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I love crime shows but I really have to limit my exposure: they increase my paranoia exponentially. I start seeing a murderer on every corner and a rapist under every rock. I cannot live in that swamp of fear and mistrust those shows submerge me into.

Yes! Blergh! I find I can endure the earthquakes during the daytime. I have the most difficulty trying to get to sleep when, like now, there is the possibility of a nighttime recurrence. I don’t like the idea of being groggily awakened by – or completely unconscious during – a quake.

Ugh I can totally relate. Social media dates are difficult for me because my online photos are... shall we say... flattering? Not Madonna-photoshop or Kardashian facetune-level flattering, but flattering nonetheless. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Post my DMV zombie photo?

Interesting to learn that the author who single-handedly reinvigorated the malevolent, Psycho Ex-Girlfriend fantasy for a whole new generation is “sickened” that the idea is used as a defense in a murder case.

Isn’t watching Investigation Discovery or Forensic Files to find out what not to do “typical murderer behavior”, though? There is probably a file on everyone who watches those shows already. Best to watch crime shows at an undisclosed location like a motel, under an assumed name.

When the inmates are taking over the asylum, it’s time to start mapping your exit plan.

My distress in watching some performances is partially due to up-close-and-personal encounters with Scientology here in Los Angeles.

With their brightly smiling, overconfident, “celebrity” faces, swarms of nameless Scientologists, clad in white shirts, black tie and black pants, commandeer clueless tourists toward the…

Oh OK I see: Seasons 1-3 is the original series, while Hulu’s new Season 4 is picking up the story 10 years later. That’s the bit I wasn’t “getting.” Thanks!

Kiki Smith | Woman on Pyre

Excuse me I see I’m more clueless than I realized. It’s on Hulu, and it’s already on Season 4. Duh.

Question: do you think someone who never watched the original Veronica Mars should watch the new Netflix Veronica Mars – without watching the original? I mean, do I need the backstory – or could I just pick up with the new series?

Had to look that one up on IMDb to know who in hell you were talking about!

Michael Peña is a Scientologist? I didn’t know that. Everything I read about the religion seems to focus entirely on the eradication of memories, ideas, emotions and people that stand between the adherent and “career success” (read: “movie stardom”). The cash flow from which must, of course, be funneled back into…

Totally.

I had difficulty watching The Handmaid’s Tale because I couldn’t reconcile all that feminist hero posturing/rebellion against oppression with what I’ve come to know about Scientology.

I have the most conflicted feelings about the fact that Elisabeth Moss, Juliette Lewis and Laura Prepon are Scientologists. Am I crazy? Or are they?

False Memory Syndrome!

You have a point. I suppose it would make them “sexier” and “more approachable...”

Was that Kim? So many InsTwitTubers are sporting that darkly pneumatic Look these days I wasn’t sure.