DearEvette

I am high fiving you while doing the black lady church fan wave, cuz this is truth.

One can only hope. I don't understand why the show would even entertain that. What is so wrong with allowing them to build and grow this great sibling relationship? I admit I am not the biggest Japril fan in the world, but I could be on board with a story line that has them acknowledging that maybe the love was there when they first got together but not the commitment or maturity necessary to make a marriage work long term. And now, the two are wiser, older and understand each other a little better maybe they get a real second chance. Something like that could win me over to them. But I could never get on board with Jackson & Maggie. I like them both separately, but not together. Not that way.

Yup. I could totally understand Michaela's anger at Analise. She hero worshiped Analise. Seeing her hero fall and not even fight to get back up feel like such a betrayal. Of all of them I thought Bonnie, Michaela and Asher's reactions felt the most understandable. Asher wasn't involved with them for the whole Sam thing so he was spared an entire year of crazy guilt trauma. But he could have chosen to blame Ana for all the stuff with his dad. But he doesn't. At least he is self aware to realize that he bears some blame there. For him I like that his reaction is a sad version of Michaela's angry reaction. Hers is anger at betrayal. His is sadness about rejection. I am not gonna lie, I would have at least eaten dinner. At least Michaela took the booze, ha!

Precisely the reason why everyone on tv has a bathroom with a stand alone shower stall. Have to accommodate the dramatic, crying wall slide. The poor folks who only have a shower as part of their bathtub can never know the dramatic release of the crying wall slide.

Laurel's dad insisting on a picture together felt ... odd. I feel that he is using her as an alibi for something. And Jimmy Smits being the one to come to her at the end just sends up all sorts of red flags. I was shocked that she told him she had an abortion. I actually had to rationalize it to myself during the scene. Well, I said to self, she is a law student, single mother, it isn't the right time, etc. etc. And I figured this is a Shonda show... woman's body, choice etc. etc.... But than i was so happy she was keeping the baby. Whew. I Love Asher and Michaela!! Of course he feels threatened by mattress store hottie. Guy kinda looked a little bit like the Haspstall guy. And this is Asher we're talking about. He's a little inappropriate. But it is nice to see them coupled up. I loved that blue dress on Michaela at the restaurant. Connor stays bitter! LOL. Hate the haircut. On Frank the severe buzz cut made him look younger and hotter. On Connor it makes him lose all his boyish charm and makes him look older and humorless. He just looks like a ... banker or something. The guy Annalise met on the plane and then in the hotel was Viola's IRL husband. Knowing that, I felt a little weird watching them try to get it on at the hotel. Looking forward to the season. The preview makes it look like they are all, not just Annalise, going to be clawing their ways back to the top. I hope we get lots of showy "win" moments for them all.

That was ... promising. I like the lighter tone. Also it felt like they were finally treating the characters like people with history and not just plot points to or a bag of tics. So many salient references to people and their relationships with each other, past and present and not just forgetting it because it doesn't work for the plot on the page. I am very exasperated by the introduction of DeLuca's sister, but I loved the arguing in Italian and Arizona's facial expression. I will say I was surprised by Amelia's diagnosis and in retrospect it makes sense. It is the most I have been interested in Amelia since she started the show. I would say Nathan's tone-deaf proposal and everything surrounding Jo and the glasses intern were the two biggest needle scratches. But everybody else just felt like they brought their A-game.

Watching the season premiere of How To Get Away With Murder and realize Nick Gonzalez jas pretty much been cast as a jerk in every show I've seen him in. He was Abby's jerky ex fiance on Sleepy Hollow He was Cisco's jerky brother on The Flash He was Wes' jerky murderer on How To Get Away With Murder

Actually if you squint/blur your eyes a little it works. Of course Pimento would send that to Rosa. Oh show, never change.

I don't know about apartment rental values, but murder, violent death or homicide in a home buyer real estate really affects property value and the asking price of a house. You can buy a house for a steal if someone died there through murder. It is considered a stigmatized property. In some states/municipalities I think it is actual law that a seller must disclose what happened in the property if is is considered stigmatized as part of the real estate transaction.

Finally got a chance to watch. Sorry I don't know nay characters' names just yet so I'll use the actor names... What I Liked: - Freddy, Antonia, Tamlyn Tomita (I have a major girl-crush on her and have followed her since The Joy Luck Club) - The idea of the show What I didn't like: - The extremes of Hill Harper and Richard Schiff's positions. I know that RS was supposed to be more sympathetic and HH is supposed to be seen as unfeeling, but I thought both of them were eye-rolling in their extremes. Rather than defending your hire by starting with "I knew him since he was 14" how about talking about his qualifications. Obviously he made it through medical school. Was it a good school? Were his grades good? Couldn't he bring up some ADA regulations? Why not admonish them about their blatant discrimination rather than just some mealy mouthed "well there was a time we wouldn't hire women or blacks." - Everyone is already in some romantic/personal relationship with everyone else. Cool your jets show. - How ridiculous is Nick Gonzalez' entire character? He's met the the new guy has actually see his knowledge in positive action and yet "Oh you shouldn't be here.. You'll only ever do suction blah, blah, blah." Needless dramatic posturing.

