God I still have only seen the dog episode like twice… while mind you, I'm the kind of nerdy super fan who dressed up like Futurama characters three years in a row for ComicCon. That episode seriously f#*%ed me up.

Ahhh, OK, I see more of what is going on here in your fascinating refusal to accept the idea of lost corporeal existence as not being "the worst thing ever" in this San Junipero world. First there has suddenly been a personal reveal of tragedy that makes hyper-attenuated the relation of body to consciousness. Second…

This is not a comment necessarily relevant to the conversation you're having with Girard, but I love every single shading of the fabulous, deliciously snarky, pointedly dismissive tone of your sentence i've quoted below! Especially because, without actually saying so, you so smoothly highlight Girard's implied…

Shatner: I wonder my friends. Was he really an evil energy gas?
Nichols: He did give us eternal youth.
Koenig: 24 hour laundromat.
Takei: A full assortment of rum both spiced and
regular.
Nimoy: Truly, he was a paradise.
Fry: And all you had to put up with was one really
annoying Star Trek fan.
Shatner: Let's get the…

Jigga-wha??

Your response to this episode was almost as poignant and touching as the episode itself. Especially because ESoftheSM is one of my all time favorite movies. So that beach house… I kept expecting it to crumble. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Not to be argumentative, but there were at least two other Black people there, two men as spectators. Now I didn't see them the first time, but I did tonight as I actively scanned the crowds. But there were none at that 'welcome to the park' meeting during the end credits.

I couldn't take Nosedive too lightly since it so sharply portrayed women's role as needing to be: happy but not fake, charming but not ingratiating, attractive but not malicious in using your looks, shapely but not "fat"… And that's not me giving away anything since real life is the same!!

As mother to a young girl, often in pigtails like Jemima, I had to fight down my murderous mama instincts watching this the second time. I'm still feeling conflicted about it, but at the end of the day, if pressed for honesty, I as mother to the girl would ask for no more than one day of this for each year of my…

In agreement with everything you say here! And thanks for the heads up about the documentary, I am always fainted by women's representations and misrepresentations in Cultural contexts.

Don't be so hard on yourself! Most of the time this commenting feels like a very slow, offhanded conversation I've gotten into with some people sitting near me at Starbucks.

Nice to hear someone else felt pity for Shia! At the time, I was mocked for saying he needed a hug and some help pronto. Happy that he seems to have dug himself out of that rut a bit now.

Ha ha ha ha!!!

Exactly! My first thought was, "Why won't someone help her?!" The scariest folks are those who can stand impassively while something horrible happens to another person.

Wasn't trying to ignore your point about her getting out of her situation via seemingly altruistic means, but that possibility is really besides the point.

Perfectly put! The crowd at the park has become her- looking on at horror done to a helpless person, but doing nothing! It is not that she is being given a dose of justice as much as the park goers are legally dipping their toes into the cold, glassy waters of the sadistic voyeur's pool that, ironically, they are…

To repeat what I've posted previously when folks here want to protest that we will never have something like this set up:

It wasn't an amnesia drug, it was some sort of deeply agonizing electrical device placed on her temples and activated to scorch through the memory making part of her brain.

Only on a second viewing honey. The first time nothing is drilled into you but fear, confusion, and the desire for whatever is happening to her to End. So for the reviewer to say he was getting beat up by the episode's main idea is just proof that his review is flawed since he cannot critique a show without instantly…

Ha ha ha ha ha!!