I will admit that the stuff we’ve learned about Mike in BCS vs. what we knew in BB tends to run together in my mind. But to me, the entire premise that Mike uses the fact that he is “providing” for his daughter and granddaughter—a decision, which, whether framed as obligation or choice, is inextricably tied to the…

Man, I should have read this before I posted my own reply to sketches by boze.

Exactly. It’s like going back and re-watching Kevin Spacey play a creepy perv in American Beauty: recent revelations just highlight a reading of the fictional narrative that was already there. (Toxic masculinity was always a major driving force in BB characters’ decisions, especially when they chose wrong; Lester…

You’re both right. It’s a word that has essentially come to be its own opposite due to widespread misunderstanding:

WHY IS NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT RAINN WILSON’S CAMEO AS ARTHUR THE ASPIRING FUNERAL DIRECTOR FROM SIX FEET UNDER?

And is Creep even a good example of that trend? I feel like the original is pretty melancholy already.

WHERE’S THE SPANISH?

My theory is that Noah Schnapp is just not as strong an actor/does not have the same chemistry with the ensemble as the rest of the child actors so they keep putting him in narrative arcs that double as excuses for him being largely absent and/or a whiny, one-note character.

Oh good, an entire season of eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes. That’s definitely the direction I want this show to go. 

Forget assault and sexual assault. Sexual assault and abortion have the exact same punishment.

Of course abortion and sexual assault are in the same category.

The fact that they identified it as a shelter dog is just an extra twist of the (hopefully only proverbial) knife.

Apparently not: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17713

I haven’t even seen Hereditary, but that GIF looks like it’s alluding to the bubonic plague interpretation of “Ring Around the Rosie”--which is probably an urban legend, in case anyone is wondering.

I agree with all of this, but damn if I’m not excited to see Ruth Wilson in the Ms. Coulter role. Pitch perfect (even if Kidman was a better fit looks-wise).

Yes. The problem was that the original article split the difference and ended up with a spelling that was not quite either.

Chill out. I was poking fun of a spelling error in the original article.

What the heck is Oxycodin? Is Shameless straight up inventing drugs now? (I wouldn’t put it past ‘em.)

I know a lot of people (or at least Vox’s piece on Russian Doll) are talking about how tight and focused the show was, but the last several episodes made a lot of the stuff in earlier ones feel like “filler.” There were so many early narrative and thematic threads left dangling—and so many other pieces I’m not sure we…

Me, too!