Yeah, “very few” is an exaggeration.

University libraries seem to have it more than public libraries. 

My issue is less the misery porn than her turning Willow’s arc from “power corrupts and turns her into an abusive, controlling asshole” to “addicted to magic weed.”

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that while Season 6 of Buffy may have turned the misery porn up to eleven, it’s not as if that show was entirely free from mopey angsty self-pity to begin with. They were just better at disguising it with witty zingers.

Ambrose was using a laptop in episode one, so it’s definitely not the 70's. I assume they’re trying to do a Legion sort of thing - some undefined alternate present that’s aesthetically retro and slightly disorienting.

No, the gay thing was to shame them, as they were bigots. It was reversing their prejudices back on themselves. That's why they were bullying the boyish girl. 

Goddamn. I love this show. I really hope a renewal happens.

Noooo! This show is SO STUPID GOOD. The second season is a bunch of poo jokes but somehow you end up crying in the last episode during the Horsehead Collective reunion show.

The average Fox News viewer thinks George Soros is that powerful.

Am I the only one who felt young Maggie was way too young for Jack Murdoch? She looked like a teenager while he could easily pass for thirty.

“I know the show wants me to believe he wouldn’t hurt her despite feeling entitled to her presence as a moral compass”

I don’t think most people are angry at the end for Hugh, i think it’s that final montage starting when Luke wakes up and the optimistic FM Radio Acoustic Guitar starts up that’s making us all rageful.

Since when does Mom have ANY say over how the house operates?

OH and one more thing I just realized...can we also address the true horror story at the heart of this tale? No, not the crazy man bricking himself up in the basement, it’s the lonely little girl who was imprisoned in a tiny, isolated cabin in the woods, left alone *all day* while her parents went to work at a place…

I don’t think most people are angry at the end for Hugh, i think it’s that final montage starting when Luke wakes up and the optimistic FM Radio Acoustic Guitar starts up that’s making us all rageful. That’s when the house is presented as some sort of vessel of souls where you can do things like visit your dead child…

Scene with Steven was clearly the episode writers trying to goose themselves. “Writers are plastic eating machines who treat everyone like food,” etc. Self-indulgent. Nell can wake him up, because ... no reason.

I like the idea that the red room was every room and no room but sort of a dimensional portal of both time and space within Hill House. I wish the show had explored that more.

Worse than the treacle is that the denouement / moral re: the healing power of truthfulness fundamentally clashes with the actual climax, which is all about lies providing comfort. What the fuck were they thinking

I was very on board with this show ... until this episode. Tacking on this treacly, falsely happy ending not only undermines the excellent dread the show has been building so well for 9 episodes, but uncomfortably pushes a pro-murder/suicide message. I think a much stronger ending would have been having the remaining…

The last third of this episode is some of the most overwritten sentimental crap I have ever seen on TV. It’s what I imagine every episode of This Is Us looks like. I loved this show as a family drama and made peace with the horror element being secondary and pretty blandly executed at that (lazily-rendered CG ghosts…