Really, really appreciate you chiming in - I get a little nervous about the sort of generalized impressions I’m talking about above.

You have me thinking on cultural nuances to comedy; I’m remembering a study from the recent past describing different countries simply responding very differently to certain nuances and features that we call “comedy”. Like - the French having a deeper appreciation for surrealist absurdism, the Germans liking when…

To pick up your metaphor, imagine if Surya Bonaly kept throwing her backflips into competition despite them being specifically and explicitly banned? It’s still a crowd-pleasing demonstration of power and athleticism (that may or may not supercede her relative gracelessness given the far more subjective scoring…

You have me wondering and thinking that despite the way the judges framed it out for her - Kerri herself thought she was reaching for versatility, without recognizing the crutch that while she’s still being so pretty (and we also don’t have so much of a baseline four episodes in), that’s what reads on camera instead…

This is me not disagreeing with you.

I don’t mind as much if only because celebrity impersonation is such a central pillar of drag as an art form. Even from its inception, Snatch Game is frankly far more weighted towards comedy.

I’d have to go back to parse the specific dialogue on the runway, but I have trouble believing it’s not just the Green Jungle dress from the Versace retail store. Even the most experienced, skilled atelier tailor would have difficulty trimming that gauzy, diaphanous silhouette from Ms. From-the-Block’s curvaceousness…

An intermittent, unreliable source of Random ‘pinions:

This would all be predicated on the assumption that there’s anything resembling sexual interest in Chip Gaines.

1. Welcome to the Comments, Trae. I’m sure you’ll find your over-intellectualized rants will do just fine.

For my money, it’s in the title. “And Just Like That” telegraphs that someone dies unexpectedly. Chekov’s title.

For years after the series conclusion, because of the Happily Ever After endings across the board, I’d always guessed at least one of the partners was just gonna have to die.

The BF has gone into a Succession hole, so natch, I’ve been dragged along.

sounding like some weird rural version of Dynasty with a murder fetish

Forgive the flagrant pedantry:

That is basically it, as popular as Bill is he made some huge problems for Hillary in both 2008 and 2016, like the whole tarmac situation. They should know better than anyone what will give the GOP mob more fuel.

Mickey (Macaulay Culkin) and Tuberculosis Karen’s (Sarah Paulson) conversation mimics so many that I had at that time, quickly shifting between discussing the terrifying danger they are in, the projects they haven’t yet completed, and debating the true villain of the film Jaws.

In many ways - and I am loathe to say this - this is the best-case scenario, in that the same folks that are mounting the most vigorous opposition to government mandate for vaccination or masking or really, most any public health infection control measures, are also the same folks that’ve been championing the rights…

I find the trickiness being that the distinction “die hard” and casual fan was decidedly different in that pre-streaming timeframe. Friends (and one would have to also peg Seinfeld and Frasier as the other tentpoles of the era) really represents the last generation of unifyingly popular products of the multicam sitcom…

Now that I’ve had a chance to throw cash at the Mouse House, it occurs to me that part of the variance I’m talking about is just the differences in what constitutes ‘objectionable’ in different places.