Preface: Generally very cool and into most of what Alex writes here, but:

I just really want to see if they have the guts to go with the obvious:

The writing and focus on his character as an idea of the next Don Draper hurt season 1 of Halt and Catch Fire.  After episode 8, when they realize they need to pivot, and the partnership ideas of Donna and Cameron become the focus, it is an entirely new show.  I agree that is character was often then superfluous, and…

Elm Street all the way now.

Or, the ways that terrible boyfriends continually gaslight the women they date is the real and accurate horror.

Supergirl had their own issues (ugh). Arrow had overwork issues ... it feels like Batwoman specifically doubled down on the Arrow production things that did NOT work.

I assume the “Brainy and Dreamy are dating” piece would not be hard for William to pick up on while embedded.  So, if Brainy is also dating Nia... who is your Super Friends contact...that might be cutting it a bit close.  Alex has a cover story that absolves Kara of direct tie in specifically because of her DEO past. …

The apartment I lived in for 19 years after college had four sets of french doors. When I lived with my ex, our bedroom, dining room, kitchen and the office all had french doors. When I reconfigured the rooms to have a roommate, the roomate’s room had french doors (had been the office) with curtains and I swapped what…

I just kind of love that Astra/Spooner came out of the actresses actual bonding on set.  And I wonder if the friend dynamic created by the two newest outsiders replaced some planned romantic pairing work for Astra.

Part of those trial records include:
- Someone literally riding to test Le Gris’s first alibi, where he claims he could not have even been in that city that day based on where he supposedly was

Well of course.  C is for Cookie.  No C, no cookie, no Cookie Monster. 

Soap ages are weird because aging up kids over a summer or two allows them to be worked into other story lines AND avoid the whole child labor restriction problem.

Please tell me one whole episode is devoted to Electra, the dog, and the way she becomes the surrogate child.  Because Electra is how I understand my mother’s entire relationship with my cat, her “grandcat”.  AACK indeed.

Okay, how about we all just skip DEH and you get that free one week trial to Apple TV and go watch the actual staged cast of Come From Away?

Less catchy songs but the biggest moment of cringe is deeply intentional and meant to hold accountability, unlike some othe musicals we know...

Second on the STAGING. That is what is really the problem - capturing Platt alone in performance without the rest of the show he performed in means he can’t recreate parts of why that stage performance was so lauded. But also, the way the staging was envisioned is kind of critical to the ability to “sell” the sort of…

Um, Lucifer is CLEARLY team Bones.

And just wait for the reboot ....

LaToya, you are NOT helping the abandonment issues. Did you learn NOTHING from the last two seasons?

I demand a heartfelt duet of a popular song.

(Seriously, glad you are following your purpose, but you are still missed, and without episode reviews it is really hard to explain why I feel cheated of not having a scene…

I have a whole curriculum on this I taught in 1998.

To 14 year olds.

As a first year high school teacher, my principal had this great idea to do an integrated law elective curriculum that was reading and writing heavy (I was supposed to be an English teacher, but I also coached the debate team and mock trial), and…

Except for that whole massive healthcare plan .... which was seen as overreaching for the First Lady and resulted in a lot of backlash.

It is not Hillary’s fault she did not want to bake cookies and everyone in 1993 really wanted her to bake cookies or some shit.

Virginia Sole-Smith did a really great article on this almost a decade ago in Harper’s. https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2012/07/16/pink-pyramid-scheme/

.... which came about from her investigative journalism work across several publications on how Beauty Schools essentially operate on the same kind of…