't know beforehand the actor was British or Australian or German. I had seen her, with the same hairstyle & her distinctive…

Why not complain to SNL, since they put Grump up front and center instead of the star many tuned in to see who certainly could have done an opening sketch or a tribute to the victims of this week's massacre even tho they were VietnameseAmericans, Gay Jewish Americans, Chicano Americans etc. etc. so they couldn't…

He's a feminist icon(and proof that feminists do have senses of humor). Google "Hey Girl." Plus the video of him breaking up a fight in NYC. And yes, his body, which made the funniest part of the hometown sketch the tease & that he didn't take off his shirt while his taunter did.

Are you sure no one is "passing" like Gosling was until Myers shamed him into saying "surry" instead of "sorry?"

Some people read the reviews to see if a show/episode is worth watching. This guy was a major Gosling fan.
and some people just critique the reviewer, which is kind of a reverse compliment, taking the critic seriously enough to take issue with his criteria & judgement.