He oversold some of his acting a bit this week, but I agree he's extremely gifted at being frenetic and terrified.

I hadn't considered the logistics of having students in the firm, but those are good points. Maybe the show will tackle some of the complexity in the future. I definitely think they could stand to focus more on Viola, her teaching philosophy, and why she teaches at all when she could spend all of her time working on…

Asher is there for comedic effect. (And to possibly serve as some kind of scapegoat later?)

Why should the world be over-wise,

I.. I didn't even notice that. Wow.

Does she have a rich husband? He's a professor at a university; she's representing billion dollar clients and billing at $500 an hour. It seems she is the clear breadwinner in the household. Whether he's wealthy or not (and we haven't seen evidence he is) it seems absurd to assume that she is at all reliant on what he…

It also would have reified certain expectations about these kinds of shows, that the black women in them need to always be contrasted against—or embattled with each other—for one. It would not have been "interesting" because I think this trope has been done before where the "culturally competent" person embarrasses…

I actually didn't think about the class angle, but that could absolutely be it—that because Rebecca seems to also be economically underprivileged (assuming based on appearance—I know, I know—and the fact that theyre living in the same place) he feels some kind of kinship. Would love it if the show explored their…

I don't even see the hero complex angle. The only thing we've seen is one scene where it appears she has a fight with Griffin that could serve as the impetus for any feeling—good or ill—toward her. And she hasn't even confided in him with what that was about. I definitely do not trust her since she manipulated her way…

This entire show Michaela has been intentionally conforming to several narratives about women in power needing to be neat and tidy in appearance and emotionally comported, narratives that are largely inflected by her class upbringing in a white supremacist society. While it could be said she's wearing the mask of…

Just going to comment here and add that straight men also do drag and their performance isn't necessarily about critiquing constructions of gender, but in some cases is about exploring other genders or modes of expression they are unfamiliar with. I don't think there's a mold that everyone who does drag fills.

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