Shippers didn’t ruin the show. Stretching out the plot to get more seasons and losing PWB are the main culprits. There was always sexual tension between Eve and Villanelle, whatever Sandra Oh or anyone else from the show said years ago. Some kind of physical romance between them was always going to happen, it’s…

“...her expression is fairly unreadable as the camera cuts to and away from Villanelle. Is this just a poke in the ribs to viewers to remind us that she’s not kissing Villanelle? It’s a moment likely to be turned over and analyzed pretty extensively by a fanbase eager to see Eve and Villanelle finally consummate their…

I wonder if Peggy's baby is actually alive and her father just told her he hadn't survived.

I hope you’re misunderstanding my point. The point is that they used to be more review than recap when Dennis Perkins wrote them but are tipping into almost pure recap under this new freelancer

I liked the Please Don’t Destroy pretape but I seem to be in the minority. I thought it just had a crazy energy and got really interesting when Paul Dano was added to the mix and I never tire of jokes about how much they suck

The musics of today = breathy, mumbly electronic crap.

she’s still kicking!

2013. So actually 9 years ago. Time sure flies when you’re constantly in existential dread.

I liked this one a lot. It might not be good enough to push into A territory, but I’d say a definite B+.

Scene I’m surprised never got mentioned in the review: The part where Stan’s teenager angrily calls him because the teenager thought Stan was calling him gay. Definitely not a mea culpa or anything, but it definitely felt like a bit of a self-aware acknowledgement of the criticism over how casually the show likes to…

Forgot this was coming back, and I’m delighted every time I get reminded. Rewatched the first season a couple months ago and man, it’s just so good. Can’t wait to watch season two. I 100% fell in love with Andy Allo during season one.

I don’t see how she’s gotten away with anything. All this went down over a matter of weeks, from Rue getting the suitcase to the intervention to the night the play debuted. Laurie has only just been made aware that Rue can’t make good on the payment, and Rue scarcely escaped from her place the next morning.

“This dismissal of Jules plays into and gives validity to the hatred that she receives from the audience that is due to transphobia.”

“She didn’t just wake up one day behaving like this. Cassie cannot just be a villain with no exploration of how she got here.”

I’m glad that the Breaking Bads/Mad Mens of the world went off the air before this site pivoted to seeing everything through “did the characters get what I think they deserved?” lens of criticism.

Cassie cannot just be a villain with no exploration of how she got here.

I had no idea! Still though, whoever does control that gets an F. And owes you an apology. All that work to get posted days later after enthusiasm has waned has gotta be disappointing.

Yeah, it was bad that it wasn’t Jack who went to talk to Jamie...and ridiculous that they didn’t even consult him about how to approach her.

Yeah, the New York setting really opened up some different possibilities for this show. The 400, political corruption, and Scott parts of the show are already making use of that, in addition to the across the street dynamic. But there is only so much you can do in one show, and so a lot of downstairs stuff might just…

I’m sticking with my working theory that back when Fellowes intended this as a Downton prequel, the downstairs part of the show was likely a much bigger focus. Then along the way to the current show, and thanks in part to some other producers getting involved, the focus shifted, not least to Peggy Scott and her…