Not if you live in California :(

Not if you live in California :(

Look, even though Splinter staff will throw tantrums that they’re journalists how dare you, you can’t be expecting them to, like, take the time to tell you people’s full names or who they are or what they do. It takes a lot of work to copy-paste from Washington Post articles and slap your name at the top.

Kurt Enerny made me roll my eyes, but they really brought it home with Laverne Enerny.

That’s a shame. It felt like season one was less about Steven Avery being innocent and more about how fucked up the justice system is. He could have been guilty, but it definitely did not happen how the police say it did, and the police and the prosecution went out of their way to pin the murder on him, even if they…

Yikes. Did you even watch the episode? My guess is you saw a screenshot, read a cable guide description and called it a day.

I rolled my eyes at the comments like this I saw across the reviews at first, but now having seen the whole thing, I agree with you. Approaching it as TV show doesn’t really work. It’s more a long movie broken into 10 pieces, but that’s not quite right either.

If that’s what you call a “dad bod,” then there’s no hope for the rest of us.

Er. I think you’re making the dire mistake of assuming that other people have the same wants and needs that you do. What is the correct approach for you is not necessarily the correct approach for anybody else, even if they are fictional characters.

I think the thing, though, is that Mr. Peanutbutter is not as dumb as he lets on and seeks out women who are smart and complicated. He gets to have some interesting conversation, and they like his (on its face) carefree attitude because it’s so different from their own. The problem is that he then also doesn’t…

I love this show more than I can articulate, but this episode really missed the mark for me, and feels indicative of the season as a whole, so far anyway. It tries to hide a wafer-thin story that doesn’t really go anywhere behind a bunch of bells and whistles. So much of this season, it feels like we’ve seen this all b…

Lots of good points! Owning up immediately and fully when you make a mistake stops a lot of hurt feelings and extra frustration on all sides before they fester and grow. Kind of like how the cover up is worse than the crime, a lot of times the refusal to acknowledge wrongdoing and the finger pointing are worse than…

Don’t know why it’s missing here, but they’ve announced a September 30 premiere date for Season 9. But, of course, with how Fox schedules it, that means episode 2 will probably be in January and episode 3 sometime in 2043.

English majors get a bad rap, but I have to chime in here, too. I’ve managed to have a surprisingly successful career in writing and editing, but I realize I’m super-lucky and that most English majors, especially, never find substantial work that relates. I would say that something employers don’t necessarily realize…

I was ready to give up on this show—after 6 episodes of “mystery” that feels aimless and like it’s not going to add up to anything by the end—but this episode was really something special. I actually want to see what happens next now. 

Ah. I’d somehow missed that J.J. Abrams is involved in this show. Now it totally makes sense how I keep getting tricked into watching, believing that some answer, any answer, will come but it clearly never will.

Hm. That’s true, but I think that’s more the Finn at the end of series than the beginning or middle and even late-middle, as both Finn and the show itself have gotten more self-reflective.

Rebecca Sugar has also created something very important for boys who perhaps don’t fit the mold of what’s expected of them in this culture. Steven is immensely powerful, but he uses that power to protect and improve instead of to attack; his first instinct is understanding and diplomacy, and he only fights as a last…

My mom passed away earlier this year, and I have two close friends whose mothers also passed away fairly recently. We’ve all talked about the worst thing about grieving is other people’s over-the-top reactions: There’s this bizarre phenomenon that I’m not even sure how to describe, but it’s the most common I’ve…

The guards’ game is just the writers giving themselves a get-out-jail-free card for flimsy writing. Like there are certain plot points we need to shuttle between, so the guards just move the inmates around to make those things happen, instead of in any believable way. This episode felt like the most egregious. We need…

Yeah, like Myles noted in his comment, it’s all sort of hand-waved away in a conversation between Linda and Figueroa a few episodes later.