I’ve not watched this for years, but the scene that I remember off the top of my head is the one where Holly Hunter’s character displays that she’s made a decision to finally sleep with Tom (which of course she doesn’t) by grabbing condoms before meeting him. As a teen, probably the first time I’d ever seen something…

The Stand often leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to its female characters.

I’ll presume good faith, but your discussions were extremely different than mine.

Perhaps it’d be worthwhile increase n to more than 1 if you’re really interested in understanding the mindset. Try hanging out at the American Legion or VFW hall sometime, although I wouldn’t recommend it for either your liver or lungs and haven’t myself for decades except for a wedding reception or two.

Eh, I was in with Vietnam combat vets at the tail end of their careers who weren’t particularly conservative, and to a man they hated her.

1929: Shoeshine boys provide surprisingly effective stock tips, which were generally provided to them by brokers doing pump and dumps

That’s one that I suspect they’ll do, not just for the mental illness - which they can start looking at some of the revisionist work, since Robert Todd Lincoln doesn’t come off so well either - but also the family drama with the Confederacy relatives, the spending that took place that caused all the battles with…

Oh, she’s a wonderful person and they’ve got a great marriage, but in terms of an interesting life worth making a TV show about - it’s more or less been supportive Navy wife on steroids for 70 years.  Good human being, but as a portrayal, not something that lends itself to drama.

Pfeiffer is smart for taking this particular role, especially if the producers don’t take the cheesy approach (which they probably will) of all First Ladies being heroines by definition of the office.

I’m glad you feel like you’ve gotten something tangible out of your sleep tracker, but study after study has shown that they do almost nothing besides marginally track onset and latency, regardless of how many other things they claim.

Does it get cancelled in retrospect? Oh I feel there’s a much more general question at stake, here.

Consensus seems to be that the only books of Piers Anthony that have held up are the first few of the Incantations of Immortality series. Haven’t read them or any of his other stuff in decades so only vague memories, but from what I remember I’d have probably agreed with that assessment back in the day.

Watched I’m Your Woman, and the best I can say about it is that dyed blonde, low makeup Rachel Brosnahan does bear a bit of a resemblance to Kate Winslet, which surprised me.

I have no idea why it would be good or fulfilling to live in some dysfunctional suburbs

As I’ve said before, this thing is wildly uneven - to the point of moments of greatness and mediocrity in the same episode. Perhaps that improves this year.

Second on the missed opportunity.

Given the ‘collapse’, what’s the survival rate in general if someone presents to the ED with septic shock in normal times?

...enduring nature of gendered expectations in entertainment...Mary Ann stood as a pig-tailed paragon of Americana, the prototype for the kind of wholesomeness that women were expected to chase...

Dawn Wells died of COVID today.

Weirdly, one of the effects Disney’s takeover of Star Wars has had is causing people to reevaluate George Lucas’ time running the show. He made some mistakes, but when he got it right, he got it right.