Thank you @disqus_TwP96vze6y:disqus and @ChristopherJ Dobson sincerely for pointing me to the actual real-life person and actual basis of Carmen, the G.L.O.W. referent, Mt. Fiji. I'm ignorant of scope of Asian-Islander or Oceania women in film, so it's likely the Carmen character isn't the best basis to discuss this…

I'm stuck on how Chris Lowell ages maybe 1 year for every 3 human years

I hope Andre the Giant inspired how GLOW's writers decided Carmen's wrestler-type and temperament. Not just because he's among the handful of 1980s WWF wrestlers I cab name.
Really, what dramatic representations of larger WOC are available then: monstrous villain, swarthy rage-filled brute, or a gluttonous dolt.

I use Podcast Republic for free on my Android Phone. I'm very happy with its organizational features. I never have trouble finding and subscribing to podcasts I hear about here. Able to subscribe to radio stations as well. .

No awards farewell to Rectify, Bates Motel, and series that ended, which were once critics' darlings? Or among the comedies, Baskets, Lady Dynamite, You're the Worst.

Audio books:
1.Yes, Please (Amy Poehler)
I'm satisfied. I just wanted to hear Amy gab about anything. I'm sure if I were more inviested in improv comedy, Upright Citizens Brigade, Improv Olympics, and SNL, I'd be a better judge of the book's content.

I read Eleanor & Park via audiobook earlier this year, as I'm new to the audiobooks I figured I'd start with YA. Listening to these two awkward teen voices sweetened the epistolary format. I'm sure I'd have taken for granted the sparse pages that contain just a line or paragraph. Loved the book, too, darkness and…

Very kind of you to say. The AV Club has been good to me and for me. I do what I can to pay it forward. Thanks.

Judy Greer is the lead Bernadette and Cate Blanchette is Dr. Kurtz, in my heart's "Judy Greer has more to offer than the BFF/comic sidekick" universe.

I've read The Handmaid's Tale multiple times. The spoiler tag isn't for me.

(x-posted, apologies) Re: what other material is left to cover in S2?

In S2, we should see the Colonies. I realize it's best to leave horrific banishment spaces to our imaginations. I don't care for misery porn, either; however, a Colonies storyline reminds us of the global enviromental crisis. Amid the Commanders Mansions we lose sight of that dire environment outside Gilead…

Would you please insert a spoiler tag about the epilogue because some viewers here haven't read the book, but do intend to read it now that they've seen the TV series?

June is American. So is Moira. Juxtaposing Moira's and June's final scenes generates a meta-commentary about American ideals (as they apply to all American girls ) which I don't know if Bruce Miller, et. al. anticipated or thought through completely.

Well, you're in good company then. Many current, former, employed and unemployed academics in all disciplines roam around the AV Club site. As for me, if my appreciation for textual readings doesn't betray my former life as an English PhD candidate, then my verbosity, parentheticals, and endless revisions will.

Lili Simmons! Dang. It's been one year already since Banshee ended, hasn't it? I do miss that series' goldmine of women who make mincemeat of their adversaries.

Thank you. Your nuanced readings of actual lyrics of "American Girl" is the blank I needed help filling. Grateful that you explicate the song's tone , and what it implies about gender and its cultural context. This song choice IS at odds with The Handmaid's Tale finale and Atwood's book. FWIW: The AV Club…

Ditto on overusage of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good."It's as lazy and needle-scratching a choice as "White Rabbit" earlier this episode. I adore Nina Simone. See AV Club threads under People vs. OJ, Scandal, American Crime, Six Feet Under promo, Mad Men, for more of my enthusing each time prestige TV dips into the…

FYI: End credit song - "American Girl" , Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers h/t tunefind https://www.tunefind.com/sh…
Lyrics:

Yep. Goes along with "If your right eye offend then, take it out"* - which was Janine's punishment. The clinical setting along w/ graphic details… dizzying and woozy. Perfect Very well directed, disturbing and suspenseful punishment sequence. The entire time, I racked my brains over where this surgery was going.