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I didn't think I could love Benoit with facial hair but I am here for it. Miss Tom Allen dreadfully. So far I am not loving the contestants. I suspect as weeks go on, I will.

As much as I don't believe there is an actual sea creature, I just don't see how next week's final episode will resolve the Essex storyline. Are they going to find Naomi whether dead or alive? Can Will knock some sense into the community or will he just leave them all to his hysteria? Unless they're going to devote ten minutes to it because we still have to contend with Stella's health, Cora and Will's relationship, I assume Luke's inability to be a surgeon due to his hand injury and Martha's split from Cora. I was rooting for Luke to not be a knob and just be satisfied with being Cora's friend. Hated his heel turn and revelation that all he's done for her was just to garner her affection versus just being a good person.

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I don't believe there's a serpent. The boat was more likely rocked by a seal or otter. I think the girl visualized the serpent because she is so loathing of what she considers her sin nature (lust, desire) which was the same reason her sister stepped into the sea. It's religious hysteria. Even Will is slowly falling prey to it in a fashion. Trying to act like some force is pulling him to Cora when it's just his desire for her. It's attraction. He wants to blame an outside force because he wants to believe he would never betray Stella on his own, but we can't help who we fall for and when. We can certainly control how we respond to it though. For example, refraining from shagging someone who isn't your wife out in the marsh (with Cora clad in red painting her as a temptress Jezebel). I hope Stella takes Luke up on his offer but I think she's resigned herself to dying and she's on board with Will's connection to Cora as she wants he and their children to have Cora as their new wife/mother. I was pleasantly surprised how Luke dealt with the knowledge of Cora being attracted to Will. I thought he'd get offended and denigrate her. It's great that his offense isn't so much of, "How can she not like me?", but "How could she like HIM?!". I really do love the tangled relationship of Cora, Martha, Luke and George. I don't think Martha is too entirely wrong about how Cora collects people. I think Cora does like to treat people like fossils that you are keenly fascinated by but ultimately just tuck away. It's how she is with her son. I know she loves him but she is not interested in him at all. Stella is more keenly attuned to him. It was funny when she asked her son why he didn't tell her about the goat herder being dead and he said she wasn't there. Cora likes having a son, Cora likes having Martha around, but I don't think she's too interested in them to fully relate to them as the people they are. That's the pull of Will. Beyond attraction, she's fascinated by how he thinks and likes the challenge of trying to pull him out of a rigid way of thinking. So did no one tell Will that Jo and Naomi did a spell that they believe brought the serpent to the village? I can't believe that just by admitting it Jo breaks free from her catatonia and is happy-go-lucky again. I would think she would need more assurances from the adults that she and Naomi did nothing wrong and that it was everything that has befallen the community.

So far I am really enjoying it. I hope it doesn't spiral wildly in the final few episodes. This is by far the most I have enjoyed Frank Dillane. He almost always plays jumped up characters, but there's at least a bit of charming mischief behind Luke instead of full-blown arrogance and smarm. I like the dynamic between Cora, Martha, Luke and George - I think they are all better suited as friends than potential partners (though I gotta love George and Luke both subtlety shooting their respective shots with the women. The scene where Cora and Martha were discussing how they wouldn't be welcomed in the profession and Luke gestured to Spencer replying, in essence, "Who says we were welcomed?" Made me think that it was in reference to them all being radicals - Cora with being a naturalist, Martha a socialist and Luke and Spencer doctors trying to forge a new path for medicine, but I also felt it could be read as Luke acknowledging that he and George are bi-racial and probably did face some pushback to joining the medical field. I wish Apple+ had gone the two episode drop route because this episode was mostly filler. Enjoyable filler, but filler, nonetheless.

