Loving fashion is “the definition of shallow” only because of sexism. There’s nothing about fashion that makes it inferior to any of the other more ‘respectable’ passions that people pursue.  Which is actually part of the point of Elle’s character, that she’s given an interest that is stereotypically used to denote…

Which is sad, but not villainous. Kang is the villain there, for mindwiping them; there’s no way to wage war on the TVA without killing its footsoldiers, and that’s not Sylvie’s fault.

we still don’t even know what her divergent event was,

Tennis player John McEnroe returns to narrate Devi’s inner thoughts, but though the schtick worked previously, once it was revealed that McEnroe was Mohan’s favorite athlete, there’s still a disconnect in having an old white man chronicling Devi’s life.

Heroes in fiction dispatch the bad guys (which the TVA are) in painful and bloody ways all the time.

I was glad the show didn’t chicken out of having them kiss, because for precisely that reason I was convinced Disney wouldn’t allow that.  Commit to the weirdness!

As someone who hasn’t found much depth to Sylvie’s petulance this season, I really laughed when He Who Remains yelled, “Grow up, Sylvie! Murderer! Hypocrite! We’re all villains here.”’

The “modicum of order” involves brutally exterminating timelines, one of which was Sylvie’s own.  Why would anyone expect her to go along with that?  It’s fascistic.

Ted Lasso got a pretty rapturous reception, and is really Apple TV’s only true cultural phenomenon thus far. It’s much bigger than Girls5Eva, a show I quite liked but which hasn’t made a big enough splash to be a real contender yet.

Their preoccupation with this taped performance have skewed the Limited Series/Anthology/TV Movie acting categories—how is John Boyega competing in Supporting Actor, while Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. vie for Lead Actor?

(Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s animal-noise-heavy score was perfectly used during this scene, especially when Rachel disrobed and shut the college sophomores up with her body in that white bikini.)

It’s also such a stupid thing for the manager to lie about considering, as we later see, that they have proof of what they actually paid for.

Then Feige remembers he’s already introduced a new Widow who has a much cheaper contract.

You sort of have to piece it together, because the MCTVU writers are not very good at explaining how time travel actually works (see also: Endgame).

No, MCU!Loki died, as the TVA told Loki in the first episode.

They are from alternate timelines -- the “Sacred Timeline” isn’t literally one timeline, it’s the whole multiverse interacting and spawning new timelines, only some of which meet with TVA approval as they prune any that don’t conform to their preferred script.  So, for instance, Loki has to always be a villain (up to…

No, her nexus event was that she was already heroic as a child.

Not really, but in the context of this show, which is meant to be a character study with deconstructive/satirical elements, having a B-plot where the sitcom stuff runs wholly independently of what Allison is doing is just running a formulaic sitcom plot.  It doesn’t tell us anything about Kevin et al. we didn’t…

Horsemanship is one of the oldest competitive sports in human history.

Shiva Baby has been the clear standout of the year so far for me. Seeing a new voice in cinema present so efficiently and clearly was a real pleasure.