DearEvette

Maggie was annoying for sure. But her little bit of selfishness does not deserve the outpouring of hate she seems to be getting. I mean everyone was asking about what happened to DeLuca and Meredith knew. No it isn't about Maggie but at the end of the day Meredith was willing to cover up an ass beating that could have made him lose his sight and he was someone Maggie cared about. Also by making it about their family and relationship, Maggie's hurt wasn't necessarily about this particular situation so much is was about Meredith having no issue outright lying to Maggie's face. Meanwhile Alex beats a guy to shit. Jo lies like it is a career that owes her a pension, and Meredith is busy covering stuff up and they get sympathetic understanding. I don't completely blame Alex because after all he was working from a deluded assumption that DeLuca was forcing himself on Jo. But still he seemed to have little remorse even when he thought maybe it was consensual. Hey, I even like Alex quite a bit, but that is every kind of fucked up there is. And remember this is the guy who basically shamed Chest Peckwell into not going to the police because no one would believe him. But at least in the end he took responsibility. I do 100% squarely blame Jo. I know she is popular on this board but I can not stand her. Her number one concern is keeping her secret and running away. It is not like she is in imminent danger of being discovered by her husband right at this point. So her instinct to run without clearing up what happened and leaving both Alex and DeLuca in the stew of the mess she made is a total punk ass move.

I got the clear vibe in last episode that Ralph Angel probably was babied to some extent. We still don't know what the family dynamic was for them growing up. What exactly Earnest' relationship with them was. And obviously something went pear-shaped with RA for him to have gotten into drugs and gone to jail and to have absolutely no knowledge of the farm. I can't 100% blame him for his lack of knowledge only for his naivete.... ... And his stupidity and his pride. Because refusing the help of a an experienced farmer when you don't even know enough about your crop to see when it is bad is just dumb. But honestly, from a story telling standpoint I love that this element of him was included. I like that it isn't going to be easy for him. And it is good that he is making rookie mistakes. He'll learn better this way. I knew RA would fuck it up it was just a matter of what degree. I was very skeptical when they were talking about Charley leaving him that money, my hope is that he doesn't mess the money up, but if he does it is through ignorance and mismanagement and not something more sinister. I am hopeful because so far Ava Duvernay hasn't been going with the cheap storytelling. Frankly, I was more upset with Nova. She's my favorite and I applaud her reformer zeal. But I hated that she was blowing off RA. She knows he was over his head. And it broke my heart when RA called her out on her neglect of him when he was inside. Hopefully this is another corner turned for them. Meanwhile, Nova's married boo is so fine.... sigh. As much as I despide Davis, I want Charley to triumph in everything. She is so steely. She is a baller. But I also want her back in NOLA. And I knew Micah's girlfriend was trifling last week. Finally, I loved her line delivery when she found out the hooker's name was Goldie. The utter disdain dripping from her lips was great. LOL.

Justin Hartley -- Oh I loved him since his days on Passions. Fox and Whitney forevah! Or at least til I stopped watching daytime soaps. Speaking of ... I loved his drunk scene it hit just right medium between self-pitying and self-righteous. I also liked the smallish scene of Russell cracking up comparing his own life to a sitcom.

Not the best to open with. I think the idea of the Johnsons going to Disney was a good one, but the execution just felt like a big commercial. I did like Bow, Ruby and Pops though. Their storyline was fun, especially Bow wearing the Minnie Mouse ears. TER's whole look with braids, the ears and then later the Mickey Hands was just perfect. One thing I do appreciate is that the show allows Diane to get her comeuppance every once in awhile. I love her to pieces, but karma does come back and bite her. It keeps the character from becoming too precious. So her losing her glasses and not being able to see whatever the hell was so indescribable (and Jack gloating about it) was great. And I admit, I sympathise having lost my own glasses on a water ride once. Season 2 was very strong. C'mon Season 3, don't let me down!!

That "anachronistic" discussion about black folks being around in the 80s made me think of that scene in Psych:

I think the NBC aired promos were deliberately misleading to get you to just approach this like a family drama in the vein of Parenthood of Thirtysomething. I think going in blind to the twist and having it come out of the blue was something they were really going for. And of course, casting Sterling Brown was another element to the mislead. I mean even if you did begin to suspect you still has to wonder how he fit in? That was my impression going into last week. But suddenly the big promo push was on and I had read a couple of posts by critics who mentioned the twist at the end and called it intriguing. And then NBC started talking up the 'drag out the hnakies' stuff. So really until last week, I thought the same as you.

Aw, I missed the rest of the cast but I love Jake and Holt together so much. I love how his boss totally thought he was a stoner. So funny since of course Holt is the exact opposite. I also loved how awkward he was with pretending to be a straight widow who was married to a "strong, female woman with nice heavy breasts." The episode itself was only so-so but the Jake-Holt stuff was worth it.

i liked this. But I must be an unfeeling monster because I didn't cry once. Didn't even get a tingle in my nose... I guessed the twist about 20 mins before the end. There was a background shot of a woman wearing this plaid skirt and I thought it looked dated and then I started paying a attention to the hospital setting and it just didn't look high tech enough. What finally did it is when the show very pointedly didn't show the picture of Randall's adoptive parents, even though normally we would have gotten a look at the photo. Birth dad seems sketchy. Randall shuldn;t have said how much he paid for that car... I like Toby. He's funny and feels natural. I love that he immediately took a selfie with Justin Hartley's character (man I need to look them up on IMDB). And the Alan Thicke line.

