I know! I never knew Jordan was the bachelor franchisee I most need in my life! He and Demi cackling on the beach, trading jabs at the expense of their fellow Paradisers? Brilliant.

Concerning the gay Bachelor/Bachelorette, Chris Harrison actually made an interesting point about it. He essentially pointed out that the contestants actually actually spend a lot more time with each other than with Bachelor/ette, which in turn creates this problem as what if they start falling for each other rather…

Caelynn was also an asshole for lying about the nature of their relationship and she was never held accountable. Blake is a complete doofus but it’s not as though that was a totally one-sided situation.

Team Shannen (or Brenda, I guess) all day, every time. I’m rewatching the original and it just solidifies that I was right all along - Kelly was unbearable.

“This show is interested in queer and trans joy like no other show, and it feels nothing short of revolutionary.”

“but there are so many times when I feel like something bad is coming when I’m watching Pose just because I’m so used to stories about queer and trans characters of color taking dark turns. “

I often think the opposite of that but YMMV!

Well that’s close-minded! She was German-American, and it was (quite famously, mind you) pronounced “Mar-Lay-Nah,” crabby.

Given the life she’s led so far, and compared to her peers, she seems to have a good head on her shoulders and a strong sense of her identity.

yeah and its a totally different story! I mean I hated June after she got the other haindmaid shot and bullied her before.. but this.. I kind of get it. And at least you can see that June isnt happy about Mrs Lawrence’s death

As a person who works with people with serious mental illness, I found the portrayal to be very realistic to what I have seen. They appear to have been going for a bipolar w/ psychotic features or schizoaffective disorder route. I don’t think her behavior was so much purely agoraphobic as it was a reluctance to go out…

Elanor was revitalized by saving the children. If anything, it was June’s playground bullying that lead her to it.  Elanor had found purpose again, and June took it away from her just like that. And then, when she had a chance to save her, she coldly walked away.  What was manufactured was the fact the whole household…

She appears to have bipolar with psychotic features. When crudely medicated with whatever they were able to give her, she was a recluse. When manic, she could have done anything.  

I was strongly reminded of Jane’s death in BrBa. Walt didn’t intentionally cause it but he had the opportunity to stop it and chose not to. It was an ugly moment with long-lasting repercussions and death toll that revealed dark truths about Walt that echoed until the end of the series.
Jane was an addict, but young and…

See, I view it as a direct outgrowth of being raised among extraordinary privilege. I don’t say that derisively. It’s more that all of us are, to some degree or another, unfulfilled and unhappy. If you’re me or you, we can pinpoint some origin for that: I hate my job, my kids exhaust me, I’ve gained 20 pounds, I can’t…

I stopped caring about Lorna when her racism turned from casual to formal (to use Adeola’s distinction), and aggressively so. Her back story from this episode is also absurd: she threw a rock and killed two people? And then she “went mad” as a consequence? Yeah, that’s not how mental illness works outside of bad…

I could not stand Hannah B on Colton’s season and was not looking forward to her being the bachelorette at all. And yet, I absolutely loved this season, with Hannah B becoming my favorite bachelorette ever.

True, she made some bad decisions and kept Luke around way longer than she should have, and don’t get me started…

Lulu getting into the swing — literally — of the dominatrix game was an amusing sidelight , and it’s fun to think that it will facilitate payment for her accounting degree in the long term.

Out of left field: I find myself curious as to how “hands on” the real Eileen Ford was with all the many models that were represented by her agency at any given time. I mean, I get that we’re supposed to be focusing on Angel as one of the show’s central characters, but realistically, hundreds of models booked through…

does it actually ease the transition to veganism to have these sad replacements for nonvegan foods or would it be more effective to just build recipes around things you can actually eat? i have to wonder.