The Legion of Doom never had a plan as good as “American exceptionalism/MURICA!” is at destroying america. If, like, Scarecrow said he was gonna release a highly contagious pathogen and just tell people it was a hoax, even while it killed 250,000 people, Lex would’ve kicked him out of the LOD.

Yeah Netflix doesn’t give a damn that he feels bad, but his new specials are (currently) worth more than reruns of a 15+ year old show. It’s not going to set any precedent from anyone who doesn’t have similar pull.

I mean he acknowledges in the monologue that yeah they have the right to do so, but that it’s also not quite right that they do so. He even said he appreciates Netflix because they went above and beyond by fulfilling his request, even though they could have told him to fuck off.

Kenan Thompson. And they never make any reference or acknowledgement about his race.

‘This was an original thinker and master storyteller speaking his way through to the heart of the public discourse—and diagnosing our shared disease.’

I think Chappell is hilarious but the smoking thing is affected as hell. Like, it’s 2020. I get how smoking indoors when it’s not allowed makes you a rebel but it really doesn’t telegraph cool badass.

Chappelle does not handle bombing a joke well. When he’s on he’s on, but when he’s off he increasingly handles it like every other canonized insulated comic and digs his heels in a bit more.

Yeah that joke bombed and he kinda dug himself a little deeper rather than just moving on. The smaller audience also didn't help. They seemed very confused about when to laugh at things.

Chappelle’s monologue was... seriously mixed for me.

Sure, it’s a bit of a put-on or affect but it works. It’s kind of endearing in a throwback way... I think a lot of 70s-80s comedians would do what he’s doing and you don’t really see it anymore, now standups try way too hard to be “real.”

He also explicitly called Trump supporters Nazis so I don’t think he was saying both sides are bad.

It’s all in the delivery. “I’m a terrible guesser. My wife asked me, ‘Guess what I’ll be for Halloween’ and I said ‘Drunk on rum?’”

I loved the Birds sketch so, so much. The way it hit on the utter insanity of it at all was near perfect and I pretty much died when they showed the glass cutter.

I also noticed how when she confronts him in the bathroom stall he goes through all possible reactions - justification, minimising it, anger, threats, seduction, breakdown - while Bella basically passively watches. It made much more sense once I realised she was running possibilities in her head to see which one would…

Once I realised that those were just fantasies I also realised it was Bella trying to find the perfect ending for her book. The resolution Zain was talking about. The way she fiddles with her notes and post-its after each one before we reset. We were watching her creative process.

I’d rather see what she does next with all options wide open than see a continuation of this story. This one felt complete with one season.

Someone recently pointed out me that in the same scene where young Bella and her friends are talking about helping the boy accused of rape, there’s another Black girl in the background getting beat up who they are completely ignoring—which I totally missed the first time I watched it. So obviously the show has been…

Oh, no, he was clearly in on it. There’s a reason the camera is focused on the Black accomplice and not the primary rapist: the fact that a Black man helped a white man rape her adds a whole new level of trauma and betrayal, shattering the sense of racial solidarity that has been so central to Bella’s friendships and…

I mean, it does make sense why she definitely did not want to introduce Bella to “Della” though.

Through three episodes...this is really freaking good.