“protest is the new brunch”

Sometimes when I see ridiculous commercials, I try to imagine what that pitch meeting must have been like, and I feel like the phrase “protest is the new brunch” was uttered in this one.

blonde kendall jenner looks like a pleasant morph of cara delevingne and vanessa hudgens.

Ugh. You captured exactly the right shades of nauseated disgust here.

And I hate it when people need to make this correction. You understood the point being made. Let people fucking talk how they talk.  

Yeah, domestic violence, working mom guilt, stay at home mom guilt, all mommy guilt, manufactured “mommy wars,” community gossip, a healthy married sex life, divorce, adultery, raising kids, worrying about kids—oh, and don’t forget rape. All strictly of interest to the above-40 set.

“Issues important to women their age”

I don’t think your takeaway about Max is right. Celeste even says with despair that some little boys don’t grow out of it. We know she directly means Perry, but she can also be realizing she has to take ownership of the children she is creating and that denial isn’t working any more. When she goes home she tells Max…

His fake singing voice was comically mismatched with his speaking voice, in my extremely humble opinion

I’ve been thinking a lot about this, also! Celeste was so adamant at *every* therapy appointment that Perry would NEVER hurt the kids, I don’t think it ever crossed her mind that an abusive household does more than just physical damage. I also think that’s what truly, finally motivated her enough to leave him.

Celeste’s face when Jane says that she’d considered the possibility that violence was part of Ziggy’s DNA because of his father - the near-instant connection of dots and quiet devastation. Nicole Kidman is a way better actress than I’ve previously given her credit for.

I like every single one of these actresses even more after this show.

LOL @ “cereal giving”. He was a complete and total mess. And that captures how absurd his rants really were.

Man, I really got into this show. More than I would’ve thought possible when I first saw the previews for it. Some thoughts and Q’s:

I loved how the final scene was just the women together on the beach. We don’t know what happened with their romantic relationships, but it almost doesn’t matter because their bond is the more meaningful one.

That ending was masterful and poignant and conveyed so much with zero dialogue. When the women left the men behind and stopped allowing the men to dictate how they should feel, all the competitive nastiness evaporated and they realized they were all on the same side.

My favorite part of the series is when Madeline (Reese’s character) pukes all over the table at the dinner hosted by her ex-husband and his new wife after hearing the news that their daughter planned to auction her virginity for charity. It.was.awesome.