It hits a perfect balance with bingeable (because it's gorgeous and you want to find out what happens next) but also having each episode be its own contained thing. Like an act of a play, you can pause and analyze and digest what happened, and the action winds to something that feels like a chapter close. Even if it…

It does seem like Madame Gao has the far more interesting story.

Someday, The Lurkling will be a teenager and reliably sleep til noon.

Hmm. Now I'm tying this to the opening about people having more video options and choosing that over sex—even if the Waltons had had Ambien, there was nothing to buy out there. It would be difficult to Ambien shop if you had to physically get yourself from home into an all-night yacht showroom, and remember your…

I really liked that response. If the people at a sex club are telling you that you—the prized unicorn extra bi woman at a sex club—need to stop talking about your incredible sex drive, you should dial it in.

That's exactly what people are always asking for—the other side of the story. Interesting that the basic questions were so different—Why won't he understand that I'm sore? vs Why won't she understand I'm really attracted to her, just slowed down now?

I would totally believe that Trump is money laundering with no idea of that fact.

It is an interesting test of the idea that the only people qualified for powerful jobs are people who wouldn't want those jobs.

The only way I see it going anywhere is if the Senate gets too smug about how, hey, they WANTED to repeal the ACA but the House wouldn't pass it, blame those people. While simultaneously wanting nothing to do with Trumpcare, or everything to do with Trumpcare, but the House just wouldn't pass it on.

Gorsuch is the one politically smart move Trump has made. I can't believe he didn't laugh and toss out that list of judges the instant the votes were tallied and he didn't need those voters any more.

It's what the strongman banana republic leader would do on TV.

Good idea; asking a local group that works with survivors is probably a good way to get more-informed advice than our anecdotal efforts.

The advice I have seen in this situation—and it's really really hard—is to maintain a link, however tenuous. So that when she's willing to go on her own, she believes that she can call you and not then get an 'I told you so! I told you!' lecture.

How is a plane crash, and one in the Himalayas vs Alps vs Rockies, all that different from a car crash? Or being killed by the local gangs? Traumatic, yes. Permanently freezes you at that age, no. The monks are human (or if they're supposed to be aliens, that's really not conveyed) and their society is a human society.…

I think it would be possible to know nothing whatsoever about the casting controversy and still ask questions like:

That would be more likely if they were doing it from the sets of other, better-written shows with Asian leads.

Finn's analogy was that Rand is a white billionaire and people don't like that in superheroes. Naively ignoring Batman and Ironman.

This. Being raised in a different culture really isn't like being vacuum sealed away from all human contact. At all.

That particular traumatic formative event—losing your parents young, being raised by other people—is common, in and out of fiction. How many kids at the dojo lost their parents?

I think she's just giving a straightforward review of each episode. Without first watching the whole thing, and retrofitting initial reactions with "well with what we learn 8 episodes from now, this might make sense, so maybe it's not as bad as it seemed when I first watched it."