Frankly, even seeing the “moderate” tag on a man’s profile is a turnoff for me at this point.

Amen to that. Biscoff cookies make flying more bearable. To replace it with something built on a bed of quinoa is borderline sacrilegious.

This is why I do curbside pickup rather than delivery (well, that and delivery at my grocery store is an extra fee, whereas curbside is free). I don’t like the produce that the shoppers pick for me, so I’ll place a curbside order and get there 15 minutes early to run into the store and pick up my own produce. Then I…

Yeah, Heinen’s is expensive. It’s saying something that Giant Eagle, which isn’t exactly a discount grocer, is considered the more economical option. I think I’ve been to Heinen’s once in the last three years because they’re considerably more expensive. Otherwise, we shop at Giant Eagle, Marc’s and Aldi. If I need…

This. All day. Don’t buy a car for a task you’re only going to do a handful of times of the course of your ownership of the car. My sister made the same argument to my BIL who wanted to trade in his pickup truck for another (much more pricey) truck. How many times in the last year did you transport something that…

My friend’s Audi is the same way. The thing is constantly whirring or doing something even when the car is doing nothing. Investigating the noises it makes is a fool’s errand. It’s one of the reasons they’re getting rid of it soon. 

Ohio will be all too happy to oblige with that voter suppression, thank you very much. We’ve got a bright shiny new voter ID law, and our attorney general just loves to limit ballot drop boxes and early voting hours. 

ETA since my editing window closed: That should read to a vote in 2023. Sorry for the typo. 

Thank you for including those last three paragraphs of key context for everyone. The state is basically trying to make it impossible to pass a ballot measure. When was the last time a ballot measure in Ohio got anywhere near 60% on a divisive issue?

I hope so. I’ve enjoyed the show so far, and I think I’m OK with seeing where it goes. I have faith that the creators know what they’re doing. I think they’ll recognize that the central conceit is good but the premise that each week the main character befriends a murderer or murder victim stretches some bounds of…

Yeah, I’ve been entertained by the self-contained episodes, but I’m also at the point now where I think I’d like to see a little more connective tissue between episodes. 

That is a really interesting question! And it also opens up discussion of how Joel’s view of Ellie transitions in this episode. Has she been a kid to him before this? Or was she a resource? Does the resource or the kid need protecting more?

I don’t know how old you are, but there absolutely were calls for Thurmond and Byrd to step aside when they clung to their seats into their 90s. Those conversations definitely happened. But there’s just not much that anybody else can do about it if the person refuses to step down.

I don’t know, and I think that was one of the small weaknesses of the episode. We spent so much time with Kathleen and understanding what had happened in KC, with FEDRA and the undergound (both people and the infected). I felt like with all that buildup, there was some considerable weight given to KC and what happened…

The coverage on the internet write large of the first three episodes of the show leaned pretty heavily into comparison of the game vs. the show, to the detriment of that criticism. Pretty much the most basic/boring analysis of an adaptation is just to point out how it differs from source to adaptation, like being…

For some reason though, it’s spawned over a decade’s worth of copycats, capitalist ploys, and content that annually makes me want to die. Peruse any social media platform around this time of year, and it’s likely that your TL is plagued by involved soirees complete with cringeworthy merch...

And they’ve gotten even harder to find in the last few weeks as Tostitos rolled out a whole line of disgusting “flavored” chips. I don’t get it. The multigrain are objectively their best chip, and its the one that gets stocked the least. I don’t need salsa verde flavored chips. Or hint of guac chips. I’ll dip the chip…

Check out Vulture or Den of Geek. Vulture has been a bit more plot-heavy than I would like, but it at least does some analysis.

Vulture does a marginally better job if you’re interested in more substantive recaps/reviews. Sadly, AV Club’s recaps have been heavy on plot retelling with very little analysis for a while now. You used to be able to identify a thesis, a main argument each review was making about the episode, in AVC recaps. But now…

Yes, as I was considering the episode after finishing it, this is the theme that I landed on as central to me. If I were writing a review, I would have focused on the development of this theme. Everything you note is bang on. I also think there is an element of direct comparison between Ellie and Sam. The show is…