I'm just going to put it out there that those comments you are tossing out about Islam also fit a brand and type of Christianity (in practice) that persisted throughout its first 1200-1500 years. Not everywhere and not everyone, but the rules of behavior were generally rigid and could be brutal for women 400-1700 AD…

A little. The explanation is a lot like what is in the show, except the novel is more limited b/c it's first person POV. It's left purposefully vague in the book; I imagine to further enhance for the reader the same bewildering sense of confusion that Offred experiences. The novel contains supposition, anecdote, and…

Umm. Yeah. I wasn't serious.

This feels like a question for Henry VIII.

Fawking nerd or not, I think you've touched on what made the show so interesting - flying loose and free with canon in a creative, liberating, intriguing manner. It also helps that Aubrey Plaza and Dan Stevens are superb and inspired.

Yeah, but that season was Ozzy's. He was a consummate player for the style of play back then - winning challenges, ingratiating himself into the tribe when he was down in numbers, building himself into alliances. I've watched all seasons of Survivor and I really believe that without the superidol Yul would not have…

Having this problem myself. Mostly, I'm just rather…annoyed? bored? meh'd? by it.

This is the part that annoys me in discussions about the film. I get it; I get what Angier's obsession with the trick leads to, and how that is commentary on art and obsession.

Sure.

Ack! It makes me sad that the whodunnit is for real. You have convinced me re rewrite.

I feel like this too. These things should bother me, but they just don't in this movie for some reason. And I'm not even a QT fan girl.

I appreciate this answer. Maybe it's the english major in me, but just stating "I would cut" without explaining what or why isn't all that interesting and doesn't really further the critique.

I don't know. It reminded this particular depraved voyeur quite a bit of Titus Andronicus.

An aside from having read several of the comments - when you suggest that it was good but too long, how about providing examples of what you would cut?

I loved Goggins. It felt obvious that all the characters were purposefully stock - until they were either dead or … weren't stock characters anymore. And that rather seemed to be the point. From our viewpoint, every character seemed rather awful … until they didn't seem as awful anymore (i.e., we knew them better) or…

I loved this season, but Tasha's actions post-merge/post-Final7 left her in Goatsville. Had she arranged to get rid of Jeremy or Spencer, I'd consider her a stronger player. All I see is that she kept her head down and rode coattails. I mean looking around at Final 7, if you aren't taking Abi to the end, then you are…

I like Yul, but due to the power of his idol, I don't consider him to be in the top-top of players. In fact, I'm Team Ozzy for that season due to the insane amount of strategy and survival he had to employ to get himself into the final.

I've watched it. Wow. And what I find truly awful - more than the authorship question - is the film's treatment of Elizabeth I. She's reduced to a simpering, weak-willed woman-child in her old age. And the incest! And the illegitimate children! Apparently it wasn't enough to go all willy-nilly with the Oxford…

…and after watching that video, I now must watch Anonymous. I may even pick up some absurd catchphrases from the ridiculously outfitted Rhys Ifans/Earl of Oxford.

For the sake of my tv, I've resisted "Anonymous" - I fear that I would likely throw something right at the screen. Congrats on the drama gig, btw.