Wow, I can’t believe how much I love this show. I loved The Favorite and it feels more of that. I’m thrilled. I told my husband that I think the team behind this portrays complicated relationship dynamics between women well, my husband pointed out that there’s a lot of good stuff when focused on “boys being boys” in…

Oh 100%. My husband and I have been joking about how this show knows 1 plot trick (sexual violence/threat of sexual violence) since I started watching in Season 1. I mean, not only does every man try to rape Claire - but then Jaimie gets raped and Claire has to... rape him to heal him? You have to admit it was…

The Way We Never Were is so good! I looooove that author, she’s got the receipts on racist-sexist-50s-nostalgia bullshit.

Agreed. Also, I really liked the aesthetics of WW2-World, it was interesting and fairly compelling to watch. All of the park scenes are just way more fun visually, I got very tired of the Bladerunner-retread setting we got for most of this season.

Loved this piece. Just chiming in to point out that translator of Black culture who doesn’t necessarily speak to Black people is a huge niche for Black public intellectuals as well. Adolph Reed can be problematic but his piece critiquing folks like Dyson and Skip Gates is really interesting, along the same lines: https…

I’m pretty sure these interviews happen because an actor is doing the rounds to promote a new show and the expectation is they’ll discuss that show (or things related to it). Sure, it’s not what fans want, like when the lead singer of your favorite band just wants to do his new solo stuff - but it’s how it goes. I…

Yeah, was Huell busy or something? 

I have to agree with others who mentioned Werewolf (“Warwulf”), it’s probably my all-time favorite. But I think that’s followed closely by Time Chasers (my husband and I quote “Movie, I want to talk to your manager” all the time). I also have a soft spot for Pod People, Angel’s Revenge and I think the first half of…

During that stable scene I yelled to my husband in the next room “Outlander is trying something different tonight- a man just sexually assaulted Claire and Jaime rescued her!” and my husband yelled “Shocking!”. I feel like Diana Galbadon knows exactly one trick and she’s gonna use it, over and over. There was one…

Haha this headline describes EXACTLY how I felt about this episode. Mostly terrible, amazing sex scene at the end. Balfe and Heughan carry this show and they know it (I saw they have Producer credits). No one would be watching if they weren’t so darn hot and so very hot together.

I think you’re giving the show too much credit. Not to shame but I assume they were fresh fillers. I find Rosita’s fillers distracting too. It’s a huge trend on insta right now, very puffy/swollen lips are popping up everywhere. More power to them, we all decorate our faces as we see fit. 

^{Huh... well that’s certainly a take. Character likability in the sense of “Do I want to watch this asshole for 45 min? No, I do not.” Actually matters kind of a lot in tv. A character can be fascinatingly immoral but still likable (Tony Soprano, Walter White, High King Margot the Destroyer). As my previous comment}…

It’s crazy to me that the Magicians’ ratings fell off in Season 3, Season 3 is when it got amazing in my mind. A Life in the Day is one of the best things I’ve seen on TV, no show has topped it for me yet.

Yeah my husband and I went to a Hunters screening event in Highland Park this weekend (sidenote, it was super fun: screening, free drinks, snacks, pizza and bowling and actors yelling at you in bad NY accents). When I saw the premiere I really felt like the chess sequence was way over the top (definitely in…

Whoa, this is like Piers Anthony levels of fucked. 

Yeah Nicole Richie was amazing in Great News and it honestly gave me a whole new respect for her. The see-through shorts thing? She killed me, super funny.

This article immediately made me think of the old awesome “Elliot Stabler: Rage Cop” meme page but I can’t find it now (my work blocks tumblr). The SVU formula works because we all fantasize about a world where cops give a shit about rape and zealously go after powerful men and rapists. This is nothing like our world…

Yeah I teach high school and had a union organizer come in to talk to the kids about labor laws and their rights because SO MANY are being exploited by fast food chains. Chipotle got caught but all of them do this. My husband worked at McDonalds as a teen and talked about the exact same problems. It’s part of their…

Ha, holy shit. I think I must’ve just stopped reading before this. Thank you for filling me in, you really validated that decision. That ending is... oh no.

Huh. I 100% do not remember the ending. If you feel like reminding me...