So uncomfortable.  I was worried that they were going to toe the line of “look how charming he is” prior to last week’s episode (the scrunchie and the stargazing, etc) but then they really brought it home just how creepy and premeditated his acts were.

Right? It was great. They’d gotten me so firmly on her side that I was still shaking my head like, “Damn, girl. You should’ve kept that lawsuit.”, when the show faded out. Then it just fades back in and it’s like, yeah, she’s a monster too. You could hear “NOOOO!!” being screamed from multiple apartments in my…

I’ve never seen a show that needed a second season less. It was so perfectly wrapped up and self contained, anything more would be a let-down.

some sociopathic shit from Jeannette!

Anthology. Totally. That ending was rad. 

Considering the Hollywood norm since almost its inception has been pairing male leads with women in their 20s no matter how old they are, and having women in their 30s and 40s play the mothers of male actors 5-10 years younger, it’s unsurprising how that’s been glorified. I’m also glad to see the trend turned on its…

I’ve really enjoyed Cruel Summer.  Yes, part of it is just fun teen politics, but I thought last week’s episode was a really good example of how grooming works.  Too often on tv even now, young girls are given attention by older men and it’s treated as fun or cute or romantic and not what it is, which is really…

It started out as light fare but turned out to be a little hard to digest. The finale was quite explosive, though!

“basturd”

It’s a very moving story, I’ll give you that.

I got a D.

I bet it finishes #2 in the ratings.

When I was 16 I moved to a new school that didn’t have a German teacher so I had to complete my German School Certificate course by correspondence. It came in the post on cassette tapes (this was the early 1990s) and one lesson they broke off from the German and spent at least 10 minutes - not exaggerating here -…

The set was apparently a real dump.

Some people think it’s funny, well it’s really hot n runny!

God, that caption saved me...

You RUN you SLIDE

Esther is 15, so she’s been in Gilead since she was 8, but even before Gilead you had a growing deeply religious faction that was gaining more and more power. (I would argue that there are many young women who were raised in Duggar-type homes that are pretty close to being raised as Handmaids) It’s like Nick’s first…

Lawrence is the type who is currently looking for an exit strategy to let him save face and legacy. If he had his way, he’d probably consolidate Gilead as-is, get rid of the worst of the zealots, and then roll out reforms (women can read, Handmaiden duty is voluntary or for criminals, de-criminalizing homosexuality).…