I have an imaginary “You can’t hand the truth!” scene for George all written in my head.

So a lot of Roosevelt family money, for example, came from refining sugar, which for a long time was produced by slaves (and various Roosevelts were slave owners). Other sources of their family wealth, though, were at least less obviously awful, like merchant businesses, buying and selling land in Manhattan (including…

Yeah, Denton has been successful in theater already, but it is now clear she deserves to be in, like, everything.

Well, I think it is all bad, and all related, as in fact the show has somewhat indicated.

I really liked Marian’s gold draping with blue lace dress. Probably because it was relatively modern, but still.

To be sure, my wife/editor has suggested cutting mine to “a disappointment”.

I always thought GoT was “progressive” in the sense it portrayed feudal society, and inherited wealth and power in general, as absolutely awful and irredeemable, in explicitly contrast to fantasy works like Lord of the Rings. Or for that matter, Harry Potter, Star Wars, or Downton Abbey . . . .

Interestingly, “a multi-generational, coming-of-age love story disguised as a fast-paced mystery about the disappointment of time” is the working subtitle of my autobiography.

So personally, I wasn’t bored watching it. I thought the lighting up scene was very well done, and the contrast was clever, so it worked for me.

So I am OK with the show’s treatment of Agnes so far, subject to my general complaint about making this class of people more likeable than they should be.

I liked the Paw Patrol sketch. As a parent who has had to watch way too much of that show, I appreciated the premise, got all the jokes, and thought it was a fine length. Of course if you were not very familiar with Paw Patrol, it probably was a bit of a drag to get through.

Yeah, I was cool with it being just a basic comedy-horror sketch.

Huh, I do in fact miss GLOW.

Fleabaggerer

I am looking forward to the future episode about how Kareem was not in fact fouled by Laimbeer in the final seconds of Game 6 of the 1988 Finals.

Hawkeye was designed to spin up Kate Bishop and Echo, and I think Steinfeld’s Bishop was well-received and will undoubtedly have an MCU future. But my understanding is the original plan was she would start off in other projects, not Hawkeye/Bishop-titled projects.

This friggin’ guy . . . .

Not to get off on a tangent, but there is a regrettable amount of evidence that can work in politics too.

So to play Devil’s Advocate, I think the point was supposed to be something like that the imagined product really would do a lot of good, which is not always true even of products that work.

I completely agree this is the part of the Theranos story I am most interested in seeing explored, because it is the part which is most surprising to me. Of course I get that many investors don’t really understand the tech, but they hire people who do understand, in order to make sure this exact sort of thing doesn’t…