That was my immediate thought as well, that it was something closer to a show of support rather than a punishment.

The spacelab sketch and “I think she stabbed me”, along with Heidi Gardner’s very existence, were the best parts of this show.

Yeah, while I found the segment pretty funny and Crenshaw did admittedly come off as very likable, this is a guy who is against abortion, universal healthcare, gun control, etc. It felt like an attempt to humanize someone who supports reprehensible and dangerous policies and it made me super uncomfortable.

If the spinoff “Joey” had been called “Friend” it might have lasted longer.

I’m very pro Baskin Johns, as Heidi Gardner can do no wrong.

How can a single person be described as “diverse”?

I’m not surprised the Queen has her own diet, but mandating it on guests seems like poor etiquette.

If you go to someone’s house for dinner, it’s poor etiquette to *not* eat what has been served.

at age 92 is exactly when I would start eating whatever the fuck I wanted

If we don’t make it, tell my wife “hello”.

I find this article available.

Kinda seems like you’re the one trying to initiate a pity party, so let me be the first to offer my condolences to the sex who experiences, and perpetrates, the majority of violence in our society.

Handmaid’s is a victim of it’s incredible first season, it’s why we are all here, the first season was truly spectacular. All great show get picked a part. Happens... This episode was very good, but quite honestly I think many fans of the show are tired of being strung a long.

I thought the same, but it seems like Eden wants nothing more than to please Nick, so snitching on him seems kind of unlikely. Unless she gets fed up with his coldness (which is why that Nick needs to get with the program and feign some interest in her).

Aunt Lydia’s “It wasn’t my fault” ... there was no reason to add that. Perhaps the death of the godchild at four days was not her fault, but I’m convinced that she thinks it was, and her zealotry is one way she atones for it. Ann Down swung so smoothly between hostility over the perceived “insolence” to understanding…

Great list, but I feel like it needs one of her real envelope-pushing controversial songs. Maybe swap Don't Tell Me or Joan of Arc out for Like a Prayer or Justify My Love (both of which received plenty of hate at the time from the "moral majority").

Great piece. The only song I would've put in, I think, is "Dear Jessie," from the Like a Prayer album, just to provide an example of Madonna's sweet side. "Cherish" does that relatively well, too, but "Dear Jessie" is just one of those songs that reminds me that there's a lot more to Madonna than dance-floor fillers…

Yeah, when there's multiple hours of classic songs in your repertoire, not to mention the album-cut jewels, this "power hour" thing becomes quite the exercise.

I'd have a different playlist, but I mainly don't get why people like "Hung Up" so much. "Get Together" is on the same album and it's sexy Stuart Price. And I'd avoid her ballads because they draw attention to her lyrics which are not her strong suit (hmm…maybe "I'll Remember")

True Blue is a kitsch classic that deserves a mention.