Ororo Monroe

I knew Simpson couldn't be trusted! Bastard. A mass lynching. Suicide by wine glass stem. I just...wow. I'll have more to say once I collect my thoughts. Gracious.

I have so many questions: 1. Why didn't Jessica have someone bring the videos of the experiments and take the parents to the precinct, their statement with the video could have provided compelling evidence, yes? 2. Since Kilgrave can't control Jessica anymore, her plan to have him try to stop her from kicking his ass on video would have flopped anyway. So what was her backup plan? 3. Why would Lester Freamon not bring back up (I'm sorry, I keep forgetting his JJ character's name and I'm a Wire fan)? He's supposed to good police. 3a. Why has Clarke Peters been so criminally underused in this show? 4. Was Jeri going to release Kilgrave or did she just want to convince him to work for her so she can get this divorce settled? And why wasn't she concerned about getting hurt herself? Whose side is she actually on? 5. How does Jessica's hair stay so shiny after the hell she keeps going through? 6. Is Simpson a superhero too--I mean, "gifted"? What's up with the pills? Is this another Captain America kind of situation? I guess I just need to be patient and see how this unfolds. Also: I don't like the actor who plays him. He's so...milquetoast. OK, that about covers all of my questions. Usually I can suspend disbelief but some of the decisions these characters made were just stupefying. Other observations: Trish had an accent slip-up in the hospital scene. Kind of like an Irish lilt. I'm digging the subtle red, white, and blue motif that keeps popping up. Trish is almost always wearing some combination. Jessica is usually in black and grey, and Jeri is pretty much exclusively in tan and black. Just really digging the palette. One more thing: Malcolm is so cute and one of the most genuinely kind characters in this show; he provides a bit of light in what is obviously the darkest timeline.

That was...a really intense scene to watch. This is what it's like when you try to explain to people that sexual assault isn't always someone jumping out of the bushes. Usually it's someone you know, and you're put into a position where your consent wasn't truly asked for; your ability to say "no" was taken away from you. And a lot of people don't believe in assault unless it's by a stranger and weapons are involved. Sometimes the people who inflict this kind of pain on others are often completely unaware of their actions and don't view themselves as rapists. They use excuses like Kilgrave did. "Well, you didn't say yes, but you didn't say no", "I could tell she wanted it", "Look at what she was wearing", etc. He's so fucking creepy because he's so human. Barring mind control, a lot of men have this exact mentality because they're taught from birth that they can just help themselves to everything in the world, including women's bodies. The world is a bazaar, whether someone really wants to part with what they're after or not.

It's so fucked up! Reciting the street names was a way for her to feel safe and ground herself whenever she felt a panic attack or flashback coming on. For him to take away the last safe space she had, in a figurative and literal sense is almost too monstrous for words. Kilgrave is the scariest villain from a comic I've encountered in a while.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Did not see that ending coming. Wow. Reminded me of Taxi Driver a bit. Also a very good portrayal of PTSD; I've experienced it myself and seeing someone in a TV show doing grounding exercises and having crazy dreams and flashbacks made me feel slightly less alone and abnormal. Some parts did remind me a bit of Veronica Mars and how much I miss the first season of that show. I love the look of the credits but the music towards the end fell flat for me. Wish it had stayed jazzy throughout, but that's a minor quibble.

Ended up binge watching all 6 episodes this week. I had no idea about 3T's mom. That is so, so sad and I do hope they are in counseling to deal with that big of a loss. It was cute seeing Prince and Prince II (I can't call that kid Blanket lol) as they continue to grow. Prince especially seems like he has a good head on his shoulders. As far as whether MJ's kids are biologically his, I mean...I get why people would look at the boys and Paris and think NO WAY they're half Black, but genetics work in funky, interesting ways. Two of Quincy Jones' daughters, Rashida and Kenya, do not look like what we think of as mixed or Black at all, they look like white girls. Victoria Rowell's daughter straight up looks like a white woman. Wentworth Miller caught flack for playing a Black man passing for white in The Human Stain before he did interviews and people realized he, in fact, is part Black. Rebecca Hall's mom is half Black. Tom Sizemore is half Black. (Threw me for a loop too, y'all.) Stephen Graham (aka Al Capone on Boardwalk Empire) is half Black. Carol Channing passed for white for decades and no one was the wiser. I went to high school with a girl who was half Mexican and half Irish and she looked white. Then I worked with a guy who was half Puerto Rican and half Polish but I had no idea he was mixed until I met his mom, who had red hair and was pretty pale. He looked nothing like her at all. It's hard to say what a mixed person should look like with any real certainty. Maybe I'll have to eat my hat in a few years when a DNA test comes out and makes me look foolish, but I do think Paris favors her aunt Latoya when you look at photos of Latoya pre-surgery. I still think Prince II (the one true Jackson to rule them all) looks very similar to how MJ looked as a child. But either way, MJ was their father. He was the one raising them, he was the one they called Dad and that giant family accepts the three of them as their own. As far as the show, the main trio isn't super compelling (especially Taj. Sorry bro), certainly not as compelling as their Uncle Jermaine's Sharpie hairline contraption. The best thing that I can say about this is that it once again inspired me to listen to Jackson 5/The Jacksons/Michael Jackson and some of Janet's work all over again. This family is so talented. Like...it still trips me out sometimes to think about the decades-long run of the Jackson 5, Michael's solo work as a teen, then his solo work as a young adult, and then as, you know, The King of Pop post-Thriller. And then Janet becoming a legend in her own right. That's a lot to live up to. I would have probably buckled under that kind of pressure.

