Agreed. She is dramatically more unsympathetic each episode, a progression I’m really appreciating.

Maybe that’s the reason, though, and therefore does show her in a good light (i.e., she realized the other role was a better fit, rather than comparing quality of projects). 

I agree about the music montages. I generally had fun, and didn’t even mind those little excursions in theory but had to cut my volume fully in half. Watching it in a movie theater would’ve been excruciating. I understand the very overused technique exists, but I don’t have any clue why.

Yeah, they definitely never showed anything after Noa’s body part removal that led me to believe a body part removal had ever happened. It was really strange. (Seems like it would’ve come up during the dancing and sex.) I could understand in the final act how adrenaline allowed unlikely things to occur, but in general…

That’s what I thought at the time — “does Coke have a version of Crystal Pepsi?” because this was in the 90s. Eventually I figured out they meant Sprite. At least later I knew what they meant when they said “orange Coke,” but that would be weird now that so many Coke fountains have like 35 different flavor options.

My first job when I went to the deep south for college, someone came up to the counter and ordered a “clear Coke” and I was completely dumbfounded. But that was, of course, only the first of hundreds of times.

American Auto definitely had a season finale that upped the ante. It was fine for most of the season, but it felt like a shift. I was glad.

Sadly, not at all.

I guess, I just didn’t read the sketch as something we were meant to take as representative of reality. Maybe I underthought it.

“But today, everyone’s doing their own Delvey act on Instagram, and this feels like filler from a newish cast member whose talents are better used on outside targets. If SNL becomes even more of a blatant vehicle for personal-brand-building, Lorne help us.” I’m not sure what this means. I thought it was just a good…

I’m not really sure why they’re apologizing for it. Just saying it’s pre-taped didn’t even feel necessary.

Was there some drama about Kate McKinnon leaving the Holmes project or something? This seems to imply that we should already know about it.

I agree that the kiss from Rue to Jules was not remotely satisfying. It was apparently just a way to depict her as making a healthy choice at the time to express that she loves & forgives Jules but can’t be with her due to her own shit, but the general reaction seems to think it was some sort of deserved “kiss-off”…

I think the issue is less that a teenage girl would sleep with her friend’s ex, and more than a teenage girl would sleep with that ex and offer to submit to his every whim and control forever. She is not well, and not in a “hormonal teens make bad choices” way

I agree 100%. Ashtray decided to die.

Isn’t she already gone? Did this review materialize and then disappear?

An excellent final review. Thanks for all of them. This is depressing.

Yep. SVU is definitely the wish fulfillment leg of the franchise.. I remember with the mothership often feeling like, “Okay, we’re halfway through the season, is it time for a token ‘satisfying ending’ episode yet?” They were rare.

That second one was the one I was tossing about in my head. I hope so!

Likely that it went through the normal layers of folks who would notice this type of thing with a special note that it was based on some theatrical text and they left it at that. Now it’ll just make my stomach hurt every time I scroll past it on HBO Max.