I've seen The Master twice now and I guess I still don't "get it". The first time I saw it I was actually angry; the second time I was just mildly disappointed. Lots of capital "A" acting and style, but not much in the way of a story, at least not the kind of story where everything flows beat-to-beat. If it hadn't…

You're right, I mean, it's practical for Sierra to keep doing what she's doing. Her trajectory has just been really odd to me. She hates everyone on her alliance; they know she hates them; nobody seems to worry about her loyalty; she schemes a little but then ends up doing nothing. Which is fine, I understand her…

It's becoming harder and harder for me to understand Sierra's game here. She's been mistreated and bullied by the rest of her alliance, and this episode marks the second opportunity she's had to break away and blindside one of them… but again she stuck with her toxic status quo. She's really setting herself up to be…

True. I can see Fame trying something a la Jessica Wild as RuPaul: fascinating and totally inaccurate.

Good but not great episode. All these performance challenges are kind of starting to blur together because they're all acting challenges, and some of the queens just don't have the capacity to memorize their lines, and I doubt that's going to change any time soon.

I'm not expecting anything too definitive. Like, I don't think Don's going to die violently, or jump off a building. I don't think Pete's going to fulfill the Chekhovian implications of his hunting rifle one way or another. The controversy will probably be about where the show leaves off with its characters, who gets…

I think the point of the whole final scene is that, regardless of whether or not Tony gets killed at the moment of the blackout, he's going to have to constantly be watching out for people who want to take him down. Which is why there's so much focus on the guy sitting at the bar who presumably does the killing; the…

This was a big one for me. For one, I've been waiting for them to use Lovergirl in a lipsync for a long time. I knew it was the type of song that would let a queen cut loose and… Kandy came the closest. She's still definitely on the chopping block, though, because out of the remaining queens, she's really the last to…

Yeah, protagonist is a pretty perfect way to define what Don is to the show. Hero would imply that he's somehow unimpeachable, and designed to be a subject for our admiration, and anti-hero doesn't fit either. We don't get a charge from his bad behavior the way we often did with Walter White or Tony Soprano; Don's…

It's hard to pick a good user name that hasn't already been taken. Although, IMHO no one will ever surpass It Takes a Nathan of Fillions to Hold Us Back.

God, I have a lot of these it turns out. I went to see The Rapture in 2002 at Bowery Ballroom. LCD Soundsystem was opening, which was awesome. But if you've ever been to the Bowery Ballroom, or basically any club concert ever, you know that very rarely does anything start on time. So I'm there, alone, drinking in the…

Oh yeah, I just remembered, even worse was when Elliott Smith played my college with Grandaddy on Halloween and we went to the show, stayed for Granddady, who we hadn't even heard of, and then left during Elliott Smith's show, probably to go to a party. He was dressed as Jesus. And then he was dead soon after that.

I went to see Nine Inch Nails "open" for David Bowie in 1995 when Bowie had just released Outside. I was there specifically to see NIN, and while I didn't hate Bowie's performance, I was less than thrilled. I want to find 16-year-old me and kick him. Especially now that Bowie isn't touring or performing live.

This is just random speculation, but I feel like this season a plus-sized queen really has a shot at the crown. In the past the bigger queens always seem to have some glaring flaw that prevents them from being in real contention for the crown, whether it's being uncomfortable in their own skin, or not being polished…

Well, that would at least have a point of view.

Exactly. Mad Men deals with a great deal more than just relationships. The culture of the time and the city and advertising are all fully integrated into the plot of the show. With Looking, they only infrequently show us anything that doesn't have something to do with a romantic relationship. Patrick designs video…

I'm not really trying to debate the existence of infidelity and open relationships in gay lives. All I'm saying is that those are not the only stories that need to be told.

I never said anything about addiction in my original post. Nor did I say "drug problems". I said "problems with drugs and infidelity." I realize this is getting highly semantic, but everyone seems to think I'm not understanding the distinction between casual drug use and drug addiction. The show was clearly showing…

This. Everything you just said.

I'm just looking for a greater variety of representation. I was disappointed when Looking started to delve into infidelity, because I feel like I've seen that storyline done before. Obviously infidelity isn't endemic only of gay life, but why reinforce the stereotype that gay people aren't capable of being faithful?