I want to say I’m surprised that the A.V. Club is covering this show now. But I, too, am willing to follow Carrie Coon to the ends of the earth. And she is singlehandedly making this season better than the first.
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But that’s just 1 show out of 7. I adore The Americans. It’s my favorite show of the year. But there are more comedies that I care about from the past 12 months than there are dramas. They even had to squeeze in an 8th and you can still debate a handful that were left out.
You’re not atypical. It’s been very divisive, as a matter of fact. I’ve seen lots of people support the decision. But I do agree about the scene with the wives. It was like watching an army of Ann Coulters fight for a progressive cause. More evidence that the series is guilty of whitewashing the wives for the sake of…
Elisabeth Moss confirmed this in an interview. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/handmaids-tale-season-2-finale-explained-elisabeth-moss-junes-choice-1126885
He did get nominated. For guest actor.
Noah Emmerich and Holly Taylor for The Americans. Alison Brie and Marc Maron in GLOW. Literally anything for Dear White People. The anti-CW bias continues to hurt Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin. The pro-HBO bias continues to carry Westworld, Game of Thrones, and Silicon Valley. Black Mirror: USS Callister rece…
You raise an interesting point: does June think she will get more opportunities? While I hope that is something they explore, it honestly takes me out of the show. As an audience member, it’s obvious she will get more opportunities because it’s a tv show, but in-verse 3 is far more than what any of the other handmaids…
Okay but what you described is the season 3 I wanted, not whatever bullshit they’ve concocted to keep June in former-Massachusetts Gilead.
It’s hard to argue against that but I prefer my escapist tv to be something other than pure wish fulfillment. I wouldn’t be into a #Resist rally against the authoritarians trying to break us. I’d rather watch something like The Good Place, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, GLOW, or anything else that confronts heavy themes with a…
But didn’t she call her Holly in front of Nick? Or am I misremembering?
The single most maddening moment to me was when June told Emily to “Call her Nichole.” Not only does it retroactively eradicate the impact of naming her daughter “Holly” in the eponymous episode. It also means that June is giving tribute to the woman who pinned her down during a visibly non-consenting assault. I…
I liked this season more than many of the commenters here (and critics in the blogosphere) but I don’t know what to make of the renewed third season.
This bums me out more than anything from the show.
Harriet Tubman at the very least made it to the free states before she returned to rescue other slaves, utilizing the resources of the abolitionists.
Posting from the future because THANK YOU somebody said it. Weird how #MeToo did not come up at all in this review (or others I read). I also see commenters here are ragging on Sally’s storyline and character but, perhaps because of #MeToo, it, and she, are my favorite of the episode. I like that this show is…
You also have to consider that the author wrote like 5 reviews in one day because that’s what AV Club is demanding. I’m sure with more time she could have focused a bit more on criticism than simple analysis. LaFergs has a good reputation around these parts.
Moira last season. In one scene she sneaks into a car. In her next, she’s made it across the border.
Nobody is telling you to stop loving Lynch or his work. Personally I don’t have any emotional attachments to him and I simply see a man of great privilege flexing said privilege in an interview. And yeah, it gets under my skin. It makes me think poorly of Lynch. I don’t have much tolerance for people who are willfully …