I loved this season so much. I have a lot of recaps to catch up on (which I'm sure will educate me more about all of the references I missed), and the AV Club is NUTS if they don't give Fergs some new assignments while waiting for Season 2 of GLOW. I know new media is quickly collapsing but she's fantastic, come on.

Keith whisper yelling "YOU guys are doing gREAT" in the demo match might be my favorite gag in the whole season

Actually, I think an important difference is that that storyline was about a victim realizing that assaulting her rapist had literally no bearing on how she felt about the situation, and having to come to terms with her own trauma, not seek retributive justice. It was significantly more nuanced that basically anything…

I will say, this is usually the type of logical detail I can ignore (the show did make a point to show that they to the chance to have sex on their wedding day) but the fourth season had to take place over at least a couple of months so it's pretty weird that she wouldn't use missing several periods as evidence that…

I thought the way these women went from dealing with casual sexual abuse in a… mostly realistic way to openly and delightedly sexually abusing the guards themselves was pretty disrespectful to all sufferers of abuse and kind of negated a lot of the fantastic work the show did to dramatize the effects of harassment.…

I'm not saying it makes the theme in this episode any less fraught, but there have been challenges in the past that have used other cultural stereotypes, like the banjee category in the Season 6 ball, or the telenovela/Latin themed runway in Season 5. The main difference, in my eyes, is that the Village People costume…

Wow I don't know why I read these spoilers but I'm very glad I have. I've been a little perturbed about why Shadow is being so insistently forced into this story that seemingly has nothing to do with him, and while I get that he's meant to be stoic, it's felt a bit like there's a wall between what's interesting about…

I think it's less that the society seems non-racist and more that if Gilead is made up of Americans with American cultural memories that it seems odd that there's no clear way that preexisting racism affects this new social order. For example — Black and Latino mothers routinely receive worse maternity care and have…

In my memory that's just about when the tide officially turned from it away from primarily college age & younger people. Basically: that's around the time everyone's mom joined

I think the series neglected one of the major shifts in Hollywood in the 70s and 80s: talent was ruled more important than looks, at least in terms of what older stars were venerated. Ultimately, Bette's bellyaching about older people being given "two seconds" on screen is absolutely *not true* — about her. Joan was…

Certainly nothing in Feud approached the levels of AHS or Glee, but I think at various points the series went back and forth between the two poles of "all along these two would have been pals, if not for nefarious forces acting on them" and "Hollywood was a cutthroat game that these stars loved playing." Not that both…

Maybe I just don't know enough about their marriage, but other than "the paparazzi is bad" I have no idea what themes could possibly anchor that season. I suppose there's always "British royals have very arcane and bizarre rules and customs" but told by Americans for a primarily American audience, I don't know how…

I'll say this, he was deeply involved in OJ in certain ways. He managed to package it and convince FX to jump in. He personally reached out to many of the actors in order to gather that incredible cast, and has a surprising eye for when to reach for a character actor vs. a star. He directed some of the best episodes…

Joan must have thrown a lot of vases over the editors adding that "co-" before "star"

Gia absolutely knows adjectives! Case in point:
-messy
-cheap
-manly

Thank uuuuuuuu maybe it's just because I've heard "Holding Out for a Hero" too many times but on EVERY CLOSEUP she was flubbing lines

I swear, the rights to that song must have just gone on sale recently because it's been all over TV lately

There wasn't anything unlikeable about her, but it's painful to watch someone realize they're out of their depth — I felt really bad that in her final moments on the show, she seemed terrified that people would drag her for being eliminated first. If anything, a little cheeky, unearned confidence would have helped her…

Lol WHAT no I don't think she should only have a white baby. I'm just saying this season is all about Hannah coming to terms with how hard raising a kid will be. They casted a POC as Hannah's baby daddy but then basically forgot that would impact the storyline. That's the beginning and end of my criticism

If Hannah was a real person, OF COURSE I would not be judging her for prioritizing a million, billion other things before thinking about this. And I'm not even judging Hannah the character — she's the kind of person who would totally be thinking about cereal instead, I get that. My only issue is with the writing, and…