It’s too bad we don’t have a more concise word to use instead of the clunky “wife guy”- I dunno, like... husband... or spouse?

Oh, yeah I see that now, and that totally changes the situation - LW3 seems like less of an asshole, more just naive to think boyfriend will drop an 8-year FWB-ship for their brand-new relationship.

Honestly what pissed me off most about L3 was the whole “I made it clear we were in an open relationship, but *he* can’t date any other people” thing, which I’ve heard of before, and is always baffling to me. Unless the monogamous person in the arrangement is specifically into that, I don’t know why anyone thinks…

Ok first, your assessment of her ‘four jobs’ situation just doesn’t make any sense. Do you understand how time and fractions work? One part-time job is usually at least 10-20 hours a week, so add 1+1+1+1... *four* part-time jobs is 40 hours a week minimum- aka the equivalent of a full-time job.

Agreed, but I don’t think it’s quite so simple as ‘naked women = objectification = bad’- the effect of showing women’s bodies can really differ depending on context, framing, and the woman’s actual agency in the story. I’m hopeful about this show largely because the strippers are the central characters, and it shows…

Agreed- I alsolike that they’ve calmed down with the ‘instrumental covers of very famous pop songs’ shtick this season too; that’s fun in moderation but got annoying when overused. The instrumental-blending-into-original Moses Sumney song at the end was pitch-perfect though.

This is a great explanation - I’d also add that many bisexual people (myself included) continue to use ‘bisexual’ because it’s existed for a longer time, which has some advantages:

People are mad that they killed one of the last two non-white major characters, especially after the decision to sacrifice warriors at Winterfell in order of Dothraki —> Unsullied —> White Westerosi people. In the style of most fantasy series it imagines a mostly white universe, but that’s hardly new.

I think Littlefinger had green eyes- the most convincing theory to me is that Walder Frey was “brown eyes,” Littlefinger “green eyes,” the night king “blue eyes,” since they’re all power players and important to her journey.

Right?! It was honestly the most obvious “fake-out rejection to prevent your loved one from following you into danger” since Tyrion and Shae. The subtext definitely announced it too, all the talk of “she’s so evil and so am I” also reads as “we’re evil together, so I need to kill her to complete my moral…

I’d guess that the complete imbalance of Gritty/postmodern westerns > Heroic/Escapist westerns has more to do with how modern people like their escapism. We’ve still got plenty of Heroic/Escapist faux-violent genre movies, they’re just Marvel movies now, and a few years ago they were Bourne movies, and before that, Te…

Yeah, they pretty directly alluded to it a few other times. The LOTR/Elf episode was the most obvious, with Annie and memory-Ellie remembering their mother calling them cockroaches, other terrible things. Also when Annie received her “diagnostic” sheet much earlier, and it said “borderline personality” and something…

I think the story is, “‘Coco’ did well at the box office and looks pretty... why don’t we just do that?”

Have you seen Tarkovsky’s “Solaris”? Because that’s literally the plot to Solaris. So, yeah, as a Tarkovsky dork, I would be super happy if they went with that & made such a clear reference to him.

Oh gosh, I 100% know that feel. By far my most memorable lessons in “how-not-to-be-an-awful-girlfriend/person” have come from cringey experiences of either: 1) watching friends’ shitty boy/girlfriends act horribly, or 2) watching TV & movie characters act horribly, and feeling mortified by the possibility (or horrible…

It’s so funny that Sava noted it as “Mitski-esque” too- I wonder if he knows that Adventure Time had Marcy sing a Mitski song in the past? (“Francis Forever” in The Music Hole)