Stowaway

Ehrm, I believe the expression is "black horse."

General speculation is that they're going for a "queens the fandom thought were robbed" theme for the season. I guess that makes sense for BenDeLa and Trixie, even Thorgy and Kennedy. . . but Milk? Aja? And who was less "robbed" than Shangela, with her multiple chances? The producers must have some idea for what they want the narrative of the season to be, but it's hard for me to spot, just looking at these names.

/cosigned Dead Poets Society is the film equivalent of a "Question Authority" bumper sticker, and all narratives that flow from that trope are poisonous. I've never seen an episode of My So Called Life, either. But hey, I've seen every episode of Firefly four times, so that evens out, right?

Thank you for braving ahead and providing more of the free entertainment we've all come to feel entitled to!

Mary Tyler Moore's beret was robbed. ROBBED!!!

Season 5 is my favorite (regular) season, and has the highest concentration of all-time favorite queens. But if I had to pick my top Ru Girl overall, it would probably be Alaska. I was glad that Jinkx won, though. And it paved the way for the brilliance of All Stars 2.

The "daddy" thing really is a monumental shift in gay culture. My generation (I'm about Tara's age) was usually painted as shallow because we generally didn't want to date older guys. But the fact was, we came of age in a time when there was a dearth of healthy older gay role models, and a fear climate that told us that seeping with older guys was how you got sick. It's interesting, and heartening, to see how much has changed. But as someone who would prefer to date a guy who's in his 40s, it's annoying that all the hot ones now have younger boyfriends. Surely the brain fart about Baby June came not from "Gypsy," but from Honey Boo Boo,

Do my ears deceive, or does Tara say Veronica's Secret circa minute ten? Clearly the return of "Will & Grace" has her thinking she can have the entire 1998 Thursday lineup back!

Yay, Tara's Pinko Corner is back!

Today I Learned: Sarah D Bunting was arrested for possession! When will we get a Blotter Presents about THAT true crime?

In Gordon Lightfoot's own words, "I thinks you'd be impressed that I talks at all. Doogs not usually do that." (EHG #76, and I apologize for being weird enough to know that.)

Gordon's really got Jackson Galaxy's number. Watch out Hoboken Galaxys, Gordy's coming for ya!

My first instinct was to say "yes," but then I remembered that Starz had a whole show about Leonardo Da Vinci that I never watched a single episode of. So Imma give it a "maybe."

Well, I watched your nutty documentary, as instructed. I don't even know where to start. It's like everyone was under strict instructions to "yes, and" everything. Did Gesualdo kill his wife? Yes, and then a monk came along and fucked her corpse. Do you have any patients who think they're the reincarnation of Gesualdo's wife? Yes, and two more who think they're Gesualdo himself. My favorite thing was after all the talk of Gesualdo being a devil, someone says, "Oh, 'devil' is just our local term for someone who's really smart." So was he possessed? Or was he the devil himself? Or was he just too smart to get along with people, like the main character in a twenty-first century procedural?

Thank you for having Wendy on the podcast. . . I feel like I now have some real insight into why Jeff has a hard time letting Stephanie get a word in.

I love Forcenings, I love Monty, and it turns out I love Dave ranting about dessert like a one-toothed Appalachian pepaw. And an outstanding Game Time to top it off! 10/10 I have an embarrassingly high tolerance for cheesy "urban fantasy" novels, and just listening to the description of that Orlando Bloom Amazon show made me want to slap someone. So who could it possibly be for?

What does it say about me that I was able to identify Grayson McCouch from the image at the top of the page, even though I've never actually seen anything Grayson McCouch has been in? No, don't tell me, I know what it means: I'm a sad, thirsty gay. Also, if you were to put photos of Brian Austin Green and Grayson McCouch next to each other, it would look like the before and after shots for an ad for shovel-face corrective surgery.

I'll save you fifteen minutes and say not to even bother with the plot summary. I can't think of a single thing that happens in The Defenders that will have a long-term impact on Jessica Jones. Krysten Ritter is hands down the best thing about The Defenders, but she's mostly just used to cover up lazy writing. Like: "Hey, should we do another pass on the script and make the plot make more sense, the villains less lame, and Iron Fist less of a twat?" "Naw, we'll just have Jessica Jones say, 'Nothing we're doing makes sense, these villains are lame, and you're a twat' and then we don't have to do anything."

The only good thing about Smash being in the canon is that it's now officially fair game for nonac submissions. Dave will have had to watch every episode of the show by the time we're done with him!

Oh, I think you have her pegged exactly. If she moved to Brooklyn, she wouldn't get to be as much of a freak, and being a freak is clearly very important to her. Living in Utah is a lot like living in the '90s again, except not in a Portland way. (And I don't want to be on record as Utah's apologist. . . I wasn't exactly thrilled with my life taking this turn!)

I moved to Salt Lake in April to look after my mother. I've doubled down on my podcast listening, because the only person I know here has dementia. It's been surreal to hear Sarah D. Bunting say, in so many words, "Don't live in Utah" twice since I've been here (three times if you count re-listening to the Big Love canon submission). I was going to say, "I've had just about enough of your S.L.U.T. shaming, young lady," but no, carry on with the S.L.U.T. shaming, I'm literally here for it. But people do have lot of misconceptions about what Salt Lake is actually like. I mean, the city currently has an openly lesbian mayor (when will yours?). And there does seem to be a lot of social pressure for non-Mormons to code themselves visibly, so we can spot each other; it's a lot like the pressure I used to feel to code myself as gay. Obviously this chick has gone several standard deviations too far, especially since all it really takes is a Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know tee shirt.

I watched Wet Hot American Summer over the weekend, and my reactions were two. 1) If Netflix hadn't been constantly prompting me to continue, I would have forgotten I was watching it, and possibly forgotten that this version had ever even existed. 2) It made me genuinely sad to see so many people I like waste their time on something so uninspired (but I don't know, maybe my medication is just off).

Rock 30. On the eve of entering their fourth decade, a group of Cleveland professionals quit their day jobs and re-form the band they started in high school. Starring Brian Austin Green, James Van Der Beek, and a bunch of other people who are actually in their 40s. Black Orphan. Antoine didn't just lose his parents in the accident, he also gained some amazing superpowers. Now he fights crime on the streets of Keystone City, in the latest installment of the careening out of control Berlantiverse. Rupert Everett costars as Fagin, the hero's flamboyant arch-nemesis. Men Mad. Situation comedy in which a group of recently divorced Men's Rights Activists are forced by circumstances to share a home (which they optimistically refer to as "The Compound"). Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro costar as the married couple who live next door. (I was going to do one for Anatomy Greys, about a group of aliens who live and love in Roswell, New Mexico while learning to perform probes on humans. . . but I think that might be the plot of an actual show on TBS?)

At the risk of revealing myself as the biggest nerd on the planet. . . there's an Anthony Trollope novel from the 1850s where a pretty major plot line is the country doctor trying to cure alcoholism. He has some wrong-headed notions about how to do it, but he certainly understood what alcoholism was (without the modern vocabulary for it).

Don't tease me, Dave. My heart can't tale it. (Also: I strongly feel the terminology should be "Force for Good" and "Force for Evil.")