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I think guys get judged differently based on their looks but they still get judged. Weight might be less of an issue, but guys also get judged on their height and hair (or lack thereof). It's true some women can look past a guy's looks and appreciate him for his personality or what have you, but men can do the same. I…

Yeah, I don't understand the point of misandric comments like that. It just illustrates how wide the empathy gap is.

"And, yes, before you say it, I get that this happens to guys, too, but not like this. Period." You know femsplaining away men's concerns doesn't improve the cogency of your argument. You could have just said that you don't know enough about men's issues to comment on how fat shaming affects men.

Yeah, Linus Roache had a great episode tonight. There's that scene where Ecbert wants Judith's forgiveness or at least understanding, but she's irritated that he's picked her to provide his absolution. He then tries to tell her that he cares about her, but he can barely muster any credibility. Roache and Jenni Jacques…

How much diversity can a show about popular music in the 70's really portray? The show already portrays black artists, so portraying more black artists wouldn't make the show any more diverse. If we're talking racial diversity, popular music at that time (arguably even today) was dominated by white and black artists.…

I just finished watching up to episode 8 while getting over the flu. I've got to say this show can be tough to watch. The cast is great, and the music is the key selling point, but Ritchie and Devon's relationship is pure schlock. I like both Bobby Canavale and Olivia Wilde, but whenever they're on screen together…

What's interesting about all of this isn't so much who and who is not plus size, but that Glamour is so transparent about "synergizing" marketing with think-piece journalism. I'm paraphrasing, but McLuhan said "the purpose of advertising isn't to convince people to buy stuff they haven't bought, but to make people…

I briefly read PI as Pi, and wondered what a movie about Mike Ehrmantrout travelling across the Pacific in a tiny boat with a tiger would look like.

See I don't think Claire is a particularly strong character. She's strong willed, intelligent and competent, but through most of the first season, she's reacting to the plot rather than driving it forward. I see Claire really as more of an audience surrogate, at least as far as season 1 is concerned. We'll see how…

I enjoy Outlander as good pulpy fun, but I can't manufacture the enthusiasm that other people have for it. I enjoy it as much as Vikings or GoT. Outlander does what it does quite well, but aside from the Jamie recovering from his rape story, the season 1 storylines were pretty conventional. Not having read the books,…

my partial, theoretical casting for an adaptation of a Deepness in the Sky

Just finished reading the Wikipedia article on Hárbarðsljóð. Apparently, according to the Eddas, Harbard was an alias used by Odin to troll Thor.

They have 4 sons together. Sigurd is Sigurd snake-in-the-eye. His snake-in-the-eyeness hasn't really been mentioned this season.

Careful with That Axe, Ivar

Yeah, unfortunately we only have two more Wednesdays of the awesome X Company/The Americans double bill. I couldn't really pick which show I like more right now. Last year it was no contest for The Americans, but season 2 of X Company is orders of magnitude better than season 1. Tangentially, I enjoy how both shows…

Interestingly, I get to enjoy both The Americans and X Company on the same night for a couple of weeks. Tonight, both shows threw reality in the face of heretofore innocents. But Sabine, Paige and Martha all have the reality of espionage presented differently. Paige gets a smarmy maternal explanation of tradecraft.…

So is the AV Club going to do episode reviews of Schitt's Creek? Because that would warm the cockles of my cold dead heart.

This seems like a reasonable place to plug X Company, the Nazi-killingest spy drama in all of Canada.