I am sure I am going to get attacked by the Swifties around here but a lot of her popular music and persona is about how she is the “wronged woman” in many relationships.    So her fanbase takes the lead from that and defends her like they are pit bulls.  

It’s amazing that the fandom of Swift, one of the most popular, rich, and powerful people in pop-culture, relies almost entirely on seeing her as a victim or at least constantly in danger of being victimized. 

I only saw the first season but it was a great show.

Oh my God this show is awful.  It is beyond boring, the sets look ridiculously cheap, and the acting is as wooden as ever in a Star Wars movie.  This Director is in way over her head and while I’m not surprised AVClub gave this a good review (any movie made by a queer director will get the AV Club’s automatic nod)…

Enjoyed the 1st two eps and nothing upset my dinosaur OT sensibilities so defintely gets a thumbs up from me thus far.

Ridley-me-this haha!

I watched the first ep and damn, the visual style, like so many of these shows, is giving insurance commercial. Just horribly lit, cheap, fake looking sets, strangely flat shots. How does that happen??

Both The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone have published reviews saying this show is boring dreck, and they are both liberal leaning sites so they aren’t starting out with a known axe to grind.

Yes, all of that. Both The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone put out reviews that starkly contrast with the reviews put out by AV Club and Io9. The Gizmodo family of sites will praise anything from Kennedy’s Lucasfilm, especially if it involves a minority or an LGBTQ+ person somehow. Read reviews from sites that aren’t…

I can see it’s going to be impossible to find an honest review of this show as all the critics circle the wagon.

One of my favorite memories so far is of watching “Beetlejuice” for the first time, on VHS with my mother. I literally don’t remember her ever laughing so hard or so long before or since, as she did at the “Day-o” scene. When the shrimps came up and grabbed their faces, she literally screamed with laughter.

Clarissa was an essential part of my childhood. I’m glad nothing bad has come out about it... so far. Whenever I channel-surfed and landed on Schneider’s shows, they just seemed awful in comparison. Not that Clarissa was prestige TV. It just wasn’t funny to me. That was a nicely-worded statement from Joan-Hart.

I think Clarissa was before Dan Schneider’s time? It seemed like the most messed up stuff was all related to him and his buddies

Oh fuck all the way off twice. Emma Stone did nothing wrong.

I saw both Poor Things and KOFM. Emma Stone is much more front and center in her movie and her performance is very showy. Lily Gladstone’s performance is much quieter and for me impactful. However, it isn’t hard to see why Stone took home the Oscar. Nobody got robbed of anything.

“Robbing” is a strong and inappropriate word. It would have been awesome to see Gladstone win because I really loved her performance, but Stone’s was also really incredible, and a much bigger part of her film. The award was up for grabs especially between the two of them, and not for Gladstone to lose.

“It’s too long!” cries the drooling audience before going back to their 7th consecutive hour of Ugly People On Dates: British Cake Edition.

I really disliked this season (each ep was a C- to F for me), but I think I have some genuine answers to your questions:

So the spiral was an ancient sea skeleton preserved in the ice? I’m also still not clear as to how Raymond Clark was believed to be in the block of ice if he wasn’t in the group sent to the ice.

hopefully there is a sequel, A Midsommar Night’s Dream .