but good ones. Not just soap opera recaps.

Perhaps it's because every woman on this show always has an orgasm. Even when not with Noah. I don't get the Allison thing either — she's very uninteresting, esp compared to Helen (Maura Tierney is a much better actor as well).

I don't think she's terrible. She seems to be standing her ground with a "fool me twice" attitude. It's no sin to be cautious, and to wait for someone to prove themselves.

Just began watching this new season. I think they're setting up Noah to have a firsthand reflection on rape and repercussion. it makes sense, since some students protested the scene in his book, and his murder rap, and the big "secret" would be he's, after prison, forced to address such issues not on a theoretical…

Maura Tierney is still killing it the most on this series. While Allison has to just portray different shades of "mope," Helen is all over the place, and really is the only one who feels like a real person on the show. I have to add, wondering why Noah let her go — she's beautiful, extremely smart, has a fantastic…

Shock. The Ghandi of the WD just bashed Richard's head in….like it was a…MELON!

Morgan's murdering of Richard made sense to me. Not only out of the shock of the completely unnecessary death of his surrogate son, but also because of the confession. After attempting to establish common ground with Morgan with his tragic back story, Richard went all Trumpy and told Morgan he would be the best to…

He's a cruel man, but fair.

Nicely reviewed. Eugene's not acting. He's IN. There's a nice parallel here to Orange 45's acolytes. Yes, they are disenfranchised and underrepresented, so when that charismatic MF come along and tells you it's all gonna be Great Again, well, you kind of tend to overlook Lucille. All parallels aside, this episode…

I'm one of those who loves the quieter episodes of WD. We all love The Adventures of Neegan and Lucille, but the subtlety of this episode seems lost on the reviewer. Why does Rick want to stay away? Because he knows this is the closest he and Michonne are going to get to any kind of "honeymoon" in the sense of the…

You're hired. Please take over.

Yup. Sometimes being the hottest one just isn't good enough. She may not be a good enough actress to pull off the complexity of the role.

Have decided I'm unqualified to speak on this show because of my bias — I seem to be madly in love with Reese Witherspoon. Perhaps I'd make a great director of blue-hair controversial Off-Broadway puppet shows?

The only reason to watch The Affair is to see how great a performance Maura Tierney consistently gives - some of the best of her career. So much depth. Also, Joshua Jackson is very good. My main problem with that show is that it should be about THESE characters, and not the main ones.

To me it's not sexism so much as pretense/style. The Affair has the "trick" of the Rashomon sequences (catnip to reviewers in a landscape of straight narrative TV), which even the show doesn't hold onto well without introducing inconsistencies or "parallel universe theorles." It's a basic beach potboiler read…

I guess they chose Ave Q for the absurdity of even discussing putting it on? There are so many more examples of controversial drama - the working-class Socialist plays of the Harold Clurman days, a frothy junkie play like American Buffalo, a scathing comment on reality scams like Glen Garry, Glen Ross for all those…

Avenue Q puppets may fuck, but just wait until the next theater season, when "Team-America" puppets Fuck Yeah!

Maybe. I get the idea that Neegan gives his regional "Lieutenants" a LOT of leeway in how they manage the various tribes and solve problems, as long as they are, as Tony Soprano used to justify, "An EARNER!"

Now that we know how she got pregnant, it all, sadly, makes sense. As for the school squabble, it's just such a worn path - and I get it came from a novel - but the Duplas bros whipped that horse to death, as did the horrible "The Slap." But the acting is just so damn great, I have to see it through. Some of these…

I don't see why Marnie needs to change. So many Marnie's never do.