My compassion is not a finite resource, nor should anyone else’s be. I don’t believe it miserly doling it out to only the people you deem deserving. Life sentences for minors is wrong.

Children shouldn’t get 50 year sentences 

Guyyyysss, who approved the Ouija board story?

You bolded the wrong him. Nothing masculine is implied in saying a person has a son. You mean “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.”

You are not missing out. I’ve seen most of his films(which I regret) but after the Hateful 8, I’m done. It was one of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. Not because of his cinematic vision but because of his content.  Even when making a film with a female protagonist, he finds a way to objectify and demean her.…

At the risk of outing myself as having terrible taste in film, does anyone else find most of his work unwatchable? I’ve just never understood the appeal of such a high violence to plot ratio and it’s really off-putting to me.

“It’s 528 Hz, which is the frequency of love.”

I have absolutely no issue admitting that I unabashedly love this youngster. “Bad Guy” is one of the most clever and catchy little tunes I’ve ever heard and her voice is just super soothing. The self awareness she appears to have at 17 is quite impressive. I hate that this is how it is, though. 

I’m encouraged by this review because honestly, after watching the pilot, I was not dying to watch the rest of the season. It was beautifully shot but so much of it felt like heavy-handed, terrorist parent propaganda, a la Kids or Bully. I agree with you, Ashley, that we need a *little* more levity so this whole thing…

See but this is to bind breasts, which is a cardinal sin. Men need to be able to look at breasts, otherwise what’s the point of breasts and the meat-scaffold they’re attached to?

So the same society that wants women to bind themselves to be skinny says binding is unhealthy, huh? 

Well, it ended. 

He’s leaving to kill her.

Your epitaph.

I’m at the NBC studio store in New York. It’s maybe 1999? My favorite cousin was a HUGE Friends fan. I barely know Friends myself (I didn’t even own a TV at the time, because of being poor). So I went there to buy her some merch. I chose this giant Friends Central Perk latte mug. Seemed like a fun gift!

I’m leaving the…

counterpoint: don’t!! we left these in the 90s and they need to stay there.

Agreed. I mean, even if it were someone from the USor Europe, I still wouldn’t cheer, but especially in the case of a black African person, there’s historical context that people ignore. European colonizers plundered natural resources wherever they went, while also brutalizing the native population. While there’s…

I get why people hate poachers, I do, but there’s a weird dehumanization people have regarding them. They’re humans, and they’re often driven to kill animals for money, money that goes to countries like China and the US. They’re often poor, and they do dangerous things for money like this because people outside their…

I will say, as a more serious response - Claire Danes Angela in My So Called Life (1994) was a much firmer establishment of the ‘hot teen outcast girl’, and, for my late Gen-X

I am just glad she made a song for the dwarves. the mortal men and the elves had their fun, but nobody thinks of them.