So subjectively, then, not objectively at all.

She’s pretty hot.

What’s signaling that we’re meant to find Cal better or enlightened? From where I sit he’s just more entertaining now, still a monster.

So Ross was given... lines that are normally what? I was trying to track this but I don’t recall the original text specifically enough to know where exactly the diversions/substitutions were. I just knew he was doing more than Ross really does.

I had the same question about Ross and this is the first review I’ve read, so for all I know it’s discussed elsewhere. Likely a rabbit hole tonight for me. He was... going to kill Fleance? Or no? And killed Lady M? And that bit at the end? I need to retrace that.

On this show, but I was referring to earlier topless scenes she was having to do elsewhere

The camera has lingered on her breasts so much on this show and others that, quite frankly, they’re recognizable. I feel like when you can seriously distinguish one actress’s breasts (and frankly if I recall correctly she was only 18 or 19 when that started to be a thing) that definitively, it’s too much. Now I feel…

It’s honestly hard to fathom that the scripts in their original form have Cassie naked more than she already is.

Also, I don’t actually understand what Cal’s backstory did to explain why he’s the way he is. A lot of people knocked up their 18-year-old girlfriends, it’s hardly an unspeakable trauma. Unless I missed something in the backstory, it didn’t read at all to me as “the great trauma of his youth that explains this…

I thought so too, especially when they went out of their way to make BJ’s dad a stepdad.

She’s like a tween girl acting out her early-adolescent idea of a tough adult woman, it’s amazing

I love her and was rooting for her to get to this point, but now I’m kind of longing for it to get competitive again. I usually get tired of the long-timers before this point, though, so it’s been quite a run. It’s not that I want to see her get knocked out anytime soon, I’d just like to see some closer games.

She has said things in the personal interview section that imply it, but I don’t think she’s overtly said the word? She often talks about her girlfriend, though, so anyone watching without awareness of the gender identity part certainly knows she’s openly queer.

Thankfully he’s not the only queer man. (Or maybe he is because he’s one of the only regular adult characters, but he’s certainly not the only queer male person, I should say)

I would hope! (Well, not so much about slack given for being cute... which is an unfortunate feature of humanity, but slack given for being a kid. They’re definitely allowed to make worse decisions and bounce back, they’re supposed to.)

This was oddly my favorite regular-season episode so far. I agree that we need more time to sit with, well, almost everyone. But the pastiche was great, and finally made me not worry about how literally I was supposed to be taking everything.

She was extremely comfortable doing it to a human, though. I’ll be shocked if it was her first time.

Speaking of “Kiss from a Rose,” I’d still like to register an implausibility complaint that so many people in those woods knew the lyrics perfectly in episode 9. That was one of those songs that a car full of people would be belting out until certain parts of the verses, at which point everyone would just drop out or…

Robin Tunney! Finally someone was able to name the person I kept picturing in my head that looks just like her. Thank you, it was driving me nuts.

That bugged me too, but then immediately afterwards she acted completely underwhelmed? Which was it?