It was at the beginning when he was having a fuccboi pow-wow with Max Lux and that other dude. I can't stand him. I think what also irritates me about Ray J --and there are SO many things -- is that he made a song some 13-15 years ago that still goes to this day and that I somehow know all the lyrics to and still dance to. I'll see myself out.

I actually like septum rings and plenty of black women wear them and look super cute and not bovine-like in the least. However, I do think the one she wears is a little too big. Something smaller would fit her facial features a lot more.

That was a sorry looking runway show. Oof. I think Hazel bailed because of that, not because she was afraid of Terror. I wish Princess had actually stayed true to what she was saying in the confessionals and stayed away from Ray J. Those two kids are engaged now. *insert eye roll here* "I used to be a 95% cheater, now I'm a 5% cheater!" Negro, are you serious right now? Ugh! Why are Miles and Amber meeting up yet again? Didn't they resolve everything that needed to be resolved? There's no more air left to be cleared. Also not getting why Fizz goes running to Nikki about Moniece wanting to get back together with him. He couldn't go to Omarion? Or his own parents? He couldn't just keep that to himself? What? Then again, why I am looking for anything on this show to be logical.

Bingo. The whole time he was ranting, I was wondering "how is this any of YOUR business though?" Sigh. Porsha is um...special. Regine is on this show! Yay! I love Kim Fields and I am terrified for her now that she's on this show. Where's a praying grandmother when you really need one...

I was kind of underwhelmed by this. I think the problem is I binge watched it and at some point I got really tired of the actor playing Escobar's glowering stare downs and declarations of "Plata o Plomo" (mustache twirl) and the voiceover and the threat of violence that went along with every sex scene between VV and Pablo, the...just the everything. Maybe if I watched this as it unfolded over 10 weeks as opposed to watching all of this in a 72-hour period I would have liked it better. And I did feel a little...had, as it were that they're stretching this out to two seasons instead of wrapping up the story in one season and maybe dedicating the next season to a different narco. Eh. I don't know.

Howling at "Strippervention" and Nikki's "glue gunned" bewbs. You guys are hilarious.

THAT'S what "good lotion" means? UGH!!!!

Same. I can't bring myself to re-watch it because it was so disturbing, but even 7 months later, I still think about this documentary often. Powerful, haunting work.

So happy to have found this forum. I can talk about how much I love this trash ass show. Terror Marie not having her line of blazers (???) ready for the fashion show? Girl. Ok. Hazel-E bringing up Yung Berg yet again (even Milan was over it). Hm. Ok, girl. Also, why did she invite Princess again to get involved with this alleged fashion show? Princess designs clothes now? Or is she going to be a model...? Nikki and those ridiculous hand movements she always makes in her confessionals. Please stop. We know you like to hang out with Black women but that does not, in fact, make you Black. Please, someone make her stop. Shonda and Willie seem like they're on a completely different show. I...yeah. That's all I got. You know what cracks me up about these shows? (Besides the fact that everyone is always launching some kind of "line" [see: the RayJ.com launch party] or "brand" or is working on songs and EPs that never see the light of day.) All of these so-called "photo shoots." I'm a photographer and what always cracks me up is how staged everything is. The photographer is usually using the wrong type of lens, or there are strobes going off but the camera isn't hooked up to anything, whether it's through a sync cord or a pocket wizard for wireless syncing. [/nerd] And then there's the fact that the photos never appear in any magazine, newspaper or "the blogs" that everyone is always yammering about. God this show is trash and it's glorious.

