Aren't there Book Cover Design Awards that are familiar to graphic designers and those in the publishing inudstry? I don't know the name, but *whisper* I'd put Zadie Smith's Swing Time near the top of your list of more appealing book cover than then book.

Reading Exit West was a goldmine discovery. He wasn't on my radar screen, although hes publihed 2 or 3 books prior to this one. Happy to hear HTGFRRA is eqully good.

I enjoyed this story collection as well. Ugly and bleak are apt descriptions, and that tone drew me n as well as the rural settings — rural is inexact, maybe fringes and abandoned outskirts — anywhere BUT city centers. I emphasize settings bc I'm desensitized to short stories about unlikeble impovershed characters —…

What's more '80s than the G.L.O.W. rap? The WE ARE THE WORLD vibe which a ragtag of reps from all nations united in a peppy song. Kate's winning smile sold it, not aa a Beauty Pageant finale either. Their harmony MAsks happiness make P

B. Ruby Rich's New Queer Cinema is an invaluable text to read alongside Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet. Her book began as 1992 essays in the Village Voice and Sight & Sound. A dear friend who writes, teaches, and publishes on queer cinema told me after I shared this fantastic article and discussion that Rich…

Keith and Atlanta's Paper Boi both serve their respective comedies very well. Their reaction shots, esp when shit hits the absurd, are perfection.

I see what you/they did there! One of my gasps was that the two Biddies could not possibly SEE out of those KKK hoods. Cue the "Is this safe?" concerns that Cherry planted about wrestling.

When Keith just rolled with it, moments before Sam also just rolled with it, this brilliant, hilarious scene became iconic, for me. I saw Keith whisper and smile into the ear of one of of the Biddies (Or was it Tamme?). In the split second btwn whisper and smile, I didn't know how the scene would play out.

This 2016 interview "The Revenge of Jenji Kohan" in Columbia Alumni Magazine is a good read, and speaks to the extent to which her father and twin brother's TV successes advanced her career; Or, I should say, did NOT drop a career into Kohan's lap.

Ouch! That line still stings.

+ 1,000
I'd bet money on your prediction, if I had any. Mallory's stinging comment still rings in my ear. It'd be a shame if we didn't loop back to it. Speculation: Imagine if/when GLOW raises Ruth's profile; then Ruth is flushed with GLOW confidence, and tries another round of auditions. I cringe in advance, if…

That's where I recognize Gregory's face! Ruslan on The Americans.

"Because you're blonde" line was when I became curious about Debbie and Ruth's past student acting days, way before Debbie landed the Paradise Cove role Debbie spoke dismissively about "that scene study class" of Ruth's. Did Debbie and Ruth once take this scene study class together? Or other acting classes together?…

"I have woman, sometimes"
This line has to enter the secret lexicon that GLOW fans use to find each other among the TV masses.

I despised Betty Gilpin's Nurse Jackie character, and cringed at her unfunny storylines with Peter Facinelli. Whereas here, I empathzie and laugh along with Gilpin's Debbie.

Yep. A fellow non-wrestling fan, here. I've understood wrestling vocab when it referred to physical moves — moonsault, pile-drive, headlock — self-explanatory, or at least you can figure it out.

Wasn't an actively bad dead wife character and storyline what ruined Sleepy Hollow and wiped it off of best drama lists? /ijs

You're far from alone in this view.

Or her new baby cousin Claws, women ensemble comedy set in Florida nail salon, debuted just 2 weeks ago? Niecy Nash, Carrie Preston, Judy Reyes…. + Dean Norris and Kevin Rankin — al alums of previous best of drama and comedy list.

Bojack Horseman returns in August, last I heard, but I don't know a specific date or theme plotline