I also liked how in this show and on Hawkeye, they integrated her prothetic limb into her fighting as an asset. She would use it to block incoming blows and knife strikes.

This was a good show. I hope them posting up all the episodes at once was a good sign and not a bad one. I’d love more of the character, especially…

Casting call was for a deaf indigenous and/or Latina woman. Some of the other details were built around the amazing woman they were able to cast.

I haven’t read the comics, but I don’t think the character had a prosthetic leg in them.  So, that was just added in after she was cast.  They just had to find a deaf Native American woman.

Yeah, they seem to have lifted the entire cast from “Reservation Dogs”. Which is fine because it worked, but it would’ve been nice to see new Native faces too.

Me too but I knew the statement had to be wrong on a fundamental level because it said Weird Al was being a jerk.

It took me WAY too long to remember that Al had a song called “I Lost on Jeopardy” and for a moment I was afraid he’d actually been a prick on national TV and I just didn’t remember.

Just finished watching this and enjoyed it quite a bit. A couple of things in particular that I enjoyed:

She’s genuinely great in this--incredibly expressive face when it needs to be and gets emotions across.  I also had no idea she was really missing her leg, either, until I read more about her after this (I mean, I liked her in Hawkeye but there was a lot going on in that show)

The grandmother’s beef was primarily with the dad, but Maya’s recollection is that she was collateral damage, and her grandmother didn’t seem to make any effort to be present in her life after that. The grandmother also suggests it’s hard for her to even look at Maya, due to Maya’s resemblance to the dead mother, so…

Leaving aside The Color Purple, mostly because I haven’t seen it and I last read it in high school, did Maya’s grandmother actually disown her? I only watched the first episode, but it seemed in the hospital scene that she really mostly hated Maya’s father. She didn’t stop them from leaving, but I didn’t get the sense…

Special shoutout to Graham Greene

A solid outing especially compared to a lot of the recent D+ MCU. Not ‘must watch’ by any means but I don’t feel my time was wasted either let alone outright insulted (looking at you Secret Invasion).

Do you want me to give you the usual answer about nobody giving a shit about Iron Man, Thor or Captain America but then gave them a chance, or are you just hear to bitch about the MCU without giving the show a chance?

Sadly, I think a lot of people are going to sleep on this with various excuses (“oh, MCU homework”, “oh it stars a woman how woke”, “subtitles no thank you”, “you mean I don’t have to do a bunch of MCU homework? So it doesn’t matter no thank you”), which is a shame because I thought this was an extremely effective…

One lovely surprise is the thorough denial of the idea that Maya owes her grandmother a single fucking thing, no matter how bad she currently feels about disowning her. That’s especially nice to see after The Color Purple and its moral that abuse victims should fully forgive their abusers and become friends with them.

Actually Jessica Jones was my second favorite of the Netflix shows, next to Daredevil of course. Killgrave was an awesome villain and I've also been a big fan of Krysten Ritter since Don't Trust the B*tch in Apartment 23.

I actually thought the exact same thing. I don’t watch horror movies anymore because, while I love them, I’m easily terrified and would stay terrified for months after. But as soon as the scary thing is contained it loses the entire affect for me. Like the first half of The Ruins (the book) scared the living shit out…

I’m of the opinion that Peak TV is behind us and this is one of the reasons why. I have a hard time investing in a lot of new shows these days because they run for only 8-10 episodes, there’s so much time between seasons, and anything with potential is canceled after two seasons because streaming executives won’t take…

I feel like people forget (or were just too young to experience) how pretty much all of the best episodes of the X-Files were the standalone episodes. Home. Squeeze & Tooms. Ice. Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose. Jose Chung’s From Outer Space. The Post-Modern Prometheus. Bad Blood.

Looks like I will be part of the very few that agree with you. I have been saying this for months, and louder since the passing of tv god Normal Lear.