Holy shit that was the best Donald Trump vocal impression.  He needs to work on the physical fatness and overbearingness and the look of barely peeking out of the vicodin haze but the voice is just incredible.  I understand we have now turned on fat suits, as if somebody’s physical girth is an immutable…

Yes, this episode felt a little more like episodes of the ‘80s or ‘90s than the show usually does now. I think because they had several sketches revolving around concepts that were easy to relate to and slowly built them up into being crazier and  crazier. The cable sketch and the bathroom sketch (until the ending…

That sure didn’t look like James Austin Johnson. The make-up folks did good. So I thought it was some other guy who had been obsessively studying James Austin Johnson videos. Last month I showed my SO a JAJ video and he said “No, that doesn’t sound like Trump at all.” He was real smug about it too like he’s the one…

By 1968, the year in which this episode is set, she had competed against at least 59 male chess players (28 of them simultaneously in one game), including at least ten Grandmasters of that time, including Dragolyub Velimirovich, Svetozar Gligoric, Paul Keres, Bojan Kurajica, Boris Spassky, Viswanathan Anand and…

Maybe she should be paying for famation instead of suing for defamation, since I doubt many people outside of the chess world had ever heard of her until that very moment.

I sure hope this is a poorly executed bit, because it sure seems like you’re confusing Llewyn Davis for a real person.

I don’t understand the problem here. The episodes of The Queen’s Gambit shown on Netflix clearly took place in one of the universes within the entire Queen’s Gambit multiverse, a universe in which Gaprindashvili never did play against men.

Oh boy, I had no idea that changing facts around for the purposes of heightening the narrative was illegal. Has anyone told the people behind every biopic ever?

It’s not fair to pick on Far and Away since it was so early in her career and because all of the put-on Irish accents in that film are horrible, as you can see here:

That’s exactly what I got out of it. I even wondered if they were going to go the direction of

You’ve just had a signature David E. Kelley viewing experience: Take a vaguely promising premise and write it into the ground by episode 4. Finish the series hating yourself and wondering who continues to allow Kelley to write shows and why he hasn’t found an editor or writing partner capable of steering him away from…

Mare is going to give all the credit to Colin (because of course she has to ... she was only there in a “consulting capacity” due to her suspension) and he’ll be lauded posthumously as a superhero cop for closing TWO high-profile and locally infamous cases.

Her arch-nemesis is the kid who drew the big tits on the shed.

Mare’s mom even says that calling it an affair was a stretch, she only slept with him two, maybe three times, and that shows how little it meant to her.

I know. I just stopped reading right there. That’s just fucking embarrassing. Even if you misheard the name (and at first I wasn’t sure who he was talking about when he said the name), it’s quite obvious from Mare’s and Mare’s mom’s reactions that Mare’s mom was the “other woman.”

That was seriously great. I’d been enjoying this show more for the dark humor than the thriller aspects, but damn did those deliver tonight. Literally sat up in my seat for those last 10 minutes. (Also, how could they???)

Very solid Silence of the Lambs riff, especially the use of Judas Priest as they enter the house.

How did you manage to miss that Mare’s mom is the one who had the affair with Mr. Carroll? What did you think she was laughing about in the car?

I think it invented it in the sense of splitting the source material into two.  If you are going to make a case for the Matrix, I’d make one for Back to the Future.

The Matrix had sequels?