I haven’t been so viscerally creeped out in a long time, this was a rough episode to get through. In the best way

I know it’s down to the show barrelling double-speed toward an endgame, but the plot of this season (and the last, in context now) is one of the most insane things that television has ever asked me to believe. It’s hard enough to swallow that Mellie was handed the presidency after losing the election with very little…

Well why would it be public knowledge? How would Ethel have heard about all of these conversations in detail?

Because just saying “I don’t want a prison here!” is kind of vague and doesn’t express any specific, genuine concerns.

Because just saying “I don’t want a prison here!” is kind of vague and doesn’t express any specific, genuine concerns. They should at least voice why in a way that makes sense.

Earn definitely has the can’t-pretend-to-give-a-fuck demeanor of someone who is already checked out of a relationship. I wouldn’t want to play along with the creepy white people nonsense either, but you at least exasperatedly force yourself to do the weird dance with your girlfriend’s weird friends if you love her,…

But how would they know that? Those private Lodge moments are things only we’ve seen as the audience. Publicly she’s just a kid who stands with her parents at events. I don’t think that’s a good enough excuse to bully someone.

I mean, I’m 100% against for-profit prisons, but I don’t think I fully understand why everyone is so against the idea of a prison at all that it’s worth bullying the daughter of the guy building it? They just keep rambling about the “soul” of Riverdale without really explaining their concerns. I guess I understand…

Oh man, that’s a great idea. There’s a lot to mine out of the dynamic between those two, and the terror the public felt at the time. That’s a case where I really felt for the cops, people were just up and dying out of mid-air and what little evidence could be found was mostly puzzling.

I really liked this finale. One of the documentaries I saw about Cunanan speculated that he killed himself so that his story would always be unfinished, people would always be left wanting. I loved that moment with Lizzie’s plea for him to turn himself in and show the world the real him - I’m sure she thought that was…

I mean, at least they acknowledged the Fitz/Olivia power imbalance but that half-assed conversation kind of pisses me off more than if they’d just played dumb about it. It’s not enough to have Olivia just say “no, you weren’t inappropriate” without any further explanation or introspection. This is a show where…

Also the Philippines set was incredible, A+. They really captured the feeling of being in a humid rainforest environment for the first time and being overwhelmed by the way the air feels, the way it smells, the cacophony of insect/wildlife sounds all around you, and the rain that’s warm and seems to just phase in and…

Darren is close enough, but that kid looks soooo much like pictures of young Cunanan it’s genuinely eerie.

“They” is neutral terminology.

Her writing style is very varied and mile-a-minute, like she’s aiming to get a laugh out of each person of the room at least once every 120 seconds and imagines that room to be diverse in taste. What you can single out though is the heart, she’s a very romantic, emotional writer, but does this thing where she hides…

I could always call a Kaling episode of the Office without checking who wrote it. She definitely has a particular voice

I went to school with a kid exactly like him. I think the more pervasive stereotypes now are the typical smalltown jock who secretly just wants to sing and date dudes (placating open-minded conservatives), the self-hating aggressive burnout (emphasizing the dangers of homophobia while also being a very accessibly…

Maybe I’m crazy, but did that little moment in the doctor’s office suggest that perhaps Andrew learned to lie about himself from his mother?

And to my understanding the altercation between Andrew and his mother was an argument about his sexuality. It’s interesting what they’re choosing to create and omit

See, I personally think this whole episode (bar the Versaces) was quietly about Andrew’s race. He’s trapped in a shitty job with a Filipino friend of his father who tells him that’s the best future he can hope for, he feels isolated in the gay community because he doesn’t have “the look”, even stooping so low as to…