One of Utica’s biggest weaknesses was she didn’t take constructive criticism well. She often interprets them as a challenge to prove wrong, thinking her quirky drag persona will change the context. When that failed, she then hid behind an insecure, self-deprecating attitude that felt increasingly insincere as the…

Meh. I slogged through it yesterday and today. I hope this is a one-off short series, because nothing was noteworthy, especially by the end, which was as tiresomely drawn out as this sentence. Stuffed with so many tropes all season I was often completing dialogues just before they were uttered.

Kandy is obviously this season’s pot stirring villain with a brick on her shoulder. But honestly, if she were eliminated, most of the Werk Room and judges’ panel tension would evaporate because most of the other contestants are easy going in comparison, including Tina who came off more obnoxiously arrogant rather than…

Lawrence was definitely a marketing choice as Ru and the producers are trying to update their brand/respond to detractors. Especially those who’ve rather rightfully noted the most talented plus size queens could only hope in the past was the MC title at best, with the crown reserved for the physically fit,…

Oh, but they’re supposed to be awed at the opportunity to fly to Hollywood, the past century’s entertainment mecca, for an all expense paid production of a streamed show starring the winner! Since production costs are notoriously high in southern California (the main reason why other cities/countries have become focal…

Is it just me or was Max Lord a very thin depiction of the current US commander-in-chief? (though a bit more contrite and humble at the end).

I’m surprised The Crown is not listed, since it’s been consistently highly rated by critics and fans alike, including the AV Club. Though there’s been criticism concerning its historical accuracy, so has many similar series listed above. Overall, it’s a compelling watch beyond the UK.

“While I think her performance was terrific, I also do wonder if he was outright thinking of how to both show off Anderson’s chops as well as take a few shots at a political figure he grew up despising.”

I understand the cast members must traverse 3 decades of history in 2 seasons; but choosing ones who initially represented women still in their mid-to-late 30's, had just given birth to children yet look like aging, dowdy grandmothers of young adult grandchildren made this season somewhat difficult to take seriously.…

The ballrooms I’ve attended the ‘boy’ categories were considered a part drag. That’s the problem we have know, shows like RPDR has defined it to a very narrow range of categories and gender representations, when it was the exact opposite +3 decades ago.

Both Oreatta and Ethelrida are just a means to link the main story lines together while attempting to keep any female characters more than incidental. Because otherwise this is a tale of various legions of men - competing mobster gangs and law enforcement - leading up to an apocalyptic regional war. Which quite…

“I felt like we finally got the American allegory of this season...It’s clunky and not clear...”
Agreed. One thing I’m finding increasingly annoying is the revisionist approach the screenwriters are taking with the language and attitudes of all the characters of that period. The lack of bigotry displayed, whether…

That shootout scene was filled with so many tiresome tropes it was pathetic.
Gaetano, newly redefined from straight villain to anti-hero by making amends with his brother just-in-time to win a guns blazing charge against a small cavalry of men with much superior firepower with just two pistols. With his left eye still…

But that over-the-top raid would be evidence enough he spilled the beans on them among even the most clueless of the crime families and gossipers. I think he wants Zelmare alive to distract both local and federal law enforcement from the brewing crime gang war, which may backfire anyway.

“This sobering knowledge of what it was like to be a woman, even a middle-class white woman, 40 or 50 years ago.”
Just nitpicking point, it was set 50 to 60 years ago, prior to and during the heights of the 60's Sexual Revolution, the Women’s and Civil Rights Movements. If the adult Beth were navigating the 70's (40+…

I appreciated them showing that juxtapositioned against Mrs. Butter’s assumptions about Jack’s nature/character. These ethical quandaries have been addressed throughout the series, from earlier seasons’ Monster-Of-The-Week eps to forging alliances with supposedly evil entities who helped them avoid catastrophic events…

Bravo! (Oops, should I say CW?) Anyway, I loved how this ep no longer glosses over the fact Sam and Dean are maturing Gen X’rs - though they still have most of the physical strengths of their young buck days, they have mellowed out. From the very first scene’s closeup of Sam calmly puzzling over strange noises as he’s…

That’s something never explained - if Kepler-22b is twice the size of earth, wouldn’t the gravity pull be too much at least for humans, depending on its mass composition?

Also echos of 2010: The Year We Make Contact - but instead of Monoliths seeding planets to instigate intelligent species we have these mysterious snake like creatures devolving arriving ones to use as incubators for their own survival?

Funny you mention X-Files w/Mulder and Sculley, because they even resembled those two in the close up camera shot library scene; something about their facial expressions when she confronted him at the table.