Another similar but slightly different is “The Fatal Inversion” by Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) about a group of college-age kids who spend the summer in a quasi-commune on an English estate. Like “The Secret History” you find out early that someone is killed but not who or why. 

Am I the only one who was surprised August is a “he”? I’d seen mention of this elsewhere and assumed differently.

We don’t know for sure whether the bystanders were Black, but since it’s actually impossible to tell whether someone is an activist just by looking at them

Is the “11 11" tattoo on her wrist her last surviving connection to him? The tabloids seem to think so.

I had a boss once who was all kinds of terrible, but one moment stands out. He was introducing a new employee at a team dinner and paused after saying the person’s preferred name, then added, “If your name is Tim, mine is Abdul!” 

Reminds me of a Seinfeld plotline that most viewers today probably don’t get: Elaine dating a guy named Joel Rifkin.

I had the same reaction when it popped up on my screen! Is there a “Best Male Chef” counterpart? Theoretically, actors play different roles defined by their genders (although I’m not convinced we’re going to keep segregating their awards forever), athletes often have gender-based physical differences that may support…

For me, there was a human element, but the difference was that it wasn’t focused on chef vs. chef, but chef vs. him or herself. Kevin’s comeback from cancer, plus all of the growth moments that were shared during the finale, etc.

And it’s spelled “Christene” in all the linked articles, including a previous Jezebel one. Sigh. 

I think she is admitting it when she says “all the way up through last year” - that would include the Grace & Frankie days.

4:04 Eastern, still no correction!

I think you’re right! Only with worse acting... 

I admire your fortitude. I had to finally give up watching after the escape from the cult. But oddly the things that bothered me most were 1) Pop’s Diner is always dimly lit and completely empty and 2) an underage high school girl owns and operates an underground speakeasy/casino and seems to have no issues securing…

You know the common disclaimer “Names have been changed”? It’s the opposite here. The character names are all that the show has in common with the comics, period.

I think I understand that, but it says she won’t claim it, so how does that work? If she’s not claiming it (and thereby avoiding the tax as a spouse), aren’t her kids then still liable as the alternate heirs?

Against my better judgment, I watched the video and it does seem that he is mocking her. He’s calling her out on her statements that she hasn’t had work done. Although he closes with saying she’s beautiful no matter what, and it’s her decision to have surgery or not, it’s clear he wants the viewer to think she is a…

Ha, exactly! It reminds me of those pacts many of us made in our early twenties, that if we didn’t have kids by 35, we’d have one together. How naive we were. (For me it was with a gay male friend.) 

But Stephenie Meyer isn’t exactly known for her skillful weaving of stories without plotholes.

Post college, with my first “real” job, I wound up taking a room in a small house with two other women. One of them, let’s call her Laura, was the primary on the lease and had lived there for a decade or so. I don’t know what to call the other as I have little memory of her - she was either working or in her room with…

What is left out of the Sia mention is that apparently they were her foster kids who were about to age out of the system so she adopted them to make the relationship permanent and legal. It doesn’t sound like she met them for the first time when they were 18 and thought “instant family.”