Who wrote that pearl-clutching article about Miranda Lambert, my mom? Waiting to read a similar article about Toby “I Love This Bar” Keith.....(looks at watch).

If being a cannibal is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m a cannibal.

I will paraphrase Billy Madison when I say “I got a feeling your whole family is going down.”

“I don’t know what it means to be complicit”

You know, most of the Celeste/ Perry sex didn’t look like “sex” to me and it concerned me how people looked at it that way. There was a scene early in the series...In the walk-in closet, they are arguing, he is pinning her & then she reaches for him...He fucks her forcefully & the literal moment he is done she pushes…

Yeah, domestic violence, working mom guilt, stay at home mom guilt, all mommy guilt, manufactured “mommy wars,” community gossip, a healthy married sex life, divorce, adultery, raising kids, worrying about kids—oh, and don’t forget rape. All strictly of interest to the above-40 set.

wasn’t there an episode about spontaneous combustion once? It was that or one of the other similar shows that my mom and I watched when I was a kid... anyway it has always haunted me.

“Issues important to women their age”

I’m old enough to remember the 80s and I’m still not sure why we didn’t notice how ridiculous the fashionable looked.

I’ve watched all three Robert Stack seasons that are currently available and watching it as an adult, it’s *a lot* more depressing than I remembered. There are so many stories about kids who survived the Holocaust who are looking for American soldiers that were kind to them and children who were separated from their…

Sometimes I wonder what the everloving FUCK my parents were thinking letting me watch shows like Unsolved Mystery and Rescue 911. Hello, anxiety. I also recall a Lifetime movie where a victim of domestic violence (played by Jo from Facts of Life) gets stabbed/her neck stomped on by her psychotic ex. I think that’s why…

And oppressive conservative politics. I’m a Californian and this is the kind of thing that keeps me from even considering leaving my state.

Egad. It sounds about the same as all the tiresome “Leaving LA” essays we get over here on the Left Coast. We get it. Los Angeles, and all of it’s various suburbs, is hella expensive. Yes every other waiter/waitress/barista you meet is a model/actor/actress, and wants to be in the entertainment industry. That is…

This sums up my feelings about people justifying their choice to leave NYC by writing ad nauseum about it and wondering aloud why people stay, aka, don’t make the same choice they made:

Yeah, but do you really want the kind of people living in your city who would look at Texas and Florida and say, “I want to move there!”

As someone who grew up in an abusive household, it sent chills down my spine

Celeste’s face when Jane says that she’d considered the possibility that violence was part of Ziggy’s DNA because of his father - the near-instant connection of dots and quiet devastation. Nicole Kidman is a way better actress than I’ve previously given her credit for.

Can’t help but feel that people just REALLY want to hate highly successful female actors. Seems like it was Anne Hathaway a couple years ago, in an almost childish, playground like phenomenon where everyone was like “I don’t know, I just hate her” to everyone hating Jennifer Lawrence a year ago and now everyone is…

I really enjoyed the show—it was so well done. However, I felt that the ending was insanely rushed. I really wanted to know more about the aftermath and the women coming together.

“You don’t know my heart” is conservative religious code for “I get to dehumanize you, but don’t you dare criticize me for it.”