I had no worries at all last season with the prison story looming. I knew this show had it in it to take the premise and just be silly with it. And it delivered like crazy. I mean, Tim Meadows as a child eating cannibal? And you like him? Lou Diamond Phillips' contraband of choice is exotic flavored Ramen? They even made Jake's unprovoked multiple beat-downs by the guard funny. Basically they some horrible prison tropes and made them all very B99. I loved it. I'll bet the story wraps up in Part 2, so we won't be in jail long.

I need to rewatch before the new season. But I did read the semi-spoilery article. I have to say it brought up some good points about some questions and assumptions about the characters. After the last episode, I think I was still in so much shock about Wes' brutal death that I didn't really think about what everything meant going forward. But it does beg the question, now that they have no more conspiracy of silence/ mutual destruction to keep up re: Sam's death and since Ana is no longer teaching, what is the glue that holds them all together now? I am really intrigued by all the possible directions the show could go.

I thought she was the back up singer who tried out for the head singer gig but didn't get it? I think it was illustrative of his point though. Someone like Amber who has actually been out there singing professionally in a competitive market like LA probably has thick skin and has taken worse rejections. So his pointing that out probably rolled right off her back.

Agree 100%. The first two seasons are excellent because the original five cast have ridiculous chemistry. And I loved how her character of Alisha grew and matured over the course of the show. She was also in a British mini-series called Homefront that centers on the wives and families of deployed soldiers.

Three things I loved about the premiere: 1. Jack's confession about being a drunk. And not just the admission, but the fact that he was drunk when he was telling Rebecca about it and Milo wasn't an over-the-top tv drunk. Rather his speech was very careful and deliberate. He did that slow blinking thing. Like a real drunk who is quietly drunk and is used to hiding it and functioning with it. Nice little scene. 2. Beth's meltdown and 'fake smoking' in the parking lot. She was so very salty in that adoption agency office. And I am not gonna lie, I was here for it. Ha! 3. Kate's audition. It was brutal but truthful. I love that she didn't come there and kill it. And I loved the band director guy's "Amber" and then Amber really killing it. And letting her know that she just wasn't good enough to sing for them. It was a nice illustration that yes Kate being overweight no doubt gets discriminated against, but not everything is about her weight.

It seems like the poster is only showing super-hero characters. Not regular people. Iris is the only non-super being shown because, well it is her wedding. But everyone else is in their super hero/villain guise. , i.e. VIbe but not Cisco, KF but not Caitlyn, Firestorm instead of Jackson & Stein etc.... No Joe. No Harrison Wells dopp. So no Felicity either. But... that does make the absence of Kid Flash rather glaring.

Yup. Yup. Yup. The black Jesus on the wall, the soundtrack for the ep, those conversations around the Thanksgiving table every year. My family has had variations of the same ones in the same tones re: Nicole Simpson Brown during the 2006 Thanksgiving "if Nicole was black we wouldn't even be talking about this." re: Sandra Bland during the 2016 Thanksgiving "If Sandra was white we wouldn't even be talking about this." And can we talk about how Angela Basset just completely humanized the character of Denise's mother? it would have been so easy to write her off as the typical parent who is homophobic because she instantly rejects her daughter's sexuality. But her face when Denise says "I don't like to have sex with men" had so many emotions pass over it. That entire scene in the diner when Denise comes out! An then the scene in the kitchen where she tries to figure out where she went wrong. Her awkwardness around the first girlfriend. Basically every scene of her angry sipping during the various dinners whenever Denise invites the girlfriends to Thanksgiving. And then her slow acceptance. So funny, such sublime acting.

And Ahmed is the first Asian man to win in an acting category. Before him the only Asian actor to win in an acting category was Archie Panjabi. I didn't watch the Emmys, but I was thrilled for Lena Waithe. That episode of Master of None was hands down the best of the series.

Some comments she made as a member of the RWA basically boiled down to "Make Publishing Great Again" and that the push toward diversity & diverse voices in romance was considered "social issues" and had no place in the RWA. Also implied that the rise of indie publishing ... which of course arose because trad publishers have not been historically inclusive in acquisitions of romance from POC or LGBTQ writers -- is the reason she herself is seeing a loss in sales. Apparently she forgot her last couple of books sucked major ass. I mean, in her last book the pet dog had more page space than her hero or heroine. No one actually linked to the comments as the comments themselves were in a closed message board but were apparently felt hurtful and divisive enough by enough members that the discussion of the spilled out into the public sphere. The reactions to her comments blew up on Romancelandia twitter. People were pissed. I was very surprised to learn that apparently she's made.. ah... divisive comments before. Sigh. If that last terrible book wasn;t enough to put me off of her this definitely is. Anyway here is a much better insider accounting.

