It was one of the most underwhelming teenage party episodes of any teen drama of the past decade—so you didn't miss much either way

At first I thought that was just Betty being oh so brainy (if you've read any of the books or seen the more faithful films, the Three Musketeers become Four pretty quickly when d'Artagnen joins the three), but that's kinda obscure, and you may be right.

I say—no… Otherwise why bother showing them mostly clothed in separate beds?

Meh—I thought it should have got more of a reaction—no one really seemed to care (except Chuck but… meh).

I loved that moment—but the truth game was damn bizarre. The kids barely seemed drunk—I don't buy for a moment that they'd all be into some weird game where you just blurt out whatever secret you know.

I was let down. Partly because I LOVE party episodes on soapy dramas (someone mentioned the OC and I remember one—though it may have been an "adult" party, being particularly good in season one before I gave up on the show—I believe it was one of the episodes Marti Noxon from Buffy scripted before she quickly left). …

Did they hook up? Or was waking up in separate beds meant to show that it didn't go all the way?

" Betty is just as messed up as Jughead, though neither one of them is
“messed up” at all. Jughead is awkward and feels like he doesn’t fit in,
but that’s how a lot of teenagers feel. Same goes for Betty’s darkness
inside. They’re actually more normal than anyone would care to admit and
it’s wonderful that they found…

That's true—though I thought one reason the book remains so resonant long after you've finished it is that they don't go the easy way out and *show* you that, or even really explain how it happened. If that makes sense?

The behind the scenes stuff about that movie—starting from the initial Harol Pinter work on an adaptation with a different director—are pretty epic.

I guess my immediate thought is an open ended Handmaiden's Tale might just be… way too depressing, even for me—I mean they can think of endlessly worse and worse things to subject the women to, I suppose…

Canadian? *confused*

I think you're alone there ;) The film seems to be pretty loathed. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I did recently read Harold Pinter's actual screenplay which is pretty strong—apparently the film, while giving him credit, ended up using very little of it.

They give the credit: "Three episodes watched for review…"

Well and that he actually pays attention to her, unlike the other soldiers, and is shown to be something of an intellectual—reading, one of her few passions, etc…

I do have it all on my DVR so will give it a chance ;) My worry was the showrunner also created and wrote the Starz ballet series Flesh and Bone which I had such high hopes for, but became only enjoyable in an "Ohmygod" way (Russian prostitution! A murderous, abused, incestuous brother hunting her down! Quirky…

I believe it's done filming, but no release date yet (I assume sometime in the Fall). Sarah Polley did the adaptation, Mary Harron is the director, it's a co-production between the CBC here and Netflix which will air it outside Canada (and has me much more interested than their current Anne of Green Gables…

Yeah, that's pretty frustrating, especially since in the first couple of episodes they seemed to almost go out of their way to make sure people knew Kevin was getting laid.

Yep, pretty much the same thing here (I think I was 12, however…) I have NO idea who they intended that movie to be for.

It was nice to see Vancouver play itself, for once.