But then, Jimmy was always going to end up dead to us in any sense that mattered. Don’t want to oversell the show, but I halfway understand how it must’ve been to be an attendee at the Theatre of Dionysus ... where everyone knew how things must turn out, but attendance was all about watching what had to be unwinding…

There’s more than one way to be a bad parent. And one of them’s reacting against a bad rearing so comprehensively that you merely become the opposite kind of bad parent. And it’s extremely likely that Steven’s meeting his grandparents would’ve gone poorly ... but it was his prerogative to get the chance to meet them…

I am completely here for the coming weeks of cloistered celebrities both major & minor, with no handlers about, telling us who they were all along.

REFEREE: LeT’S rocK!

I don’t mind it. It’s become a useful way for someone to self-identify as a complete pendejx.

Tripe like this makes me want to see a trad-Christian movie where a musician hits upon a truly metal, ball-shrivelling Dies Irae. THAT I can respect.

Unless you think it could have been great while retaining the original premise, my judgment stands.

“This is a hacktastic, pandering mess. Now, on the other hand, a hacktastic, pandering mess that pandered to MY prejudices would be awesome!”

“[R]efuses to sanitize or glorify hatred”

There’s something about Nacho’s pad that seems so communicative. It’s the sort of place that someone in his shoes is supposed to aspire to ... but that nobody—NOBODY—can actually enjoy living in. He’s so palpably a prisoner there.

“Is James Lipton going to have to chastise a desperate would-be actress?”

Well, so did Trump until the day before yesterday. But no, I don’t think the POTUS can overturn state convictions.

The classes were conducted in Latin. However, Norman French was the school’s lingua franca outside the lecture halls. And having been raised among Middle-English-speaking servants & playmates, the aristocrats invariably understood English (though they often chose not to speak it as adults). All in all, a fascinating…

Yep. And at that time, the upper-crust students would still largely have spoken Norman French, which can’t have helped townie/student relations much.

This episode didn’t have the courage to accept just how mediocre a poet Shelley was.

As usual, Robbie Fulks (PBUH) brings the creepy.

Katee’s the spitting image of my ex-wife ... which added a gentle, unexpected twist of the knife to my Valentine Day’s week.

Say what you will about Eccleston’s Doctor, he was able to communicate some degree of his trauma with others. For some reason or other, Whittaker’s Doctor can’t confide as much ... and also can’t handle confidences like Graham’s. What that means, seems like something for the writers to handle (even though I have my…