That was one of my favorites, too. This review singled out Sarandon for her performance, but I was more moved by Lange as Joan when Anne Bancroft offers her kindness (praise for her performance) and she's too choked up to respond. Also, her quiet, admitted desperation when she says how happy accepting Bancroft's award…

"Why didn’t they have the Evil Queen get rid of the sleeping curse before she took off last week?"

Oh! And also, if this is supposed to be the Evil Queen's fresh start and she had a nice moment with her adopted son where he calls her "mom" for the first time? Why was she sent to the realm where someone who looks like her adopted son thinks of her as a murdering stranger that he's trying to imprison/kill?

I was also struggling with why the hell nu-Robin would want to go back there since wasn't he on the run from the law and miserable and WANTED to flee to a new realm in the first place and that's why he willingly went with Emma and Regina?

I always thought it was more to do with having had to work in a laundry as a child; her animosity about them could've started then and lasted for the reasons you describe.

I think part of it was the fact Karina was using a lot of source material (including the source of the story about her stepfather) from later biographers, who got Joan was she was kind of at the apex of not giving a fuck towards the end of her life, and was also probably somewhat drunk.

Christina Crawford was actually involved in the movie, although she later washed her hands of it. She wanted to write the screenplay, but it kept getting rejected and apparently the script bounced around for quite a bit and once the movie went into production, it was apparently a tug of war between Christina (who got…

" And I just realized that Mamasita is Joan Crawford's Kif Kroker."

"I'm still unsure if Faye Dunaway delivers a terrific, one-for-the-ages
performance or a horrible, incredibly insulting performance as Crawford."

Oh, and "progress", as the reviewer explains, can mean more than just social progress, it can mean (in this case) "improvement/innovation with storytelling". "Progress" only meaning one thing seems popular with the sort that yell out "SJW!" and un-facetiously refer to things (such as movies/TV with an even slightly…

A little kid (at least, some little kids) DO really care about gender roles in fiction, and their parents (if they're good parents, that is) want their children to see that they aren't limited by gender stereotypes.

Lily Sparks's write-ups were hilarious, but I also liked that she gave credit where credit was due, like acknowledging that while the Frozen storyline was ridiculous, Elizabeth Mitchell's acting was stellar and sold (as much as it was going to, anyway) one of the weakest storylines in a series packed with them. She…

But mermaids can cross realms and he did/does have a lot of contact with them, apparently so that might be a way. (Yes, I'm aware we've put more thought into this than the writers.)
Didn't it seem like Rumple's whole point for getting Regina to cast the first dark curse was that he'd be crossing realms to find his…

"It's the 700th review I've read from the AV club that's a thinly vielled [sic] excuse to preach about race and gender views."

"Sweetie", really? You do realize this the AV Club, right?

I would agree that Henry is far more annoying than Snow, but I can't tell if that's the characters or the actors that portray them.

I've read the AVC reviews and comments section on these since they've existed, and you're the first person I've seen to have such strong feelings about Snow. I don't have an opinion on that, I'm just expressing surprise.

I thought they excused Hook never aging since he was such a frequent visitor to Neverland, which is why I kinda couldn't figure out why he was suddenly "old" in the Wish Realm. I mean, if the curse had never been cast, he still presumably would've hung around Neverland and thus not aged.

Lily Sparks was what was keeping a significant portion of people watching the show, since her write-ups were consistently hilarious. They were amusing enough to tolerate the occasional fuck up on continuity (which let's be honest, on this show, we're clearly paying more attention than the writers at this point).

Finally, the internet is having a discussion about women's fashion that men don't like.