Jess was such a jerk. I'm rewatching the series now and the way he talked to Lorelai, asking if she was sleeping with Luke IN HER OWN HOUSE, after he tried to steal a beer...I mean...the audacity. I know his parents were pretty horrible, and he was in a new town, and he was a teenager, yadda yadda yadda but man. I know if I talked like that to an adult when I was 16/17, I would have been slapped into the previous week and rightfully so. He was so smarmy and so sure that he was smarter than everyone else. One of my favorite episodes was Keg! Max! when Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (a national treasure, btw) rightfully upbraided him and told him he couldn't go to the prom and wouldn't graduate. I can see the appeal he would have held for someone like Rory, especially coming off a relationship with Dean, but man, that kid was actively and unapologetically a Grade-A horse's ass. I may need to be in the Unpopular Opinions thread but I didn't really care for any of Rory's boyfriends and would prefer that she was #TeamRory for a few years after college. Focus on work, establishing herself as an adult away from her mom, paramours, and Connecticut and take some time to just find herself. While I'm excited about the upcoming GG reboot, I hope that Jess (or Dean or Logan) is not set up as endgame, but maybe they can be good friends since it did seem like in the later seasons that he matured since his Bad Boy Teen Jerkwad days.

Yes! I think this may be my favorite episode out of the season. Also, Brian is hot and I want to see more of him in season 2 (if there is a season 2, which I hope, hope, hope will happen). I also loved that moment when Brian's dad apologized to the server about Dev's dad ordering chicken and broccoli. Hilarious and affecting episode all around.

I'm surprised at how much I like this show. It's very to easy to binge watch and I love that POC characters are front and center and not just tokens there to check off a diversity list. BTW, I would totally watch the Black virus movie, aka The Sickening.

I accidentally binged all ten episodes last night after the disaster that was the second half of The Affair. I love this show so hard. I was a bit saddened that Dev and Rachel broke up but also not really surprised. They were a very cute couple but does that really mean they should be together for the rest of their lives? Hard to say. Also loved: Dev's dad telling him to read the Bell Jar, everyone rolling their eyes at those cheesy ass vows (myself included), and Dev flying to Italy. I initially thought he was flying to Japan to win back Rachel but he did something he always wanted to do as well. That was a good fake-out. Already yearning for season 2!

I can't watch this show anymore. That scene with Noah and Allison toward the end was really, really unsettling. He raped her. He wanted to assert that he was in charge and he...oh God. That was really disturbing to watch. Well. It's been nice, folks. See you on the flip side.

I know, I meant as part of the final four on the show.

I knew Ashley would win. It made me roll my eyes. I appreciate the inclusion of a plus-size collection but it needs to be...I don't know, actually good? Well-constructed, well-made, not so mumsy looking? I'm plus-size (I vacillate between "straight" size and plus size) and I wouldn't go for anything Ashley designed, not at all. Kelly's looks were...meh. Reminded me of stuff I've seen at Forever 21. Candace's collection looked too derivative. I was rooting for Edmond but...I don't know, his looks kind of fell flat for me. This is the first season I've watched since Anya won (the Trini woman, that was her name, yes?) and now I think I will go back to not paying attention to this show anymore. The real person I was rooting for was Swapnil and he was booted off before he could even get to NYFW. Le sigh.

Candace is one of those people who thinks she is very wise and deep and really is neither. She talks as though we simply must hang on to every word, because she's so damn philosophical. Really don't think so. She bugs. She is just so manufactured, from the tattoos to the eyebrows to the dyed black hair to the light foundation. Ugh! Sorry, I stupidly did not use the quote tool correctly and I've been scrolling to see who said this and now I can't find it but THANK YOU for explaining why she grates my nerves so much. She acts like she's one of the judges or mentors. Like, calm down, you're a contestant like everyone else you seem to think you know so much more than. Please.

Meh, I wasn't impressed with anything that made it down the runway tonight. This season overall has been kind of lackluster for me. I don't really think Ashley needs to be there. Her last couple of designs have been underwhelming but whatevs. I do like Edmund a lot and I think he's a genuinely positive and sweet person but that dress he made...oof. And Heidi's "we have to be fair" hemming and hawing...ok girl. I think I may be kind of over this show. Which bums me out; I've been watching since the Bravo days.