I hear you, and I'm sure it has been bandied about as a way of saying Jewish people worship a worse God or whatever, but— just based on the stories within the Old Testament… like, casting peeps out of the Garden of Eden for seeking knowledge, telling Abraham to kill Isaac, drowning the whole world (and then, yes,…

Not exactly the same, but The Knick does a really great job of making the surgery scenes really tactile—the medical instruments are so proppy-looking by their design since they're turn-of-the-20th-century instruments, but the look and sound are really visceral.

I mean, tbh God doesn't do as much cursing people forever and ordering people to kill their families and destroying cities in the New Testament as in the Old. He's like "u sinned? fu." vs. "u sinned? kill me I guess." (probably weighted by a disproportionate amount of focus on the New Testament being placed on the…

I might agree with you except that he says "it's my turn." And I don't think they would've put REPENT on the stockade if we weren't supposed to infer his choice to go in was in some part repentance.

He certainly had extra drive to want to go at this point, but it certainly wouldn't be strange if it were a standing thing anyway.

Well, I don't think any viewers think Matt is lying— but the show intentionally leaves room for the possibility that it may very well have been an imagined event that she woke up. And no, they've shown Kevin's illness, but have also hinted in some sort of reality to his hallucinations/visions. They haven't really…

The Thea thing was training, so I assumed they weren't full-out trying to hurt each other. Sara, if you remember when she came out of the pit, isn't just enraged, but seems to have supernatural strength. And I think Thea's stronger since coming out of there as well.

Really cool how keeping her son from making out with a girl he just met is worse than taking away her agency in all these peeps' eyes.

I totally see blonde when I look at her.

(Oh, and the "best and brightest" comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, I apologize.)

Um yes allowed and possible. That doesn't mean there aren't huge pressures and gendered violence, and a lack of accountability for or understanding of rape. It's not all either peachykeen or Taliban.

Overzealous kegels could be a real problem.

Marital rape wasn't even a crime in the whole US until 1993, and only started becoming criminalized in the 1970s. Peoples' attitudes about sex were and are not as progressive as you think. She would have faced huge social stigma and maybe violence if she had tried to break off what people saw as the best thing she had…

I don't think she plans on saving humanity, she plans on saving the earth, presumably from humanity. I'm thinking she's an alien ecoterrorist.

Oh, also, I think in this case the timeline was intentionally shortened based on the arbitration clause that said arbitration had to be resolved within 18 months of graduation, and she was already in month 17.

lol pretty sure Alicia doesn't care whether her actions help Peter's political career. The timeline thing, yeah, but the majority of scripted shows compress the timeline this way for effective storytelling in a short time frame, especially shows with a procedural bend like this. Your first and third questions would be…

I'm going to disagree with you on the point that a woman marrying her rapist is an uncommon or soapy event, especially the very grounded way it was played on Mad Men (i.e. because it's a terrible, tragic thing that is way too common and moored in the realities of the patriarchy we live in which the show often…

Yeah, time is definitely part of that, but having a lighter would have been just as fast, and the graphics go way overboard.

What I'm hoping is she's the next monster of the week (for the "love" fear flower), maybe lasting max three episodes, with some new crush story mixed in / actually coming to a head. Then Betsy Ross dies or goes back into the ether or whatever. Fingers crossed.

Well, on that point, I think it works. There's the monster-of-the-week threat of killing that they fight, but the killing isn't actually her goal. She's raising things that people fear generally, yes, but their specific iteration is always tied directly to Crane's past—Pandora's real goal is to stir up his personal…