I was just thinking of Agents of SHIELD as an example of a show that has female characters who are attractive (because everybody on TV is attractive) but are never served up as sex objects.

Late reply here, but I agree: it’s obviously a bad deal. Lexa should know that the only way to keep the Mountain Men in the mountain is to rescue the Sky People. Once they have all the bone marrow they need, the Mountain Men will be free to use their superior firepower to attack, an immediate desire to take ownership…

I’ve just finished binge-watching the first two seasons of this show, which may not be the best way to do it. Watching it like this makes it clear that every group of people in the show — Grounders, Mountain Men, Sky People (divided into subgroups of 100; adult Arkers; Jaha & co., and kids trapped in the mountain) —…

They’re all Eleanor picks. From the top:

He probably has most of his wealth stashed in a tax haven.

Jessica and Oscar are very, very sweet together.

For addicts, lining up the next fix is as serious a problem as the addiction itself.

The inhaler has been driving me nuts since she started using it. It’s the only one she’s got. She doesn’t know how much is left in it. She doesn’t know how to get more. She should have been obsessively trying to track down a source all the time she’s been using it. If there’s one thing addicts think about in advance,…

Is “Jewish people have no rhythm” a stereotype? I’ve literally never heard that before. I thought it was that white people have no rhythm? Don’t Jewish people have some pretty intricate traditional dances that they perform at weddings or the like?

Elsewhere, Oscar moves away from his one-note antagonism to start forming a genuine friendship with Jessica, one complicated by the fact that she’s more open to casual sex than he is (a nice subversion of gender stereotypes).

The Secretary of Education either can’t or won’t do her homework.

Confession: I considered buying one for my husband as a joke. That was before I knew how much it cost.

The kids are shuttled around hither and thither for reasons that seem logical (or at least fantasy-logical) at first, but seen arbitrary just minutes later.

A Wrinkle In Time alternates clumsiness with moments of honesty and grace.

Yes, the one with the sister who was a senator and a bigot.

Aren’t they supposed to be saving themselves for marriage?

And who wants to deny you access to contraception and abortion.

Yeah, I’m an atheist but on my bookshelf I have several copies of the Bible (Jerusalem, RSV, and King James) as well as other religious scriptures and books on religion and mythology.

It’s pretty simple. No way am I getting in bed with someone who wants to limit my access to contraception and abortion.

Small point, but I loved the detail of Mack obsessively rubbing his hands after Elena got her arms cut off.