I had initially heard of it in passing a month or so ago, but it was amidst the all the other reboots etc. etc. that come along and I tend to ignore. The main thing that makes me actually want to see this is because I love sci fi, I love POC in sci fi -- I would have loved the whole Robinson clan to be black, but I don't mind the idea of them being an IR family since an IR family would look more like mine that a homogeneous one would -- and genuinely like Toby Stephens. He's got an interesting face and a presence I enjoy. Whether or not I really tune in will rely on the rest of the cast. I get attracted to stuff these days based on cast more than premise, honestly. Just like I totally plan to check out that other new sci fi show on Netflix 'Altered Carbon' solely on the basis of Renee Elise Goldsberry being cast as a main. Although I must admit nothing would have enticed me to check it out if it had been re-imagined as a police procedural...

Dang it! I might actually watch the Lost In Space reboot they are doing on Netflix. The first Robinson family member cast was Taylor Russell, as Judy Robinson the oldest daughter. Taylor is a WOC (yes, there were people on social media complaining about being PC and casting a "blackwashing" the family Robinson). But now they've just announced Toby Stephens is cast at her father John Robinson. I like him in Black Sails. And so now I am intrigued about who they'll cast as the mother. Someone on Tvline suggested Sharon Leal. I would totally cosign that casting.

It seems like Ava was in close contact Natalie Baszile as she was adapting the changes and Baszile was really ok with it. Her point about adapting the book into a tv series vs. a movie is well taken. You can only sustain a book's premise over a multi-episode , multi-season tv show for so long before you do end up having to introduce changes that diverge it from the source. A self contained two hour movie may have been closer to the book. And the reality with traditional publishing is that different types of rights to a single work have to be negotiated separately when you sell a book to a publisher. The 'book' is usually just the published, printed work, not the electronic or digital rights, and not the reproduction rights, trademark, intellectual property etc. A lot of times those are owned by the publisher and can be optioned out separately and the actual writer has little control over how the work becomes adapted in other formats. Big names can and do negotiate stronger contracts wrt controls over their works. And a lot of times contracts can stipulate a period of time when the all the rights revert completely to the author so they have sole control over the work in all formats. But a lot of times, once it has been optioned and sold for film or tv the writer has to sit on the sidelines like the rest of us and hope the adaptation doesn't lose all the spirit of the work. But yeah, she sounds like is rather pleased. And even with the changes it has increased her book's profile quite a bit. Here is the full interview.

Interesting that most of those mentioned also have POC as creators and/or showrunners. But credit to Dan Fogelman who created Pitch, also created 'This is Us' which has a black family headed by Sterling K. Brown listed as one of the mains. Also his first tv show was 'The Neighbors' (man I loved that show!) which featured an Alien family who relocated to earth and picked the bodies they liked best, one of which was a black woman (Toks Olugundoye) and one was an Asian boy (Tim Jo).

Wasn't a fan of the first season, but the second season was fantastic. I am liking the limited series model. it is like a whole new show each season with the same cast.

On a positive note , though, Amy Schumer got the least applause of the actors in her category.

I have never been able to get into Veep so JLD winning for the 5th time is a big YAWN for me.

I love Transparent, but I liked Season 1 better than Season 2. S2 got a little too arty for its own good.

Yay! The Parents episode of Master of None was fantastic. Well deserved. Congrats to Aziz Ansari.

That wasn't blackish banter. That was lame Emmys banter.

"Are you rooting for OJ to win this time?" ha! Ok. that is kinda funny.

Weirdly, Jimmy Kimmel looks eerily like George Michael.

I am loving Kerry's wild hair.

Season 1 - my favorite was 'The Party' and my least favorite was The Pilot Season 2 - my favorites were the premiere episode, 'Beach House' and Halloween II my least favorite I think were the Eva Longoria episodes -- they felt too designed to showcase her guest starriness. Season 3 - I think S3 was pretty strong overall. My favorites were 'Cheddar', 'The Bureau' and 'Greg and Larry.' The last two eps of the season were fantastic. The whole cast was deployed perfectly, they managed to use Melissa Fumero's pregnancy cleverly, all the revelations about Rosa, and my God, Dennis Haysbert was perfect with Andre Braugher. My least fave was probably 'Into the Woods'.

Yeah, when watching tv I need a couple of characters I actually enjoy and a story that is well written and acted. I don't need to root for them necessarily. But I want to watch their journey and have them not piss me off too bad or hate them too much. A bonus of I just love a character or two flat out. But I must say with this show I am like @Jesse i am kinda rooting for them all. Well, maybe not Davis too much. But I want the farm to succeed for the siblings' sake and I want Ralph Angel to come to come out ok, mainly for Blue's sake. I want Charley to kick butt. And I want Nova to be happy. I think she's my favorite. So yeah I am kinda rooting for them all.

Delcua getting a bigger storyline than what? Than he had before? Because honestly he deserves that. He is a regular who disappeared for whole swaths of episodes or who only existed as an extension of Maggie. I like the regulars and would love for the show to give them some quality time, but I can also co sign on Deluca getting some much needed personal development. Honestly, we know nothing about him really as a person. So good if he is getting some face time.

i wonder if this is because the show is unfolding like a book would instead of like a tv show normally would? Unless it is a matter of suspense or a spoiler, visual media tends to 'data dump' these sorts of things right away. In theatre you normally get the Dramatis personae list and it explains characters & relationships for you so you immediately go into the play armed with that knowledge. Tv and movies do the same thing but in a quick exposition. But books tend to roll out revelations a bit slower. I am finding this show to be like that, they are revealing out this sort of information in drips. Like with Blue's mother, and then Charley's mother etc. each episode we are getting a little more back story.