You misspelled Fleshlight. 

There’s a lot of shit talk about podcasting, and true crime in general, and a lot of it is warranted. I do grapple with real human tragedy being put up for our consumption and ‘entertainment’. But. In the end, without a podcast, without a lot of eyes on this case (and others), this case (likely) never would have been…

them declaring their preference that a potentially innocent man stay in prison, than for there to be no one in prison for this.

“Her brother, Young Lee, appeared via video conference at yesterday’s trial, saying he felt ‘blindsidedʼ and ‘betrayedʼ by the motion to vacate Syed’s sentence. He said to the court a sentiment his family has shared before: ‘This is not a podcast for me…this is real life—a never-ending nightmare for 20-plus years.ʼ”

I know it’s difficult to see, but they should be pissed at the cops and prosecutors for bungling the case so badly they will probably never get justice.

In total fairness, sure, Saving Private Ryan invents a US army platoon and a rescue mission. But it doesn’t, I dunno, try to make it seem like the Germans were heroically fighting to save France from the evil invading British and Americans.

I think the real issue around how LGBTQ characters are treated in the GOT universe is that they are always second or third-tier. So their deaths often have little impact aside from how they might impact other (inevitably straight) characters. Given how much suffering and death there is in this world, you are 100%…

True that nobody on GoT dies of a nice, simple, heart attack, but the content criticism seems more due to a generational shift. The same problem is going on over on The Gilded Age. Not so much the “Kill Your Gays” issue, but that the gay characters are too frequently portrayed as shifty schemers. GoT and Gilded Age…

It definitely didn’t. Forced, not properly motivated or believably executed, just lazy shock value.

I really wish we had expert reviews of this show like we got with the original. Reviews that focus on what the episode is setting up with the primary focus being the events of the episode and what they are leading to next with full spoiler talk. And that point out differences from the source.

this is why the time skips really bother me! if the characters got a bit more development before their deaths maybe it wouldn’t feel like they’re basically being discarded.

Anyone else have a distinct problem throughout the episode of the dialogue being drowned out by the background noise? I’ve never noticed it this badly before in either show.

Despite 2 vaccinations and 2 boosters, I’m sitting here recovering from Omicron, exhausted and feeling like crap. My symptoms started on Aug 23 so it was no two-day down time and then back at it. Covid is not some minor fucking flu and no it has not reached the stage of being endemic. I was very sick at the peak of…

You’re also prioritizing one group over another. And it’s condescending to say people don’t “get” your argument. It seems like they get it, but disagree with you.

Your analogy doesn’t make sense. Yes, “Most people can take stairs, but it’s still fucked up to not have ramps.” That’s why it would be wrong to require people not to wear masks. But you want to require all people to wear masks, forever, regardless of whether they have a condition that puts them at heightened risks or…

An observation of reality can’t be “ableist” jesus christ.

The commenter is saying what he saw. He didn't say he thinks it should be this way. He's saying what he witnessed. 

THANK YOU. I work on disability issues professionally, and to my unending frustration I’ve had to make this same argument in my office, which doesn’t get that making masking “optional” just means it’s prioritizing the choice of one group over the safety of another. 

“Hader was not paranoid or virtue signaling by donning the mask.”

I don’t see how a comment about what “most people” are doing can be ableist. It is perfectly reasonable for a person to continue to mask — I do on public transportation. And some people (like Hader) have particularly good reasons to want to mask, and we should respect that. But most people have assessed the risks…