Jesse Armstrong arguably cut his teeth creating Peep Show before he worked on The Thick of It.

This episode had a lot of people seeing and ignoring (or misreading) warning signs. Rita and Nick both sense something is wrong but their concern is ignored (quite deliberately, in Serena’s case). Serena also observes that little Charlotte / Angela is at risk from neglect but does nothing. Pryce pretty much says that…

The money/coupon system, whatever it is they use to actually purchase the groceries. We’ve seen them before, I believe.

I have found I need the tributes & articles I have found online to help me through my day. It helps to construct some meaning from the appearance of meaninglessness that others are able to find similar touchstones, places of connection, deep & profound gratitude for what Scott was able to achieve — hooks into thoughts…

It can’t be a shopping list. The women aren’t allowed to read. Any kind of shopping list would have to be memorized.

I think it’s part and parcel with the show’s rather soft and naive approach to its Christian rightwing zealots. They have no trouble showing you the abuse and oppression, but as an organisation the republic of Gilead is rather freefloating. Atwood was a lot more direct about how Gilead related to the religious right.…

That means you weren’t watching Happy Endings when it was on ABC...you and a bunch of other people, which is sadly why we can’t have nice things.

And note that what’s actually a potential problem in SV is not being Christian, as such, but being anti-gay, which they made an end run around by having the guy be gay himself. (It was Brendan Eich, then-CEO of Mozilla, and the issue even then was a) contributions to an anti-SSM campaign, and b) the idea of CEO as…

I thought the switch of the gay dating site founder being persecuted for being a Christian in the same way a gay person gets persecuted elsewhere was funny for the first couple of jokes. But after the episode kept pressing the issue I got a bit annoyed. No one in the tech industry is going destroy a major deal because…

I’m so happy they aired this without commercial breaks. I didn’t even realize that was the case until after the episode was over and I started googling it. I don’t think I took my eyes off the screen for 41 straight minutes.

While I’m incredibly excited for the prospect of a female Doctor, I’m still less excited about the prospect of Chibnall taking over. Broadchurch is mostly pretty good but it and Doctor Who are completely different beasts. He’s proven on Doctor Who and Torchwood that he’s awful at balancing tone, which is a key skill…

They can go back in time and launch drone strikes at weddings throughout history.

I know it’s non-traditional, but I’d really prefer that there be no end game romance in this one. Plenty of women like Rebecca are happier and better off staying single, enjoying life as solo flyers. Why not romanticize that for a change, instead of romanticizing romance yet again? The story is too good to put a pat…

Humans are very, very good at rationalizing whatever we do as for the best. “If I don’t do this he’ll ruin my career”, “as his lawyer it’s not just my job but my duty to be his defender and advocate”, “it’s not illegal to gather information and it’s not for me to assign blame”, “if they didn’t want his attention I’m…

Overall though, yes, Rebecca made a terrible decision. However, we can’t ignore that Greg’s father did much worse. 1. Rebecca was feeling very vulnerable and alone at that time and HE KNEW 2. HE HAD SEX WITH HIS SON’S EX-GIRLFRIEND I don’t see why nobody commented on that.

Personally, I find it kind of weird when people offer Rebecca the courtesy of sympathy but not Josh. All of the characters are troubled in some way, including him, but none of them are actually bad people. Josh is immature, self-absorbed, refuses to take responsibility for his actions, idealizes people thinking they…

I’ve heard many people say they can’t watch this show because it is so cringeworthy. Rebecca’s antics this week were probably the most cringeworthy we’ve ever seen...and yet, it made the episode that much more enjoyable. She is, no doubt, absolutely terrible, but it makes for interesting television to see her full…

A shame he didn’t run into Dexter or Walter White or Justin Vernon up there.

Thank you for articulating this so well! You captured the reasons why I found Mr. Robot so engaging and original in the prior seasons, and why I’m also now concerned that the show is taking a turn towards the generic. As you pointed out, such a development in the show would only reflect the troubling trends in the…

“Mr. Robot started out as a pretty rote litany of all the usual pseudo anarchist cliches that were so pat and generic they made your eyes almost roll out their sockets. And yet viewers ate it up. Slowly but surely Esmail turned those generic rage against the machine rants into something far more interesting and, I’d…