I like that they're (for the moment) following through with the notion that Susannah was just a traitor, and no-one yet knows she was Rose. I suspect there'll be some beautiful fallout when that's revealed.

(On that last note, there's a similar situation in the UK where soaps or practically-soaps like Doctors and Casualty get a lot of criticism because of the quality of the storytelling, but they have a tremendous output - in the case of Doctors, about 200 episodes per year - and are incredibly good at providing for the…

I was in it at school, and while I still have a lot of fondness for the music (especially Bless The Lord and All For The Best) and would take it over Lloyd Webber any day, the story and structure itself is incredibly weak. You can kind of get away with it on stage because of that cobbled together 'Yeah, we just wanted…

Thanks for the link, that's a brill essay.

I'm wary of how I feel in the moment, and my opinion might change in a few years (particularly if the quality drops off in the future), but at this moment I'm inclined to call it my favourite show of all time. I'm not sure there's another show that I find as consistently entertaining and affecting. When the majority…

It's where the show's credibility went.

Well supposedly there's going to be several smaller villains rather than trying to find a new Kilgrave-level antagonist, which might mean the season gets broken up into smaller, tighter arcs. I could see that working for Jessica Jones.

There is a way to properly blend the two: Jane the Virgin is an incredibly serialised show BUT each episode is careful to have its own themes and its own sense of purpose, with more than one element having a full beginning-middle-end arc within a single episode. It feels truly 'episodic', with each episode feeling…

I was hoping he'd break into something from Godspell, like All For The Best (with the Nazi stepping in to sing Judas' line, of course).

Eh, that audience was clearly rigged.

Presumably. But he obviously assumed everyone else would be in hysterics while she sat there fuming at how accurate he was. I swear, he'd be adorable if he wasn't so dangerous.

Pre-written 'Hilary isn't laughing as much as the rest of us' when she was actually the only one there smiling. Donald, you think you're funny, but you're laughable.

Fun super serum dig, but why did it turn that blonde guy into Stretch Armstrong?

Yeah, but when are we getting more Onion News Network?

Exactly. Even if (as someone pointed out) they're portraying Frank as female in this version (which makes no sense given 'Sweet Transvestite') it's a role that is famously a man who just likes to dress up in traditionally female clothes… surely casting a transgender woman as a man dressed as a woman is playing into…

And yet she sings a song about being a transvestite? I don't think they thought this through…

Ocean's Eleven.

I've always found it to be a pretty bad film… but it's bad in interesting ways, with all the right levels of camp. Its main purpose though, for me, is as a primer for the stage show, which is a fantastic experience (but of course you need to be familiar with it beforehand).

It's a pretty uncomfortable piece of casting to me. I think Laverne Cox is a great actress, I love her work in OITNB and I'd love to see her do more things… but aren't they sending a worrying message by casting a transgender woman as a man in drag? I assume Cox herself is fine with it, and I'm in no position to cry…

A very tiny part of me wants Trump to win now to see what a Garrison Presidency is like.