I wondered about that — there’s an A&W in the food court, which is a common thing in Canada where A&W is still a major franchise, but the past couple of decades have not been kind to A&W in the US and most US locations have closed.

Also for people with gender neutral or ambiguous names and/or are nonbinary. My workplace has a Sam, Max, Jamie, and Lenny. Two are she/her, one they/them and one he/him.

The water molecules in the air do freeze at 32/0 this is why you get frost on your windshield or on your skin when its not raining. 

I’m not sure what you mean. Celsius does a perfectly fine job for communicating temperature for weather purposes without decimal points. Like, nobody needs to do that.

You had me at D’Arcy Carden. 

Yeah, people forget Shelob. She’s a girlboss!

At some point, the people started putting more weight on the Bechdel test than it was meant to carry. It’s a brilliant device that underscores a broad truth about how male-centric Hollywood entertainment is - but it’s not a way to judge if a movie’s gender dynamics are good or not. Heck, the LOTR movie above would…

To be fair, I wouldn’t consider Tolkien to be anti-women for his time (especially since his 3 primary female characters are all powerful in their own right).  However Lovecraft’s racism is something unique even to his time period. 

I’m discovering that i’m enjoying your reviews on this series more than the actual series, Gwen! Have a great holiday

I actually really enjoyed last episode, sad it dropped itself again this episode. I’m all for the show leaning into the waspy nature of Charlotte coming to terms with what her waspy privilege means. But this should have been some other random persons storyline in Charlotte’s social circle having the dinner, and…

I mean... it’s been cringe since Sex and the City 2 which was basically Cringe: The Motion Picture

Sad lament for The Expanse: it could never catch a break on these end-of-the-year lists because its seasons largely began in mid-December and ran into February (at its longest). It was always either too early to include, or too old to remember. Don’t know where this final arc will land within the show's run. I think…

Dolly Parton is just amazing

Exactly what made me love Monica Lewinsky. Barbara Walters tried to shame her on TV like that, and Monica stood her ground.

You could also read all of my essay before you say what I think his worst one is! 

It’s been obvious for a while that a lot of this was being made up on the fly. Or does anyone seriously believe the Infinity Gauntlet in the Asgard vault was always supposed to just be a fake? My personal favorite: the director of Thor: The Dark World revealed his intention was 100% that Loki had murdered Odin. But…

Oh FFS

* I know that he is likely to show up in flashbacks in Echo’s own show, but I was very annoyed to see Zach McClarnan — brilliant in Fargo, West World and Reservation Dogs — dead two minutes after he was introduced. His scenes did pack the required emotional punch, but I would have loved for him to have a bigger, more…

Yeah, same, mostly. My child is a bit younger than yours, so we’ll see where that goes.

Cheers for the LAST NIGHT mention. More folks need to see that. (The McKellar one, not the Knightley one).