Have you watched Servant yet? Because it’s also pretty awesome (although obviously nothing can touch Severance.)

I recently returned to Philip Pullman’s 80s-era YA Victorian adventure trilogy, which I loved in middle school, and was deeply amused when I realized how many of the various subplots were taken directly from Collins.

This story sounds like a MadLibs created for my specific aesthetic taste (thanks, algorithm!), but I am here for it!

I’m not assuming ill will. That doesn’t mean that referring to a well known and common pop culture punchline in the context of ASL isn’t icky, especially since the Academy’s choices around including interpretation were a little weird. (Although still a notable improvement on years past!)

Jazz hands were held high tonight

Well, I can’t wait to see how this plays out in the coming days/hours.

That’s what I read on Wikipedia, too!

LOL, congrats on discovering Wikipedia. Maybe learn to check out more than one link before you make dumbass comments based on the assumption that the first Google result tells you everything you need to know.

Eh, it may be a bit of a chicken-egg thing, but tropes can absolutely play a roll in culturally sanctioning racist violence. Just look at the role the “Mandingo” stereotype played in the deaths of Emmet Till and countless other victims of lynching. Or the role that cultural representations/popular perceptions of Jews…

I’m reading it as a “how easy is it to trick Kinja into making me top commenter by endlessly replying to myself?” experiment.

How dare these people with (checks Wikipedia) one semester of communication studies and a 1977 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering fail to stay abreast of the latest climate science developments before booking a gig?

That just makes the “girl talk” tone of Peggy and Marian’s post-kiss conversation seem more implausible than it is already. Kissing a man outside your open hotel room door is “fuck up your life forever” levels of bad for this time period.

Not a huge Foo Fighters fan (I do like some of Grohl’s other bands/projects), but Dave Grohl always comes across as just the nicest, humblest guy.

I don’t know. The (relatively few) scenes that take place in their megachurch often include lines that directly tie the congregants’ donations to their devotion to God. That’s definitely part of the prosperity gospel shtick, the bit about “and because God will love you, you’ll have more money” just isn’t as spelled…

It reminds me of some of the shorter, high concept sci-fi stuff written in the seventies that I’ve read. None of it got especially famous, but I still remember the feelings/vibes if not the actual titles.

It’s not Dowd’s fault that helicopter parenting and the self esteem movement have completely changed the meaning/trajectory of letter grades in K-12 and undergraduate education.

For what it’s worth, I think your reviews and letter grades are (almost) always spot on! Although I certainly received a lot of negative feedback for employing what some saw as a similarly stingy grading philosophy when it came to university students’ research papers. Not a great way to win friends and influence…

I am Jack’s raging bile duct. I am Jerry Buss. And I am Spartacus.

I thought they were pretty clear that the threat to badmouth Aimee-Leigh was just an attempt to goad Eli into participating in the story/interview. But yeah, I would have liked to see them give a little bit more attention to the massacre in the first few episodes.

Yeah, I was sort of assuming there would be additional revelations, like some minor incident in the past or some sort of disagreement about where things are going with the church as part of any big reveals.