I think every HBO limited series since Chernobyl has been ‘fucking terrible with a prestige overcoat’. Trying to be Netflix is not working for them...this (and Run, and The Outsider, and maybe even Sharp Objects) could have been great 2-hour HBO movies, but these are all padded out with false tension, stupid twists,…

So, are just going to ignore the questionable judgement of the parents from both sides for bringing their kids to trial, fully knowing that there would be some very explicit and graphic details discussed?

Also, maybe it’s the dad in me, but I found it troubling that the defense lawyer instantly whipped out the bloody…

I would totally watch a season that’s mostly about Emily or Moira 

Oh I actually HATE the Handmaid’s tale for all there face shots of Elizabeth Moss. She’s great but not that great. I love the story but I wish Moss wouldn’t be the main character for a season.

Not as many as you would think. Engineers tend to be nerdy/geeky. Frats in the 80's thru 00's didn’t want those guys.  I can’t speak for what they want now.

Your description of her facial “wrinkles” is spot on. I caught one shot where her forehead starts to furrow slightly, which confused me, and then it just popped back smooth again. And the cheek fillers are also distracting. I find myself looking at her face analyzing the surgery instead of watching the character. She…

I was trying to explain this to my wife without getting in trouble. I said something like, ‘Clearly she’s gorgeous, but if she has much more work done on her face she’s gonna look like......someone who’s had too much work done on her face.’ Which is a shame, cuz I’ve been a fan since BMX Bandits.

Man you must love The Handmaid’s Tale 

Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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I think the directors choice to film people’s eyeballs is a poor one. Eyes are kinda gross and ookey, and I really don’t need a close-up shot of anyone’s eyeballs. A face close-up, okay I get it. But the eyeball shots are distracting and take me out of the show. I keep thinking of how close the camera had to get in…

but it sure was racist when he called Detective Mendoza “dear boy. No. No it’s not. Sutherland (and his eyebrows) are a senior, likely English educated, art and humanities expert and “dear boy” is not in anyway an ethnic slur and commonly used. My very senior boss uses it all the time when giving me a slight,…

There’s something to that. And I think the near constant mockery by the mainstream culture, however justified, help solidify him as an underdog (even as president.) People love an underdog.

Yeah I’m 100% certain she’s the killer. I’m 70% certain that the police suspect this and she’s the person of interest. I’m also 70% sure this is going to be another ‘big on mood, low on storytelling’ HBO short series.

I’m like 100 percent certain the twist will be that she did it, but they might not even need to do the DID thing since she’s proven to be an unreliable narrator within the show. She might have done it and knows she did it but the show is just kind of fucking with us on how its portraying her behavior.

Just a theory but I think Grace has dissociative identity disorder and that part of her knows about the affair and her husband losing his job, that she followed him after he left the fundraiser, saw them banging at her studio, and killed Elena after he left. The image she saw at the bus stop of Elena getting that…

That’s my first read too, and I get the feeling there’s going to be the latest in HBO’s string of slow-burning underplotted-but-overstuffed-mystery miniseries. They really haven’t done well with these since the first Big Little Lies. But we’ll see.

I immediately turned to the Mrs and said “Donald Sutherland did it.”

Oh, that’s interesting. I’m like 90% sure Elena’s husband isn’t the father of her baby, mostly because the baby looks white with light hair (I know genetics can be weird, but I feel like for tv they usually have babies look like their tv parents). But I was thinking it would turn out to be Hugh Grant’s kid because…

The internet has made writers out of people who don’t have much to say or don’t know how to say it. “Lacking” is my pet peeve (lacking what?!), and I see it in freakin’ headlines.