I note your first name and the concomitant unlikelihood that you could recognize a retrograde misogynist nightmare society if it sat on your face.

Carter’s Marla is a fascinating character who becomes retroactively sympathetic as the audience becomes aware of what the character knows. The only other time I’ve seen it pulled off this completely is Carrie-Anne Moss’ Natalie from Memento. Both characters are primed for the audience to hate as foils/antagonists,…

It sounds like someone’s favorite movie about suburban male experiences came in for a bit of criticism and someone couldn’t handle it without weeping.

The “involuntarily celibate”; technically a broad term, but for those who self-apply, it usually means a hetero male such person who locates the reason for their status predominantly with the women who won’t sleep with them rather than with themselves.

And yes, she did allow Trump to get under her skin with his “Pocahontas” racist bullshit.

Mostly I was distracted that he looks like a young Michael Shannon.

I’d be a true shame if you took the reviewer’s word for it. Dark in spots it was, but grimdark it refreshingly was not, nor was it a slog, or lack joy.

I would suggest reading the review on that other Gawker site, io9. They seemed, overall, to have a better handle on what this show was about and what it was designed to achieve.

Oh, we definitely find it funny, just not significantly funnier than every other absurdity. It doesn’t stand out, really.

On that we disagree.

Um, if it’s not a national security or health issue, and it’s not a personal or family issue, and nobody’s getting fired, then there is no reason left not to tell us what happened.

A character can’t grow if he or she is already perfect.

Ah. Well, that is a much more reasonable complaint than the one I thought you were making. I’m not sure which approach is better when a whole season-at-once drops. Perhaps it would be best to do as you suggest with an episode or two review drops per day, but maybe intersperse that with some open thread posts to…

I don’t understand. Are you saying you’re compelled somehow to read reviews for episodes you have not yet viewed?

I doubt your sincerity with this comment.

Like a guy seriously running for vice-president.

Oh, you mean Gödel’s Modal Magic Trick?

I must say, I appreciated the set-up for the show Colony for pretty much this reason.

Fear is merely the excuse. Cowboy is the reason.

Thing was, the show was constantly skewing audience expectations simply by giving certain characters protagonist or antagonist roles so our sympathies would be mislaid. G’kar was never a bad guy, even though he was a rather embittered freedom-fighter, but he is presented unsympathetically in the first season so his…