He had tried to kill her several times. He kidnapped her sister. He was trying to use her nephews to prolong his life.

Who cares? He's a minor character that hasn't been seen for almost three seasons. The fact that he once contributed a sperm to create Kira doesn't mean he has to have his own arc. The focus is on the sisters. That's the point.

I guess her intention was to console her clearly distraught sister than to show off how cool and liberated she is…

Still no dedicated review of Queen Sugar on AV Club. Shame.

The Bilquis love-sacrifice scene is *both* excellently realized and somewhat exploitative. The spectacular and beautiful rendering does not rule out the obvious succubus/Lilith-style male mythological anxiety towards female sexuality (compare the "vagina dentata"). The long history of fetishization and demonization of…

No, it's not. It cannibalises some of the plot points, but it doesn't pick up where the film left off; hence, not a sequel.

I hope the rationale for not providing a weekly review of this series is not the supposedly "naturalistic" treatment and stripped-down plot. I can't tell if this omission is down to an inability to get beyond "form/content" analysis or a lack of desire to deal with this "rare species".

Hear, hear!

"[H]ere’s the disclaimer that Louis CK has several unsavory allegations hanging over him, too. (The second very talented host to have that going on this season.) Unaddressed on the show, I figure it has to be mentioned here."

I, too, had a facepalm moment when Danny told the doctor about K'un L'un and the alternate dimension. But on reflection I thought: who wouldn't be a little fuzzy on New York psych committal procedures after being in a mystical warrior cult since the age of ten?

America: stop flushing meds down the sink/toilet. You know where water comes from, right?

The Bannon/Death costume was a good choice, but whoever was inside sold it short by acting all jokey instead of sinister. The bit has teeth, but they have to bite down hard.

OK, let's forgo "suffering" and opt for "neglected", "taken for granted" and "unfulfilled".

"The Hearst rape case was a little bit closer for Veronica, but even that relied on getting one crucial piece of evidence— the name of the girl who had likely been drugged—and following up on that to lead to a physically tense climax."

Nasty

"The end justifies the means" is a necessary but not sufficient description of utilitarianism. Basically, it just suggests some type of consequentialism. But the correct way to describe an agent's putting their own interests before everyone else's is "selfishness".

For what it's worth, Rule Utilitarianism is not a prescriptive doctrine telling us to follow rules to promote the greatest good. It is a descriptive attempt to jerry-rig Utilitarianism so that the account it gives of human morality produces intuitively compelling results. (It's a theoretical model, not a practical…

What a bizarre criticism. None of the characters are breaking out in grins and giggles. Why single her out?

It was a meth factory.

I'd argue that not knowing the truth and having to balance conflicting testimonies in order to get an approximate idea of the truth is the most fundamental part of "real life".