Out of curiosity, what would you have seen as a satisfying ending?

Seeing them together in B99 is always perfection.

Fun fact: Laura Bailey didn’t know the ethnicity of Nadine when she auditioned. She received no physical description, and concept art wasn’t presented until after they’d started filming. I seem to remember the same is true for Claudia Black as Chloe.

Having scrolled through the other replies, I’m rather sad that I’m alone in my adoration of ‘Mrs Bluebeard.’ The bitter resignation is so, so good.

She has at least one makeup tutorial up on YouTube - but mostly it’s through blocking out the brows and being careful with where you place light and shadow to create new space.

I enjoyed a lot about ME:A and was captivated by it most of the way through, but found myself rolling my eyes and walking away after the big “reveal” because it felt like thoroughly retread ground for Bioware.

Most of the ‘top’ MUA youtubers give me the same vibes - they’ve become increasingly homogeneous. Nikki has based her personality entirely on clips of RPDR, Tati has always given vapid housewife vibes but now she’s got a shitload of money to reinforce it, and James Charles still thinks he’s cute.

Mistoffelees doesn’t just want to get with Rum Tum Tugger - there’s a reason Tugger sings Mistoffelees’ song, dammit.

The moment where two black characters started talking and planning a future together, having NEVER MET BEFORE, really stood out.

I enjoyed the Into the Woods film, but the loss of the narrator/father was a big mistake. So much of the humour comes from the narrator (including the bleak moment the characters take notice of him and decide to give him to the giantess), and they lost one of the best songs (No More).

Yeah, Rocky Horror was exactly what it wanted to be - and relished in it - and was beloved as a cult classic not because it’s ‘so bad it’s good’ but because it was an unabashed celebration of queerness in both attitude and gender/sexuality in an era where that just didn’t happen in most places.

Personally, my surprise of the year was VtM: Bloodlines getting announced, fifteen years after the original was released and Troika shut down. 

It changed because on typewriters, you needed to use two spaces after a full stop or it wouldn’t be apparent that there was any break. Nowadays, spaces are sensibly sized and it’s no longer needed.

I understood that reference.

Or Netflix is playing the long game for introducing the sequel to Orphan Black.

People have noticed that he has a tendency of “mentoring” teenage girls new to fame - Millie Bobby Brown and Billie Eilish, specifically - and questioned the appropriateness of a 33 year old texting 14 and 17 year olds.

Yup, same. I grew up in Ohio, spent a few years in Florida, and have now lived in the UK for 11 years. Within weeks of moving over here, I picked up a weird amalgamation of South London, RP and Welsh, between my wife and our flatmate. It’s softened a bit since then, because I watch more American TV than I used to, but…

For me, yes. I was 15 when she first came on the scene, pudgy and goth. Suddenly there was someone I could relate to and that was rad as shit.

As someone who was sat working on final touches to an anthology of anti-capitalist TTRPG adventures while I watched this episode, I 100% agree. It wasn’t satire, because anything with a lighter hand than “rich people are legally allowed to commit murder” would be too close to reality. Disney is buying up every media…

I love her. The Vivienne is clearly the judges’ favourite, and Divina is a surprising delight, but Bagga is the one I feel genuinely warm to.