I don’t do letter grades, but I quite enjoyed this episode. Random thoughts:

I mean, she could have just said “n-word”. Hell, she could’ve even got a Black guest lecturer if she wanted to make a point about the word. I just don’t get it, y’all.

Similarly, how is a marriage of a 27 year old to a 15 year old even legal? Seems like dumbass logic to force a kid to marry you to hide being a kid rapist, but R. Kelly isn’t exactly waiting breathlessly when they announce the annual Nobel prize winners.

Not really.

It’s amazing how far people will go to delude themselves.

I’m always baffled by the people who, in one breath, say there’s no way R. Kelly’s a rapist, and in the next, acknowledge he married a 15 year-old. It’s amazing how far people will go to delude themselves.

Yeah it definitely felt like it had *more* of a plan? There were still bumps (that mansion was not colonial era where did the mansion come from?) and the pacing felt weird, and hopefully they’re going to use the Kid in all seasons otherwise this will be anticlimactic, but it didn’t feel as much like it was trying to…

I really enjoyed the first Joy fakeout. They played it well enough that you could see either reality - that she was possessed or it was all in Annie’s head - working out as the possible truth up until it was too late. The second fake out was a little too obvious sadly.

Do Charles Dickens’s books count as novels? They were all originally serialized, with small segments coming out on a regular schedule. If Twin Peaks: The Return counts as a TV series and not a movie, then by the same logic Great Expectations is a series of short stories, not a novel.

Having tried to sit through both titles in question I have to say the Mad Max flick wasn’t just the worse of the two but shockingly stupid and amateurish. It wasn’t even a good dumb action movie. I’d rather be subjected to the one with Tina Turner in it again. That one at least was entertainingly awful. 

To be fair, Cahiers du Cinéma has, at least, been consistent in its efforts to give us this absolutely massive headache
To be fair, they feel A.V. Club has been giving them absolutely massive eyerolls choosing Mad Max: Fury Road for the top spot.

I seem to have found this risky little bottle episode far more moving than most of the other commenters below. At first I was irritated but it seems I am willing to travel down myriad paths with Damson Idris — he is that good. The way they shot the projects — almost Spielberg/suburban nostalgically for a moment, with…

I gotta disagree. Franklin’s life is garbage near the end of the alt reality segment. He’s done the right things, still got booted out of a school and society where he was never welcome, and ended up in a dead end job with a gun in his face. He’s still a smart and hardworking young man in a dangerous low-paying job…

Then you truly missed the whole meaning of the episode.  No matter what Franklin did he was destined to go down this path he's on.  The system is rigged and meant to keep all people down unless you are the privileged elite.  Franklin just finally made a choice at the end to go all in no matter what, a choice he was…

I suspect the Shadow King’s long con will be called out and addressed before the end of the show.

Halfway through season 3, and it’s safe to say this is far better than season 2. Not that season 2 was bad, it’s just that season had a lot of wheel spinning and aside from the last minute rape reveal, it never felt like it was going anywhere. It also felt a bit more visually drab and repetitive with the whole Farouk…

season 1 seems to be set in the 1970s

Does Farouk enter David in the tv scene? I thought that Future-David blocks that attack, so Farouk enters later, when Charles is holding Gabrielle in the nursery.

Bootlickers are already jumping to Callbox Carl’s defense by saying that because his father was murdered in his driveway by an intruder in 2013, that he has PTSD and is afraid of a tragedy like that occuring again.

“While it’s nice to see Epoch again (that heartfelt farewell at the end of last week’s episode didn’t really seem to take)”