Plus these fuckers are all so scared of being emasculated that it’s nice to know that for once you’re hitting them where it hurts.

Eh, his pedigree is uneven, that’s all. First of all, his Cap is the understated highlight and throughline for the entire MCU (I would argue that he’s more critical at this point than RDJ by a fair bit), so on that score alone he’s marked a legacy. Beyond Marvel...I mean, the man is trying stuff out. He’s been in a…

I feel like it would be foolish for them to not take advantage of what Bernthal’s Punisher brings to DD, even if they only do it as a one-off episode. The whole thing with Fisk and Frank they’ve built is really interesting. Plus if they go the “Born Again” route then they’ll have to give Karen something new to do and…

I don’t think they necessarily have to push him up or down to go from here. I could see a very interesting S2 (or maybe appearance in DD S3) about him struggling to keep the balance he’s recently struck - understanding that he’s a violent dude who sees and pursues violence as a solution while also acknowledging he’s a…

I have a reasonable amount of confidence that they won’t go in that predictable route - it would undercut the vast majority of what they built this season, not to mention feel appallingly one-note for a character that they went out of their way to make nuanced. Fisk is an easy way to get Frank back in on multiple…

I think that’s the problem, though - it’s dragged on for years and multiple seasons of different shows now, long enough that the “will they or won’t they/probably they will” Matt and Karen dynamic feels past its expiration date due to the more interesting romantic interactions they’ve had with other characters. Early…

I’m glad they called an audible and wrote her in. Here’s how I feel: there’s no way to do the Karen Page of the comics in any fashion that isn’t terrible and demoralizing re: an actress and a character we’ve come to care a lot about. Why not just let the comics backstory go entirely in the service of giving a…

I love Daredevil, I love Charlie Cox, and I have maintained a lot of sympathy to Netflix-Matt while he has enthusiastically taken a flamethrower to his life, career, and most important relationships.

Same. I thought it was going to be a lot more subtext-y than it was - at this point it feels very much like a powerful, slowly-built romance. Part of it is the talent and chemistry of the actors, but I think it also makes a surprising amount of sense from a character standpoint (which is something the production team…

Frank has transferred a lot of his protective fatherly instincts onto Karen

AND got to keep their team name and history. Nobody in Baltimore considers the Ravens to be an extension of the Browns, which was one of the major pain points (still is) about The Indianapolis Football Team.

Uh, no. Also FYI this logic is one of the ways that for a long time men justified not giving women the right to vote.

No, it doesn’t. Not for anybody who’s spent time in the backcountry, at least.

You can sit at my lunch table.

Man, I swear that movie has to be up there for most polarizing audience responses. I LOVED it and my husband said it made him so deeply uncomfortable that he had trouble sleeping that night and he wished he could erase it from his brain.

I hope you’re right, but history makes me think that a hard road awaits anyone who decides to be the first person to name names. Even with support.

I mean, unfortunately he DID get away with it, which is exactly the thing that perpetuates this kind of vicious, demeaning harassment. Even now, Crews understands that he can’t name names. So, thus far, no consequences for appalling treatment of another human being. The only way it changes is if we force those…

Ryan Gosling can fill out a tux, but he’s a man who is intensely private, has hidden his children from the prying eyes of the paparazzi and generally looks like he merely tolerates press.

Counterpoint, as somebody who’s been with their partner for eight years but only just got married a few months ago...

I hear what you’re saying, but I disagree. Trump’s reaction to this is precisely because it’s a peaceful protest against police killings of black people. Along the way it became bound up with the treatment of Kaep, the pissiness of white conservatives, and the pockets of NFL owners, but it’s all part of the same…