Yeah, and even there's even a little story being told by the fucking PROPS! Where did the "Smartest Woman in the World's" science textbook come from? Keep your eyes open next episode.

Kia Stevens is putting on a goddam clinic on how to keep the camera on you even when you don't have any lines. The way she grabs Reggie's hand when Sam's video dating thing comes up. If she is anywhere in the shot, she will make you look at her. I can imagine situations where that would be exasperating, but in this…

I think if the original GLOW had managed to deliver moves, blood, tits, AND storytelling, it would still be on the air.

Tammé's disappointment at the answer not being "tits" was awesome. This show has an astounding amount of funny stuff happening in the background of shots.

I did enjoy it. I don't want to get too far ahead of the GLOW reviews, but later in the series, I see a lot of similarities between Rhonda and Rita.

Simm is actually playing the Rani disguising herself as the John Simm Master.

Dunno. Prejudice + privilege? That's certainly a kind of racism. He knows to whom he is selling these stereotypes, he knows what they want to see and he knows that he personally can never suffer from any of it. He may not be "back away in an elevator" racist, let alone "angry mob" racist but I think we've…

I hate to admit it, but that's on my list of season two plotlines too.

This show does some things with stereotypes that are so clever that later in the season when they do other stuff that confuses me, I have to assume it can't be accidental. But if it's not accidental, I just don't get what they're saying.

Yeah, whether they do anything with it or not, I get the same vibe from Bash.

There's a lot of levels to the way Sam interacts with Ruth. Besides the ex-wife thing, there's also a manipulative way he uses Ruth's ritual humiliation to cosset Debbie, his one actual star.

Maybe, maybe not. This Simm Master has to have come after "The End of Time." We know where he was from Jacobi's regeneration to "Last of the Time Lords," because the Doctor's TARDIS had its controls locked. We know he was recreated at the beginning of "End of Time" and disappeared with Rassilon at the end. We know…

Okay, I'd forgotten Four/Leela/K-9. That worked really well. Leela and K-9 had their own little cute double act apart from Baker and Leeson's. I couldn't think of a simpler way to say that, while there are better duos (Baker/Ward, McCoy/Aldred, Tennant/Tate, etc.), these three are the best of the larger groups (3…

Great episode. Leaning into the body horror angle is a great way to distinguish Cybermen from Daleks (although it requires the Daleks to stop converting humans in half of their appearances).

And that admission by the casting director was what made the "realist girl I've ever known" line during the sex scene so comedically toxic to Ruth. The review suggested that she was spurning some romantic gesture, but I thought it played a lot funnier than that.

I didn't follow the wrestling promotion GLOW, so I didn't realize until I read your comment just how many of the wrestling personas in this show are reskins of the '80s ones. With that in mind, it would be a bit disappointing for the show not to toss them a cameo or something.

Brie has always been game to do physical comedy, it was a secret weapon on Community. It's what makes this such great casting.

Right. THAT, to me, is crucial. It shows that she's not just a bad artiste, but that she's a bad heel (at this point). Nobody wants to boo the scrappy underdog. That's why Hugo made him the hero in the first place.

I finally got around to reading The Hunger Games. My corner of nerddom seemed so fixated on the comparison with Battle Royale that nobody told me what a disturbing Turner Diaries piece of Breitbart propaganda it is.

Since we've mentioned Arthur Dent, one thing I thought Munro was trying for here was delivering a classic Fourth Doctor/Douglas Adams style of nonsense banter in some of the early scenes. I think it went really well with Capaldi's naturalistic delivery, which surprised and delighted me.