Hope it goes well! I think Mark Mulcahy fell on some financial troubles after his wife died a couple years ago. If you're unfamiliar, I'd recommend checking out Ciao My Stars, the tribute album to him (The National's cover of "Ashamed of the Story I Told" in particular is amazing)

Not to mention Ikea. A lot of Ikea. And inexplicably sexual magnetic frumpy middle aged men.

Exactly. That's the same reason why Jeff Daniels, Michelle Dockerty, Jim Parsons, Ricky Gervais, Melissa McCarthy, Julie Bowen, and Mayim Bialik were all nominated, even though there were far more qualified performances this year. Reverse racism. You got it.

Unfortunately they do that at the expense of the characters acting like humans. It's not as though Daya was previously known for her high-IQ, but she suddenly gets so aggressively, unrealistically dumb with this subplot that none of her rage comes across as particularly justified.

She pretty quickly rises in the hierarchy and establishes a drug/trade empire before it crashes down. When she does get her comeuppance, it doesn't come from the correctional system - the prisoners themselves are the ones doling out justice.

Foreshadowing.

I see Fig's storyline less as sympathetic per se than as a demonstration of how basically everyone justifies their actions to themselves somehow. No one sees themselves as the villain.

The only defenses I can muster for Vee's character are:

"There have been plenty of thinkpieces written and jokes made about how poorly represented African-Americans are in movies, but Dear White People could be the first to delve into it with an actual movie."

I couldn't remember the name of the actor who plays Varys a couple weeks ago and started typing his names into Google. As I pressed the space bar, I noticed a strange item among the suggestions: "Varys is a merling." Curious, I clicked on the item. The following week could only be described as a very strange trip down…

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Sonia, you're perfectly insightful. Don't listen to all these meanies.

And stop whining about feminism.

I wish the showrunners loved her as much as I do :(

Yeah, it's great that's inclusive, but it's basically saying, "Look how many kinds of women can fulfill this stereotype! Your wedding is the most important day of your life, and looking good on it is the most important component, regardless of your background!"

It does indeed! It just bothers me when people feel the need to play the, "you're not fat" card (as referenced in the article). She can be fat and ugly to someone! You don't have to pretend you're attracted to her! It doesn't make you a bad person! Feeling the need to comment about it, and raising the issue as a valid…

Or oppression isn't a competition, but a system…

To use the ever-pervasive Lena Dunham example, note how whenever someone brings up how repulsive she is to them, the counter argument will always feel the need to validate her appearance.

It's more a question of why it's almost always a white guy. See also: 90% of movies about civil rights, slavery, inner city life, etc. having white protagonist savior figures and being written/produced by white people.

Yeah, that was definitely a strangely done scene. They could have eased the transition from welcoming to hostile a bit more smoothly. As it was, my brother and I kept trying to figure out if we had simultaneously blacked out for 5 minutes.