Cucumber and Banana excel at non-sanitised views of queerness and are far more critical of their characters. They were a limited run but they're pretty amazing. Plus they feature queer characters besides white gay men!

I thought that was a lovely detail in an amazingly ludicrous scene. As much as kid Bruce Wayne is intelligent and moral, he's still a kid.

The presentation of two sides as of an issue as equally valid can reach preposterous proportions. On a news report about the effects of climate change policy on a community, why are we giving voice to climate deniers over scientists *every time*? It propagates the false idea that two sides of an argument are equally…

Well yeah, you'd expect network TV to be a shitstorm. That doesn't actually change the fact that what they did was shitty. Like Huang, I'm happy this exists and that it's doing some interesting things. I also think it's important that the show's flaws are addressed, because it *is* heavily denatured.

HAHHAHA, as if an Asian-American sitcom would ever air on Australian television.

It's mainly that she has all the necessary character relationships to make the murder possible and that Sam was too obvious of a killer (and dispatched too early). Plus she has all that involvement in the case that make for excellent ironic flashbacks.

I don't think Annalise is covering for Bonnie. Although I've maintained that Bonnie killed Lilah since around Episode 7. It makes a lot of sense for a season finale this season and might provide an easy escape route for Sam's murderers. Bonnie will be revealed as Lilah's killer and she dies/is killed and has Sam's…

Laurel's violent insistence that they start talking to each other about their lives sounds a lot like "quick guys, we should probably start having connections between cast members!"

Queer as Folk has two versions versus the lesser-known L Word and you're far more likely to find gay male cast members than women, at least in my headspace. (I checked the GLAAD 2014 TV report as a reference and it roughly agrees)

Oh yes, obviously Bobbi and Mack aren't dead. I mean that the unfinished nature of Izzy's death makes her more memorable and relevant to whatever plan she set in motion. They've made a few oblique references to it.

They did it *specifically* so you'd think she would stick around and be all the more hurt when she died. I think it worked. It certainly works for the Bobbi/Mac stuff they're doing now.

Is the Krakow Cipher what Brian used when he was writing love poetry about Angela Chase?

Well, gay men are featured in television waaaay more so I feel like it's not much of a criticism, especially considering the struggles they had getting Willow/Tara on screen. Queer women are far less likely to feature on tv outside of one-off lesbian kisses etc.

I imagine their next story will be as far away from true crime as they can get. The original conceit of the show (before it blew up in popularity) was broader than that. They really can't do two true crime stories in a row without makign that the expectation for the rest of the podcast.

It's not just about the violence that's visited upon the female characters. It's that they're consistently sidelined.

Goddamnit, it should be *fewer*!

I think compounding it with Gareth's idea for some kind of standardised unit of time was what kicked it out of the park. Especially when it converged with the "so about 9 o'clock" runner.

She's a combination of an evil queen and the damsel in distress. Which I think is why it's an interesting subversion. Her obsession with decadence and herself is borne out of her experience of a hard-scrabble peasant's life where she was forced to kill Jenny, skin Jenny and eat Jenny. I mean, she's shaped up to be…

I'm pretty sure she thought Malory was looking for her poop.

She used Archer's sperm from a sperm bank, so I assume he signed away parental rights. Plus we haven't seen him parent Abbiejean at all and he went on that jungle walkabout after finding out so he's not really acting as a parent anyway.