I got so muddled on some of this show’s themes. It’s about family and Christina is somewhat chastised for killing her father... but he was even more objectively awful and I’d argue it’s her rejecting at least some of the biased systems she was raised in. Then she made a choice to expand her family to Ruby (if only…

I think every major character did something leading to someone else’s death that would nominally be unforgivable if a villain did it in any other series. (...Other than Leitita who was only ever in jail and I don’t think they explained why but I assume it would have been relatively minor?)

I’m aware other people have been complaining about accents on this show... (including Rahul Kohli who apparently used his real accent for this as opposed to I guess the posh(?) accent he has on iZombie...?)

As a fairly attentive towards this kind of thing non-white person— I’ve watched some of their older material and there were those content warnings on stuff where I honestly couldn’t figure out what they were referring to. I just tried skimming the app and was there once a blanket disclaimer on old content that they’ve…

I have a question about the the line: “I think about the pockets of Black dominated spaces, laced with poverty throughout America, where the average life span of a citizen is just 26 years.”

My issue with this comes from too many comic books as a kid, and characters killed offscreen or in dialogue could still be alive.

I’m glad someone else is as enamoured with her American Gods role, I never saw the second season and I’m wary about the third given all the cast and crew shifts, but I wonder if they could essentially turn it all around with more of the bitter buddy comedy dynamic of Gilpin’s character and Laura (if she’s still on the…

I think they implied she was cursed by the police chief that anyone interacting with her wouldn’t notice and she wouldn’t be able to talk. It’s like the main characters forgetting the pilot monster encounter the following morning, but the rules of this amnesia aren’t clear and don’t come with the standard telegraph…

Regarding Christina, if someone’s family is dedicated to awfulness then isn’t it fair to then turn on those systems than be the next torchbearer of that evil or implicitly let that kind of thing slide by in order to uphold the ties of the family unit?

I started there too and am circling back to the beginning, but on a sampling of two full episodes so far it seems weird how many of the fantastical elements were not foreshadowed in any capacity? (Like they make thematic enough sense for the human drama side but aren’t what I would have expected.)

Doesn’t this movie have a stage musical the cast performs somewhere towards the end? I also have pretty positive memories of another in camera trick where they have some shots transition from a party/dance to a close up of Ben Foster and eventually zoom back out to everyone else hiding out of frame and I thought there…

I do appreciate how it is primarily a remake of She’s All That while not being as boring. (The inexplicable dance number here and presence of Anna Paquin aside.)

Erivo ran away with the movie in a stacked cast, but I wonder if her two major songs in the body of the movie count as her rehearsing in the context of her career? At least two of her numbers have in narrative purposes beyond her career though.

He’s pretty mixed for me— I wasn’t quite the right age to get into his whole 50 states schtick at the time and I dislike a lot of his electronica stuff which can particularly get self-indulgent (about 80% of his Christmas material and some Chinese zodiac concept album nonsense I couldn’t even listen to).

As per his last album, he was abandoned in a video store by his schizophrenic/depressed/alcoholic mother as a toddler, though I guess I don’t know how literally people are supposed to take that lyric.

There was an absurd Bryan Fuller SyFy pilot called “High Moon” and I appreciated their attempts to occasionally acknowledge different gravity, even if they didn’t have the budget to consistently make it look remotely okay. (Or had a super rich character have a force field helmet so she could look like figures from 1920…

I’d only seen the snake thing but after watching the stain one I think she’s just gregariously weird and probably playing it up to be entertaining? I thought she saved “standing for stains” instead of “stanning” and she was even spot on with the etymology. (...as far as I know.)

I’m still a little unclear on how the character is explicitly coded as Jewish, is the last name the clincher?

Even when she first applies it seemed like he was gently handsy with the character in a sufficiently low key manner that it could make her uncomfortable, but not egregiously enough that he can’t explain it away.

It’s an entertaining and occasionally confounding show I still tentatively look forward to every week, but my god is it far from “greatness.”