It’s wonderful. Hiddleston plays the perfect LeCarre protagonist. Handsome, educated, very charming, utterly broken inside. Hugh Laurie is terrifying. I liked it a lot. But yeah, I think it’s a good candidate for a binge watch because of the bleak mood and suspense.

I would, personally, rather date tragic, smoldering Night Manager Hiddleston, but I kinda think this goofy dude mugging for the cameras is the real deal. If they have in common a love of boning beautiful, tall blondes and seeing themselves all over social media and entertainment news, there’s no better match. People…

Can’t she be into them for the same reason everyone else is? Because they’re super hot and talented? I wouldn’t need to work too hard to convince myself I should date Tom Hiddleston.

Nope, just in the billion papparazi shots of TS with her pals, I never saw him there before. Maybe I missed him.

Nah, those ones at at every party she’s ever given.

Equally true even if she has her publicist tip their favorite papparazo when they go out, just like she does *always*. That’s not a new thing she invented for this dating situation. If famous people didn’t like attention they would not be in show business.

You know, he’s always been giddy and silly in interviews. Up until now it was part of his charm as *our* internet boyfriend. Now, he’s someone else’s boyfriend and it’s not so cute. His silliness and exuberance are completely consistent with his actual, prior public behavior (jumping up and solo dancing at every talk…

Disagree. There are a million male celebrities is you want a beard. Jon Mayer is (apparently) the go-to pants talent for when you need to bone badly enough that personality doesn’t matter.

Yeah but she did John Mayer. There is no reason to be around John Mayer if you’re not boning him.

In the past he’s been quoted as saying you should treat the woman you love like she’s amazing. She def has always been into PDA. Maybe he’s super into her and giving her what she likes in a super over the top way?

Also they’re socializing more with folks that seem more from his circle than hers, like you would do when you’re actually dating, as in “hey what friends of yours do you want to come to my big 4th of July publicity-nanza?” Including Ryan Reynolds (more Tom’s age and an actor), and the Williams daughter…

If I were dating Tom Hiddleston I would want that shit on film and on the evening news. If I were dating Taylor Swift and it made her laugh I’d wear a stupid t-shirt and make a fool of myself.

Meh. Might be a matter of tone, but I think it’s reasonable to say, hey, I’m a person who wants to get married, have married babies, whatever, are you down for that with me or should I bump? He took the question seriously and made the right decision for himself. I doubt she’d have posed the question if she didn’t have…

This was the first 4th of July weekend in 8 years that I haven’t hosted a huge multi-day party, and it was very very relaxing, just me and my daughter and her husband knocking around the farm, going for a relaxing paddle, cooking stew, day drinking, petting baby animals. I’m lucky.

About 5 years ago I switched to kindle. I only buy hardcopy books in a few topics (farming reference books, books about pirates, books about Early Modern culture and history). Now I’m packing up to move, and only have eight or so boxes of books and *all* of them are keepers, no sorting and tossing required. Electrons…

I really appreciate this explanation; thank you. I was struggling to articulate these distinctions in my head.

Does anyone know why dogs aren’t familiars in Potter World? If I can't have a dog then I guess maybe a little tiny sheep? Cat / frog / rat is a lame lineup (props to cat people but we can't all be that cool).

How hard could it be just to condemn what he did? She wouldn’t have to repudiate him as a friend, she could present all her mitigating “he’s a great guy” anecdotes, without normalizing what he did.

Sexist was challenging Trump to a debate as if Hillary Clinton, front runner, didn’t exist. Any woman who’s ever sat in a meeting where less qualified men talk past her as if she's not there recognizes that bullshit for what it is.

Even worse is how his son wants to warm others of the dangers of promiscuity. Promiscuity? Being raped is... promiscuity?