I’d be all for The Alienist getting weirder. This show already kinda reminds me of Penny Dreadful; PD was at it’s best when it slid feet first into Gothic Camp Weirdness.

Welp, I’ve found a new benefit of being unambiguously Black; I don’t have to think about stuff like this!

I’m kinda like Panama, but at this point in my life it’s performance (most important) and lyrics (less important) over production. I don’t think I have a very discerning ear when it comes to beats - I lose interest in instrumental tracks after about a minute if there’s nobody saying anything over them. Honestly, there…

I didn’t know or care enough about football to know why, as a Black person, I was supposed to hate the Patriots. Now I do.

“Now the presence of this instinct explains why we are so often taken by advertisers. You know, those gentlemen of massive verbal persuasion. And they have a way of saying things to you that kind of gets you into buying. In order to be a man of distinction, you must drink this whiskey. In order to make your neighbors…

I cringe at this concept the same way I cringe at stuff like trap karaoke.

I seriously doubt that Complex didn’t know about his comments until after they decided to hire him. But even if they were in the dark, I have to think that they expected something like this to happen. Star is not some unknown quantity - he has been working in radio/media since the early 90s. He’s regarded as a NY…

Between Nigeria and Ghana? So...Wakanda is in Benin, then?

Don’t worry - most of the people going to see Black Panther don’t know anything about Black Panther. He’s not exactly an A-List superhero and Marvel spent years being unsure of what to do with the character (see that time he subbed in for Daredevil’s as The Man Without Fear. Why is T’Challa hanging out in Hell’s…

I swear, I heard my mom’s voice say that exact same thing in my head during the scene where Jennifer informs her parents that she’s planning on having sex.

I been telling people for years - Allies! Don’t! Exist!

Anissa, if you’ve never met her parents or any of her friends, and if YOUR parents don’t even remember her name, then that’s not your girlfriend. That’s a bussdown.

What the fuck are Steak-umm’s?

I like that they had Rome Fortune as the performer at Club 100.

Flint’s only got about 100,000 people in it though, right?

#’s 1 & 2 presented problems for teenage me - I had a tendency to shake my baby dreads a little too vigorously and send my glasses flying off. Miraculously, nobody ever stepped on them.

I don’t play spades because I just never cared to learn how. That’s it.

I think this episode provides more evidence the Jimmy and Gretchen make each other worse, not better.

Seeing Jimmy in pain is one the highlights of the show for me. Long may it continue!

Maybe it’s because I went to school after the Wu-Tang heyday, but I doubt anybody on my campus even knew what a 5 Percenter was. Also, we didn’t have a white Sigma named Mike.