I hate all made-up gender marked nouns. SheEO is indeed awful. I can’t stand man-cave, man-bag etc. Of course I also can’t stand slang invented after I turned 40, so get off my lawn.

The French have it right, they have an entire official entity to guard their language from this nonsense.

I’m not a chef so I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but I believe Anthony Bourdain referred to at least one woman chef as a badass. Coming from him I personally would take that as a huge compliment.

I’m not a New Yorker. This was crystal clear.

I’ve come to the conclusion that Brent being the huge problem of the group was a misdirect, and that Simone’s been the one they have to worry about the whole time. (Making the fact that Eleanor put her photo on the party-hat-emoji side of the board to begin with another nice misdirect.) Brent is objectively horrible,…

My guess is it’s a ferry trip for buses whose trips terminate in midtown but start the next one in Brooklyn and since they have to make the drive anyway, might as well see what suckers will at least cover the gas money.

Frankly, I feel like she’s not angry enough.

Ellestra, the comment about people judging whether or not Brent deserves it vs. not being the kind of person who’d let him burn is dead on. I shall be stealing it by paraphrase, with credit.

Be careful not to mix in all the parts, because human spongiform encephalopathy. 

Trump is so not angry.

I think the show is pretty clear that putting up with someone’s bullshirt and not leaving them to drop down a cavernous hole are vastly different things.  Chidi explicitly says as much when he explains why he punched Brent vs. why he’s willing to try helping him now.  I totally agreed with both Simone’s statement…

I thought it was revealing that Chidi said he was willing to punch Brent when he thought he could just find another group to hang out with in heaven.  But if Brent is about to suffer a terrible fate, the fact that he’s a human being is all that matters.  Whether he can change or not isn’t relevant.

I’d just add that I’m not even sure Simone is being ‘rational’ here. When you’re being held captive in a magical demiplane by supernatural beings who want you to act like a good person, is “abandoning someone to die because you find him annoying, and then trying to escape the gods in a cadillac they conjured” really…

You’re right. I think the wording was misleading here as right and wrong have so many different meanings. Simone is a scientists and she does what is rational. She is logical. And she is correct. She makes correct decisions. The most rational ones.

I don't even think she comes off particularly angry!  She is emphatic and uncompromising but seems optimistic and energetic to me.  Angry is not a word i would have come up with for her at all.

Warren’s slogan: “Dream Big, Fight Hard”

I immediately thought of the one Clive Cussler book I read,where the main character was clearly the wish fulfillment of the author in exactly that type of adventure hero-detective-sexist ass (with a sweet classic car collection) as Brent’s main character. Plus, as a bonus in the book, the main character happens to run…

Brent Norwalk is a Jim Spanfeller. Prick their ego and boom they’re a baby.

Well, and two of his homies are named Mexican William and White Guillermo, and a third is named Squirtman. Pretty clear who they’re referencing. 

Nothing shows how hopeless Brent is than the fact that he thinks being the starting QB of the Bears is a good thing. There is most of 100 years of history proving otherwise.