My favorite CYA explanation is that it’s Star Wars Captcha, and it’s literally just making sure you’re not a robot.

- Not a trace, of doubt in my mind
Now he’s the Believer, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

The image of Dave grinning and eating his choux buns while Peter panickily tries to put his showstopper together had such extreme villain energy.

I really enjoyed this season of bake off. It felt more like home bakers doing their best, where sometimes previous seasons didn’t. Peter was a favorite all season and I agree the judges over emphasized the “draw” aspect. Also IIRC, in previous seasons each episode was judged on its own merits (a standard which I…

I don’t know why but I love that we always end up back on Tatooine. Nigh infinite worlds to explore but we always end up in the galactic equivalent of Scottsdale Arizona.

Few quick notes on the finale:

As a sidenote, while I still personally hold Hill House and Bly Mansion seasons pretty equal, for now the success of that final episode puts Bly a little bit ahead. The problem with the Hill House finale is that while I do view the central message and performances in it positively, time has smoothed away memories of…

I’ll freely admit that I cried multiple times during that finale and even after watching it, found myself just tearing up when thinking on that final shot.

17th century medicine was truly batshit. What the doctor was doing by cutting her arm was known as ‘blood-letting’. Doctors thought illness was caused by “an imbalance of humors” (one of which was blood) and could be cured by blood-letting and using leaches to suck out the patient’s blood. Pretty brutal stuff and…

I very much enjoyed this episode, because it provided satisfying answers to all the questions I had leading up to it. I thought it was a well-written and captivating story.

It reminds me of a passage I read once about the famous child serial killer Myra Hindley.  She went on about I didn't have a chance, I grew up poor and was beaten by my parents constantly.  Her sister said I was beaten by the same parents, most kids who were raised by post war parents suffered abuse.  But only one…

It’s a shame that Becks doesn’t get a proper backstory, though I assumed that the reason she’s so keen to trust and keep hold of Peter is because of what she said about her dad. He was always putting her down and telling her that she couldn’t succeed in various things, as a woman, so she’s desperate to prove to anyone…

-Nooo Rebecca he’s not worth it

Peter Quint is the worst on a level that is genuinely astonishing. And I mean that as praise as the way they crafted him to be that monster while making him so human at the same time is fantastic. Everything about him is so manipulative, yet I don’t think even he is able to understand that anymore.

You say Dani should’ve gotten rid of the glasses sooner. That’s the thing though, she couldn’t. Her guilt is what was haunting her, and letting go of that is not easy. ESPECIALLY when A) you feel like you caused someone’s death. B) That person, whom you’ve been with the majority of your life died literal moments after…

oh, wow, jamie’s backstory monologue is one of my favorite parts of the season. to me it worked better than dani’s flashbacks. and I also disagree with the notion that the actresses have no chemistry.

-I do enjoy Dani’s inability to cook even the simplest things.

Agreed. I find this relationship very well-written and particularly well-acted. It’s an understated, yet substantial showcase of how and why these two people interact the way they do.

yes, thank you for saying this. Dani burning the glasses is clearly just a symbolic gesture to show she's ready to let her guilt about dead fiancee go. it's not like she could have just chucked his glasses in the trash anytime in the past few years and been free of the haunting!

The way the show frames memories as prisons in themselves is kind of masterful. Henry lost in the guilt of his actions, Hannah wandering through them in a haze, Jamie actively refusing to trust humans because of her past. Even when Rebecca takes over Flora, the child is unwillingly imprisoned in her own memories.