“In other words, while seeking to prove that women with naturally high testosterone have an unfair advantage over their competitors, Bermon admits no one has actually studied the effects of testosterone on women’s athletic performance. Instead, he assumes that because female athletes have used synthetic testosterone,…

It’d been a while since a read a full Bernie Bro rant. Thanks for reminding me of what made his supporters in 2016 so obnoxious.

I always roll my eyes at Bernie supporters bias towards him. He didn’t invite a celebrity to speak, and that’s a sign of how he’s really not picking people for political gain. Except for the fact that him choosing the union guy to speak gets him a huge amount of political capital with his supporters! It’s one of his…

Absolutely! It was just left vague and unexplained. All we know is that he ends up dead at some point. That whole subplot was handled very poorly I thought.

I wanted to know that to! Last we saw, Tom had pinned him down at gunpoint, but then the next day the cops went to the hotel and it just looked like the room had been ransacked- they didn’t know where he went, and we didn’t find out he was dead until a later timeline. So who killed him? I don’t see Tom doing it, so…

I completely agree about the length. For what the show was, it could’ve been 4 episodes. For what they could have turned it into, they needed 10 episodes. So many things weren’t fully explored which, if examined in more depth, could’ve made the show great, necessitating more episodes. But if they weren’t going to give…

I think you’re grasping here. The actor that plays Mike Ardoin was born in 1974- he looked about as old as a guy born around that time would look because that’s how old he really he is (he’s actually a few years older than Mike would have been in 2015). Junius seemed to be clearly moving slower and look older than he…

I agree that there’s a lot of things that weren’t done perfectly, but I think those are just flaws and tropes that the show used. Bending over backwards to find explanations for why it was REALLY an intentional choice seems like a more complicated explanation than necessary. It opened to the exact right page because…

Except he’s explicitly NOT an unreliable narrator....

I have issues with a lot of those things as well. The one thing I’ll say is that the show’s creator explicitly addressed the unreliable narrator questions and said the following:

I am familiar with an unreliable narrator, but that’s not what this show was. The contention that that’s whats going on doesn’t make sense given that much of the show was told from someone other than Wayne’s point of view. It’s not an unreliable narrator situation. Once you start seeing Roland’s, or Tom’s, or…

It’s worth noting that the Alexa integration of the newer Sonos Ones is TERRIBLE. I have two, and I literally went out and bought a Echo Dot to use on them instead of relying on the integrated Alexa features. The Sonos never hears me, frequently loses its internet connection/alexa connection, hears the wrong words,…

It’s worth noting that the Alexa integration of the newer Sonos Ones is TERRIBLE. I have two, and I literally went…

Agreed. There was a tremendous amount of time spent on things that ended up being utterly meaningless, only to have the actual events of the central mystery be explained by a 5 minute speech with flashbacks that was given by a character we had seen for all of 15 seconds over the course of the first 7 episodes.

TWO deus ex machinas. The ENTIRE story of what happened to Julie is given to us by a guy they stumble upon in no time at all, a guy who apparently has spent decades being upset about what happened and wanting Julie found, but for some reason never decided to tell anyone. Why not write an anonymous letter to the police…

Agreed. That was all a bit too convenient for me. She’s running away from this horrible past, but makes it to a convent that’s a short drive away from the people chasing her? And then she spends her life living another short drive away from those same people (Hayes son was able to drive and pick him up from her house…

Agreed. The show made the mistake I see a lot of shows/movies making- it wanted us to care about a struggling relationship surviving, but it never gave us a reason to root for them. Hayes and his wife spent the vast majority of the season fighting and arguing and bickering, almost all of it about the case itself.…

I’m not sure how coherent this season was now that it’s over. A lot of loose ends that weren’t tied up, which is fine, but there were loose ends that were tied up in ways that undermined what came before. I really don’t see why the show implied that Hayes and his daughter had some huge falling out that has had…

We’re not gonna mention the coach falling on his face at the end of the clip? Okay then...

The paternalistic garbage argument always struck me as pretextual. The real reason was that the NBA recognized that young pros were more marketable and valuable to teams if they’d been exposed to national attention by playing college ball, and the NCAA recognized that they were losing out on billions of revenue by…

How did the Nats fuck over the city? Navy Yard has become one of the go to communities in the city. Heck, Forbes listed Navy Yard as one of the 12 best neighborhoods in the world to live in. They had the misfortune of completing the stadium right around the time the entire global economy fell apart, but once the…