While I agree with Jess that writing a book is a better use of Rory's talents (such as they are) than being a journalist or a freelancer, the idea of Gilmore Girls, the book is simply terrible. I know that's a common conceit in shows like this, but within the show it just makes Rory look awful. First, because as…

You know, I thought Manchester by the Sea was a good movie, but after everything that happened this year, I'm going to be beyond pissed if White Men Feel Pain More Than the Rest of Us: The Movie takes home the Oscar.

In all the talk about what a terrible journalist Rory is - and she is, dear lord - I feel like we've lost sight of how bad her presentation to the Chilton students was. It was the sort of thing that might work in writing - though even then I'd probably find it uninvolving - but comes off as stiff and unconvincing…

What's worse, I wonder: that she actually believes this, or that she knows it's bunk but repeats it - despite the danger of reinforcing the anti-vaxxer point of view - because it panders to her electorate?

Considering that many of Clinton's proposed policies - things like raising the minimum wage and protecting and expanding Obamacare - are things that would strongly help the working class, but were not seen as that because they also help non-white groups, apparently not? In all the talk about the WWC, the impression I…

Clearly Westworld isn't stealing all of The Walking Dead's missing viewers. And it's hard to imagine the viewership of those two shows having much overlap, especially since Westworld has become synonymous with delaying revelations and big explosive events.

That's surely at least in part because the show has never been able to build its own audience and fandom. The reason the DC crossovers work is that each of the individual shows has a following, and they multiply each other (case in point: I dropped The Flash this season, but I still watched this week's episode; I…

One thing that most dystopias leave out is that a functional classist dystopia needs a lot more gradations of class in order to function. You need people in the middle to keep everything running for the people at the top, and stamp down on the underclass. Those are the people who are driven by the aspiration of…

And as I've said, that's simply not true. Cole has every power to give Alison visitation beyond what's in the agreement, as happens every day. As you can see by the fact that he does exactly that at the end of the episode.

And custody agreements can be revisited. Unlike surrendering parental rights, as in the case of an adoption, there's no such thing as an ironclad custody agreement.

Except that Alison didn't give up her parental rights. She signed over sole custody. That's a completely different thing.

The court isn't required to do anything. Cole and Luisa could easily come to an ad hoc agreement with Alison. And since the court is bound to give her visitation, playing hardball is ridiculous and possibly prejudicial.

Really glad to see this show getting a little more attention. I don't understand why Netflix took the trouble to revive it and then let it get lost in the shuffle of Black Mirror, The Crown, and Gilmore Girls - especially since it's better than at least the last two, and possibly the first as well (I'm still in the…

He does get a bit of depth in the last episode of S1, when you learn that he was in love with one of Dylan's exes. But yes, the way he's developed in S2 was very satisfying.

Alison doesn't ask to take Joanie back. She asks to see her daughter, which is entirely reasonable and something that a court would almost certainly grant, so Cole and Luisa's hardline approach is stupid, as well as unreasonable.

Custody would almost certainly be a bigger deal because of Alison's history of instability - she'd probably have to submit to court-appointed therapy and evaluations. But a) that's not because she signed away custody, but because she now has a history of dropping in and out of her daughter's life, and b) it's…

It's almost as if people who are in the middle of a nervous breakdown don't behave in fully rational ways!

I wouldn't be surprised if Alison's read on Luisa, and belief that she hates her, are pretty accurate, because let's be honest here: why wouldn't she? I think that Alison has every right to see Joanie and that Cole and Luisa are being ridiculous to refuse her, but that doesn't mean Luisa's attitude towards Alison…

While I agree about Alison's capacity to make herself the victim, I also think she did exactly the right thing six months ago. She was having a mental health crisis and didn't feel able to take care of her daughter, so she put her in a stable, loving environment and got the help she needed. That's exactly what…

Yeah, my main issue with the show's "everyone is awful" approach is that for most of the characters, their awfulness felt really lazy and non-specific, resting mainly on stereotypes of how millenials behave. Occasionally that led to some clever observations, but most of the time it was just aggravating.