Why, oh why do they need six seasons? June’s story is nearly over at this point, and The Testaments covers the details that really matter in regards to Gilead, the characters we know, and some of whom we haven’t met in full yet.

“genuinely competent writer”

No no no you see it’s DIFFERENT here because freedum.

It’s not worth it to engage. Black Twitter needs to have their Special Moment regarding a dead woman with little governing power who was given a role she never wanted. Gotta get all those hot takes out the door!

So the woman that was the pair of tits in Blurred Lines and that was the pair of tits in Gone Girl has finally figured out that men commodify women?

That’s where I sit with the Bezos crew and the review pause. Not for nothing, but if folks were going to review bomb because of casting, it would have happened before the deluge of negative reviews, and folks were indeed being awful over the internet well before the show premiered. It’s a gorgeous show, the cast are…

Not only that, but the elves we do have descriptions on are almost universally described as “fair” or “fair of complexion”- it’s the hair and eye colors that differentiate them: Only Vanyar and members of houses with Vanyar descent have golden hair and silver hair is unique to the ruling Teleri, etc.

io9 does a pretty good job; Rob knows the source material and they clear the bar of accurately summarizing the plot. Low bar, I know. I don't know why AV Club doesn't just cross post that review in lieu of trying to generate their own.

It would be one thing if the critique was from a different, banal perspective of “titties and dragons”... Jenna’s reviews are just plain inaccurate. She consistently misses obvious foreshadowing/ motif and can barely accurately summarize the plot- making it difficult to judge the review as a review instead of a stream…

I mean, she wasn’t wrong for the time, nor was anyone else. Reproductive rights weren’t even in the top five for progressive voters for ages. Bernie Sanders even endorsed antichoice candidates because of what he deemed “the greater good. “ Meanwhile, women didn’t vote for abortion rights, though plenty of women voted…

Cruise may be permanently off market thanks to Scientology. We know a LOT more about how truly abusive the organization is- when he was with Holmes, Scientology was known as a South Park punch line and for its amazingly expensive auditing system. If Shelly Miscavige isn't off limits to RPF, then Cruise's partner…

Not for nothing, but they probably thought that what would happen would be what’s been happening for the past 25 years as they've steadily and successfully chipped away at our rights. People are apathetic and will ascribe any rationale in the book as to why they can’t get off their ass and vote. They were counting on…

Also, if we have learned anything, it’s that the GOP will mobilize behind even someone they hate when the rubber meets the road. If voters are given a GOP candidate they like and a candidate they hate but is still a reliable GOP vote, they’ll 1-2 rank them over the Democrat every day of the week.

Of course they are. Look at any non outrage bait/ hot taek nonsense on this site and compare the commenting volume/ frequency. They can’t even get more than a single comment for SNS- which was once a guaranteed all-night browser refresh.

Don’t forget that the biggest and most aggressive dragons are always black. Balerion and Drogon are being fetishized, and isn’t it just CONVENIENT that these wypipo are all taming these savage Dragons of Color in order to subjugate them to service roles? AND then steal their babies to be companions?

I’m not sure that’s what the show is planning, considering they’ve already divested pretty heavily from the part where Mysaria is ABSOLUTELY pregnant in the text. It seems they want her to be a mixup of Varys and Melissandre. Which, fine, we’re already timeskipping each episode and have to get to the uncle- loving…

And not for nothing, but this is a GOT spinoff on HBO. If they slept together, we would have seen it or at least the lead up to it, plus suggestive dialogue after the fact.

If you’d ever worked in foodservice and not just played at it on the Internet, you’d know “if you can lean, you can clean” is a VERY salient point.

Privyet, comrade!

Funnily enough, we by and large didn’t die at 40. The average is skewed because so many children died before reaching puberty (and because a lack of reproductive planning ensured women were giving birth far more often), and women died in childbed. If you survived to 16, odds are you’d be alive in your 60s, and the…