I actually think BLM guy will turn out to be as harmless as he initially seems (to me).  I kinda disagree with this review saying that Tanya ending up sleeping with him (we presume) is her falling into the traps she described by her mom...  She’s having a hard time.  She’s also on vacation.  Let her have some slightly…

You guys are really a drag.

Quinn was in awe of those guys because while he’s getting a scuba training in the kiddie pool talking about what it means to be a man with his father, these guys are maneuvering a canoe on the ocean with skillful ease just being men by travelling on the water using their manual power. Later, he sees them hanging out…

Agreed. Quinn is definitely going through some kind of personal transformation, but what’s the basis for thinking it has anything to do with him being gay? Because he lost interest in a porn video and chose to gaze out over the ocean instead? Because of his fascination with the canoe rowers?

hate to be that gay, but that was an awful depiction of rimming.

It’s very much this. Quinn isn’t realizing he’s gay, he’s getting peaks behind the curtain and is connecting to what’s outside of his bubble. This show is all about privilege with the resort acting as a dividing line. Rachel, Quinn, Paula, Belinda, and Armand are all fish that have been caught in the privileged…

yeah as a queer guy this definitely isn’t a coming out story of Quinn’s, it’s him seeing the beauty of actual Hawaii outside the resort.

This is the second review in a row that has implied that Quinn might be secretly gay. I guess it’s possible he is, but I don’t think so. For one, his dad flat out asked him last episode if he was and he said no. Of course he could be lying or confused, but guilelessness seems to be one of Quinn’s defining…

“positioned Armond firmly into active villain territory”

This is a good point. My take on Rachel thus far is that she’s confident about her looks (see the way she uses her body to shut up Olivia and Paula), but terribly insecure about herself otherwise. It seems to me like she started dating Shane for physical reasons and just got caught up in the momentum of it, and now…

this was a really tense episode, and the stakes are high in the sense that we all can relate in these small but defining moments in our lives.

Shane has probably been accused of gaslighting at some point in his life but has no idea what it is. It makes sense that a spoiled person would adopt the terminology of the abused/oppressed.

I guess he did. But he also threatened his girlfriend when she asked him about it. Those things don’t really fit together.

Good God, are you wound tight.

Yes- this show has a very Catholic take on forgiveness. So many people on this show choose not to press charges or hold grudges against others in situations where most people would NOT let it go. It’s clear the show had a central theme about how you can’t forgive others until you forgive yourself, and we see that in…

I assumed he wanted to hear him practice saying it to see if he sounded believable for when he was gonna confess to the cops the next day. Then I guess in that moment John decided it wasn’t super believable or didn’t trust Billy to “confess” properly, so he was just gonna take Billy out, make it look like a suicide,…

Well, the Christian symbolism was up front and center as she held Lori. It was basically a pieta pose. “Mare” is a variant of Mary.

I so wanted a completely obvious dummy to fall from the attic opening, hanged by the neck, followed by: Fin. 

It’s kind of like going through the wardrobe to Narnia, except Mare ends up in the fantasy land known as Westtown.

By the way, GQ article makes me realize that I really want to hang out with Winona Ryder. She seems to have the wherewithal to form the perfect medium between the Steve Martin-"I will now perform a 90 minute art review, and…what's that? You wanted to hear JOKES? What made you think I was here to make you…