One thing I questioned was I don’t think Irish/Catholics were considered “white” in this era... The Irish teacher saying “other whites will follow” seemed off.

She’s working with extremely talented people and it’s very much in the vein of other anxious/dark projects she’s done like Maniac and The Favourite. This is way above Showtime’s normal dross. And she’s utterly crushing the role, already a career highlight as far as I’m concerned.

You’re honestly describing this show as “maybe only a little uncomfortable”? For me it’s like a 50 minute lowkey panic attack.

I thought S5 was far below the level of quality established by earlier season, but this honestly went so hard. I was crying like a baby, much sadder than when she actually died. I’d never liked Debicki in anything I’ve seen her but she fully converted me here.

Still not reaching the levels of this tic Matt Smith achieved in seasons 1-2. I think it’s a thing tall people do to seem less tall.

Fair point about wanting the deal to happen, she is not actually as self-aware as I was giving her credit for.

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…

That was the end of the nightmare. Then she woke up and they placed the dead baby in her arms.

It could also be because she knows how close to the end they are

Episode was mostly great but I just kept wondering...why don’t Joel and Tommy BOTH go on the trip. Wouldn’t that increase the odds of success and isn’t Ellie important enough to warrant that? Hell, Tommy could’ve sent them off with a whole posse like the one that confronted them earlier.

Seriously, where was the padding? The author complains nothing happened in the tunnels but that’s where the characters bonded. It was absolutely essential to the story. Without it there was no point whatsoever. And it was a subversion of expectations after the scene of the bulging floor last week, you definitely…

Murray Bartlett is such a chameleon, he looks totally different in seemingly every role. No way you can convince me this guy, the White Lotus guy, and the Chippendales guy are all the same actor.

Yeah no, NWO was always a wingnut conspiracy. Truthers may have been mostly on the left but their theory was the attacks were a false flag to justify US imperialism. NWO was more on the Tim McVeigh end of things.

I thought the idea was that Laena would be toast but the baby would survive, Unburnt, like Dany did. Figured that was a thing Targaryens could do. But then, no sign of the baby this episode.

problematic

I keep thinking she’s Stevie from Schitt’s Creek

It was almost entirely characters vomiting exposition at each other, harkening back to the bad old days of GoT’s back half. Really does not stand up to the GoT premiere, which established multiple indelible characters immediately using ~10% of the exposition. I’ll still stick with it for the cast and the production…

Years and Years was so freakin good and underappreciated.

All the spy stuff was fantastic and interesting. The part where Russia organized a protest and counterprotest so as to cause a riot is based on an actual incident in the U.S. from 2016. The domestic drama stuff doesn’t work nearly as well. And the big weakness is the main character who weirdly sulks for the entire…

I fell asleep during the montage, woke up and rewound, then fell asleep during the montage again lol.