Good performance art. 5/10.

Britain could have looked at the US, and had all the evidence laid before them about what happens when you elect a idiot, and they did it anyways.

Not even today’s government could squash this man’s goodness. He would win with kindness now, as he did then.

I urge everyone to read the Esquire article linked above. It really is one of the great magazine profiles of all time. And it will break you apart.

It seems like Zoe Kravitz's emoting skills are limited to ‘make a face like I have a headache’. 

Oh, Mr. Rogers, by far. Tom Hanks is great and a national treasure, but Mr. Rogers practically raised a couple generations of us.

When you compare this episode to the masterpiece that was the finale of season 1..... yeah they fucked up. 

I was a terrible law student, and don’t practice and may be remembering things from Law and Order re-runs rather than school, but there was so much that was wrong: one of the first things was that I am pretty sure that the court never uses the full names of minors. You never get to introduce evidence like Celeste does…

The Celeste/Perry stuff was fucking insane to watch. They both, as people, radiate this calmness and self assurance, so to watch them in this intensely abusive/sexual dynamic that could flip on a dime was so terrifying. I hope they manage to work together on future projects; they’re electric together. 

You can only apply so much logic, I guess, but how are they not all setting themselves up to get into an extraordinary amount of trouble here? They all lied to the police, the detective (who we never see) seems like she wants to see them punished. Are we supposed to think that Zoe Kravitz is going to explain that her…

shitshow of an ending.

Judge is about to announce her decision but instead just allows the plaintiff (and then the defendant) to monologue for who knows why.

big little payoff

I can’t think of any other show that I went from really liking or at least thinking was very good at one time to being completely disinterested by so quickly. I tried and failed to get trough S2 several times and then forgot it was even still on the air to have a final season in 2019. At this point, I’ll probably wait…

Watching the scene of Celeste putting on make-up in the morning, I felt a tiny sense of what Andrea Arnold’s cut of this season might have looked like. Intimate, tender, curious — drawn-out moments of reprieve as palate cleanser to S1’s intensity. Imagine the melodrama happening in the background, and subtle character…

Celeste was probably distracted at the time with Perry being demanding and abusive to really get a good look at his mother.

What I realized is that season one worked because it focused on the women and their lives with the crime being in the background. Season two focuses on the crime with the women and their lives being in the background so it comes off very law and order-y with just way better actors.

I've been waiting for a turn from Corey since his early scenes. They read very incel-y, the casual, lightly aggressive way he spoke to Jane. I was predicting she'd dismiss his advances and he'd stalk her or something, but then they started dating. I still suspect something's up with him, though. He's very "I'm a nice…

It should’ve stayed a one-off miniseries. Period.

As a lawyer, I have to add that this episode was ALL over the map in quality. It initially felt like they got procedure down a bit. But holy shit was that cross examination improper. Her lawyer was garbage but the judge should have shut him down at least five times. The murder accusation stuff never comes in, the…

Such a weird show. It got a second season because the actresses are at the top of their game playing the kind roles you never see in movies any more. That, and it’s a fascinating setting ripe for a prestige TV dark comedy-drama.