In the book, it explains that while Stephen suffers as Lady Pole does, as a servant he does not have the ability to indulge his suffering: he still has work he must do, and so he simply gets on with it and puts on as brave a face as he can muster.

And he had a Klimt painting as well!

What do we want? SLIGHTLY HIGHER GRADES!

I am so terribly excited that this show is being discussed here! I've been watching the first few episodes, and I think it's absolutely brilliant. The casting (especially Eddie Marsan) has been so on point. I'm so excited to see where it goes (and to finally read the book, now that I've gotten my copy from the…

Well, we do have Johns Hopkins.

Hey, a RuPaul/Hannibal mashup would be BRILLIANT.

Well, it is an M. Night Shyamalan production—who knows?

Exactly! Pilcher kept talking about all the lost culture of civilization, but it doesn't seem like he bothered to preserve any of it in Wayward. If that were the case, wouldn't it be more like a colossal museum? Why not have people teaching art, history, music? Instead, he went for an anti-intellectual Mayberry-esque…

My boss knows I watch this show, but I think if he ever watched it, he would be seriously concerned about the person he hired.

Thank you! My life feels so complete now!

I know I'm not white, but I want Elroy Patashnik to follow me around and provide life encouragement.

Ooh, that would be awesome!

Personally, I have sensitive teeth and I just wince watching anyone take a bite out of an ice cream cone, because I can't imagine that not being step-on-a-Lego levels of painful.

I would totally watch a webseries that was just Arlene and Nurse Pam shooting the shit after their terrible days at work.

My inner bartender winced at that.

No, you don't! Because if you do, I do, and I need strangers on the Internet to validate my life choices!

I think it means that the sheriff is Taylor Dosey. The murders are the town hall meetings, which means it's just a matter of time until somebody shows up late with a bag of French fries.

Well, it is a trilogy.

If you noticed, there was a chalkboard just inside the sheriff's office that had several flavors of ice cream listed on it: strawberry, chocolate chip, and two others I couldn't make out. I'd like to imagine that the sheriff is working his way through the list. It's good to have goals.

To be fair, it was pretty condescending in its treatment of racism. It is the kind of movie that lets white people feel really good about not being racist while still perpetuating stereotypes and a more benign-seeming white supremacy.