Very fitting title for an episode. Like Tarrare, Van had an insatiable appetite for anything to fill her hunger for something substantive; to just feel anything. I'm glad they brought back Candice from "Champagne Papi" to be there for her instead of having Earn be the person to feel her out. Zazie was excellent in this episode. I felt as cornered as Van felt when Candice called out to her in the shoppe. The minute look of panic then trying to lie her way out of it before she had to roll with it. I'm glad that the thought of Lottie brought Van out of her haze, but giving up crime-ing and sex with Alexander Skarsgård? Van has to figure out a way to have both of those worlds coexist. Holiday in France for the summer because nothing counts on vacation. Even as wild as Van's new life was I was expecting more of an "Eyes Wide Shut" scenario than cannibalism using hands in place of ortolans. -Glad the mystery is solved. Van didn't sleep with Darius or was spurned to leave a carefree life because she saw Tupac killed - she was "Amélie" inspired. It was so funny how she was embraced all the French stereotypes from the striped shirt to the ever present baguette sticking out of the bag. -Nice seeing Lakeith's partner Xosha Roquemore guest star. -We had Willie and Lester in "The Big Payback" that could have been nod to Willie Tyler and Lester. I wonder if Carlos and Emilio was a nod to Carlos Estevez (Charlie Sheen) and Emilio Estevez. - Completely on board with Caucasian Earn popping up like some spectre walking through these tales, but the end tag scene showing that Earn Marks is a real guy with a family and great taste in music (I'd keep that Deftones shirt, too)? A bridge too far for me.

I didn't recognize Oona Chaplin (Alice) at first. As I was watching I thought, "They should put Christin, this actress and Oona Chaplin side by side". I'm rooting for those crazy kids and by crazy kids I mean Jasper and Zelda.

Nice twist that Robert "Shea" Lee wasn't using being an ADOS or ethnically Black as the barometer for Blackness but culturally Black. It's incredibly funny in this medium, not so funny in real life where some people want to rely on stereotypes to gauge someone's Blackness (It's equally bad when infighting occurs within the Black diaspora as displayed by Aaron and Felix). It's very telling that non-Black students were leaning into getting cornrows and waves and entertaining to prove their Blackness as if that's the main signifier (singing Shai's"If I Ever Fall In Love", Asian students copying Outkast's Stankonia cover), then you jump to the end with a very swaggy Aaron (who - real talk - looked REAL good post-prison) wearing that wave brush out and now finding his ex-girlfriend more attractive then ever (a play on the idea that Black men chase after white women). Maybe this was Glover's gentle poke at the ridiculousness of the gatekeeping of Blackness. That the idea that being African - from the cradle of civilization - is disqualifying but suddenly getting shot by the police gives credence to your Blackness. Deciding to do the episode in an old school cautionary tale type video/film was inspired. It helped diffuse the serious nature on the things the episode touched on. I would have felt more sorry for Aaron if he wasn't such a self-hating racist. As soon as he told Felix it was too late or whatever he said, I knew he was cracking on his skin tone. Reminds me of the incel Elliott Rodgers who was biracial (white father, Chinese-Malaysian mother) and he had as much hate for himself, other Asian men and his mother as he did for women. He tried to dye his hair blond trying to fit in with his white classmates and felt white women should date him because he was half-white and more worthy of their affection than Black men.

I'm pushing for Italy or Slovenia.

That was Ava Grey. Indya would've been great in this role, though.

I recently had a discussion about how many Liam Neeson films that has come out in the past two years and how he, seemingly, takes any gig . He was in a recent episode of DERRY GIRLS and now shows up in ATLANTA. Hats off to him for being a good sport about it and hats off to Donald Glover and the writers for taking his remorse and subverting it so that it just doesn't land as apologia or too earnest. -The casual Alexander Wang name drop killed me. -Seeing Neeson turn up had me howling but my biggest laugh was when Cammy said people call Lorraine's place "106th and Park". The fact that Cammy and friend pressed Paper Boi on whether or not he had sex with Lorraine answered the question I had when I saw Ava turn up: was she playing a cis woman or a trans woman. Cammy being so sure that Paper Boi was lying leans into rumours of various rappers who hooked up with trans women. - Curious that Lorraine - or facets of her - was Paper Boi's mother or a mix of her and Paper Boi's paranoia/self-doubt. In WOODS we hear Al's mother guiding him, pushing him firmly. This Lorraine dials it up to eleven in her frankness pushing him to open his eyes to those in his circle. Forcing him to examine if he's surrounded by yes men whose interest only lies in his pockets. Al is learning 'more money, more problems". I also think her scurrying Al out of the club before he's made to perform is also a dig at how celebrities are swiftly "cancelled" and have to do performative remorse. They feel that in order to protect their careers, "their brand" they have to do that dance. But I don't care what Lorraine says, that hat was hot. -Mind blown that Paper Boy and Darius passed a latter version of Paper Boi. Time is a circle or just hallucinogenic trip? -Next week Kevin Samuels (who Twitter has been trying to confirm all day long whether or not he's dead) plays a Robert Smith entrepreneur who pays off the college debts of only the Black students? That's going to be too funny

Top to bottom fantastic. Bettany and Foy are fantastic in this. While I knew the broad beats of their relationship what was a surprise was how equally (objectively) terrible they were.

