Only on the Americans have I shed a tear while watching a father put his daughter in a choke hold... and I wasn’t sad. I was proud of his parenting.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Hilary Bettis about writing this episode, hope you find it of interest:

My two cents: there is no such thing as a Nazi sympathizer. If you have a group of people consisting of one Nazi and six of his sympathizers, what you have is seven Nazis.

It is very difficult to determine consent in that scenario in that time period. You are so confident that these women “chose” to have sex with the Englishmen. But what if there were some unspoken (or even spoken) expectation that they entertain these colonizers by any means? What if their sexuality is not their own to…

The women are the ones initiating, but why? The fact that their degree of interest or consent can be debated at all just goes to show that the series did not do a good job depicting these socially unbalanced affairs from the perspective of the colonial women. As Caroline rightly pointed out, why does the waitress from…

I’m not saying it’s impossible that pleasant cultural exchanges, friendly sporting events, and consensual affairs took place within a colonial system that was also filled with horrors and injustice. But to solely depict the good without depicting the bad is to tell a lie of omission. And if you think I’m making a…

Here’s my prediction for Whiterose’s project: it’s a time machine of sorts, though not a literal one. It’ll be a quantum computer capable of simulating both wide-scale societal events and very personal individual decision-making by extrapolating them from the real world data. It basically allows Whiterose to try out…

The show seems to explore something it hadn’t really previously, that is the physical incarnation of “Mr Robot” in Eliot’s body. Even after season 1 Mr robot was always seen as a separate character, and conveniently as Christian Slater with his own energy, and we’d forget that it was actually Eliott speaking. Now we…

Elliot hacking and having people (rightfully) arrested purely because his powerpoint skills were not up to scratch is just brilliant. For 15 mins I was back in the shenanigans of early Season 1, and not completely terrified of this show like I am now.

honestly at the start of this season i thought tyrall or his wife were gonna die,and now she is dead.

welp if you actually watched the show you’d know they already addressed this last season. Maura won’t be doing any more physical transitioning stuff bc the meds and surgery could interfere with her heart.

Next year we'll find out Martha and child are moving to a small town called Pripyat because Martha scored a nice job at this power plant known as Chernobyl.

"Because then it's just a one sided attack?"
Nooo…. It's a TV plotline.
I a show does an addiction plotline and fail to include the benefits of recreational drugs would that be a one sided attack? No it would be a plotline on a television show.
This just in: A story doesn't have to equally cater to everyone's views.

Or, as Loretta put it much more succinctly below, the episode isn't about the debate over abortion rights. They aren't setting up a strawman who is pro-life to argue against and mock. They are taking choice as a given and moving forward from there to discuss why we are told to feel shame over abortions, without ever…

If I were to have an abortion, which I would absolutely do without hesitation were I to become pregnant, what pro-life people think of me for doing so would have absolutely zero impact on me. They would be absolute irrelevant to my day or my week or my month or my year. Having them not impact Diane's process was true…

Is there a way to do an abortion storyline in which someone isn't expecting a baby and then aborts it? I mean, that is what abortion is.

I mentioned this on a different AVC thread yesterday, but the problem is that the majority of films spend time giving an arc to the superhero. That leaves barely any time for the villain to do anything bar twirl a moustache, then we get the last act face off.

The problem with the MCU films, especially when introducing a character, is that their first villain is simply the hero with a similar power and/or suit. Iron Man v Obadiah in a suit. Hulk v Abomination. Ant Man v Yellow Jacket. Thor v Loki. Captain America v Red Skull. All those villains are simply versions of the…

Just so we're clear, Daisy left SHIELD because she couldn't get over how her two boyfriends chose to be with each other over her in their last moments.

I loved the way Hive died. No denial, no grandiose ranting, no last-minute attempts to make Lincoln suffer. Just quiet acceptance that his plan had failed and the end was inevitable, and a moment to enjoy the beauty of the Earth.