Let’s start with the season as a whole: Meh.

The bombing was well founded but it was horribly executed because they only showed the surface level of the collapse of the oil/gas industry. They actually needed to show it instead of talk about it for the bombing to make sense.

As one born in 1967, I think this article sells short how big Olivia was in the early 70s. “I Honestly Love You” and “Have You Never Been Mellow” made her a huge success is the States. While that success may have “led to” her casting in Grease, she was cast in Grease because she was already a bankable star, not a…

I think it was one of the best shows on TV before this season and the main reason it is now just a very good show is how they handled Danny. He’s my main problem. Before that there were soapy elements, but people rarely went out of their way to do dumb things like putting him on Helios’ mission for the sake of the…

Plus, you still need petrochemicals for lubricants, plastic, and a host of other materials and fluids.

Very, very well said.

Thank you for the actual review, opposed to the summary above.

Sadly, I probably won’t get to it until Sunday. Headed out of town to see people and do things like it’s 2019 baby! (Except now 100% outdoors with 100% more N95 masks)

Thank you. I’m confused at the A rating here. Vulture liked the episode, too. Their review gave it 4/5 stars. I don’t understand either. The only solid plotline was Aleida’s, and like you pointed out it could have been much tighter. I did like her interaction with her husband (is he an ex at this point? I think he…

I think when the president is your boss and is trying to fuck you, then that level of coercion is sort of hard to even imagine for us average folk. that doesn’t remove Lewinksy’s autonomy like everyone tries to argue, it just recognizes that the consent in their relationship isn’t so black and white.

What a bizarre interpretation of this movie. I watched it over the weekend, and all I saw was a young woman who felt invisible and unspecial, and made a stupid mistake which led to a series of poor decisions. She was genuinely annoying and unlikable, but there was nothing presented about “white entitlement” or…

Your comment had more of a review than the actual review, which is basically 98% plot summary without anything substantive to say about the episode. 

Oh thank god somebody said it.

Yeah, get the family affairs sorted out now while everyone’s lucid; you’ll get the best plan without feeling ghoulish about it if someone finds themselves in declining health. Feels like a responsible, practical exercise to be handled and set aside rather than a negotiation.

Yeah, if I recall it was very similar to Stan Lee right before he went. A lot of hands managing assets and care and now all of them seemed to have the best intentions. Still even if 89 is a damn good run and I’d the end was hard, it’s still sad to see anyone go, let alone a trailblazer, icon and from all accounts a…

She was truly a giant that transcended her role as an actress. Losing Nichelle and Bill Russel in the same day is heartbreaking.

I’m not surprised and sad as it is, in a way for many close to her it may be a bit of a relief. I know she’s not been well for years now, suffering a stroke and dementia. And that’s a really hard thing to see a loved one go through. Most of my grandparents went through it and I’m really dreading my own parents…

The SDH didn’t really bother me and at the time I never really thought it was a bad idea to send him out again, although maybe it was. They are very short on personnel.

The joy I experienced when I realized that “Larry” is the name of Nathan Corddry’s characters in both For All Mankind and Paper Girls was the single best thing to come out of this episode IMO. (The characters have other traits in common, too.)

While it sets up some future issues, overall the episode had way too many cliches that have been done to death. I’m disappointed in the episode for having so many:the genius having the outside the box solution, the rescue happening just before a character tells the other one a secret, carrying a dead man’s baby,…