The showrunner is a gay man, he knows what he's doing. The representation is good - great, amazing even - it's just that there are a lot of people who have decided that the only high-quality queer representation that can possibly exist now has to portray gay life as fundamentally 'good' to align with recent political…

I haven't been bothered by the grades up until now, but giving this a B is unfathomable to me.

I think it's already better than Last Week Tonight. I like John Oliver a lot, but I find watching the show a bit of a slog - there's so much mugging to get through, so many recurring jokes premised solely on yelling at chyrons, and there's a certain laziness to some of the joke-writing.

It's not super progressive, no, but public opinion is very much pro-same sex marriage. It's government feet-dragging and mendacity that's preventing its legalisation.

This is true of a lot of kid's shows. For whatever, reason, there's a long history of Australia's Cartoon Network cutting small parts of Adventure Time episodes out. Why on Earth they would need to do that for Australia is anyone's guess, but there it is. You can only imagine what they might think they have to excise…

"Also, it's called Freeform now?"

#Justice4Sasheer

Yes! That bit was magnificent, and bless this show for keeping her out of focus instead of drawing attention to it. In my mind, the fucked up CH progression from that moment to the reveal that she died is that she committed suicide over what Beth said.

MARGO MARTINDALE.

Ah, but they won a coveted People's Choice Award just a couple of months ago. So.

Those people are probably the YouTube commenters who were piling on Sam Bee in the comments of the promos for her new show. Fuck 'em, and not in the fun way.

Give me Jesse Ventura voice. I'm gay and I'd take the handjob either way, but that particular cadence would really make a rhythmic difference.

Yep. I said the same thing above about LGBT* youth suicide rates. Just because they're commonly used in coming out stories doesn't mean it's a cliche or an exaggeration to include them in a story in which they very clearly make narrative and thematic sense.

Even if it is a trope, it's not exactly unsurprising that this happened given what we've seen and what we know about the people involved in this story. That 'trope' is also very much present in reality, to the tune of around 1400 hate crimes in 2014 (lord knows only how many there are beyond that which can't be…

It would be nice to think that, in a situation like this, two queer kids attempting suicide is unrealistic, but sadly it's not.

Oh man, the start of the episode when she pronounces 'suit' as 'syout'? I died.

That's sometimes the perception. "F*ggot" = "sissy".

For sure. Hopefully she gets a better opportunity either with the show or outside it soon.

That's very possible, but with the standard of SNL as it is, I tend to give performers who fall by the wayside the benefit of the doubt.

Ah, yes. I would very happily swap their respective levels of success.