I think having more than a peripheral knowledge of WANDAVISION is helpful for Doctor Strange ITMOM. Yes, they explain some things but I think it's weightier knowing the events of the show.

During the Television Critics Association and repeated at South By Southwest, Donald Glover said this season was inspired by seeing a CNN commentator talk about how white people can overcome whiteness. From there he thought of how some people theorized there is a curse to being black. As Glover feels that as humans we are connected, if black people are cursed, then what if there is a curse to whiteness? Whatever the audience chooses to take from those episodes or this season lies within their perception of what they are seeing transpiring. It seems that many feel this season as being highly critical of white people when I think it is only highlighting the obliviousness that some white people have. I would even count one of the mothers in THREE SLAPS in this. One really seemed underwater and realized they took on more than they could. Up until the murder/suicide decision, they felt they were doing good deeds. I have seen a lot of people hate the standalone episodes and doesn't feel this season measures up. The ratings have also tanked. I understand this isn't the show many people signed up for. But I don't begrudge an artists' growth. What are the odds that the Glovers will get a chance to tell the stories they want to tell in this fashion? When Glover first pitched the show to F/X, they thought it would be a standard series about music; an ENTOURAGE but about the music scene. They had no idea the surreal, dark comedy it would be. And I'm glad that the story telling gets deeper and broader. In prior seasons Earn, Paper Boy, Darius and Tracy getting involved with all kinds of scams. Van using her daughter's urine to try to fool a drugs test. Abusive Uncle Willie keeping his wife trapped in the house. The show has never tried to portray black characters as saints; why shouldn't it do the same with the white characters? I don't even see the show passing judgments on these characters - just showcasing different

I think it was the spirit of Sylvia who left the package. She wanted them to have that picture of her -with a self-satisfied smirk - and Bash to remind them that she will always be a part of his life. I don't care what nanny they choose or if Bash will never have mango chutney ever again, L'il Bash is Trini to de bone at heart. Most importantly they're left with the image of someone who was there for their child when they weren't.

The expression is "Higher monkey climb, the more he show he ass." I'm going to be a Sylvia defender here and while I agree with your points, I will say I understand where Sylvia was likely coming from and how different it was from Bronwyn and Miles' parenting. Bronwyn and Miles seemingly had a well-to-do life where they could have sacrificed some hours to be with Sebastian and it wouldn't affect their bottom line. They wouldn't be going without. Sylvia choose to put in those hours because she needed to care for her immediate family and those still in Trinidad and Tobago (helped bring her sister to the states and now her kid is a pro athlete!); and wanted to help out the community by chartering the dance program (how likely would it have been for the girls to fall into trouble if they didn't have someplace to go afterschool)? So while her kids got the short end of the stick, I can better accept where her heart was coming from than Miles and Bronwyn (just why couldn't one of them come to parent/child picture day?). I think the one thing we can all agree on is that Sebastian/Bash was the sweetest little kid and the actor did a great job. S1 episode with the black guy on the bus who gets off and goes into the wood, or the episode featuring an invisible car or the one with a black Justin Bieber or Teddy Perkins wasn't weird? This is a comedy. A surrealist comedy.

I assumed it was a white a**hole someone felt Miles was a white a**hole. But on Reddit people point out that it's a monkey's a** because someone said the Trini expression about a monkey's a**hole. The more I think about this episode the more beautiful it is. Putting aside the class issues - because I truly believe this episode was less about race and more about class. Not to begrudge Bash's mom's yoga or his dad's really nice car, they are fine with spending money on those things but volley about whether Sylvia (who is doing the most important job of tending to their child) was too expensive. But I choose to focus on the fact that Sylvia touched L'il Bash's life so profoundly, as she did with Chet Hanks' character. Bash will go through life with an appreciation for the steel pan and mango chutney and other spicy foods. Sylvia spoke a business language like what they're seeking for their next nanny, but she enlightened that child's life with so much. At the end he's no longer afraid to be in his room and he says "Goodnight, Sylvia" in the direction of the chair- relishing in the peace and comfort she provided him when she was alive.

