I like the premise, but not with the standard twist of a secretly sinister institution. I’d rather see the place be compassionate towards its patients, with a story that thoughtfully explored the subject matter of assisted suicide.

‘ ... Hotel Aurora, a very unusual resort: one that specializes in tailoring suicides to its guests’ specifications. After a few days of rest, spa treatments, and soaking up the austere mountain view, guests are given the assisted suicide of their choosing, whether it be quietly dying in the arms of an actor…

lol Atticus is fast as hell if he ran all the way to the observatory to punch those cops. 

Tic’s portal led him to a 2016 Barnes and Noble.

I don’t mind that “Freddie Mercury as a claymation grandpa” cake. The Lupita Nyong’o cake just might be a hate crime.

One of the queasier, not-quite-effective moments of the show was watching Stormfront’s racism towards A-Train. Like, I get that she’s a bigoted piece of shit, but how bad am I supposed to feel for A-Train? He murdered his girlfriend.

I kinda wish there was a separate ward for supes with the shittiest superpowers and we’d get a spinoff series about that, Misfits-style.

>It’s weird that she would be her husband’s very first test subject, when Compound V could make her explode. (Did he not love her? Or is he a terrible scientist?)

I don’t think Homelander is simple. He just never had to be clever. Just like he never had to learn to fight. He is just so massively overpowered he can destroy anything he doesn’t like without bothering with any subtleties. If wants something he just takes it. He is a spoiled toddler because he never had to learn…

I don’t think she was ever searching for him, or anyone. That’s just what she needed to say in the moment to best manipulate him. As you said he’s all about his desperate need to be loved. 

Thats a stupid origin story, if only because that happens all the time in France and its now a misdemeanor, so he wouldnt have had to flee

Shawn Ashmore is two elements away from being the Avatar.

A big company being ok working with Nazis who maintain a thin layer of plausible deniability... isn’t even something that needs an explanation. It’s just how big companies work now, in the real world.

This season is going to end with Homelander poking his own eyes out, isn’t he?

So, in the comic, Frenchie explains his origin story to Wee Hughie in French. Which Hughie does not speak.

Maybe my favorite episode of the series. It hit almost every one of my sweet spots. Gave me more Frenchie, Kimiko, and MM. Gave me Starlight and Butcher interacting. Gave me some really good special effects. It was a good one.  

Came here to say some version of this. A lot of articles on the site right now pinning the entire responsibility of problematic cultures and business practices on TV shows and films on the talent that serves as the face of them. While they aren’t absolved of all blame, these are massive production machines with webs…

I don’t know how much Pennington himself is to blame. Like most reality programming, it was probably driven almost entirely by producers wanting shit that looked good on camera. People forget but the original Extreme Makeover was not a home edition but a show about plastic surgery. It came from a dark place where no…

In Pennigton’s defence....he aging well into his Mickey Rourke phase.