It definitely grates on me, too.

I may have misinterpreted that scene.

I’m pretty sure this episode more or less confirmed that Martin Imari is the mastermind behind the hit on Eli.

Your use of “penultimate” really freaked me out until I confirmed HBO had already approved Season 3.

Yeah, you’d have to be pretty fucking dense to miss that Lexi and Rue are supposed to be in the same class/the same age.

Like, maybe the apostrophe is supposed to evoke some sort of uncanny valley, almost the same but not sort of idea? But I feel like that’s giving this show way too much credit.

I tried to give real, substantive mental energy to the possibility it was some sort of misguided attempt at understated wordplay and still came up with nothing.

For some reason, before this episode, my impression was always that Lexi was the older sister and Cassie, the younger. I guess Cassie being older changes the ickiness of Lexi’s interpolation of her story ever so slightly, but there are still a lot of consent issues that it looks like Euphoria will just ignore…

WHY IS THIS TITLE

Two episodes in, and I am LOVING this so far. I didn’t realize how much I missed sci-fi stories/TV shows that make you wait for answers.

Seconding all of the recommendations here; I subscribe to Apple TV a few months out of every year, but the content is never enough to keep me around. (The Velvet Underground documentary was really, really good, FWIW.) I’m an Apple News junkie, so I’ve been pondering the same package deal you have. But I still have…

I really enjoyed Season 1 of Ted Lasso, but I can’t bring myself to watch any more. It’s...too heart warming, I guess?

Olivia Munn is still a person who exists?!

“They gave me a chihuahua?!”

Don’t forget about those early studies suggesting that people who watched horror were coping with pandemic anxiety/uncertainty than people who did not.

Even Clancy allows that there are some current/former intelligence/military people who are compromised/corrupt. They’re just presented as bad apples/outliers as opposed to being vehicles to mount a more systemic critique. I’d agree that Child’s tone is slightly more critical, but I think it’s more a difference of…

I meant more that almost all of the Boomer/Gen X folks I knew who were into Clancy were also into Reacher. (And Bosch, for that matter.)

That’s definitely part of it. It definitely implied the reason he knows so many of the rules Marian and Mrs. Russel are still trying to figure out is because he was able to rub elbows with rich folks when he went away to college.

I know he is supposed to be as wide-eyed innocent as she, but I secretly want him revealed as the most ruthless social climber of them all.

Because he’s the writer and director, so he has pretty much total control over the direction of the story and the characters in it. I think it’s also a reaction to his seeming eagerness to lean into a sort of genius auteur persona he hasn’t really earned yet. There’s like, no awareness or acknowledgement of the fact…