I guess we won’t get any of Pray Tell in rehab after all, that’s a shame. But this was good. I agree about Vernon, though, that was too overwritten and corny and rushed. This show doesn’t do a lot of subtext, so I don’t expect super slow-burn subtlety but this was too much even for this world. I honestly kept…

I appreciated that little “oh this show is set in the 80s and 90s so we’ll give you 80s and 90s!” gift

I feel like traffic around here is general light since they’ve stopped covering very many shows (and the ones they do are very genre-specific, not really sharing a demographic with something like Pose). I could be wrong. It could also just be lack of viewers for the show in general, I feel like so few people have…

Oh for sure, but I was think more along the lines that they’d let the incident with Moira play out too long. But of course they had to ignore that for the rest of it to happen at all.

That was seriously great. I’d been enjoying this show more for the dark humor than the thriller aspects, but damn did those deliver tonight. Literally sat up in my seat for those last 10 minutes. (Also, how could they???)

Same here (saw the headline before the episode, was delighted by said episode)

Frankly I find this show hilarious. Friends keep asking if I’ve seen it, couched with an apologetic “it is really depressing but...” and I don’t know what they even mean. Obviously the murdered and missing girls aren’t funny, but the day-to-day town stuff is pretty damn clever and fun.

I’m good with an arc, I’m a sucker for a mean, prickly character’s soft side gradually coming out and all that, but then don’t give us a 16-year-long backstory where she’s loving and generous the whole time. It was a perfect opportunity to write in some sort of explanation of “the bad years” or something, but they…

I think Jackson has improved, but I also thought her shortcomings as an actress were particularly highlighted by having to act opposite the phenomenal Noma Dumezweni.

I feel like it’s too much of a stretch. Elektra was pretty monstrous and cruel in the first season to a ton of people, this wasn’t simply some special strategy of cutting the apron strings.

And wasn’t there some hubbub that came out through the whole Janet Mock outburst from the premiere that partway through the season they brought more of “the girls” into the writers’ room because the first couple episodes had been written only by the men and weren’t as strong? I can’t remember the exact source but…

It was “I drink because I hate myself and I hate myself because I drink,” which is a pretty oft-repeated recovery phrase

There were definitely some very sloppy plot points in this premiere, they got us to the big, great setpieces but they were all so easily fixed by just throwing in one explanation or rearranging two small beats or something, it was frustrating.

I did think the cop’s line about how “you probably have that disease” or whatever it was? Was dated, though. In 1994, AIDS was absolutely a household word, people weren’t being coy about it anymore.

Richards just felt like Guy Smiley to me, too much like a traditional game show host rather than this specific game show. Do not want.

Agreed - one of the other guest hosts said they were surprised to learn that they get the judges’ call on the answer via the podium digitally and it’s really hard to then vocalize the confirmation (or not) smoothly, so I guess that’s tripping him up more than most (though I noticed that from Rodgers as well, though he…

That’s who that is!!

Yes, I felt like I missed a scene. They just... gave Cassie back and that was that? Huh?

And curly hair and braces? How can anyone bounce back from that??

Yes, that was Scott Scanlon.