I'm just slow is all. I'll do better.

If you think this is bad, you should see my Girls reviews. I once drew parallels between Marnie and Marcus Garvey. I was initially hesitant, given my race-tainted perspective, but it was low-hanging fruit.

I saw your comment on my Grey's Anatomy write-up, but I didn't want to spoil the surprise. :-)

LOL I'm not angry at all, I'm just pointing out that this entire thread could have been avoided had you not chosen the word you chose. Or you could have just said that I'm taking the show too seriously, which was a much more reasonable way of making the same point.

No. Freakin. Way. I'm gobsmacked. I wish one of them would have at least mentioned that no one has worn a "Black By Popular Demand" t-shirt since Juneteenth 1998.

Seems like the consensus is that you chose the wrong word to describe my ineptitude. Maybe try again? Seriously, there are like thousands of other words to choose from.

In my experience, there does tend to be a neophytic zealotry common (though not universal) to gay men who have recently come out. Being closeted makes all the sense in the world until it doesn't, and once it doesn't, it can be hard to identify with the version of yourself that thought being closeted was a good idea,…

She did the Master Cleanse to drop weight for Dreamgirls, so that's already been thoroughly explored.

I like this reading and it makes sense. I'd be into that story if not for the sheer volume of unbelievably shitty things Lucious has done. She's basically like, "You murdered my cousin and hurt each of my sons dozens of times and tried to destroy my company and have ruined my every attempt at a relationship and…

I sure will. The frustrating thing is that I was strongly considering coming off the show after the fall finale, but I liked the spring premiere enough that I was interested in seeing where it went. I won't make that mistake again. Fool me once, shame on Lee. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I was legitimately terrified to wade into this comment thread, but this piece is fucking great, and I wanted to say so. That's all.

To be completely honest, while I love the show, I couldn't commit to TV Club reviews because I wasn't sure I'd have the energy to write about it every week. I wanted to drop in on this episode because it's so great, but I still fear this show would break me emotionally if I had to write about it in detail weekly.

We're watching the same show. But hang tight, I'm ending my professional relationship with Empire after this season.

I'm in for Erik this week, this is my first time writing about the show this season. But I know that Erik, like most A.V. Club reviewers, doesn't watch an episode until he's written about the prior one. Watching and writing one episode at a time is the only way to avoid unintentional spoilers or having your opinion of…

Thanks for this, I too have failed to make this distinction for a while, and it's an important one as we continue to see how Philip and Elizabeth are affected by being so far removed from the actual decision makers.

Thank you! I binged the first five episodes a while ago and clearly missed some stuff. The ability to binge watch television is a blessing and a curse.

This is a result of having watched five episodes out of a sense of professional duty. It's like how you get used to the smell of a fart if you just sit there for a few minutes.

Do you think there has been no improvement at all in dealing with sexual harassment claims in the workplace in the past 25 years? I'm honestly asking, not trying to be flippant.

I think part of the confusion about that line comes from reading the review within the context of a general understanding of what happened between Hill and Thomas and a general impression of sexual harassment in the workplace, when I'm talking about the specifics of how the situation was portrayed by this movie.…

Nah, I'm saying it seems clear that that's how Hill would have preferred to handle it if it was up to her, and it sucks that she had to go about it this way. Even if that's not objectively the best way to handle sexual harassment in the workplace, the contemporary HR process resembles the direction Hill would have…