FWIW, I’ve been trying to avoid this franchise for a while. Aside from the very cringey domestic abuse undercurrent with many of the couples (and I used “undercurrent” loosely, as there have been actual charges of domestic violence), child sexual exploitation has also been an issue. A previously featured couple—Mark…

I miss the experience of being in a local theater or an art house theater like the ones in the smallish city where I grew up. Now, in the suburbs, all we have is movieplex hell. Last movie my husband and I saw in the theater was Star Wars Ep. IX. Close to $70 (for a 10AM show!) by the time we bought tickets (online,…

I was a skeptic about the book (mostly, just because I’m so emotionally drained from reading ever-worse stuff about Trump), but it was interesting.

I generally liked the series, but at times it felt like it threw together too many characters too quickly, without a great sense of world-building. There are multiple points of dialogue that allude to politics within the fae world to which we aren’t privy. It bothered me that there were lines alluding to the powers of…

Just stopping in to express a firm belief that Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès is still alive. If you saw the Unsolved Mysteries on this, definitely seek out the Casefile podcast. I think Unsolved was actually too kind in its assessment of his actions.

I have at least three friends who took vacations during the July 4th weekend, and one of them is a first responder. I definitely second the WTF reaction.

the complaint really feels out of nowhere here as it doesn’t provide context or examples for the criticism in this particular case.

That small, inconvenient fact isn’t stopping GOP candidates for Senate from also jumping on this train. Kelly Loeffler’s entire campaign right now is based on protecting funding for state and local police. Sadly, it’s a step up from when her ads mostly focused on the fact that she hated being a senator but would stand…

...she can be quite nice to most people. So then they think that we’re the ones that cause all the problems.

If it’s not a Law & Order: Los Angeles reboot, I’m not interested.

Others have mentioned they “met” Wilford. I think Melanie was the brains but Wilford was the financial backing and also convinced some of the first class passengers to invest. I’m thinking there may be another plot twist where we find out that he’s drawered somewhere (basically put into stasis because he was dying or…

The Brooks case should be one of the easiest ones to solve. From the chatter online it seems like it’s an open secret in the town about who was involved and what happened. Hopefully the renewed scrutiny motivates someone to go on the record with what they know.

I personally liked them. As others have pointed out, the markup was wild. They sold for $100-120 in their stores, but you could consistently find them marked down to something like $30 in their outlets/clearance section and online. They were probably victims of a bad business model. I think they invested heavily in…

I think you’re being too kind. DH is into this show, but 4 episodes in I am bored to tears and nearly fell asleep at one point. It’s hard to believe that a show with a premise like warrior nuns managed to be so uninteresting. I feel like pacing is an issue for most of the new Netflix series, but this one is doing a…

Unpopular opinion but I actually liked the ABC Muppets show that was cancelled a few years back. It took a while to find its feet, and I think most stopped watching before it got good. Hopefully the streaming platform will give them room to breathe.

U.S. turned a blind eye to this 100%, but it’s also worth noting that many of the tactics they’re using now on the Uighurs were perfected against the Tibetans over decades. This was something the world knew for a very long time, and beyond some toothless House resolutions and dinner parties for the Dalai Lama, no…

Re: Dormer, am I the only one who feels like she is clearly doing brownface as Rio despite the writers gaslighting us with the complicated backstory to assure us she’s not doing brownface? Like, they darkened her hair, her eyes, her skin, and have her running around speaking Spanish and leading an insurgency of…

Here in GA we were actually on a 14-day trend of rising cases when they started reopening the state (in April!). Now the state gov’t is telling faculty and staff at state colleges and universities that they have to resume in-person classes in August and they aren’t allowed to require students to wear masks. There are…

Watched this last night. It’s cute and amusing in a “don’t-have-to-think-too-much-about-it” way. It did feel like there must have been scenes cut, though, as it felt like there were gags that were just left hanging--like the bit about the Eastern European states all throwing their votes to Iceland.

I get what you’re saying, but I also feel like this is yet another manifestation of how shamefully negligent modern medicine can be toward women’s health issues specifically. Like, it seems far-fetched that this woman had two prior pregnancies and—presumably—many other gyno exams without anyone noticing she had a…