So the logical conclusion then is that the people who run the afterlife will be exposed as incompetent parlour tricksters who are less powerful than they seem, and they will be overthrown.

You can even pretty easily map the characters to the Wizard of Oz as well. Chidi is clearly the cowardly lion, Eleanor is Dorothy, Jason’s the scarecrow (he certainly needs a brain), and Tahani’d be the Tin man (all her good deeds having lacked heart, after all)

I think Jason might be there best dumb you on television ever.

I always had problem with the idea of Hell not just because no one deserves eternity of torture but because it also makes the whole idea of Heaven suspect. If you are a good person - the one like “real” Eleanor was supposed to be - how can you enjoy your paradise knowing other people are being tortured at this very…

Well, the thing that Jason learns is “it sucks to play against your own team.” Now, the judge never said that he had to play, it just that if he played, he would have to play against the Jags. He just didn’t realize that he could’ve have refused to play at all, therefore meaning he wouldn’t play against his own team.

They all were properly allocated to the Bad Place according to current rules. The judge took their case only because she was bored and because she loved Tahani’s accent (and proper pronunciation of aluminium). And they did fail their tests (well most of them) but those test have also shown they did all change and…

One of the things I love most about the show as it is, right now, is how it’s stuck so firmly with its characters that, even when they do something surprising, it DOESN’T surprise, either? Does that make sense? I mean this in terms of Eleanor’s sacrifice at the end. When she makes up a story so that her friends won’t…

Jameela Jamil did some very nice acting in that scene with Tahani’s parents. She played the various levels of hurt, sadness, and resignation just beautifully and still got laughs (her reaction to the joke about her sister dedicating her album to her went from genuinely touched to comically peeved in a microsecond).

All of their tests were ingenious, because they figured things out but they still failed the test (aside from Eleanor). Tahani’s test, especially, was harsh — because she got past all those celebrities and servants rooms, but as soon as she saw the room with her parents, you knew she was going to walk through it.…

I have a feeling it isn’t their age that’s the largest factor, it’s their status—single people, of any age, have very little use for Costco. And there is a significantly higher percentage of single people in the millennial generation than any in living memory.

I buy all my food hand-made off of Etsy. Sure, I’ve come down with norovirus 8 times in the past three months, but I feel it’s worth it to so fully express my individuality.

Costco actually could work for 20-somethings who are either in college or living with roommates because there are enough mouths to make a membership worth it. As a 30-something I don’t use Costco as much as I used to now that I’ve gotten my own place, though I still keep the membership mostly because I use Costco as…

I remember the first book I ever got out of my old school library was this slim, slightly tattered, green hard back. No dust cover, no blurb. No idea why I choose it but I can safely say school, and life in general, would have been a lot harder if I had never read A Wizard of Earthsea. That book and the sequels kept…

You know Star Trek was literally, explicitly created to be “SJW crap”, right?

This is the guy that keeps posting the same thing week after week, right?

I’d read the rumours pretty early on, before even the Voq stuff, but a few things just seemed odd (picking Burnham in the first place, his weird talks with her, his insistence with Stametts, the Admiral stuff, the alternate universe mentions in his office, and then the coordinates he punched in for the spore drive…

My complaint about all of this is it seems like the first season was largely built around two “holy shit” twists (I.e., Tyler is Voq, and Lorca is really Mirror Lorca) that one could see coming 5 episodes ago. I think they could have done better in not telegraphing all of this.

And only because it’s needed for the plot. It just all seems a little too Murder She Wrote.

Very disappointing about JCVJ. I reeaaaaaallly liked it.