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Did they ever address that Peggy and Megan are both short for Margaret?

Invalid because Bobby 2 is the best Bobby. "We have to get you a new daddy." Also Bobbie Barrett deserves a spot on the list. And Bobby Benson.

Yes, there is agency in her submission. She's letting him take charge. This isn't that Girls scene with Adam and his new girlfriend. At least not at first. Then it goes on to last approximately three years and Sylvia finally gets fed up. But at first, while Don's there, she's playing, too.

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Honestly there should be a link to every F review of the year.

Also, for the record, I wasn't stating a fact, I was talking about her perception. I also mentioned a Chantal Akerman movie.

Thanks. They all seem so anti-Tyson, and Hayden keeps saying in front of them how Tyson is pulling all the strings, but I guess we'll find out how bitter they really are Sunday!

Gotcha. I remember one season a couple years back when the jury voted against the major player, I read an article by Poniewozik about how keeping the jury not bitter is also part of the game. Aras, for instance, seems like someone who would try to be above that pettiness, but he also seems pretty anti-Tyson, so.

I'm new to Survivor, so maybe this is obvious, but it seems like the jury really don't want Tyson to win, yet Tyson is the one who's "played the best." Is it just the editors misleading us with the jury, or will all that ill-will evaporate when it comes time to actually vote, or what?

Really, the executive account thing is hardly someone sacrificing himself in a Jesus pose (or giving someone 5 Gs in apartment 5G). Just because there is symbolism/parallelism/metaphor/etc. doesn't make it obvious, and even if it is obvious, that doesn't make it "bad." Particularly in the early episodes of a new show…

Is she still on Back In The Game? Haven't seen it since the beginning, but she was by far the best part.

Speaking of that scene: When the schedule started to overwhelm the writers, Ann Marcus hired Peggy Goldman. According to Marcus, Goldman was pretty quiet in their story meetings, so much so that they were startled when she mumbled something ("anti-Semitic") while they were trying to figure out how Loretta's career…

You know, I'm not positive they ever actually met. By now there's a lot of conflicting memories about the timeline—I think Lear himself fumbled it in a HuffPost interview the other day—so it's hard to tell exactly what if any overlap there was between Parent and Marcus. But Marcus talks about her like a predecessor…

Thanks, and I'm right there with you on Marcus. I love the way she talks about how she liked being the only woman on sets and would use that to her advantage.

Wow, that all sounds way up my alley. Thanks for the tips!

I'm not familiar with either actually beyond promo images. Should I check them out?

Susan Harris pitched Soap shortly after Mary Hartman premiered, and Fred Silverman, by then at ABC, is the one who greenlit it. So there is a certain amount of influence from MHMH to Soap. But I wouldn't go too far with it, because Soap is a big wink and MHMH is a stone-cold poker face.

Yeah, I definitely should have mentioned Soap somewhere, but the executions are so wildly different that I'm okay with it.

Agreed. I wrote its ground-breaking queer representation in an AVQA not too long ago.