The cops don't give any exculpating information to Anne. But if they are minimally competent, they blood tested Taylor. They know there were drugs and Steph knows they know. She instantly was aware how bad it will look that the phone was destroyed. That bothered her because she had immediately realized the cops would…

Steph thought Anne might help keep Becca out of it to keep Becca from lying about the rape and hurting Connor's case much, much more than the drug use could help a diminished capacity plea. Steph was careful to specify she didn't know it was a lie, but that was what Steph was really relying on, not the mom to mom…

I don't think Steph suddenly made up her threat to lie about Taylor himself buying drugs from Becca to party with Eric. I think that she was ready to do that all along, and just tried the soft approach in case in might work. I think she was being proactive, trying to do this to keep Taylor from changing his mind and…

Mea culpa.

Historically the Klan won. State by state violent suppression of the African American vote led to "Redeemer" white governments, until they made a rotten deal in 1876 to withdraw all troops in return for electing a Republican President.

Honestly I'm not sure how you meant this but the way it struck me was laugh out loud funny.

So true. How could I have forgotten?

Siobhan cuts Winn, saying she has a problem speaking to men less than six feet tall.
The show evidently feels the same way, taking James seriously because he's tall. He doesn't really have much else.

Once again, because that's the only conclusive way to distinguish gay characters from straight characters. Until we see General Hux in the sack with another dude, some people will assume he's straight.

It is hard to figure what possible standard could decide Gods of Egypt is sillier than Mad Max: Fury Road. Except one movie's crazy version of physics is supposed to be a magical world and the other's is supposed to be our world in the near future. Nobody who really wants Mad Max to get best picture can justify…

Maybe not, but Hux is still gay. And come to think of it, I'm not too sure about Phasma.

There's straight sex in Star Wars? I know what's her name gave birth to Luke and Leia but Natalie Portman never gave the slightest hint she was even horny, much less lustful enough for sex. It was obviously medical implantation.

We finally have someone claiming to be the Son of God, thus the first anti-Christ. (Unless you count Operation Savior?)

How do these guys think that Cate Blanchett playing the title character can't be considered the lead when Alicia Vikander plays The Danish Girl and these guys don't wonder why she isn't nominated for lead? (Or how is a robot more interesting?)

Caught this in an Oscar inspired short re-release in a theater eighty miles from home.

Yes, Evy didn't see him drinking…which to me clearly shows that if alcohol was the only drug he imbibed, it was basically funneled into him in a very short period of time. Perhaps the law has some provisions about consent but as far as I'm concerned if a class goat is suddenly invited into the inner circle and the…

What if the team had been a losing team? Perhaps it's cynical of me but I think Leslie would have actually investigated and probably handed out short suspensions for the people taking the pictures, and emphasized trying to help Taylor instead of trying to run him off. The school's image could be helped by an…

I believe alcohol can be used as a date rape drug when you try pressuring someone into using it…which I think we know happened. Of course in this episode we saw Eric accuse Kevin for bringing drugs to the party, so I don't think we really need to doubt Taylor was drugged.

The only significant plot development is the plan to try Taylor as an adult. The only realistic outcome from that is a plea deal that leaves the crazy shooter narrative in place. Where we are in the plot is that Taylor killed someone who had just assaulted him for the third time (yes, grabbing someone and screaming…

She was of course correct! You only need add that when they make love, someone dies, to be not just correct but complete.