I thought it worked for two reasons - it kept it simple, and it was fastidious about framing it through Jax's perspective, so rather than making a broader historical or political point it related his brush with civil war slavery to his personal experience of racism in modern America (which it flagged for us in his…

Yeah, nbd, I wake up looking like this.

For sure, we're just anthropomorphizing Dave Chappelle's couch to the point where I still got a bit squicked out. As Jeff Winger famously observed, humans can connect with anything.

:( I only think people are asking for it when they're literally asking for it.

I was talking about my consent, actually. Generally I prefer to spend a bit of quality time with a piece of furniture before fucking it - maybe I could lay around on Dave Chappelle's couch for an afternoon watching old Futurama episodes first?

I feel like there's an object lesson in this conversation about pressure and consent. But I'm sure Chappelle would tell us it's no big deal.

… I'd rather not?

What's wrong with cisgender? The cis- is a latinate prefix for when things are all on the same side. It's the opposite of trans-, for when things are across from each other. It's a clever and not even all that recent coinage that filled a gap in English where we didn't have a word for cisgender people.

I misread this headline as "Matt Dillon to play serial killer Lars Von Trier" and I was surprised, but not that surprised, y'know?

This has nothing to do with minorities not recognizing themselves as minorities (trust me, trans folks have no illusions about living in an overwhelmingly cis world), it's simply about having a word to describe a person who isn't trans. Obviously, as Space Robot has eloquently and repeatedly said, this doesn't mean…

Reading down I think you probably actually get it, but cisgender is just a descriptor - it's so that we can distinguish between trans folks and cis folks without relying on normative language like, well, normal. An objection to "cisgender" is really just an objection to words having meaning.

I disagree. I think we're being shown a person who left to her own devices is selfish and cruel, but who with even a small amount of care and attention is capable of being better. Maybe not amazing but better. And that's noteworthy when designing a cosmic scheme of moral judgment, notwithstanding that some people can…

Well, sure, I should've started with the caveat that the whole system is bonkers evil and nobody should be tortured for all eternity, let alone a person whose badness was, in the scheme of things, pretty mundane, albeit consistent and often overtly malicious. Eleanor was terrible when she was alive, but maybe not in…

And notably it didn't look all that fun to begin with.

They've alluded to it a bunch of times. The whole system is awful. I would guess if they get a second season they'll expand their focus a bit from Eleanor herself.

Isn't that the point? There's no question that she belonged in the Bad Place initially. She was a rotten, miserable person. But in just a few months or whatever it's been she's made serious progress. And the flashbacks have done a good job, I think, of showing us how but also (especially this week) a little bit of why…

I asked! She said no and slapped the ring out of my hand. It fell into my champagne, which she took and drank. The rest is a bit of a blur since I was crying so hard, but I'm pretty sure she ordered two surf and turfs, didn't finish either, and after making out with the dude at the table next to us for most of the…

I was glad Chidi noticed and appreciated that Eleanor was subjecting herself to an evening with Trevor so that he and Real Eleanor could spend some time together. I don't really have a preference for who ends up with who romantically, but that's the stuff true friendship is made of and Chidi knows it.

Don't baristas get tips? I tip baristas. Is that wrong?

At least as of a few years ago she lived in LA next door to Enver Gjokaj.