I doubt this was intentional, but watching that scene I flashed back to Camp, in which the cute guy who's never done theater before gets a big role by singing and playing a song on acoustic guitar and not even being very good. I fucking hate that movie so for me I was overjoyed with the fact that I can read this scene…

I can promise that this clothing choice is 100% realistic and based in truth.

It was still going on among teenage preps in the 2000s. I suspect there are still rich kids on the East Coast doing it, I'm just not stuck being around them anymore.

"Socialist!"

Government-enforced, society-wide debt forgiveness, basically.

Of course these things are deliberate (though I dunno about the bed; most people have at least light-colored bed linens). In a movie or TV show, there is someone responsible for all of these choices, and most of them work in those departments because those dimensions of visual media are important to them, somehow. For…

I know the show is ambiguous about a lot of things, but oh my god, please everyone, stop making this so much harder than it has to be. The purpose of storytelling is not to lie. It is to tell the truth, whether in realistic or unrealistic terms. Conspiracy theories are almost never going to unlock a secret for you.…

That would be a terrible decision on her part. In her role as a therapist and just as a person, that monologue should tell her that she absolutely has to dissociate from Elliot.

I generally agree, and yet I still feel unhappy about Tyrell's murder this episode. I think if and when we find out more about exactly what he was thinking and how his wife feels about it I may be good with it, but until then I'm in a weird place of agreeing with everything you said and still feeling like…please stop…

I recall them being pretty upset until Elliot calmed them down/distracted them. They were at the very least unnerved that Elliot had contact with Tyrell. Which makes it hard to believe they're the same person.

I wouldn't quite say that. The show has clearly made an effort to communicate to us that Elliot is an unreliable narrator and that Mr Robot is a character whose mooring in reality—whether in the literal reality of the story or in the social reality of its characters' society—is unstable. It is probably doing both of…

Oh, I thought they were perfect together until this episode. If it turns out they were planning the murder the whole time, then I will still think so—but if it was a crime of passion on his part that fucks up their game, he will have let her down enormously. All I was getting at was that she seems very controlled and…

Upvoted for accurate use of Jubilee.

I don't really watch a lot of porn so I can't speak to that, but in terms of the way a lot of slash fandom operates (which I'm much more familiar with), I think it's basically this: when media products work to produce meaningful relationships that involve emotional intimacy, they are usually between men. I think many…

And underlining that what you like in porn doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what you like in real life!

Romero.

When it comes to narrative art, in my experience, if something makes the whole thing needlessly complicated, it probably does not obtain. People who work on movies and TV work very hard to tell a particular story, and while sometimes that involves misdirection, rarely does it mean literally passing off one story as…

They were at the other guy's place for sure. The bedroom where they have sex and the Wellicks' bedroom are completely different.

What? Medically, drugs you do cause you need them are in no way abuse. If they were, nobody would prescribe anything. I mean, I had some anti-anxiety pills that if you take enough of them will definitely get you high, but I was given them because I needed them, and the whole point was to take them in order to…

Tyrell never commented on Elliot's name. It was Vera.