Indeed, not me! I did write about the finale a few days late (https://cultural-learnings…. ), but was out of the country and unable to watch live. Caitlin was kind enough to step in.

You added a lot more to this comment than when I last replied—tricky! :)

The review is 3800 words long. When contextualizing preambles REPLACE analysis of the episode, I'll accept this argument.

For the record: I do not know who/what is tagging your comments for moderation. I certainly have not done so, and I do not have the admin access necessary to be able to moderate. I can look into this in the morning, but in the interim I can just say that my moderation of the comments has not and will not extend to any…

You did—similar looking actress, but not Linda.

I don't feel like my race precludes me from being able to critique pieces regarding racial representation on the basis of structure and argumentation, no. We disagree on this, even if we agree regarding the importance of these arguments existing in the first place.

I do not believe it is condescending to request evidence to support the arguments being presented, or for them to more clearly acknowledge the complexities of production and reception in expressing those feelings.

That literally never came up once all season, though. I mean, I'm not UPSET it didn't come up, because Ugh, Bennett, but they needed to do more work than the "Gloria struggles to deal with Daya falling in with the wrong crowd" deal.

I don't even care that you so despise me, but it drives me up a wall that you keep referring to me as "this reviewer" when you know I'm in the comments and probably going to read this.

I appreciated you posting those pieces, and as I note in that stray observation, I'm not finger-wagging at the criticism the show or even the underlying ideology of their critiques. If I'm finger-wagging (is this what qualifies as finger-wagging?), I'm finger-wagging the way the arguments are constructed: one suggests…

"The media does not do its job, which is to be the eyes and ears of the public"—oh, how I wish this were the media's understanding of its job.

But the characters you're comparing Piscatella to were able to go so long without development because they never did anything. There were no actions that needed context, and so the lack of development was never a problem.

Good news and bad news.

"Some of the other comments highlighting side story plots while
intentionally not broaching the topic of Poussey's death because you
can't bear speak of it shows cowards incapable of dealing with reality."

With respect, you don't get to be the judge of that. I'm going to delete your comment, but here's the rest of your comment. We'll talk about the finale when we get to the finale.

Fifteen hours. They waited FIFTEEN hours. Which means that for that interview to be relevant to you, you would have had to have either skipped multiple episodes, or watched 13 hours of television on a Friday, in the middle of the night for most of their audience.

Is it, though? I'm not convinced it is.

I think that's where my comment originates: no, it's not shocking that Morello has some type of mental illness, but the show has never really gone anywhere with that or her, and thus it's harder to see it through that lens, if that makes sense.

*Reads* Nope. That's what the email said.

Last year, I started taking on a celebratory tone as we got closer to the end of the season, and these spoiler warning comments were nearing their end. But as this episode makes clear, there is no celebrating at the end of this season, to the point where it doesn't even seem right to talk about where the wreckage of…