Just finished binging, so I'll yell into the abyss. I've been feeling psychotic reading all the lukewarm reviews of this show (do I see what other people see?), so this was something of a nice change because I think Superstore's one of the most brilliant ensemble comedies I've seen since losing Happy Endings. Beyond…

I see what you're saying. But in my viewing experience, it just seemed…off. If Columbine was revenge killing, then so is everything, basically. Outside of accidents, all homicides (from domestic violence to genocide) are committed by people upset at individuals, groups of people, or society as a whole, who they feel…

Long because this episode was…a lot.

What admission? In the truck, he basically reiterated the same line he's been toeing since this came out, if I remember correctly.

*Bassett for Angela by Angela Bassett* Angela Bassett???

Yeah, the earliest talk about this indicated he had DID, but it's schizophrenia here. Curious as to whether they changed it or if it really is a fuck-up.

Totally with you on Jenna Fischer. God, it's so good to have her back on TV. She really does do her job so well she slips under the radar. I always thought she was The Office's best actor.

Big Sphere. They've taken over the language!

I came for Meechum, got what I needed, and promptly threw myself off the train.

The pinnacle of mid-'00s reality dating shows. I still tell random people/things I don't like they've been next'd. They pretend to know, but I know they don't.

I really think American Crime has done a fantastic job of portraying not only the Kafkaesque nightmare of reporting a sexual assault, but the frustration that comes from being an individual (and a guardian) caught up in the interlocking machines of law enforcement, the medical establishment, and school administration.…

Yes, it's ugly. Don't let the fact that they work with kids fool you. Schools are machines (i.e. organizations) just like any other. They often go straight into CYA mode because their reputations are at stake, particularly private schools whose entire brand is built off reputation. They have administrations that work…

In the heavily medicated haze I've found myself in today (thanks, enspringen-ed winter), I've chosen to believe that Hulu's watching the numbers and setting up a possible endgame along those lines. Everyone, watch! It is commanded!

There are a lot of interesting statements to make, if they so choose. If Taylor is gay/bi, it could be an important, necessary statement given how often young queer boys are assaulted by their peers (and not always just by a punch in the face). If Taylor isn't gay/bi, it can point to the complicated relationship…

If you've ever wanted to see her in zoot suits gazing lasciviously at beautiful women while telling them about themselves, now. is. the time. Possibly my favorite of her characters.

We've seen him drink his own piss every day of this campaign cycle, often on national television, so I'm not sure why she made more work for herself.

I see everyone's mostly a-consensusin'. Though a few of these top 10s have a different enough curatorial voice that I might start orbiting some critics.

Dramas featuring predominantly black casts have *long* been marginalized in TV and tend to only be about crime/criminal justice (The Wire, Oz, New York Undercover). There were "split" shows like Any Day Now (an old Lifetime treasure) and one-season wonders like Under One Roof, but it seems if people want to see black…

It actually kind of worked for me, since historically one of the few places of at least some kind of degree of black/white cultural interaction were through subcultures like urban queer parties (especially from 1920s Harlem on), which the Emerald City scene used for its thematics. And he was voguing like his life…

Honestly, at this point, Empire seems less like a soap opera than a soap anthology, if there can be such a thing. It has more in common with classics like Love, American Style or The Love Boat or Fantasy Island than Dallas or Dynasty. Good soap operas have characters that make sense and persist because that continuity…