Ugh, why’d they have to cast Carrie Coon in this thing I would ordinarily smugly ignore? Rich People Problems(tm) are not my cup of high tea, but is it possible that she’s going to make this show at least tolerable/watchable to me?

I had to google that. seems disgusting.

What cracked me up is Ethan suggests they steal liquor, then later tells Jules to steal beer, and they end up with White Claw. To these kids, they’re one and the same.

Less gritty Degrassi and more second generation of Skins with a prestige budget. 

Exactly the Raven says “Nevermoore”, the Crow says “Caw, Caw, Bang, Fuck! I’m dead”

I actually might be as I like a lot of those types of imports but not as one of a finite number of prestige HBO shows where it’s theoretically displacing something that I might like more and wouldn’t be done or done as well elsewhere. There are way too many decent-to-good series out there that I don’t mind just skippin…

The camera has lingered on her breasts so much on this show and others that, quite frankly, they’re recognizable. I feel like when you can seriously distinguish one actress’s breasts (and frankly if I recall correctly she was only 18 or 19 when that started to be a thing) that definitively, it’s too much. Now I feel…

It’s honestly hard to fathom that the scripts in their original form have Cassie naked more than she already is.

anyone else in recovery aside from NA/AA find the show sometimes pretty regressive with its view on substance disorders? I still think substances keep a lot of people from suicide until they figure out how to battle those thoughts without drugs for example.

Yeah, I feel like we should be having that whole other conversation instead of talking about this very bad movie.

Godspeed, Dowd! Hope to see (plus) you writing somewhere else real soon!

I agree. Ever since AMC forced Vince Gilligan to do it for Breaking Bad, it’s just a cash grab for the networks. It’s bullshit.

I was wondering that too. Are we post-grade now? Is this a revolt?

This show feels more like a highly stylized and very self-serious b movie exploitation flick from the 70’s. Just without the Ramones.

bear poutine for the gods!

Can we take a moment to talk about just how FUNNY this episode was, along with all mystery and trauma? Seriously there were lines in there that topped “Wait, Book Club isn’t real?” in their delivery. Like Misty saying “Who died?” when she comes in to clean up the dead body. Shauna saying “It’s just like riding a…

*whipsers* Natasha Lyonne, find a place for Natasha Lyonne

I couldn’t remember and had to go back to watch. Forgot how bad it was, I guess I skipped it every time

People just don’t appreciate its numerous lyrical allusions to classic works such as Robert Frost’s “Two lonely roads diverged in a wood / and I took the one, doing it by my lonesome, pissed off / who wants some.”

Having loved the show, I’m surprised to say I can’t recall the theme song at all, not a note of it. I’ll have to go back just to hear it.