There were references a plenty in this episode but to me, the most analogous “homage” was to the movie CHAPPiE. Which is bad. That’s bad. There is only room for one CHAPPiE in this world, or any world.

This season was rough for me. I was into the first couple of episodes and then felt mostly bored and frustrated. And then this one came along! I laughed out loud several times, the junkyard scene got an audible “oh shit!” from me. I thought, well, this is about the halfway mark, things are gonna be aaaallllll…

I think Joyce not having the attention span to keep track of both of her children is not a one-time writing goof but the social norm in Hawkins. None of the parents in this town can be bothered to remember or consider any children who are not directly in their line of sight. Let’s just assume any we don’t see are at…

That scene in Stranger Things mostly reminded me how stressful it was to have a small crowd of people screaming at you while you failed.

Whoever did the casting for this show should be showered with riches, because this show would be nothing without those kids. It can be slick, but I mostly find it lumbering and dumb. But the kids performances transcend the material, and the actual material resonates most when it’s focused on the details and…

Eh. It was funnier when he was disproportionately enthusiastic. Having now critiqued a 15 second commercial on the internet, my sad mundane purpose in life is also complete.

You seem to be asking from an honest place, Jordo, so I will try to explain. This is going to be very long, fair warning. I don’t know for sure of course, but I think what she meant by “not overtly sexual” was “didn’t forcibly penetrate.”

The reason why women don’t talk about it is because it would literally be all we would fucking talk about. If we reported every transgression, stopped every meeting to call out some off-handed degrading comment, shouted every time someone laid their hands on us a little too pointedly on the bus or subway (but did they…

This was a perfect response. In the whole Me Too wave yesterday, I thought the outpouring of shock and awe from many men on my Facebook was so disingenuous. If you’re counting cat calling and shit like that, just about every women in existence can say Me Too, and everyone’s all “I had no idea? How can I help?” You…

The second season theme, where they hold the camera on her deranged smile a beat too long, made me laugh EVERY. TIME. I would consciously attempt not to laugh, but she would always hold my gaze just long enough to break me.

I’m just here to say I was so happy to have this show pop up on my DVR and so thrilled to be greeted with the immediate lunacy of Archie driving his own gunshot father to the hospital like he is Mr. White after a bank heist gone wrong. Because the ambulance didn’t show? And then fucking Pops casually mopping up blood…

I think Hamill’s laugh is now The Laugh. When I saw the Dark Knight trailer for the first time, and heard Heath Ledger nail *that* laugh, I knew all would be well. Ledger’s performance is certainly not a copy cat, but some things you just don’t fuck with.

I’ll concede that there were dirt poor Confederate soldiers that did not have the privilege of choice when it came to the Civil War if the hypothetical racist relatives concede that there are presently dirt poor people of color in prison who did not have the privilege of choice when it came to their mental health or…

OK, fine. I will concede that apparently “you had to be there” for Cowboy Bebop. I tried to get my friends into it, who while not into anime, share my other pop culture tastes. And they responded with a polite shrug.

The current controversies around the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest have been heartbreaking for me. I’m an Austin resident and I really truly admired the Drafthouse and the way they’ve done business. They are always pushing for new innovations to make the filmgoing experience fun and accessible, and if they try…

I agree. Those complaining that Rick was too God-like this season...Beth’s freakout WAS his comeuppance. I think he was telling the truth, that she wasn’t a clone, because I don’t think he would have given the clone the memory of that conversation. Unless that is a limitation of his abilities, in which case, it works…

I think it was the magic space weed that solved the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, not Rick’s intelligence. I took it as a very elaborate stoner joke.

What was frustrating/realistic about that breakup was that PC was completely wrong but still ended up being right. She had never given Ralph the opportunity to be there for her when she was down. That was completely unfair. But by just accepting that and walking away, however despondently, he proved her right.

The main points of feminism at its core is that women’s contributions should be valued as much as men’s. Not that women are the same as men, or that we have to do the same things in the same way. Just that we are allowed to be ugly or pretty, skinny or fat, nurturing or ambitious, intelligent or strong, or likely some…

The thing that stuck out most to me in Rick’s monologue there was when Beth protested that she couldn’t leave her family, and Rick replied, “Then stay and luxuriate in a life you can finally know you’ve chosen.” I thought that was such a beautiful turn of phrase. It’s so easy to feel trapped by circumstance in life,…