How about doing your part and provide weekly reviews
How about doing your part and provide weekly reviews
Evidently people are pining for escapism, and in typical American style that escapism takes the form of blunt fantasies focused on freedom-through-violence/strength.
Yup, this is all standard practice. Remember when Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Bush cozied up to Russia to get elected, lied about it, obstructed the investigation, demonized the FBI... Remember when they whipped up hate against immigrants, tore children from their families, and blamed their decisions on the other side?…
It’s willfully ignorant to act as if Syd did not have agency in her actions against her mother’s boyfriend.
I also really liked the finale. I don’t agree with your assessment that david is sane, but i do want to let you know i too thought it was a good episode.
Because both AV Club articles/reviews and their corresponding comments sections have devolved completely into virtue signalling for half of the people who work/comment here. There used to be a basic understanding that the depiction of a heinous act was itself not an endorsement of that act; now we’re holding…
It’s been fun watching the overly concerned people here at A.V. Club fling themselves into the moral panic presented by the mere idea of something, regardless of validity. You’d think, like, it was a theme of the whole season or something.
I find all the hand wringing to be disingenuous. For a site devoted to a show like Handmaids Tale which is solely revolving around stories of and threat of rape, receives glowing praise.
No, I lived through it. Reagan was a fascistic blight on America the same way Trump is now.
This does explain the bumper sticker Trump stuck on his desk.
Been there, watched that…
I’m not the one making false equivalences.
I don’t know what to think.
No, what we should all be focusing on is ‘how do we stop sexual assaults and anti-Semitic abuse’. If it involves discourse and conciliation, and not self-righteous fury and indignation, we should probably look at the first option...
In a perfect world there wouldn’t be any abuse and assault in the first place, and we’d all be a lot more empathetic, compassionate and forgiving, and much less punitive and vindictive, than we currently are.
What is the point of this article?
Wow. This website is really mean-spirited. Shame on you.
What should he have said? “Like Weinstein I have done horrible things that I haven’t adequately apologized or paid for. I made monstrous racist threats against a domestic partner, admitting to assault, on tape. So I don’t deserve to return to starring in major movies. Like Weinstein, my actions make me more fit to a…
Mel “Sugar-Tits” Gibson.
Aw shit. Who wants to be my new penpal?