Donald Glover sounds like someone woke him up with the script and a microphone and told him, “Hey, remember you said you promised to narrate this? Well, here you go. Let’s get it now.”

Ear Wigs Monthly has that article? I’m in!

Title of your sex tape.

90s ska was occasionally fun and fairly harmless and often a bit corny(and it was sometimes a nice counterweight to the dour nature of angsty 90s rock in general), but on the other hand, I’ve never been that interested in what made the bands tick or how the scenes got started.

Maurice is such a powerful, initially heartbreaking but ultimately affirming piece of literature and cinema, and one of the first fictional gay love stories I became familiar with. I really endorse its inclusion here.

I loved Looking as well. I never understood all the complaints about it being boring. Why can’t a story about gay friends just be about them looking for love, succeeding/failing at their jobs, etc. like so many stories are for heterosexual people?

I also highly recommend Andrew Haigh’s Weekend and Looking, which I’m a bit surprised aren’t on here. Sure, Weekend’s ending is more bittersweet than outright happy, but at least it doesn’t involve gay bashing like QAF and Glee. And Looking might be “boring” if you’re not into super slice-of-life stuff, but again, for…

I really, really wish people would stop calling the Putnams “adoptive” parents. First of all, the male Putnam is the baby’s biological father, so I’m confused as to how he’s an “adoptive” parent at all. Unless somehow “adoptive” means “not deserving the title of father” which is SO insulting to real adoptive parents.

Honestly, unless I’ve just washed my hands, my feet are cleaner. My hands are touching all sorts of things constantly, things that other people have also touched, whereas my feet reside in freshly laundered socks all day. They may get a little sweaty at times, but still.

He’s going to have to deal with judgemental people who will try to discriminate against him his whole life, might as well learn how to deal with them now. Kids are very astute and observant, he’s learning a lot at his age. I’m also not sure what the mom did that was so horribly confrontational, other than saying, “No,…

I’m going to put this as gently as I can... Go fuck yourself. I mean, the family could have just smothered the kid as soon as he was born so the IHOP manager wouldn’t have had to deal with a new situation, right? Can I get an amen?

The dude was a manager. That is a step up from the entry level peon. Decision making skills is part of the job. I would think the lack of arms would be a dead giveaway that the kid has a disability and needs to use alternative limbs to eat.

the family could have poured their son’s syrup for him

She probably wants him to learn how to be self-sufficient. Is he just never going to be allowed to do anything by himself because he has to do it with his feet?

I think the French lady was saying “ours,” which is French for “bear.”

This is why I like Serena. She thinks she’s a benevolent hostess dispensing charity to a mischievous snake, and has a mini breakdown every time she is reminded of her own cruelty or the extreme subjugation that she bears some responsibility for bringing about. It’s a great and tortuous position for a character to be…

I feel like this horrific awfulness with Eden is gearing us up for how brainwashed Hannah will be when June finally sees her again.

I seriously wonder in that society what happens to a Commander’s wife if she suddenly becomes a widow? Do they let her stay on her own? Do they make her remarry? Or is she forced to become an Aunt Lydia?

ITA. I think Serena was sure those rules would only apply to “lesser” women. Or that, you know, in public she’d follow the rules, but she’d actually wield power through her husband. I mean, it’s obvious she’s smarter and better at this than him, he’s only at the table because of her, and that undeniable fact would…

I would have loved more Ofglen leading up to it. I assume she opened her mouth at brunch and showed Serena why she wasn’t chatting. That was almost as badass as the bomb and made me just adore her as a person.