I kinda got the impression that just like Westworld, Shogunworld is based more on popular depictions than historical accuracy. But also everyone was speaking period-appropriate Japanese, so I’m not sure? Do English-speaking guests use some kind of auto-magical translator or is it actually meant for Japanese people?

The coat was clearly Villanelle’s escape pack. It would allow her to disappear with cash and a new passport but obviously Anna didn’t know that package was hidden in there,

Great review as always. 

This is going to be REALLY controversial, but I’m gonna name Wes Anderson. He has an impeccable eye and sense of design and style, but at the expense of anything approaching warmth or spontaneity, because it is all so designed and arch and calls attention to itself, and more and more he has become wrapped up in…

Don’t feel bad. My wardrobe screams “Lazy guy who shops at Target.”

It kind of struck me that I have a sweater I wear all the time that looks just like the ones they wear in the Colonies.

Only if they could be said to have sinned in some way.

I think the wives probably just have a wider range of what they’re allowed to wear, as long as it’s in the right general color/style — Handmaids and Marthas (and, I guess, Aunts) have uniforms because they’re servants, while the wives are technically free women. IIRC the Econowives from a couple of weeks ago had minor…

if your mind wakes up in a different body with all your memories intact, it is still essentially you

I wouldn’t really say I have idea of what’s going on with this show, but can someone explain the necessity to burn up the entire room after every malfunction of a Delos host? It seems absurd.

I think your comment about her raiding the fridge and being fat could be the reason why extolling her hotness is a feminist stance.

Yup....no woman has ever commented on tampon sizing before your (male) friend. I mean “wide set vagina” and heavy flow is literally a joke from Mean Girls, but sure.... it sounds more like your friend’s joke is premised on limited translation options for a question in a foreign country.

Shopping list.

...Only we know how many parks there are, apparently. How the hell did a Klondike world make the cut? With so few worlds, a Raj world seems unlikely as well. I can only assume that many of the worlds require less space than West World, since riding for long periods seems like a big feature of that park. I don’t think…

So have you ever like, had fun?

i mentioned this last week and it’s the weirdest backend problem i’ve ever seen on this site. it’s hard enough to find sections as it is post-kinja, but now we’re playing hide and seek.

This was quite a letdown after last week’s masterpiece. And didn’t do much for Van’s character.

confronting a black actor whose in attendance along with his white girlfriend. 

How was everyone able to notice it was Glover so fast?

ok, one way this episode kinda bothered me was the whole quinn august hook up. first, a couple of trysts and now he has feelings? wtf? and the whole you pick a contestant every season? this is the first season with male contestants so........