I loved John from Cincinnati. It’s how I learned to spell Cincinnati!

That was actually peak Andy Bernard—-it was all downhill for his character after the “Anger Management” hiatus. His pre-castrated character was a second awesome foil for Jim, IMHO.

“Unceremoniously shitcanned” is also what happens on traditional networks. Netflix is far from perfect, but would we have gotten a Santa Clarita Diet on ABC or even HBO? The price raises are definitely making me rethink my commitment to Netflix, but I do think they deserve credit for making shows that I’m not sure…

I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion, but not every show needs to run for 8 - 10 seasons. Some work especially procedurals, but do any of us look back super fondly to the last season of the Office? Or even Friends? Even sticking with Netflix, Orange is the New Black has definitely lost some of its shine the…

I don’t think this is a good read on the conversation between Nancy/Ibis/Bilquis. For one thing, I don’t think it makes sense to say that it’s “disingenuous” for it to only be a conversation between black people. I think that’s a deliberate choice they made in order to highlight the issue with racism. The black people…

Doesn’t make much sense. Technical Boy is defined as just the incarnation of a concept. If you’re doing technology things, you need Technology; in fact, by doing so, you’re affirming Technology’s very existence and relevance. It’s like saying, “I learned to run fast, so I don’t need Velocity anymore”.

I was just wondering the same, even not knowing the book. Why should Technology be represented as a boy? It’s not a new concept, it existed pretty much since humanity existed. Equaling technology with computer era technology seems awfully clichéd and short-sighted. The wheel is technology. The fire is technology.…

Mr. World wants a surveillance network. Technical Boy had promised him an update of the Argus one, then Argus was killed, and they’re seeking a replacement. I seems a bit inconsequential. Also, insufferable as he was, I don’t get what Technical Boy was doing so wrong that he had to be killed. Feels like the stereotypic…

Yeah, I was completely lost on what happened there. It felt like World sacrificing Technical Boy in some way, but I don’t know how the CEO played into that.

And it would be pretty maddening if that monologue was given to a white actor just to show that racial inequities aren’t “only the job of black people to ponder”.

The Coming to America segments weren’t fractured storytelling. On the contrary, they were complete, self-sustaining narrative units in and of themselves. They weren’t sprinkled throughout the episode by cutting them into tiny bits to cut back and forth to, which is what causes the fractured feeling.

Just a side observation: This show is really good at lighting African Americans, especially in low light. I juxtapose this to ‘Us’, where I felt too often that Lupita Nyong’o’s dark brown skin tended to get lost into the darker background. In this scene, you can easily see the four actors’ (including the mourner)…

She’s upset because some people love to politicize everything. I guess it should make her upset that the book was written by a white guy and , he *gasp* wrote about people who are not white. Even the most PC person will give NG a pass though cause he’s a cool and sensitive white guy. I don’t understand the problem at…

Also, anyone else bothered by their going straight to the trope of the musicaly brilliant Asian video game playing kid who becomes a CEO of a tech company and his demanding father who makes him practice but doesn't understand the new technology? Is this what happens when you keep firing writers and show runners?

I dont get why Emily is so upset by the exchange of the 3 african gods. I dare to say, that if Odin was in the room, there would still be a complaint, that “he shouldnt be there”. I believe was a great scene, and wasnt a speech to convince a white man.

Same, I actually thought this episode was alot stronger than the others, even without Mad Sweeney and Laura in it and who I think have the most interesting plotline. There’s still too much talking in the episodes, I think, and that does drag the pace down, especially when they’re talking portentously, but I really…

I found this the most enjoyable episode of the new season, and the one that comes closest (though still falling short) of the first. I think a part of that is due to the opening sequence that echoes the Coming to America segments of season one. I always found those the best scenes of their respective episodes. They…

I realize that hating on this season is all the rage, but two things:

Do the new writers/showrunner understand that sex is basically worship to gods right? It should be otherwordly, beautiful and revelatory (like the gods themselves) but that was barely one up from Shadow and Laura’s first hookup.

Maybe I’m just dense, but the show lost me with whatever happened between World, Technical Boy, and the character whose name I wish I knew. (Calling him CEO is almost like giving him a New God characterization instead of a name, though I think he’s just human. I honestly don’t know.)