Is it accurate to refer to Montrose’s lover and the other ball participants as “trans women,” or is that imposing a modern understanding on a historical phenomenon that wasn’t quite so clear cut? I’m not an expert on ball culture, by any means, but my understanding is that for some participants it was more about expres…

I wish this was working for me on the level of enthusiasm Joelle well expresses. But it’s just isn’t yet. I see the history and societal issues that the series is trying to address some episodes much better than others. But it’s checking boxes in my mind and feels rushed. The issues with the violence/genocide towards …

I dunno, I’m expecting more allusions to Roman history to make sense of the title.

I’m so happy Archer is finally returning, and that they’re back in the spy game. It feels like the show’s been on hiatus for a decade.

I'd definitely go more in the B range for this one, but still pretty good. 

I find many parts of your statement to be presumptuous and entitled.

Yep. I was trying to think of a way to say it and you nailed it. I loved the book but it did totally feel like a short story collection. 

Exactly. But that’s hard for a viewer to pick up on without that insight. That’s nobody’s fault, except that I think it demonstrates a weakness of weekly episodic premiers. It works for long, drawn-out shows, but for something with this story’s fast pacing, Netflix binge watching is actually a better pace. It helps…

The minute I saw Atticus reading ‘A Princess of Mars’, I knew this show was going to be for me. Loved most of this pilot. Great casting. Incredible atmosphere. Some amazingly tense sequences. A very rich, promising milieu for future episodes. If I had one criticism, it’s that I wished they spent a bit more time on the…

I’d also suggest starting with season 1. While the protagonists are new, it builds heavily upon lore and characters set up in the first 2 seasons, so you’d lose some important context especially since the protagonists this season are unreliable narrators.

Will it crush my soul? I need something like that right now.

I’m guessing something like-

Kind of funny that you’d give spoilers about the next episode when you threw a hissy fit about a title of a review of an episode vaguely alluding to a minor plot point as a “spoiler”

Halfway through the season (don’t worry, no spoilers) and so far the pacing and plotting hold up. It often feels like I’ve only been watching for minutes not hours unlike the sometimes-slog of season one.

From my female perspective, anyway, I am utterly baffled about the review’s take on Biagio. She broke into his home using a spare key (I count it as “breaking in” despite the key because she had no permission to use the key to enter his home). She was then obviously unstable to the point that he felt like he had to…

As a man I try to listen here more than talk or question, and then my wife and I will discuss the issues I don’t quite grasp. It’s hard for me to see things from a woman’s perspective but I’m trying.

These seem like solid Wild Card choices. I'm in.

I’m on ep 4 and loving this so far, some of the kid actors are better than others but it’s a really well-done adaptation and modernization. (Making Karen’s neighbor an actual witch, but of the neo-pagan 60s witchcraft boom type? Genius.)

Tl;dr probably no one cares about: My one quibble so far is while I’m loving how t…

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