Netflix’s favorite thing is to cancel everything after 3 seasons

I always hear this, and I think it’s mostly that when the star of a TV show takes on directing for an episode, they want to focus on that and take a little time off the limelight, because otherwise, plenty of lead actors routinely direct themselves in movies. It’s not really an “either/or”.

Its not about her not knowing, its about the fact that she couldn’t even say “that word.” It’s not about being progressive about sexuality if you can’t even say the word gay.

It makes total sense to me. I was a gay teenager in the 80s. Back then if someone said “I don’t know if I’m gay” and/or “why do I have to define it” it likely meant they were uncomfortable with their sexuality and would dump you soon. That happened to me a few times before I came up with a rule not to date anyone who…

I think it’s important to remember that Bash is a gay (or at least bisexual, not sure we ever confirmed he’s just into guys) man trying hard to pass at this moment. He’s really buying into this new identity he’s created for himself, even trying hard in his marriage to Rhonda. So Debbie saying he has sacrificed…

Toward that point, I read a fascinating piece a few weeks ago where the author, an older gay man, argues that today’s younger, “gender-fluid” generation can’t quite conceive of how starkly the battle lines were drawn during the height of the AIDS crisis, when the entire culture outside of your fellow travelers either…

While I won’t defend Bash, because he was being a prime piece of shit here, I notice that Sam and Debbie both found just the right way to push his buttons. As LaToya notes in the stray observations, Sam brings up Florian, who was so much more than just a butler. Then Debbie says that he’s never sacrificed anything for…

I keep thinking of this season as the one where the main focus is on the money people. Season One I always think of as the Director Season, where Sam had this vision of the flying woman in episode one, doodles her on a yellow pad somewhere in the middle, and finally gets the exact shot he wanted in the credits of the…

whereas we know Debbie shows little respect to “the help” (like Mark’s new secretary).

O, Debbie. This episode hit me right in the feels for some reason. I cried several times. This episode didn’t feel like a comedy to me at all. Well, as they say “comedy is tragedy plus time” (1) or it could just be me.

When you say “mental” are you suggesting Poker is all about being able to read someone’s tells and behavior? If so, this is wrong. They help, but hard number crunching will help you more.

Obviously Konnikova had some advantages—she’s being coached by a legendary player, she has a PhD. in psychology, and poker is a purely mental game.

Thank you for taking the time to review this show, especially as you probably knew you were getting almost no comments. It was a nice breather to read your recaps in between myriad Roseanne think pieces, sneering clickbait headlines, and about 30 different sci-fi shows that blend into one.

I’m sure that my experience isn’t necessarily the norm, but I find that stories predicated on an inherent issue between high school sports and theater really fake.

That’s exactly where I’m at with it. Somebody needs to get Marti Noxon back on board.

This season is doing marginally better at keeping its shit together in comparison to S2. But we’re walking on a real thin line here.

Counterpoint: Lenny and Carl are pretty funny mobster names.

He’s not weirdly obsessed with Rachel, “make sure Rachel doesn’t do anything crazy” was the job he was told he was signing on for.

The therapist hasn’t rang true for me all season. I don’t know if it’s the actor, the fact he is nothing like a real life therapist, or because we’ve seen this “I want to help Rachel but it’s too much so I’m going to betray her” thing too many times.

And I felt like the therapist was too revealing to Jeremy, basically admitting sthat Rachel had told him about that deaths.