Yeah, it bums me out that Armie has ruined any chances for what would likely have been a gorgeous, sexy sequel. 

This episode made me want to do a rewatch to see if there are other episodes where extras are elevated to actual characters. It felt like a commentary on the gulf between Cousineau’s self-perception and what he can actually pull off as an actor. I love when the POV shifts to the detailed inner lives of one-off…

Agreed. It was such a jarring moment with zero context or payoff. Felt like they were going for something cheap but I can’t even imagine what that might be.

Have you seen or read DeLappe’s Pulitzer Finalist “The Wolves”? Plus, she’s 32.

Can any one explain to me why the Nick or Treat thing “packs a serious wallop?”

Agreed. Or, worse, Eve never feeling like she can actually trust the woman she loves. The fruition of a different trope: the hot and heavy romance between two people who shouldn’t actually be together. 

Yeah, I was “pleasantly” surprised at how similar the two scenes were. I was expecting to see a full-on passionate love scene for one, and rapey for the other. Instead we got essentially a rape scene shown through the male gaze (The Accused, anyone?) and one through a female gaze. Subtle but quite smart, and perfectly…

She’s also the most successful *woman* to play, too, yes? That feels like a big deal, and one that would be worth highlighting too, unless I missed it somewhere.

C.R.A.Z.Y. was super important to me, as a queer kid scanning the local video stores for anything I could find. That plus the absolute love for music (which Vallee carried into all his projects) and the tender father/son relationship just hit me where it counts.

I was stunned when I realized it was the same guy who…

I think I’d be more on board with the “writers are in on the joke” idea if any of the mouthpieces of the public weren’t weird sockpuppets. The Italian cafe confrontation scene was so unhinged I couldn’t understand what point the writers were trying to make about cancel culture. That angle was underlined by Alex’s…

I suspect they gave Kirk a soupcon of Milo for flavor. But I disagree that Roman is written as gay or ace. He’s clearly a kinky submissive, into humiliation and degradation, and likely cuckolding.
I read his crush on Kirk’s fascist as that classic queer mix of idolatry and old-fashioned pants feelings. If you…

I used to, when it was all assaulting sex workers and dudebros shooting each other for funsies. But this new crop of women-centric and women directed ones are fantastic.

Gotta agree with you wholeheartedly here. Many of the choices to pick up potential juicy storylines just to drop them later (or immediately) have irked me this season. Granted, this does feel like “real life” in a way but definitely not like an ensemble show where actions have consequences.
I think the writers need to…

I understood the artistic idea behind the cross cut of Rebecca and Ted’s stories, and I dig Myles’ take, but I found it super jarring and unpleasant to cut away from such a formative story and character-climax. I really wished the director stayed on Ted and figured out a more elegant way to weave his story with…

I’m sorry she feels mistreated by the documentarians, but I was under the impression her teen trauma was pretty out in the open. She’s done a lot of interviews about Under Rug Swept and the statuatory rape that inspired Hands Clean.... https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/alanis-morissette-on-hands-clean-relationships-…

That is super interesting. It never occured to me that this could be a “long tail” kinda thing. But yeah, if I owned a ginormous music catalogue, I could see how my tv arm could help funnel money into it.

The poster on Beard’s wall is the Man from Burning Man. That detail actually set the tone for the whole episode for me. It establishes that Beard is a Burner (apparently the actor who plays him is, too) and that he’s no stranger to Campbell-esque hero’s journeys. While I would have expected this detail would have…

Ooh, but I still want to hear him talk about it. His final scene is so gut wrenching.

Re: “Ballroom Blitz” — I noticed this too with another Apple title: For All Mankind. That show is chock full of uber-famous bops. I wonder if Apple has some sort of iTunes-era rights deathgrip that keeps them affordable.
That, or they’re freakin Apple so money is no object.

Ehhh, if you watched Allen v Farrow, his childhood photos look pretty much identical to his current adult face. Meanwhile, the Sinatra theory is spot on.