Do my instincts deceive me, or did we receive a first introduction to Elijah Wood’s new character

Excited to watch this episode.

And Swarm isn’t the first horror themed show with a heavy Black female input. Them on Amazon was created by a black man (Little Marvin) but was produced by Lena Waithe and had Marvin and Christina Ham in the writers room (yes, there were white writers as well, but with Waithe producing the black voices weren’t pushed…

I can barely remember what happened on the previous season for shows by the time the new one rolls around, so I’m pretty apprehensive about bothering to commit to anything with multiple plot twists. Then Misty bakes a fucken cookie with “I want my lawyer” iced on the top, and there’s no way I’m not back in.

- but whenever the main character is triggered by someone knocking her idol, you hear the buzzing of bees and she goes into a sort of trance and murders someone.

I haven’t watched it yet but that’s what I figured, his statement was obviously about what he as a director told her to do in her performance and was in no way calling her or any other actual black woman an animal in real life.

He’s a director directing an actor. He’s looking for an emotion, an approach to the character. He’s telling her that the character is acting on instinct and not reason and approach that way. Which, if you watch the show, the character did. A switch flipped whenever she heard her “trigger” statement - which is what…

There are a lot of real things to get offended about, I hate it when people stoke outrage by purposefully misreading statements. Especially on a webpage founded by Henry Louis Gates Jr. for much higher purposes than dragging down a black man for the clicks.

“Twitter was ablaze with criticism, noting that him likening a Black woman to an animal is just his latest problematic comment in a string of offenses.”

I don’t understand why they do this. Does it really cost a lot to keep a show on a server and available for viewing?  Some of it is rights related, but it’s hard to think they couldn’t work out a deal with the rights owners for very little money.  I mean, whoever holds the rights to these shows isn’t making any money…

They are available on Disney+.  This is only for shows not available on any streaming service.

He was not. IIRC, it was explicitly a cash grab, a way to make his fiction writing into a tax-free institution.

Okay, but as a Hollywood megastar, isn’t his power outside of Scientology also pretty ridiculous? I get what you’re saying — especially because he is the absolute king of Scientology vs. one of several top stars in the real world — but Leah Remini’s coffee example maybe isn’t the best one given the number of…

Also shows that she’s so much better off without him.

Tom can see Suri. In their divorce agreement, he isn’t allowed to disparage or alienate Katie from Suri.

I think Natalie sees her dad in Travis and is trying to “save” him. She’s so empathic she can’t ignore his loud masculine pain taking over the vibe. It’s kind of relatable as someone whose found herself attracted to men who act like my dad.

No Somebody??? Better remove your deep cuts for a better cut.

I guess I’m older than whoever made this list, as Some Great Reward is my Depeche Mode album of choice. I can understand being tired of People are People, but Somebody and/or Master and Servant definitely merit inclusion on this list.

I was hoping for John the Revelator, but the lack of But Not Tonight is kind of criminal.

Good seeing Stripped up high, but I’d have gone with the live version from 101 instead. Barrel of a Gun not only not being in the top 5, but not even on the list is a travesty though.