I was definitely like “UH HOW ARE THEY GOING TO GET BACK ON THE BOAT” after they both jumped in the water. It is genuinely hard to drag yourself up into a boat from the water without a ladder or another person to pull you up, especially one with high sides like a fishing boat, and he’d pulled the anchor up already so…

Hey cool story, but Michael, I reported in south Louisiana for 8 years on precisely this environmental issue including the construction of a massive hurricane flood protection system in Terrebonne Parish, the fastest disappearing land mass in south Louisiana, and you should probably know that the word is “levee,” not…

He’s a very good host, and I genuinely enjoy that he’s been branching out to do things like teaching basic cooking techniques.

I love Chef John. His recipes are great and I’ve learned a bunch of them, but I enjoy watching even the ones that don’t appeal to me. He’s just goofy and pleasant enough that it’s like dad joke ASMR to me.

I think the series is really getting into the weeds with some of the adaptation problems now. It’s going to be interesting to see how they move forward if they continue to pretty straightforwardly adapt the books from here on out and not do a Game of Thrones, trying to write them more for fan-driven TV plotting. There…

I disagree a lot. I really like Outlander (and have read all the books multiple times) but even as a fan I can see its problematic bits and have been interested to see how they’re adapted to TV in a different time. TV reviewing is criticism. It tries to take a critical look at something that’s not just being made for…

I do think the reviewer isn’t taking into account a lot of what we saw last season, which is that they showed Geillis is a lot more sinister in pursuit of her goals than we may have originally thought. (She murdered and burned her first husband to get to the past in pursuit of her goals in addition to poisoning her…

I was interested to see how some of the book readers would react when some of the problematic stuff was put on screen and people reacted badly. She’s right that the show has rewritten a lot of the especially bad stuff (Mr. Willoughby anybody?) and having Claire and Jaime buy a slave as basically a plot device and two…

I caught that too. It was an interesting beat. I don’t know if it would make sense that Gail was the shooter, because why would she have taken care of him all that time, if so? But it definitely made me go hmmmm.

Yup. I get it. It fuckin sucks. I get a couple of different kinds. The “there’s someone sitting on my body and I can’t move” kind (though not as much anymore) and the sometimes I’ll hallucinate dark figures in the corners or my least favorite, THERE ARE BUGS ALL OVER THE CEILING AND WALL ABOVE MY BED! Before I fully…

I was kinda glad they dispatched with the “Jamie has a secret son!!!” plot because I thought it was one of the weirder ones from that book. Why wouldn’t he tell her? It’s enough that he keeps a secret about that other really important thing which I’m sure is a spoiler for next week and they have a big blow up about…

I get it. I’ve read the books too and I can understand how if you don’t know the plot twists it might seem a little tidy that Claire just shows up and is like “I’m ur wife!!!” and Jamie’s like “U r my wife! Everyone this is my wife!!!” and then they get it on. Sudden meetings between people who’d loved each other long…

My parents live at the beach in a house on a canal and I used to like to go out and sit on their dock in the middle of the night and look at the stars after everyone was asleep. One night I was sitting out there by myself and it was a particularly dark night with no moon or wind, completely still and silent, when I…

Sadly no, and her plot in the books is kinda icky for awhile in ways I won’t get into. I’m interested to see if they follow it. It includes some of the author’s worst plotting impulses.

For real. I can’t believe they didn’t just cut that character. I read some story about his casting that described him as a “beloved character from the books” and I would loooooooove to know who is invested in this racist-ass comic relief drunk Chinese caricature with a foot-fetish who literally just disappears into…

Voyager has some bonkers plotlines and character beats and I’m interested to see how the show handles them.

Journalists pitch and cover the same stories to different outlets all the time. It seems extremely obvious to me she was there prepping a source or doing research for a pitch. When a story is weird enough or has enough of a public interest angle, and I imagine a man building his own submarine would, it doesn’t matter…

I think that’s what they’re doing too, and I think it’s a good decision for the show. Might as well keep around a beloved character people have known from the beginning instead of introducing a bunch of randos who essentially fulfill the same purpose (a Scottish person who feels loyalty to Lord Jamie and helps him…

As people explain again and again, you have a right to free speech, and the consequences that come with that. If you wanna go Nazi-ing around in public you gotta accept how that’s gonna play out with the many private citizens and companies that don’t share your values.

Rich, I love your rants about sharks in media. If you ever want to talk to a shark scientist hit me up. I work for a marine research institute that runs a shark tagging program and our director loves to talk about shark representation in media. They, unlike many of these shark-haters, have actually touched a bunch of…