Douglas Coupland's All Families are Psychotic and Hey Nostradamus!: I read my first Coupland novel, JPod, just after quitting my PhD program in June and sort of decided that my goal would be to have read the entirety of his novelistic output by the time I got my first Real Adult job. I finally got a job offer about…

1. I think Simpson's motives there are clarified in one of the future episodes, but even here, you can get that Clemons was planning to deal with Kilgrave by the book and put him in the system, while Simpson just wants to outright kill him, which makes Clemons not his ally, really. And having a trusted police witness…

It's definitely not just an Australianism. I'd guess it's probably more of a general English-speaking millennial thing? And probably not even just millennials, but I possibly don't interact with that many older people in the type of informal contexts in which this sort of language would occur, so who knows.

Sherlock threatening the cartel guy in prison is still jarring; in a case about women being victimized by predatory men, his move is to threaten somebody’s wife?

I TAKE LARGE STEPS in my best manly baritone, which is…a girly alto, at best.

'90s Italian music—-my (non-Italian) family lived in Italy for a few years in the 90s, and so we kind of missed out on that period in English-language music (although I can confirm that the Spice Girls were a big fucking deal among Italian 6-year-olds circa 1998), but have some deep nostalgia for Zucchero, Claudio…

But there is an actual metal version of it for good measure, because of course there is: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It's a pretty convoluted backstory, but: when I was in 7th grade, my older sister's marching band's show was Jekyll & Hyde (there are these music companies that sell marching band arrangements and choreography of showtunes/pop songs/etc., so if you just look up "Jekyll and Hyde marching band show" on youtube, there…

The role is very much not doubled: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

The David Hasselhoff recording is in fact the only version I have seen (multiple times).

So, I'm not sure if this is more or less crazy than superhero-DJ Jekyll & Hyde, but the Jekyll & Hyde Broadway musical is a real, batshit, wonderful thing that features Jekyll/Hyde singing a duet with himself. And as of a few years ago (when the Les Mis movie came out and was huge), there were apparently plans to make…

I mean, not just that, but the reanimated corpse of a woman whom he smothered with a pillow and whom he has (consciously or not—-the hair dye and clothing choices were certainly conscious) been conditioning into his ideal woman while holding her semi-captive. BUT YEAH, SURE, FIST BUMPS ALL AROUND.
(I actually really do…

On the one hand, all of the implications/consent issues behind Victor and Lily banging are creepy and ~problematic~ and whatever. Which is not to say it's not a good plot development. Just—-not super flattering for Victor's character.

"Censored" was probably the wrong word. It had (as far as I can tell) all of the language and violence, but cut the princess joke.

Bronson: I've probably been meaning to watch this since first seeing Tom Hardy in the excellent ITV Wuthering Heights like 5 years ago but apparently needed the extra push of the insane amount of Mad Max press coverage to actually do it. And it was excellent! I expected it to be a pretty straightforward biopic, so all…

I posted about this in some other thread when it aired in the UK, so I might be copy-pasting from that comment, but essentially: Banana's story actually felt like a pretty fresh take on the "ugly ducking" scenario to me, because it doesn't end up going with the fantasy ending (which, I agree, would have felt…

Yeah, it's definitely not a new phenomenon in general, but I feel like there's been kind of a shift in how it's discussed or portrayed? There's definitely a difference between the male characters mentioned above, and, for example, the "jerk with a heart of gold" Han Solo type, and the way in which the tumblr hivemind…

Some scattered thoughts on this episode:

I don't remember the novel that well, since I had to read it for 10th grade English class like….7 years ago? And possibly didn't actually finish it? So I will take your word for it, I guess, and just add another level of incest to the Oedipal shit and paternal shit and cousinly shit. (What's left? Grandparent shit?)

There's definitely also some mother stuff going on with the Victor/Lily relationship, right? I suspect it's not a coincidence that the actress playing Victor's mother in the season 1 flashbacks (episode 3, I think?) was blonde, and it seems likely that the memories of cousinly good times that Victor makes up for Lily…