I saw "c*ke" and for some reason thought, "'Cyke'? What slur is 'cyke'?"

My issue with it is that the movie went so far in portraying Harge as a horrible person (he's pretty consistently physically and emotionally violent, not to mention super manipulative) that I found Carol's decision to leave her child with him kind of confusing. Again, this is a problem that I would have found less…

"Are all men over the age of 35 in movies who desire a younger woman also predators?"

The issue is absolutely with Hollywood (and society at large), but I don't think that takes Carol off the table for criticism when it nevertheless sticks to some tired and troubling tropes.

Oh yeah, I wasn't shocked by her choice. I just wish it had been done with a little more nuance.

I understood what they were trying to go for but I found the shift in character to be jarring. It speaks to the overall issue I had with Harge, which was that he seemed like a caricature of the evil husband. Not that I really gave a shit about his feelings, but I felt like it robbed Carol of the emotional complexity…

It would be more like if Richard Gere were married to a man, in a magical version of the 1950s where people are totally okay with that, and then leaves him for a younger woman, but otherwise I'm pretty much agreed. I loved how Carol's driving force for the entire movie is her desire to be with her child and then at…

Well, I think part of the issue is that Carol is getting all this praise for deviating from the norm and telling a story where neither of the women dies or has anything horrible happen to them, which is absolutely progressive and new for the genre—but it almost every other respect, it chooses to hew to stereotypes…

As a queer woman, I disagree! (Edited because my original version of this comment was unnecessarily snotty.)

Yes! Carol absolutely came off as predatory to me. She's got what, twenty years on this girl who doesn't know anything, and Carol decides to completely isolate her from everybody she knows in her seduction attempt? Therese could do so much better—she should've gone off with Carrie Brownstein.

I loathed Carol. I wanted to like it so badly but I found the characters beyond dull. I wished Carol and Therese had had more to them than just their gayness, because I sure as hell wasn't invested in their romance.

One of my favorite things about the show is that it acknowledges that Stan is a total piece of shit. It doesn't try to pretend that the nobility of his mission or whatever somehow excuses his atrocious behavior. NINA DESERVED BETTER!

I hope he embarrasses himself spectacularly and is publicly shamed, then dies in ignominy all alone while Paige hates him forever.

But was it masterful?

I think "one step above what feels natural/comfortable" does it for most people.

You won't have to deal with buzzing in for answers at the in person test—they'll have you play a little mini game with them, but it doesn't actually matter if you buzz in first, they just want to give everybody a chance to demonstrate how they'd respond if you were on the show. Big booming voices! If you passed the…

I actually read this script over the summer when I was interning for a shitty production company. It's fucking AWFUL. Bubbles has weird, pretentious, overwritten dialogue because apparently that's how you know he's smart and stuff, and somewhere near the end there's an out of left field defense of Michael Jackson's…

During a bout of deep depression last year I cut out the majority of my social circle, including my boyfriend, in a group text message. Seven months later I got drunk and apologized to my ex and he immediately forgave me and wanted to meet up…but then I sobered up and took the apology back. Whoops. The reality is that…

I think Matt's pretty clearly on the autism spectrum, and he comes off to me more uncomfortably enthusiastic than anything. I like him! And I'd take his style of play over any number of the smug fucks who end up on Jeopardy in any given year, honestly.

I'm going to go ahead and call the tournament for Alex based off of only my gut feeling, though I would be okay with any of them. I admire Kerry's extreme low energy.