My two cents: I think Scorsese was the wrong person to direct this film, and his role in its making raised expectations and provoked a far greater letdown.

Co-sign that. I’m happy for people that love it, but it crossed over into camp for us. The shouting!, the big speeches!, the self-face-slapping! (even the small moments felt BIG and telegraphic). Everyone turned up to 12 for an hour doesn’t give you anywhere to go. That said, I had problems with the whole season.…

Grogu forgetting that he can use the Force and has before in dire situations to save his father was far more impressive plot armor than Gideon’s Mandalorian Super Commando style suit.

Joelle, I love the hell out of your recaps. This is the kind of in depth writing that used to be in the Golden Age of AV Club. I love this show! I can’t get enough of it and I’m going to miss it so much when it’s over. It is so brilliantly written, acted, and scored. If anyone here has the chance, I can’t recommend…

I was thinking that as well, but the more I thought about it I realized that the cops who were in charge were the ones who knew about the magic. Revealing the existence of ANY magic, even magic used against them, to the general public probably would jeopardize their power. 

This is all good, but the show failed to make the connection you’re making (which they introduced but didn’t follow up on in this circumstance), instead concentrating on “date material” like movie preferences. At no point they hinted that those men were privy to and concerned about her “pariah” status.

Sorry I’m late to this conversation, but we are a week behind.

I definitely had the impression of a lesbian subtext from Young-ja, and further, a trans subtext from Ji-ah, particularly when her friend’s “we’re all human” comment seemed to add a layer of distance between two people finding common ground as outsiders. Much of Ji-ah’s story, to my mind, invokes a stealth-trans…

Revenge rape can never be anything but disgusting, no matter who the target. I wouldn’t want to see that happen to Weinstein or Cosby even though they are far more monstrous than that store manager.

I actually thought Young-ja was all over the place as a character. I don’t know if it was the actress or the writing or both, but at first, it felt to me like she was being passive-aggressively mean to Ji-ah. The way she looked at her with apparent superiority during the autopsy lesson, while she was the center of…

The reviews of the episodes on here are absolutely baffling. This episode is the only one to not receive an A, yet it was probably the best of the bunch save maybe the premiere.

Joelle and I really aren’t on the same page with this series... this episode was the best of the season for me, and yet it’s the only one so far to get less than an A grade. Opinions sure are weird, huh?

“Montrose queasy rape-is-love cliched violence. I’m not gay, but, man, ain’t there more prep that goes in to that than spitting in your hand? Is this extremely graphic anal raping content germane to the plot or just exploitative?”

Sir, this is an Arby’s. 

“I totally called it”

Did you call it eight years ago when she was on Justified? If not, you’re already late to the party.

I don’t see what Farouk did in Chapter 18 as altering Syd’s mind, unlike what the monk did to Division 3 in Chapter 11. Farouk manipulated her feelings without actually psychically tampering with her mind. So even though Syd was manipulated into believing David was the true villain, she was still acting within her…

If you can’t see how altering someone’s brain and then having sex with someone in an altered state is allegorical to sexual assault in a non-psychic world, then you’re not trying hard enough. Sexual assault isn’t the kind of thing that we should approach as an open-ended philosophical discussion. Ignoring Farouk’s…

Jesus gives Peter a chance to make up for it after the Resurrection by having him affirm three times that he loves him. Which this is also referencing. I've come back two years later to mention this thought that has gone through my head.

Humans are not isolated autonomous monads, they are social beings embedded in webs of personal and communal relationships that help define who they are and what their role is in the world—this is the view of human nature from which Rectify proceeds. If you grow up in Georgia, your family has claims on you. There is…

Great episode. However, I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I feel like that weird, dreamlike atmosphere has been kind of missing this season so far, which is a shame. I know Daniel can only be in a constant state of wonder for so long but I miss the flashbacks to the death row and the beautiful shots in grass…