If you don’t accept the show’s central premise—that the hosts have the capacity for suffering and the potential for consciousness and agency—I can’t even imagine why you would waste three seasons watching. 

Starting with “indigenous knowledge” and then “travel[ing] through time” to “modern rituals of art, dance, and creativity” is a classic example of making indigenous cultures into what Eric Wolf called “the People without History.” Whether in the Urals or the Andes or the Adirondacks, indigenous people were constantly…

“No one in the series has born the weight of BoJack trying and failing to be better than Diane.”

If I am remembering right, they both had a good laugh upon realizing that Reznor had unconsciously plagiarized Bowie's "Crystal Japan" when he recorded "A Warm Place."

We should definitely ignore the uniformly awful prequel comics.

For the stage adaptation, they got Timothy Dalton as Lord Asriel, which has always struck me as ideal casting for that part.

My working theory is that "The American" is one of the number siblings Brenner supervised. Maybe Eight/Kali, but possibly one we haven't even met so far.

It’s not Jamie's child. I'm betting it's some kind of awful alchemical homunculus that Qyburn made.

C’mon man. You know that “revealed that Smollet faked” should be “alleged” or “charged.” Wasn’t the whole lesson here supposed to be about not accepting accusations at face value?

It’s the cure!

Can someone please ID who played Gov. Dooley on the phone with Hiram? The voice sounded extremely familiar, and it’s driving me crazy trying to place it.

No <i>Thief of Baghdad</i>? 

I’m starting to think that Bash isn’t gay, but asexual (or that he is so deep in the closet that he is effectively celibate). What we absolutely know about him is that he is terrified of being alone. He was so desperate for company that he paid his gay childhood friend to live with him as a “butler” (which could be…

Is every Marvel show now going to center on evil plots to dig holes in major American cities?

I was assuming the upper white layer had been bleached by the sunlight, and had been undisturbed since the Crait outpost had been abandoned. When the TLJ crew arrives, they expose the lower, naturally reddish layer (Note that when the Falcon flies through the caves, it’s surrounded by red crystals)

I didn’t see Victor’s behavior as suggesting withdrawal symptoms, but a side effect of Jonah’s miracle cure. It was strongly reminiscent of James Mason’s arc in Bigger than Life, where the “miracle cure” cortisone makes him first more assertive, confident, and loving (first speaking out at a school meeting, no less);…

The old Framework built its world partially from the memories of the people connected to it. Is it possible that Daisy’s entrance allowed the AI to recognize her, rather than Deke?

Has anyone been discussing the childlike fridge drawings shown at the very start of the episode? They seemed gravid with “SYMBOLISM,” so what exactly did they symbolize?

Mock encomium, my grad-dudes. 

s1 was the invasion by Demogorgon as a predator. s2 was an unwilling human host possessed by the Mind Flayer. I think s3 is the Mind Flayer working with a willing partner: Billy, who was injected with the same needle used on Will, and who otherwise doesn’t fulfill much dramatic function.