Anyone else catch that old style Kirk Maneuver Burnham laid on Airiam in the middle of the fight? Straight up fall-on-your-ass-double-jump-kick.

Oh please. Both Disco and Orville are guilty of making episodes where I have to switch my brain off. Neither are endearing examples of Trek’s appeal.

Swearing?

Awesome!

It seems the more he discloses about himself, the easier it is to dislike him.

In another universe, Chris Pratt is a youth pastor somewhere in eastern Washington that all the girls in youth group have deeply repressed feelings about.

I talked to several developmental psychologists for this story--all agreed that these sorts of “fantasy movies” are a dangerous barrier to maturity. Perhaps you should heed their warning. 

Yeah, it could have been as good as The Lovely Bones, or The Hobbit trilogy.

As much as I appreciate the character work this season, I feel like this year doesn’t really measure up to most of the previous seasons. Maybe it’s just a personal disconnect, but I feel the show is missing the wit, and sense of scale it had before. A lot of episodes this year have all felt very similar in tone.
I…

This whole article was going really well (I felt very much the same way) and then the last paragraph showed a completely inaccurate declaration of what previous Doctors in the new era have been like. It reminds me that most reviews are written by people whom one can’t quite believe have been actually watching Doctor…

If by “the basic quality of the episodes”, you mean “this season has been very mediocre, heavy-handed and flat when written by Chibnall, and it’s barely starting to pick up now that it’s nearly over, and that Whitaker’s Doc is finally starting to come into her own” then yeah, we’re all in agreement.

NYC is 1/2 the population of the state. God forbid she not cater to uncle billy bob table-smasher in a fucking Buffalo suburb. 

When I opened my design studio I quickly realized that every strange weird idiot out there thinks he or she should make a children’s book.

It’s also insanely ahistorical to the point that why bother? The only language that they can plausibly put this movie in is PIE, which isn’t even a language so much as a collection of sounds that we have reconstructed to be the roots of a bunch of other words.

Is there any better Star Trek casual wear than McCoy’s getup in Search for Spock? 

Never forget that Andrew Sullivan is literally a white supremacist; he has pushed the incredibly maligned Bell Curve theories of Charles Murray for decades, and has written numerous columns claiming that rigorous science requires people to question whether or not black people are genetically predisposed to having…

Agree with everything you said. All the trappings of Gilead are normalized back home, but seeing them out of context was a visual shock to me as a viewer. You can see on Serena’s face in that first car ride how delighted she is to see that it’s all still there, the world of street vendors and cell phones and women…

I think the moment Serena decided she wasn’t going to accept any offers of help was when the woman guide asked her about knitting and she lied and said she enjoyed it, just two episodes ago she was telling June she hated knitting and she clearly meant it. Serena had no reason to pretend to love knitting with that…

oooooooh boy. Ok. Here goes.

This episode was so good. I cried multiple times. Watching Serena marvel longingly at everything she threw away was good schadenfreude. She was rightfully humiliated at every turn—the wordless schedule, the exchange she had with the mother and daughter at the elevator, being confronted with the husband of her handmaid…