Technically they are British shows because they were made for Britain’s Channel 4.

Why are there copies of the Style section all over the place? Do you... Do you have a dog? A little chow or something?

I get it, but a big part of the appeal of pen and paper RPGs, card games, and board games for me is spending some time completely unplugged. Even if I’m the only one at the table, the rule is the same - phones and computers stay outside the room.

Thanks! That sounds like exactly my jam. There are only two things that prevent SotM from being my favourite game - the fiddly conditions that need to be tracked, and the lack of backstories investing me in these characters. Maybe that can be reduced to one thing.

Shouts out to some non-podcast shows that are available as podcasts - In Our Time remains a great dive into various subjects with delightfully learned and occasionally awkward experts, and The Rachel Maddow Show remains highly listenable the next day in audio-only, despite the occasional missed chart.

“The Letters Page(because I am a huge Sentinels of the Multiverse fan)“

Sure, but for a seven or eight hour exploration centered around one person to be as good throughout as any TAL fifteen minute “Part One” is a monumental achievement. This American Life is consistently near the top of audio journalism, and Invisibilia, Serial, and S-Town show every sign of turning the skills learned at…

She’s going to feel guilty about the deaths of her mother and her father and her brother and Reva and Hope for the rest of her life, and explaining is not going to help.

GLOW managed to run a perfectly paced Netflix show. Five hours total, all killer no filler.

I got “Inhuman Growth Hormone” as soon as those appeared on JJ, and I immediately decided that that would be an Easter Egg and never spelled out, and IGH would be one of those TLAs that doesn’t mean anything.

Also, the early years of Peter Parker’s Ultimate Spider-Man were gold, including the action (and absolutely the non-action, like Rhino and the first fight with Kraven).

Simpson does have a great arc, even if it doesn’t entirely work if you try to follow it from his own perspective. Malcolm also gets an incredibly powerful arc, and between Malcolm, Simpson, and Luke - and, yes, Kilgrave - this is actually one of the best shows about masculinity and the wide range of what it can mean…

One thing I mentioned in the discussions we had in here (and I recommend the JJ reviews to everyone, Siede is in great form and the Disqus-era comments are still there) was the significance of Jones’ power, despite the fact that it’s inconsistent and she doesn’t really use it much. Men cannot physically intimidate…

I’m calling that canon.

That’s the thing about this show, for all the flaws it, it did exactly what myth is meant to do - it gave me a new vocabulary in my head for some shit that was already there. Watching it the second time, nothing about Hogarth or Simpson or the slow plot bothered me at all because every scene is about building those…

...might be time to get back in, then.

“Just asking a question”

If they’re not offering more than the cost of replacements, they’re not perverts, they’re just that cheap.

Here’s the thing - black supremacy is just as terrible as white supremacy, except for one tiny but important detail: Black supremacy doesn’t exist.

The station management may not fear humanity, but if they try that, they will learn to.