I liked it a lot! Mia Goth was tremendous. And I don’t think I would’ve liked X as much had I not seen Pearl first.

There are also still a lot of wonderful extras on disc that are pretty hard to find on streaming.

Full agreement on both of these. (And interestingly enough, both Garfield and Byrne were actors I never found compelling before and they both turned me around completely with these performances)

Hsu was phenomenal.

Daphne is the only possible answer

Spike Lee?

There’s a good bit of content here that’s specifically about sexuality & challenges faced because of it, particularly for his late partner. Especially for his late partner. It’s also ultimately the reason he’s estranged from his daughter. And very relevant to the connection with the young man who’s trying to save his…

All right thank you, I’m watchin’ Pearl first! (Right now in fact)

Should one watch Pearl or X first, if one intends to watch both?

It’s not the driving force but it definitely speaks on that — many of the victims are specifically reluctant to talk because of having spoken out previously and shut down quickly by the same news org (and obviously many others).

I’d imagine they’re not counting it as a 21st century show, since over half of its seasons aired in the 20th

Obviously it was only an accident to leave off Days of Our Lives starring Jackée Harry, John Aniston, and (sometimes) Marla Gibbs.

Halloween 3 was one of the first horror movies I ever saw as a little kid and it scared the living crap out of me and haunted me for years, as first-horror-movies-as-a-kid are wont to do, so it has a special place in my heart for that. But watching it now... it’s certainly silly fun? Also “if you watch this video you…

I thought it had a solid balance of decent men — Matt, Donal, Gabriel, Roger, and Ben all seemed pretty non-vile. (Sure, Matt was up to some shenanigans and Ben was sleeping with a married woman, but obviously the sisters themselves are hardly squeaky clean on those exact things)

It’s really my favorite show of 2022 so far.

He’s so utterly harmless-clownish, or is as we’d seen him thus far, so I was really having trouble envisioning him pulling off the other version. I honestly couldn’t picture what that moment would actually be like, but the second it started it all of a sudden made perfect sense. He was so good.

I agree. I understand the impulse to want a searing deconstruction of and satiric commentary on harmful and/or stupid sitcom tropes, but I don’t think that’s what they were peddling here, I think it functioned in a much simpler way and once I locked into that I stopped yearning for the other thing, and appreciated how…

Me too, but I’m glad they didn’t follow that expected route, though!

I don’t think they need to justify it, though. I think the crux of this whole thing was us rooting for Allison not to do the thing she was hoping to do.

Yes, I don’t approve of what Allison was trying to do, but I didn’t feel too awful for Tammy (as a fictional human only) because confessing such an egregious thing to someone you’re actively antagonizing is pretty damn sloppy.