Going in I was hoping it would be something like Succession, where it is clear the building of the family fortune has required terrible practices that inevitably corrupt anyone who participates. And yet Succession is also a funny, entertaining show.

Exactly.  I actually cringed when Bertha was supporting George by saying if he loses this fortune, he can always make another.  Not said is that would all involve climbing up another big pile of ordinary victims we shall never see.

It was very well done, though. Jessie Buckley’s scenes with her children in particular brought back my own former-parent-of-young-children PTSD. Call it the Saving Private Ryan of parenthood.

I agree Peter’s creativity with paper flowers was coded as feminine by Phil, but that is not what Peter uses to kill Phil. Peter is in fact a medical student, and he uses his knowledge of medicine to kill Phil by intentionally infecting him. Interestingly, that is not exactly a classic poisoning, and given the…

I generally like Dunst and think she did the best she could with this part, but again to me this was a really, really disappointing character. Rose basically has no real agency of her own. She appears completely content just giving up any sort of independence as soon as George asks. And while I am not exactly agreeing…

Well, except the only major female character is pretty much exclusively defined in the film through her relationships with the major male characters, with her role in the story ultimately confined to being a victim of one man who must be saved entirely through the actions of another man.

So . . . I simply did not like The Power of the Dog. I recognize it is clever, and that it says something important to say. And I recognize the actors did what they could with the parts they were given.

This is very exciting.  I thought Shang Chi was pretty great right up until it got turned into a generic MCU movie at the end.  Hopefully this is an opportunity for Cretton to do just the good stuff, and Yeoh is a great anchor for the cast.

Not a single decent period drama on TV back then!

So this interview did open my eyes a bit to what they are trying to do with her character, and I appreciate that.

It sounds like Russell is going to let them off the hook, it just came too late for Patrick.

I don’t think Peggy’s desire is to leave “black New York” behind and “be a part of white New York” in the same sense Bertha very much did want to leave her old social circle behind and to join a new social circle. And I definitely do not think Peggy is seeking just to be a secretary to a prominent white family. For…

It appears this poster wants support for his desire to criticize this show without first having given it a try with an open mind.

When I am potentially interested in content and it gets mixed reviews, I usually try it out with the intent of forming my own opinion about whether it is worth continuing to watch.

So Queens in general at the time Lum was growing up was around 20% African American. But Lum specifically was reportedly born in Stony Brook, about halfway up Long Island from Queens, and then raised in Forest Hills, Queens. Stony Brook is apparently about 1.7% African American, and Forest Hills is about 2.5% African…

Or the Cardiff of Torchwood.

One does not vary from the order laid down by Queen Victoria.

Yeah, natural languages are living things and really cannot be controlled in the ways some people want to control them. Meanwhile, “whiteness” is a deeply problematic concept to begin with, so typically there is no great loss in recognizing when something like a way of speaking is not specifically “white” but rather…

So I am just repeating other posts, but in quick summary form:

So as I have suggested in a couple other posts as well, I would resist the notion that “white” Americans “own” every other way of speaking American English besides AAVE.