Good Lord, 300+ comments and no one's going to acknowledge that Chalky is clearly reenacting a race-flipped O Brother Where Art Thou? He's already got a cheerful sidekick; all he needs now is a dour one and a toad and some bluegrass tunes. And some Dapper Dan. I'm totally here for this.

Yup. Well, no, I'd rather it be Meyer (since he has historical immunity and all), and we slowly zoom in on him looking serene and badass…and then from off-screen we just hear that laugh, and Meyer just closes his eyes and grits his teeth and BAM, show's over.

He does seem interesting, but I have to say I'm bitter as hell that we're introducing a chillingly effective, largely-wordless assassin/bodyguard badass this season. Like, YOU ALREADY HAD ONE OF THOSE, REMEMBER?

I guess it's a bit unlikely, but I liked the layers of Libby joining CORE — the way I read it was that she feels guilty about her past with Coral, she's experienced something of a rude awakening about racism with this beating case, and she also wants to do something besides being a housewife and mother. She feels…

If you haven't seen his BAFTA speech from this past May, I beg you to go look it up. The full, unedited, endearingly rambly version. It's sort of the best thing ever.

I was legit crossing my fingers and muttering "gay gay gay" like Homer Simpson, I won't lie. Maybe that would've been a little forced as a 'twist,' but for the most part I have faith in this show and figured they could have made it work. But alas. This is good too!

Their absence is definitely a bit clunky, but isn't that always true of TV kids?? They pop up when the story calls for it, but otherwise they're 'at a friend's house' or 'at summer camp' or 'with the grandparents' or whatever. Frankly I greatly prefer a few weirdly-convenient absences to endless boring plotlines about…

Yeah, this. I did think the forced hair-washing was taking it a bit far, but other than that I think they've done a good job of exploring the "nicer," subtler forms of racism (i.e., not quite beating people up and throwing them out of vans, but still deep-seated, subconscious bigotry).

I was surprised at how much I disliked this one: I'm all for flawed and hard-to-love protagonists (especially if they're women, as female characters are "bitches" if they do anything at all questionable, and/or especially if they have a disability, as disabled characters are supposed to be 'inspirational' and brave,…

"Only the thing is, we're gonna have to take the boy." And the music goes bunngggg and my hair stands on end and I lose like 20 years off my life. Ah, memories.

Did she really think of them as potential long-term partners, though? I mean, to me it's not so much about the length of the relationship as it is about her true feelings about the dude(s) — personally Ethan hitting her in the pilot (?) was a HUGE dealbreaker for me and it always bothered me that Gini (and the show)…

Seriously! I flinched just reading the title of this article because I assumed that would be, like, the main one mentioned. It would be the most emotionally manipulative documentary in history if it wasn't for the fact that it started as one thing and then suddenly, horribly became something else 2/3 of the way…

Oh, well, this is well-timed; I just saw Love is Strange on Sunday and was reflecting on how much I always like him. Clearly I've still got a lot of homework to do.

I don't know that he flat-out won in that scenario. He certainly 'won' Gini back in a sense, but the fact that the female characters are so keenly and accurately aware of his flaws (I said "exactly!" out loud when Libby said "he thinks apologizing will weaken him") tells me that this is not, mercifully, one of those…

Personally I'd hardly call her a horrible mother, but I definitely flinched last week when we saw that Shelley was hanging out with the kids; I really didn't like that she was letting them bond with this guy, who seems all right but is clearly disposable, as well as with Ethan, who was the actual worst. Both seem like…

Yeah, I don't think Coral's quite old enough or experienced enough in the world to be fully aware of those stereotypes that the reporter lady mentioned. She knows how she's treated as a young black girl, but I don't think she'd really know all the historical intricacies of it. I think she just realized that Libby is…

Yeah, I very much did as well. I mean, his data didn't show that — they hadn't even tested any black people period, let alone a lot, as he implied, as far as I know — and he's certainly smart enough to know that his lies would've come out immediately if he'd actually published fake stuff. The editor was right in…

To be fair, his character was outraged by that (the part where he shouts that it's unfair because she'd experienced so much pain in her life and her actions were really rather reasonable has been going around and around in my head all week), and as I recall they're lovingly reunited at the end. So, weirdly, the film…

Yeah, it's up there with the Harrison stunt double flying off the treadmill. I'm cackling like Lucille Bluth just thinking about that.

I…don't think so. Pretty sure it was just this side of legal (in Kansas), but it was certainly inappropriate given his position of authority over her and his general douchiness — he had another girlfriend at the time, right? I've sort of blocked all that out.