This is my general problem with the show. I enjoyed season 1, and seasons 2 and 3 soured me on Midge considerably. I suppose those traits were there from the get-go, but they get worse as the series goes on and Midge refuses to reckon with her immense privilege and all of the shit that she constantly fucks up for…

The issue I had was that the writing for the actual show (the “prestige drama” scenes where she steps outside of the sitcom) was every bit as trite and hackneyed as the intentionally bad comedy was. It’s two lousy shows in one.

that’s good, there’s no need for us to have to watch endless seasons of Murphy’s character getting abused, it would almost be counterintuitive to the shows message. 

Midge has made some pretty questionable decisions all throughout the show and the creators don’t seem very interested in interrogating any of them. 

I disagree with ‘accidentally.’ She knew what she was saying - language just happened to be more coded then. (There were a couple of good articles around that time on how obvious the language would’ve been in that era.)

The whole sequence about how “but I’m always the winner of the swimsuit contest” really brought home to me what a not-great person Madge is.

I don’t think that’s a bad thing — their version of Lenny Bruce on this show doesn’t pretend to be an angel, by any means — but I’d like to see the other characters, other than…

Like, I don’t even want to root for her anymore! So hopefully they can give me a reason to.

This was all I could think about during the trailer too! Especially with “Shy who?”
That was a disgusting thing of her to do, especially while she’s trying to “change the business,” and she seemed totally oblivious. He was more than right to drop her from the tour, and I also hope she has to reckon with it.

The Christmas special where Charlie savagely beats up a mall Santa while demanding to know if he f***ed Charlie’s mom comes to mind 

I was honestly a little baffled by how bittersweet Broad City got in its last season or two. Seeing Abbi and Ilana fight was genuinely upsetting.

Particularly because they shrugged it off while they were going through shit they wrote at 14 because they were struggling for new material.  Incredibly frustrating to watch.

This was an especially good year for the Gotham Awards, as they only lost three guests to the Joker’s laughing gas before Batman arrived. A new personal best for casualties!

Congratulations to Candy Merrell for her win with “The Lost Daughter”. What a great follow-up to her landmark feminist classic “A Pawn in the Game”. It’s hard to believe that she started off as an independent street prostitute, then a porn star, moved on to directing adult films, and at last finally gaining critical…

...and then showcases one of his best songs—maybe his greatest, All Things Must Pass, and John and Paul dont give a shit. To think what could have been...

I don’t know about that. But I will admit, I was legit nervous during that last scene on the balcony.

I think we need to let the rest of the season play out before Kendall’s continuous loses get written off as repetitive. I’m convinced he’s actually going to kill himself this time. 

Looking back at AoS, it seems to me like an encyclopaedia of bad creative decisions. The SHIELD of the show never seemed like the same organization we’d glimpsed in the movies. In fact, the Whedon Scooby Gang (TM) we followed for six seasons seemed to exist entirely in their own, rather underfunded TV universe.

Like we need another superhero show on TV.

And it drives me nuts that THIS was the film Alicia Vikander won her Oscar for, when Ex Machina was...right...there!

I like to imagine that Redmayne does every interview as a whisper yelling combo like his Jupiter ascending character.