The idea that ignoring someone will make them disappear and the idea that fascists being no-platformed will lead to anyone else being no-platformed are both dumb as hell. Shut up, dummy.

And the category is...HEMORRHOIDS lol

Stan will not live happily ever after. His best friends of almost 10 years were SPIES right under his nose and committed countless crimes, including the deaths of his former partner and boss, and the manipulation and exfiltration of his secretary. He will be a broken man. His career probably won’t do well, either,…

The finale is 90 minutes.

Yes, I think so.

Maybe the youngsters are about to find out that Communism is not near as “cool” as they thought is was. – erboothe, Gupfport, 10 hours ago

I saw it mainly as an explanation for why he didn’t have much to say about them, since his interactions were mostly limited to Paige.

Margo Matindale is sooooo fucking good it’s unfair. She lets a low key menace rise to almost the surface while never quite breaking through the Claudia facade. I was certain that scene was going to end in bloodshed. And, then she just goes back to eating soup. It’s such “Fuck you, Elizabeth Jennings. You made your…

No, I think it’s inevitable and necessary that authors write characters that are different than their own demographic, but their success in doing so is not guaranteed. It’s not that cis white men shouldn’t “speak,” it’s the other people should have more places at the table.

I think that’s kind of the point— we have seen all of these things before. There’s a sense of inevitability now in the way things are playing out.

They way I saw it, Elizabeth told Phillip multiple ways the plan was flawed but that they had to work with the scraps at hand. So when the woman came strolling through, I thought it made sense... there was no safe site available. That unsecured parking garage was part of the Hail Mary plan and that woman has should…

“I’m pretty good at sensing when people are keeping things from me.” - Stan

Having ideals and being honest enough to admit when you’re failing to live up to them is a mark of self-reflection and examination, not “self-loathing” or “self-incrimination”.

something like that.

I think the other dialogue that is key to the scene is what Philip says to Elizabeth: “I didn’t say she can’t do it. I said she shouldn’t do it.” When Paige says to him that it’s ok that he’s “not into” what she and her mom do, she says it with such a tone that says, “You can’t do what we do.” Elizabeth has framed…

I had the pleasure of interviewing Hilary Bettis about writing this episode, hope you find it of interest: