This reference confuses and infuriates us!!!

As a proud homo since 2001 or so, I disagree! And honestly, I think we're well past the days when "homosexual" is used in mainstream as an othering term.

To me, that means you're 1/7th as far as you've always been from a woman.

Anyone else find it highly nonsensical to describe a distance as "7 times closer"? What would that mean here?

OK, so this may just be always-gay-on-the-brain me, but is there maybe a hint of homo about Tuan? I was wondering given (1) the apparent tender emotional response to his injured friend, (2) his hyper-commitment to ideology and resignation to solitude, (3) Elizabeth's seemingly pointed response in the exchange: "You…

I'm fine with this finale and its indeterminacy. But I applaud you wholeheartedly for your praise of Wright's Martha. She was pretty great in Feud, too. Maybe it's just me only starting to recognize her after seeing The Americans, but I wish she'd been discovered earlier. I'm looking forward to seeing more of her…

Counterpoint: it has someone struck by an energy beam from a mysterious probe, sent by aliens never seen before or since… therefore it is star trek.

Yes, I was surprised not to see mention of the dread-inducing cinematography in the review. I felt it nearly throughout. For me it started with Philip and Elizabeth in the car: seeing so much exterior traffic in the background (as opposed to simple close-ups) made me positively cringe that they were either being…

I agree with you Elizabeth was feeling some feelings looking at that dishwasher… but agree with Erik that she was also rigorously interrogating those feelings. Especially with it so prominently on her mind how to nurture Paige's idealism, Comrade Elizabeth is not one to shy away from painful self-reflection.

God, what is it with these Mattisodes? Each one worse than the last in my opinion, and not just because of how repetitive it feels. Feels so odd when I'm watching Leftovers (which overall I love) and keep looking at the clock waiting for it to get over itself and end. And it's weird to like a show so much and then…

The show totally clicks for me, in every episode except the one Matt-centric episode per season.

Good. The show was bad and it should feel bad.

OK, almost finished with episode two, and I hate this more and more with every minute. Where's my next "the next 30 Rock"?

Yeah, I think this is exactly a show for moms.

I think I collected this impression of her (as a policy wonk with command of the issues, *not* as a "hyper-competent politician", which I definitely did *not* say) over a series of anecdotes throughout the election season that reinforced that overriding theme in a major profile piece on her… I want to say Ezra…

I just think here again, what Clinton was selling wasn't *precisely* what those particular voters wanted to hear; it was instead a somewhat nuanced package of asserting the right national (*and* international) priorities while recognizing that painful trade-offs are inevitable in government. Meanwhile, Trump *was*…

Hm. If "Clinton simply didn’t have a reason for running besides continuing the establishment politics of her predecessor" means she wanted to try her hardest to be Obama's 3rd term, then (1) that's how the default view was going to characterize the dem. nominee anyway, (2) you could do way worse as far as…

Thank you very kindly, Sean, for neatly and devastatingly articulating the creeping paralytic fog of nausea spreading over my brain like a mold when I saw that photo by the Clinton portrait. I feel like when exorcism time comes (and not soon enough), being able to call our demons by their names will give us power.

I think you're very close to the mark, except that Trump isn't anti-government. He simply learned that he could get some people to applaud by saying anti-government things. His only true guiding principle is self-aggrandizement.

From where I stand, it looks like the deplorable crowd that promotes/elects these luminary figures doesn't particularly believe in—and definitely doesn't understand—any policy or principles of governance. But they definitely believe in feeling aggrieved, and have identified their favorite enemy as liberals. Trump and…