It’s Hoda. It’s an Arabic name. Her parents are from Egypt.

When Hoda first started at NBC and Today, she was a serious journalist. I always felt that putting her in that later hour with the shrieking Kathy Lee was beneath her. Initially, Hoda was kind of reserved compared to the other harpey, but soon enough they were both drinking glasses of wine at 10 AM and it was SO LOUD.

well she tried to mutilate herself, so that counts for something. But you’re right, it’s a bit weird that even the fact of knowing her mother could see her (at 8 or 10 she could probably grasp that) didn’t drive her batshit crazy.

I don’t think the mother was evil painted with broad strokes. In keeping with the themes of Black Mirror, technology is still the monster here. It’s the sleek and shiny thing that tempts us with control and convenience.

The tech prevented the mother from gaining the skills to have that conversation. Instead, she parented by remote control.

Arkangel would sell like hotcakes. I have students who call to check on their 18 y/o kid’s grades and who ask to have copies of the syllabus and major assignments sent to them as well. Heck, we allow parents to check grades on a daily basis these days.

I don’t know how I’d feel if my 15 year old daughter was impregnated by an older coke dealer, but certainly being honest about invading her privacy and obtaining the morning after pill for her to take knowingly rather than dosing her is an understandable choice.

Arkangel is just too silly. You’re installing a chip in your kid that makes it so if they’re ever attacked or molested, they can’t see the attacker, or accurately describe anything that happened. What if the angry dog wasn’t on a leash? She’d just be getting mauled by a big blur that makes weird noises? She wouldn’t…

It was really weak IMO.

Overall I liked this episode but that’s not how EC works. It’s not an abortion pill. Those are two different things. And it bugs me that they got that wrong because it plays right into far right fears about EC.

I read this on the Reddit thread for this episode, and I found myself agreeing: So much of this episode would have been resolved narratively/dramatically had the parent and daughter had a sit-down conversation. I think the mother was understandable in her fear of what her daughter was doing, but maybe she should have…

This was slightly better than the first episode, but I couldn’t bring myself to feel anything more than ambivalence towards it. Right off the bat, I felt it was a bit of a silly, bordering on self-parodying, premise to have a parent, however over-protective, agree to have an unremovable John Malkovich chip implanted…

Yes, it is her fault.

White women who aren’t paying attention don’t notice it. As someone who is regularly the only white woman in the room (due to my industry, agriculture, I’m typically surrounded by men of color), when there’s only white people around, it’s actually uncomfortable for me and glaringly obvious, because I’m so used to…

See this is the point. Its EVERYBODY’S fault. People who benefit from the system don’t get to shrug and point the blame to someone else forever. It takes more than the magazine and photographer and whoever. Its EVERYONE TOGETHER. Its the big name actors and actresses who know and continue to work with the…

White women don’t notice this when they are in it because this is what our friends look like, this is what most of our world looks like. This is not an anomaly worth noting. This is why diversity is so important at every level, in every aspect of every industry; and diversity can’t stop at a handful of well-known…

Two things: 1) Did Veronica go over to Archie’s and finally say “I love you” because she realized her feelings, that sweet gift moved her, etc etc. Or did whatever deal she made with her parents involve her getting back together with Archie? Because then they really would pimp out there daughter and it would be…

I don’t believe for a second that the janitor is the killer or at least the only killer. Keller said the handwriting in the letter Alice received didn’t match the letter Betty received. So the person who shot Fred and killed Grundy wasn’t the person harassing betty. The man with the green eyes is not the janitor…

There are a lot of classic Riverdale moments, but this one is probably my favorite: “I don’t remember what they look like...except for this one very descriptive detail that will tell you exactly who it is”

If the first half of this season is any indication, then Riverdale has no intention of expanding beyond the main four characters. Everyone exists to serve them and if they’re not needed then they’re written out until they pop in 3 eps later for a middling B plot