Yet relaxed, confident, a big fish in a small pond(the gym), who is an integral and trusted part of the friends since high school group. Darryl worshipped him from a distance at the gym & showed his admiration, a partial parallel to how Rebecca compliments Josh Chan, but unlike Josh Chan, Trainer Josh job is a…

Yes, one pleasure of the many pleasures of this show is that, like Hamilton, the musical, it is as comfortable with mass culture of the 90s thru now as with the range of on & off Broadway. Plus of course the performers are so good they sell most of the songs even tho I don't know "rom com conventions" or Broadway…

Brilliant! Hoping the showrunners & producers do have this your insight and the ovaries to follow through on these truths. So many comedies on tv seem to devolve into more generic plots while relying on broader versions of their trademark characters.

Yes he was being diplomatic/manipulative in not ordering her to do the wrong thing but challenging her to save face by making it easier for the cheating student to turn in something passable. But "a quiet storm" makes a wonderful point that "inspiration" isn't necessary to do a required assignment, tho of course it…

It makes sense because she's using some of the same mannerisms & expressions she used for last year's character so it does seem like they are not that dissimilar despite the great changes in hairstyle, makeup and dress. Maybe later on they'll give her a softer side, so far this role is not allowing her to show much…

And yet that coach has coached them to all those championships, so I guess it's not supposed to show the coach's lack of skill?

Yes, she bossed around a sadistic person who was already hurting & controlling a woman unable to separate from him and used her authority to exile them from a place where if he started to overtly beat her there'd be a witness to the great outdoors or their car where he could take out his humiliation without one.
She…

Well said, Agree except with the idea that homophobia is any more innate in the Black community than in any other. If you compare folks who believe in Leviticus and or the king James Bible as the literal word of God , whether Korean, Chinese, Scotch-Irish or African American, they will tend to fear that their loved…

Yet if he'd never "Opened his mouth," he'd be suspended & probably expelled for breaking the code of conduct, humiliated, assumed by most every teacher and teen to be a binge drinker and left alone to work through whatever led up to his blackout and the taking/posting of the humiliating photos. His talking didn't open…

Not so much begging as expecting, but in her case she is powerful and important, while the employee she fired was subordinate with no options(unfair boss, indifferent HR).

My visceral reaction, no thought necessary. Pain on his face & in his body. His acting has been so good in this & so different from his movie performance that I keep forgetting who he is.

Not sure that Michael was being homophobic. He looked pained & upset when his wife said "Boys don't rape boys," as if he knew very well that they id. Could he have been a victim or a guilty bystander in his own younger days? Since his son is a gifted athlete, it's likely Michael was on some sports teams in high school…

Just torture, dismemberment & rape…

Yes, exactly, which highlighted that Sherlock didn't have this opinion. In his cocaine dream the suffragettes were murderers, more specifically revenge murders of men!

The opening scene would have worked as a joke ala Angie Tribecca, but the next five minutes were humorless & equally cliched. That was enough for me.

So that then they can break for commercials?

I care about Birdman. The actors, cinematographer & director forced me to care even tho if someone told me the "subject" it wouldn't have appealed to me at all. Keaton's greatest since BeetleJuice.

Which made even the cocaine-fueled conflation with suffragettes even more odious. Was this supposed to show that Sherlock's subconscious feelings about women were not just indifferent but actively hostile & contemptuous?

Yes, amazing that they set the show in LA & chose a Persian-American actress not to play a group that was & is MAJOR in population and influence in the exact area they highlighted(that's why they call it Teherangeles), but couldn't find an actress with any degree of Hispanicity! And Papi was played by a woman of…

On a season finale, without her new puppy, and Shane worried about her disappearance and then the next episode, she was not only tan and rich, but back from a vacation in Tulum, with no mention of whether Shane/Coast Guard rescued her or if she drifted down to Mexico in her heels & ball gown.