Colin is from Tom’s first marriage, along with daughter Elizabeth. Chet and his brother Truman, who keeps a low profile, are with Rita. Maybe Chet could take a lesson from his brother.

Maybe Tom and Rita got the wrong baby at the hospital. Perhaps a DNA test is in order. 

Rita and Tom were two of the first public faces of Covid; we were all grateful that they both had relatively mild cases, but apparently their good fortune had some sort of weird side effect on their son, who seems to have suffered the brain damage that they avoided.

This must happen to even the best parents from time to time. Season 1 of Bloodline (the only good season) explored this dynamic well: how in a family of nice parents and lovely children, one of them will eventually become the fuckup when he can’t live up to the perfection around him. It’s probably easier to just rebel…

Can’t say I’m not disappointed. I never imagined Rita and Tom raising a son who turned out to be such a dick.

I think when you talk abut the “essence of intoxicating and unhealthy friendships we all have in our teens,” I think you’re hitting at a point that the author misses: I don’t think MSCL was necessarily “misunderstood when it aired”—I think it was just. so. painful. to watch. That’s actually high praise because of how…

I’m currently re-watching Dawson’s Creek because I stopped watching after the graduated high school, and was curious.  One minor point; it was set in Massachusetts, not the south.  I agree with you about Jen though, she was so nice, and tried to so hard to be friends with Joey, and it drives me up a damn wall that…

I thought the relationship between Rayanne and Angela was the central love story of the show. That’s who we were really rooting for to get back together. That scene where Rayanne describes Angela to Jordan...and you can see how worthless she feels about herself....broke my heart. I don’t think the show portrayed her a…

Just popping in because this made me remember that Rayanne is now the Countess of Devon and gets to live in a real-life castle.  Wild.

Busy Phillips (played Kim Kelly) is really great at lending extra depth to her characters. She did an interview on AV Club recently where she was talking about how she goes out of the way to add depth that isn’t necessarily on the page, and how women have to do that more than men, because female characters don’t tend…

Kim Kelley may not have technically been the star of Freaks & Geeks, but I feel like she was def. the second lead. In some ways, Lindsay is really a standin, or cypher, in terms of standing in for the audience (as moralistic middle class judge) and its perception of the “bad kids.” Most of her storylines are really…

I sometimes imagine that Slums of Beverly Hills is a sort of sister act to Rayanne in MSCL. 

Holy shit - early covid I randomly decided to rewatch Dawson’s Creek and that rewatch was more impressive than therapy in showing me why I’m so fucked up. That show does not stand up to time.

SO MANY times over the years, I have thought that My So-Called Life was ripe for a reboot that focuses on Rayanne.  And yes, I still want it to be set in the 90s.  While I *knew* as a teenager that I was supposed to relate to Angela, we just didn’t have the same home life.  Rayanne’s life resembled mine a lot more: …

WTF does it matter WHAT Kim wore at the Vatican? Their priests rape children and they continue to cover that shit up. Fuck them. Kim could go streaking for all I care and if anyone in the Catholic Church made a fuss, I’d tell them to eat shit.

“I was doing nothing wrong. It’s fine.”

Nuns get raped.

1. Tessa Thompson is indeed very hot. And who the fuck cares if they are in a thruple. The more non-heteronormative relationships there are in the world, the better. We should only be upset that we are not in their super hot relationship.

I can’t get too worked up about what anyone decides to wear inside Child Assault & Abuse HQ.

The fact that the Pope won’t come to Canada to face the thousands of Indigenous people that the Catholic Church has wronged, but will have court with Kim Kardashian (is she even Catholic?) is a level of ridiculous that I can’t even wrap my head around.