I wish the Deadwood movie was more focused on Bullock than Swearengen

It’s time for Sunday Madness. This week we have:

Those skintight bodysuits give me severe anxiety. If this is the future, I’m glad I’ll be dead before it gets here, because I am NOT wearing that.

As a former theatre school nerd, my heart breaks for them. The business is hard enough as it is but to graduate from a Musical Theatre program when there is no theatre at all, no Broadway, no touring, no cruise ships. Barely even waitering jobs. Brutal.

Last season was so disappointing, and I’m sad to see Sandi go because I thought she and Noel were a delightfully odd couple. I just hope this season is edited with a kinder eye because there were a couple of times last season where I almost stopped watching. It’s not as bad as most reality shows, but each season, they…

It will be interesting as the bakers only had 2 days to practice. I feel like this is going to feel like half bake off half big brother.

i didn’t know how much i needed this news until i read it. i’m legitimately excited for a new season, and really hope they have a sourdough challenge in there somewhere.

They’ve been busy killing people

Original cast is the benchmark of course, but Noel and Sandi were great together. Prue seems nice enough but is overshadowed by Paul. She doesn’t have the gravitas that Mary Berry had that kept Hollywood in check.  

Would be entertaining to have the contestants bake in COVID conditions . . . i.e.  Bake a loaf of bread with no commercial yeast and only 1 cup of wheat flour.  Contestants have access to alternative flours.  

Bring back Mel and Sue and then we’ll talk.

I made a similar comment above about the show portraying a spectrum of consent and I’ll add to those thoughts here. I don’t think this show is about whether black dude is “in on it.” Maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t. I think there’s a far broader (and more sinister point) to be made here: black dude views the event in…

Someone recently pointed out me that in the same scene where young Bella and her friends are talking about helping the boy accused of rape, there’s another Black girl in the background getting beat up who they are completely ignoring—which I totally missed the first time I watched it. So obviously the show has been…

Oh, no, he was clearly in on it. There’s a reason the camera is focused on the Black accomplice and not the primary rapist: the fact that a Black man helped a white man rape her adds a whole new level of trauma and betrayal, shattering the sense of racial solidarity that has been so central to Bella’s friendships and…

Remember when 12 shows was considered a really really short season?

Wow, Kwame continues to break my heart. I really hope he starts getting the support he needs!

I 100% believe that Theo has been assaulted or groomed at some point in her life, just not the instance we saw, if that makes sense.  There’s definitely some major shit going on with Young Theo.

The way she has the absolute same monologue over several meetings, performed the same way, including the same joke with pause for laugh, is very very creepy.

I think Coel’s point about Theo and her mom was less about liars and more about what makes person lie about something like that. In Theo’s case it’s because she was literally brought up to believe that she was supposed to do that in order to get back at someone (and mix that in with her guilt about what she said in…

accurate, I guess it’s easy to view this in todays context. I really don’t think this was a thoughtful episode the more I sit with it, I actually think it tries to establish Bella as more the imperfect victim by exploring her own complicity in a very complicated sexual assault. I commented on the race issue, but I…