You guys are clowns

The better solution is to take it out of police budgets. When your funding dries up and it is a direct result of violations deemed worthy of financial restitution, that’s when departments start paying attention. (Not a defund the police argument, but rather making it uncomfortable for raises, upgrades to equipment and…

FTFY. Until we start taking these settlements out of police pensions, they have zero incentive to do anything differently.

His obsession with her must pale in comparison to Art Modell’s...Art moved a whole football team to Baltimore! Talk about having a fixation on Jada Pinkett Smith...I won’t even get into David Simon.

So there’s just an anonymous quote that says he’s been obsessed with her.... and that’s it? And the fact his special is in Baltimore? That’s all you have?

For me the key to David’s character is that he really isn’t much into survival (his own, or the group’s) at all. He’s an absolute creep who had found himself in a perfect situation to get his rocks off by controlling, hurting, killing, eating, and raping other people. The entire setup with him leading and seeming to…

I want the post-post-apocalyptic story where the real heroes are the urban designers so badly

Also, I didn’t get the impression she was in the deep woods, more like scattered houses with wooded tracts in between. The deer died right by a house.

David’s insight into the cordyceps reminded me of the amazing story The Things, which revisits The Thing from the monster’s POV. What I find fascinating in both cases is the reality that humans and their opponents want the same thing. They want to live and thrive. And if another species gets in their way, they won’t…

I read a game/show comparison article and I agree, I do think the game handled this part of the story better. But I only partly agree that the show needs more infected. On one hand, yes, the lack of infected do allow you to forget why Joel and Ellie are even travelling together. Watching them bond is great, but there…

“I always think it’s silly in dystopias when a new belief system is created when you know people would just lean harder into puritan horribleness.”

I’m an atheist myself and am naturally suspicious of the motives of any self-declared “man of God”, but really, for the past twenty or thirty years, it would be more of a twist for a preacher in a movie or TV show to actually be a good guy given that the default is that they are a crook and/or a pedophile.

“they failed at making him unsympathetic.” That’s not how the TLOU works. Everyone has a good reason in TLOU, even if their methods are depraved.

Can Elle infect someone with a bite?

That last point is actually something to consider. The infamous Mary “Typhoid Mary” Mallon wasn’t symptomatic for typhoid fever but she could (and did) pass it on to dozens of other people in the early 20th century.

Well, it was only nudity from the neck down. Or, rather, from the neck up.

—It’ll be a crying shame if this show gets overlooked at the Emmys, this episode should be Bella Ramsey’s submittal

Attempted sexual assault. As soon as they captured Ellie, that horrible thought did flash through my mind, but I figured the game never did that and the show wasn’t going to, you know, to a 14 year old girl. Still, very, very traumatic to Ellie and she’s probably gonna be haunted by her own justified rage: you could…

Ellie doesn’t need an incredible sense of direction not to get lost. She had footprints in the snow. The same way the group managed to track her down so easily.

So the warning of “brief nudity” in the parental guide notes was the decapitated human dead hanging upside down in the shed. Who said irony was dead?