I guess when you’re a critic, you have to find things to bitch about. That’s what you’re paid for. We ordinary mortals enjoyed it, and don’t find anything particularly wrong with a Russian doll plot.

When you’re launching a new streaming service, you need something to stand out from the crowd. That’s why CBS is churning out new Star Treks and Disney is pooping new Star Wars.

You can’t do Dune in a movie. It’s too complicated. It deserves the HBO treatment.

Rehoboam doesn’t predict the future. It manufactures the future. But that can only be done in a stochastic way.

Stop trying to turn this show into Star Wars. Not everything has to be bang bang flash all the damn time.

I dunno. This episode finally made me feel that The Walking Dead has worn me out. I stuck with it through the endless Farm year, the seasons in which the only idea the writers could come up with was a cliffhanger so they spun their wheels until they could get there. . . but I think I’m about done. It has been ten…

I guess I’m a lot more comfortable with things like, you know, plot and character, and a lot less impatient to get to all the splody bang bangs.

“especially given how often it’s used to justify featuring predominantly white characters.”

Is it just me, or is the Borg hardware a whole lot shittier than it was on Voyager? It looks like a piece of foam rubber stuck to her head. I know it always was, but it didn’t previously look like that was what it was.

It lived down to Chibnall’s usual low standards. I don’t mind the gay characters and social messaging. What I mind is the truly shitty writing, something that seems to be his specialty. It’s like the BBC handed the show over to a high school creative writing class.

That was so endearing.

Science fiction used to be described as “the idea is the hero.” That describes The OA to a T. I don’t get the hate here. If you’re not OK with that but you are OK with underpants heroes, something is wrong with you.

Never ask a dipshit to understand, you know, thought.

Awesome! I was looking for a better way to confuse Maps with Photos. Kudos to Google for creating an icon that does not say “Maps” in any way.

Gentile Romulans?

I think people need to relax on the messages.

But where does Manischewitz come in?

The killer is the Pope?

M. Night Shamalama has demonstrated that plot twists can’t save bad writing, and Chibnall’s scripts have been more often bad than good.