They have Mekia Cox on this season as Tiana. No way they would return Rapunzel with a black actress. That would make *gasp* two black princessy types in one season. And *gasp* they might possibly share a screen. Can't have that.... I mean, this is ABC and even on a channel like ABC that is miles ahead progressively from, say, CBS, the WOC female multiples is distressingly low. Has Olivia Pope ever interacted with another black woman who wasn't her psycho mother? At least Bailey and Cristina on Grey's had their own relationship separate from Meredith. But the three WOC left, Bailey, Maggie and Stephanie barely ever interacted. (And don't get me started on the terrible (lack of) romance storylines for those three, I could write a novel). Heck, even Bow in Black-ish doesn't have any black girlfriends. But since she spends most of her time dodging insults from Ruby, I guess that counts.

Admittedly of the early books, only the first one really stands out in my head. So I am not sure if the intent of them early on was supposed to be received as whodunnits? I do know that somewhere about books 5-ish and on -- I started to notice her playing with format. Hence, in some of the books you know who the killer is right in the first chapter or very early on. In some cases the reader knows who they are but Eve doesn't and in some cases both the reader and Eve knows. One of my favorites is one where they all know the identity of killer because he is some big-deal assassin who is on every most waned list ever but no one has ever actually seen him (or her) so nobody knows what they look like and thus have been hard to catch.

I really think that she thought she could actually manipulate the NYT list to make it to #1 and thus artificially create the buzz that being #1 would in turn make real buzz and then that would translate into movie success. So I agree with you there. She wanted her success trajectory to be like Twilight or 50 Shades. The Huge book, the huge buzz and then the movie. She simply tried to pre-plan it through fraud. Honestly, she might have gotten away with it just that way except she wasn't tuned into YA book twitter. So I am not so sure she is as social media savvy as KK. I think do think she tried to use it to her advantage but I don't think this turned out quite the way she wanted it to. Her come out of nowhere success is exactly what made them so suspicious. The corners of romance twitter and YA twitter are like a small town. They all follow each other and retweet each other and they immediately tune into and amplify anything issue based the treads on their areas-- the recent Linda Howard madness for instance is another example of it. If she had been cultivating them for awhile or part of that community for awhile they might not have been so immediately suspicious. But she didn't so they immediately circled the wagons on her. Which is how she got shut down so quickly. If she does actually profit from this notoriety it will not be because she planned it just this way, imo. She will have lucked into it.

I love how she often takes one for the team. LOL.

All the crap that Issa and Lawrence went through had to happen so that last conversation had the resonance it did. For that I love the storytelling structure of the season. They had me for about a second with the fake-out until they got to the pregnancy. It had the feel of a series finale not a season finale and looked they looked a little too happy. I like Aparna and am glad she shut that shit down with Lawrence. With his jealosuy and extra-ness he was basically pulling a Tasha on Aparna. But she at least was more upfront about it than he was and just got the fuck out. Aparna also did what Issa tried to do. Lawrence wants to vault right to the top with a fantastic idea. But she attempts to temper his expectations with reality. Maybe work on an existing project first within the culture of the company so you can see what to do and what not to do. But he is not feeling that, it is the same reaction he had to Issa when she tried to get him to find a job and work on his app on the side. Issa whole work thing was a mess. But I blame the supervisor. Instead of talking to Issa to really suss out the situation, she immediately jumped to blame and disappointment. She could have at least acknowledged that Issa was in an untenable situation with the VP and given her some guidance on how to work with it. Even if you are in charge in the field, there are reasons you have a supervisor and it is just for that type of guidance . Yes, the inability to make a quick pivot decision while out in the field could (and probably should) have some bearing on her decision or not to promote Issa, but her immediate reaction was so immediately condemnatory that it makes me think she held Issa to a higher standard than she did everyone else. Y'all know that is Fred's baby. Tiffany being so extra at Derek's birthday now makes so much sense. The best part of Molly this entire episode was 1) her seeming acceptance and comfort at being in therapy now and 2) her Moroccan dinner with Issa. I am not gonna lie, I was girlfriend jealous that whole scene! But the rest. Nah. Molly we are done. I was on your side but your insistence on making the worst possible choice for yourself is making me downgrade you to (almost) Lawrence levels of exasperation. Meanwhile Kelli is moving on up. Everything about Kelli this season has been gold. Her breakdown of the whys/why nots of working with blacks versus the whites had me cackling. Watched the entire Due North and it was really hilarious Regina Hall is a treasure. And if "I hate Slavery!" doesn't become and internet meme, than I don't know the internet. I wish Dear White People had made Defamation available like Issa did with Due North. Great season. Can't wait to see what happens next.

Sigh. And CBS will most likely cast it with former NCIS or CSI cast offs or actors from their CW stable of shows who are currently not starring in anything.