As season two was subtitled "Robbin' Season", this season should be subtitled "Scamming Season". We have T.J in "The Old Man and the Tree" and Khalil in "White Fashion" now the cast of "Atlanta" for appearing in maybe half the episodes of this season. But the episodes are still great, so fair play.

-After watching WHITE FASHION, I felt it was neck in neck with THREE SLAPS as my favourite episode of the season, but it has overtaken THREE SLAPS. because not only is the story great and the jokes hit on all cylinders, but the acting is fantastic namely Brian Tyree Henry and Fisayo Akinade (Khalil) in this. Forget Socks, Khalil should stay in PaperBoi's orbit and TJ (the artist in THE OLD MAN AND THE TREE) in Earn's orbit so they can learn how to get money and hopefully, actually use it for good. Because as much game as Khalil talks I'm curious as to how much he actually spends on his causes, versus just using it to fund his lifestyle (I still laugh at how PaperBoi was nearly swayed into seeing BLACK PANTHER 2 when Khalil mentioned Larenz Tate is in it.) -While the focus was on the activists and how they're all angling for money for their own causes, PaperBoi did the same, in a fashion, when he pitched Earn's idea as his own. He pooh-poohed Earn's ideas as old school MLK/Malcolm X/Fred Hampton ideals that got them killed, but he was quick to pick it up and use it without even crediting Earn. -Someone on reddit pointed out that Esco-Esco must be an homage to Nas' 90s failed fashion line Willie Esco. -With each rewatch there's line that gets a new laugh out of me and now it's Marcelo's "I'm the least racist person in the room. In the world even." Marcelo explained at the very start of the episode the inspiration behind the clothing so it came from an innocent place, but instead of saying, "I have blind spots and didn't realize the connotation...." and apologize, his attempt to paint himself as the least racist just makes it all worse (added to the "we're going to investigate ourselves" line when of course they won't find themselves at fault)".

For people who thought this season of ATLANTA was unfairly piling on white people, "White Fashion" took jabs at fashion lines who get caught up in racist or perceived racist campaigns and clothing (Central Park 5 ) and Black activists who commodify their activism (Aaron Heffernan (BRASSIC) just had to be a stand-in for Shaun "Talcum X" King and Khalil DeRay). This episode was too funny to me. As someone who has done their fair share of activist work, it's all too true how good intentions can be derailed in favor of selfish endeavors. When you realize how hard of an uphill battle it is to enact change, it's too easy to just compromise and take the attitude of, "If the community at large can't get it, then I'm going to get mine." or "Something is better than nothing." This episode was written and filmed so long ago but it is so frustratingly relevant when news of former Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation leader Patrice K buying mansions with money donated to BLM. The humor was also found in how intersectionality isn't always the way to go as Paper Boi/Earn's campaign idea was repurposed for more inclusivity thus taking focus away from the real intent and desired recipients of the campaign. As Khalil (played so wonderfully by Fisayo Akinade) said why would they fund their own demise? Then Darius (I cracked up when he cautiously asked the assistant if Ghanians told her that jollof rice was a Ghanian dish) and the gentrification of the Nigerian restaurant?! So heartbreaking because you get a sense that Darius was loving this connection to his culture only for it to be taken away so quickly. Just a brilliant, brilliant episode.

I can only assume that they tried that when Paper Boi and Darius was first looking for it and Socks has it turned off. Up until my latest phone that I got sometime last year, I was like Darius and Al. I never had my phone synced to the Cloud. When I bought my phone/s I would never use my real name when creating a Gmail account and never actually used the account I created so when I would inevitably break my phone I would lose everything sans the things that got saved to my storage card in the phone because I could never remember my Gmail login and I didn't have my phone set to sync anyway. I would routinely copy things from my phone to my desktop in case something happened to it or if I was running low on storage. So I rolled with Paper Boi's explanation. Location? Off. Find My Phone? Off. I never used any of those features.

Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore is a much better film than The Crimes of Grindlewald. Granted I am not a Harry Potter fan so my only connection to the universe are the Fantastic Beasts films so while there are some who were expecting more exploration of the universe, for the story they are telling it was fine. It's not as jaunty as the first one, thankfully not as turgid as the second; instead it's well-paced, utilized the core cast well and was an entertaining caper in many parts.

I was at the event where he apologized and it felt very genuine and heartfelt but he didn't explain the totality of the comments and what exact point he was attempting to make on the WTF podcast. I truly believe he felt bad that he made people feel bad, but really stands by what he previously said.