I wouldn’t write off Van’s demise so quickly.  Look very closely in the 2nd trailer for the series...

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So Adam is working with Jeff to do the blackmail, then? He’s definitely involved in it, way too suspicious of him to turn up at Shauna’s house just then.

-Interesting when Jackie confronted Shauna about what’s up with her, she tells her to “spill”.

I think it for sure has to be possession or something similar to that.  Way too much has happened way too soon to assume everything on this show could be attributed to mental illness.  Also I can’t think of a condition that would make people black out and eat dirt and climb trees which she does in the past and…

This. 100%.

The “What’s up Danger” scene is a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty.

In my opinion Into The Spider-verse is the best by far, and quite possibly the best superhero movie ever made.  Great story and visually stunning, but above all just a joyous love letter for the source material that really gets at a spirit that none of the live action ones can touch.

I wish I could give you more than one star for this.

Are we really talking which tattoos don’t look classy on the site where I get my Taco Bell news?

What’s with the aggressive shit talk about other people’s personal decisions? If people want dumbass tattoos, that’s their deal, who cares?

“Nobody wants to f*** somebody who’s into globes.”

I had a chance to listen to the whole album. When played straight through, it worked really well for me. There’s a strong narrative moving from song to song.  The tracks vary in strength, but I wouldn’t call any of them weak.

The glimpse of Santa I thought was hilarious just because of how audacious that was in what is otherwise a show in a real-world setting.

I admit that literal Santa flying by was a bit too twee for me, but I was on board up to that point, and I don’t really understand why this episode would suddenly turn you against the show if you were already a fan. As was mentioned in the review comments, it’s much more of a Christmas special rather than a…

Hopefully they won’t go the narrative direction of having Ted have to shoulder the responsibility of keeping the room civil - I’m hoping what we’re leading up to is Sam Obisanya eventually becoming the team captain, and that this addition of Jamie Tartt to the roster is Ted’s way of telling him indirectly, “Look, I…

I like this focus on safety. As I wrote, a bit part of the story for me is this idea that Ted knows this is going to create problems, but HE believes that he can keep it from impacting the team dynamic, and so whatever loss of safety is created is in his view temporary. And so it isn’t that he’s abandoning his…

My read on this is that he realized that part of the point of Jamie’s arrival is to shake things up, and the drama of the reveal would maximize that.

Eh, I think they’ve rode the line for both characters pretty well. Nate (assuming he’s as old as his actor) has spent a _huge_ chunk of his “career” in a menial job arguably meant for someone much younger, getting very little respect. In the course of the year he makes friends, finds his value, earns the respect of…

I think that’s by design, and I got a sense of why in this week’s episode with the situation around Jamie and the rest of AFC Richmond. We see Sharon prodding Ted to introduce tension into the Richmond room because the “safety” they feel is not driving them to anything higher than a draw; and I think that Sharon sized…