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I just remember Todd Herzog won, he made an amazing opening speech to the jury that was unapologetic about how he got to FC and they respected him for it. I think that's the key; play the game you're going to play, maybe don't go out of your way to be an asshole, and then own how you played at FC. Too may players have

Nick's strategy, at least as it stands at the moment, only really works until he has to betray one of his alliances. And then, if he makes it to the FC, his chances of winning rest on his ability to convince the jury that betrayal is an unavoidable part of Survivor. Now, I totally support that theory; you pretty much

I wish they had done a 2-hour episode, so that Neal's exit wouldn't have been such a huge anticlimax but rather the catalyst for a lot of scrambling and reshuffling of alliances. It's unfortunate that Neal had to go; he was just starting to get interesting in a non-ice cream pants kind of way. And yeah, he should have

This proves that Archer + Patrick Nagel - good writers ≠ good television.

Whatever Lucian was trying to suggest, it didn't come across clearly. Bringing Lorde into it doesn't make any sense. Even if he was trying to get them to sing more like Lorde, Lorde's style is so ill-suited to the backing track. It's like Lucian was reaching for a reference, couldn't come up with an appropriate one,

The way they're using The Beast it's not going to be much of a surprise [SPOILERS] when its identity is revealed at the end of the season. What's so great about the end of Book 1 is that, by the time they run into The Beast in Fillory, both the characters and the readers have kind of forgotten to worry about him. And

The fox sex is much, much clearer in the books. The show did what it could with the scene but personally I'd have preferred to have skipped the fox sex in favor of something that got to the same endpoint, but was easier to put onscreen.

Some random thoughts:

I don't know how much, if any, of the original music written for the film is being used on the Nick show, but "Rock got no reason/Rock got no rhyme/You better get me to school on time" is one of the dumbest lyrics in the history of popular music.

I don't really know how to feel about this. On one hand, the song reeks of an outsider's oversimplification of the complex issues facing a community which which she's only casually acquainted. But on the other hand, she saw something, it troubled her, and she wrote a song expressing her concerns. I'm sure she intended

I always took "Song for Bob Dylan" as being a pretty positive take on the man; nothing stands out as being very critical. "Andy Warhol," however, is scathing, if not overwhelmingly revelatory, in its portrayal of Warhol as shallow, blank, and weird.

It's hard not to feel a little cheated. The show is on so infrequently that it feels like they owe us quality in proportion to the downtime. And usually, they deliver. This felt a lot like a penultimate, place-setting, episode, and hopefully it's setting the place for a special later this year.

I'm kind of fine with Ru bringing back Naysha. If she had brought back, let's just say, Shangela, or some other queen for the past, that would have meant that the double-elimination was a pre-planned stunt, because whoever was brought back would have had to be scheduled in advance. This way it seems more spur of the

I'm pretty sure this list just made Courtney Love's day.

I honestly cannot wait to hear Morrissey's reaction to this. His delicate facade of practiced coyness is about to be violated, and I'm having a great time imagining him gently weeping while eating a wedge of seitan, surrounded by thousands of gladioli.

That's true, they could get swept along pretty far purely by default. More than anything I just like trying to decipher the Survivor code via the hypothetical winner/loser/hero/villain/tragic disappointment edit. They definitely had a variety of edits going last season, with Jeremy being the hero (sigh), and

They may not actively try to construct a winner's edit anymore, but even at this point it's easy to tell who's getting screen time and who's not. Like, there are several women from Beauty that I just… don't know. Chances are slim that they're going to factor in the endgame. I guess they could be tricking us by putting

Yeah, Debbie's a hard one to read, despite the fact that she doesn't seem to have any unexpressed thoughts. She's doing a decent job living up to her self-appraisal of "mastermind", so she's not getting the "Isn't she crazy?" edit. I might just be projecting; I wouldn't be able to stand five minutes with her. Right

My personal favorite being the bukkake-themed opus, "The Lady Don't Mind". Or, to reference a deeper cut… "The Overload"

I eagerly look forward to a movie called "Slippery People" where the characters all get covered in lube and spend the whole running time desperately trying to get up off the floor without falling down.