Except she’s never shown any indication of being a remotely competent person who could achieve something like that. She is the most ineffectual of all of them, probably even including Connor. Just taking L after L. And she knows it too, which is why she didn’t even bother trying to get an actual promise from Nate and…

On a purely political level? Yeah, I can see how the U.S. may be viewed as borderline third-world by the rest of the planet. American politics fucking suck, and they get worse every year.

I completely disagree.  Shiv is far worse than Tom.  I mean, what a bastard, asking her to marry him because he loves her.  Wanting to have a family.  And calling her out for not only dmeanding an open marriage AFTER they were married but then cheating on him.  Oh and she constantly tells Tom she’s too good for him. …

This take is about as reasonable as you would expect from someone with a Love Quinn avatar

I will take the victory lap on Gojo being fucked but how it came out was super weird. Why constantly bring Ebba around - why not just work that problem to a resolution? If it’s just to show that Matsson is an asshole and just as dumb as the kids than that plays but it just seems like an incredibly dumb way to ruin…

People really understate this, but the right wing smear campaign against Gunn has got to be one of the biggest fuckups in the history of the already momentously stupid “culture wars.”

I mean, yeah, the takeaway is that Shiv and Tom have a toxic relationship where they like hurting each other juuuuust enough. But they have too little selfcontrol so it all ends up messed up.

Shiv can emotionally abuse Tom relentlessly for years but a simple earlobe flick (also provoked by Shiv) is where you draw the line? You lot are so unserious.

Shiv deserved it for how poorly she treats him.

this is a flex 

“And she had Mattson cupped in her hands and best, she knew she was winning. Quite the tightrope walk and never wobbling.”

Eh, Shiv isn’t CEO material, the brothers were right. Phenomenal performance by Snook, but she is on a downward spiral

Part 2 is fantastic but the negative reaction it got sure was childish.

This tracks. Parents are literally all immoral monsters.

The companion podcast had an interesting bit where Druckman said that when they play-tested the original game and surveyed the testers, the non-parents split about 50/50 on whether Joel was the villain in that sequence at the hospital. The parents, though, were all-in with Joel. 

Personally - and I’m not saying people who thinks otherwise are wrong, mainly because it’s impossible to objectively ascribe “right” or “wrong” labels to such situations - I would have made the same choice Joel made, and would sincerely believe I was right, as I believe Joel was. Let me explain this.

Joel really doomed us all.

So the warning of “brief nudity” in the parental guide notes was the decapitated human dead hanging upside down in the shed. Who said irony was dead?

Kids...more detrimental to Arcade Cabs than the apocalypse. 

You’re the only one here who is projecting. Where did I say I hate manipulative women? Literally the entire family is manipulative. That’s my point. It’s learned behavior based on their interactions from their father. The idea that Shiv hasn’t really done anything wrong is pretty absurd. You have to do a lot of mental…