Silly Angel

Trader Joe's has like 50 ube products. Everybody, just calm down with your "Ew, purple starch!" I got so desperate for this show I started rewatching old episodes, or trying to. Good god, the other hosts were awful. Please, Jon, never leave this show. He's perfect.

Yes! And Conrad Birdie is actually in jail in the jail scene in Episode 2 for hitting on a teenage girl. I forget the details, but the song points out a few of the inmates' crimes and you see him in his gold suit briefly denying she was underage. This whole show needs to be watched practically frame by frame to get everything, its creators are so smart.

Yeahbut, they built all four walls. Not trying to be the mah jongg geek here, but I have spend hundreds of hours at play, and I didn't see a pusher in their game. Mah jongg is a bit like chess in that it's a war game. The "walls" are city walls and the first roll of dice determines which "wind" you play--East, West, North, or South, with East making the first discard and pickup. I guess I can see how they would play that way, but with a lot fewer discards in the center, it's harder and would take much longer. Like, Risk long. But I'm being a nerd and getting in the weeds about this. I started out thinking they were the coolest old ladies but by the end they were genuinely terrifying, and I loved how Charlie's trajectory was ours as well. This show gets better with every episode. I pray to the network gods they will bring it back for another season.

Two people cannot play a game of mah jongg! Christ on a cracker, you guys. P.S., I love this series.

I really want to know which cheese Liam Neeson had.

100 percent. He's as cute and charming as when I fell in love with Seth Cohen. As for the show...I'm only two episodes in, but it's Californication with a billion times more money and privilege. I keep hearing that men find the women on dating apps are either bots or sex workers or don't exist, so i have a hard time believing Jessie Eisenberg (no shade; I love him, but you know, we live in a world with Hemsworths) is getting a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade of nonstop poontang.

Their prodigious sloppy drinking aside, those guests showed how feeble and limited they were when they decided that, without plates of food to shovel in their maws, they were "bored." I guess a meal isn't about enjoying each others' company and, like, talking about stuff with your friends. At the leisurely five-course tasting meal you requested, no less. They seemed really sad and shallow to me. I know Rachel didn't exactly whip out the dishes at a brisk pace, but "bored"? Nice reflection on your fellow diners, there, Utah.

Well, I think I've yelled, "Oh, FUCK!" at the screen enough for one night. Time to watch something soothing, like Top Chef.

100%! I'd rather have another season of DR Thailand than that overstuffed 36-look, two-episode whateveritis kicking off the new All-Stars. Hell, I'd rather watch Drag Race Thailand reruns. I think that on balance, any new away games could benefit from more non-European, Western inclusion. I know there is a lot to take into consideration when proposing a new country or territory for this sort of show, but I do hope RuPaul's production company thinks about it before casting RuPaul's Drag Race Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, and the Benelux Countries. No shade to their queens.

Thank you! I didn't get it either. I'm finding this iteration much fresher than DU, but overall I'm disappointed by all the punny drug names--Metal Donna, Kita Mean, Crystal Method (love you, girl!). It just makes me sad.

So much CGI. Everything was an unnatural color. I liked it okay but would have really been swept away if it looked the least bit like Victorian London or, you know, some place on Earth.

Geez, folks, the answer to the Winnie-the-Pooh question was obviously "Eating his honey." Not that the actual game matters, I know, but I was waiting for someone to say it.

You're quite right. That superlong hiatus they took midseason had me confused.

I think I'm done. I know it's super close to the end, but it's been two season of the bad guys winning and winning and winning and it's miserable to watch. No one gets a break. The two PI's look about 14 years old and I can't take them seriously, a priest is dead and a child in mortal danger, three young women damaged forever, and the monsters behind it all just keep coming out on top. It's not suspenseful or thrilling because this is not an equally matched fight. Bad guys win. Good guys lose. Never mind the plot stupidities, the latest of which is, even if Helena is a huge, bustling city, NOT ONE neighbor or grocery store clerk or anyone recognizes the obvious drawing of Ronald. I thought this would be a fun procedural but it's not fun at all. Just grueling hour after hour in which nothing good ever happens. Even if it did suddenly all turn around in the last episode, it's too late.

I feel like Mike is the kind of guy who, when asked what he wants for dinner, would say, "Food." I hate those people.

Tia looks so much like Cheyenne from Superstore it's uncanny.

It's Riverdale in pointe shoes, which isn't entirely a bad thing. I watches stupid, stupid Flesh and Bone, so I'm obviously just a ballet sucker. I like the lead. I'm in until it goes off the rails.

I love Angry Angel and watched it last year and the year before, with plans to do so again. It's so funny and smart, and the ending is insane. A huge cut above the usual holiday fare. The Princess Switch 2: Switched Again was absolutely magical, miles above the first, in my opinion. Hudgens is killing it this Christmas--she does these little things with her face and eyes. Even with three roles, you always know which one she's playing and what her objective is. Charming, and the costumes--swoon! Jingle Jangle--damn. Hello, Silly Angel? This is Netflix; you ordered a kid-friendly steampunk Christmas musical with a mostly black cast? Fire up your laptop. It's perfection from the sets and costumes to the narration (by my dream mom, Phylicia Rashad, no offense to real mom) to the dance sequences inspired by swing, step-dance, and a whole lot in between. Haven't found much else out there this year. The Mistle-Tones was okay. Tori Spelling is always fun when she's wearing a silly fur hat and holding a tiny dog, but the plot was kind of a mess. Otherwise, I'm seeing a lot of bland actresses waffling between the obvious wrong guy and the obvious right guy before attaining their dream job of running a quaint bakery or editing a fashion magazine. It's been a forgettable season so far, but if any of you geniuses can offer recommendations for edgy ( like Home for Christmas, an amazingly sharp and charming Norwegian series; I want a kick-sled so badly) or flat-out funny Christmas romances, I'd be vastly grateful.

I was reminded of how much I missed this show when yelling "Just do it, you baby!" at my screen while someone rappells down a building and I eat nachos on my couch. Team beardo weirdos for now, and team NFL can miss me with their callousness. Some alliance. I hope it bites them on their toned butts.

I don't know. I almost fell off the couch at the Finger Prince bit.

Same. Aside from shutting down the motel, the pandemic doesn't seem to have affected the town at all. It can still keep its four-man detective agency open, and no one has to wear a mask or order groceries online. Where do I sign up?

I really loved this season, but it distracted me that the show decided Young Camilla looked like Young Julie Christie. She did not. A huge part of Diana's currency was her beauty, and she knew she could trade on it to move upwards, so her well-earned jealousy of Charles' fanatical attachment to Camilla must have particularly burned. I would like for the show to have even briefly explored her anger and confusion not just that Charles was cheating the whole time they were married, but cheating with THAT (rude, sorry--I'm just trying to get into her mindset). Nothing she had worked on her husband; he resented everything that made her fresh--her youth, enthusiasm, impetuosity, and way with people. The only other thing she had was her looks, and Charles wanted someone with ... considerably less of that currency to spend.

I'd like the next male host not be an asshole about women. Between Chapelle conflating all women into Trump toadies and "joking" that we all deserve far less money than the fraction we are paid (and that was especially rich after he spoke movingly of his slave great-grandfather) and that dude I've never heard of a couple of weeks ago making hilarious jokes about how hysterical women run around accusing black men of rape when they're...I don't remember, unhappy about something?--I'm over this shit-talking. Not sure if I'll tune in again for another male comedian. It seems the misogyny problem among comics isn't coming along apace.

That quick-change trick annoyed me. I can't tell how all of it was done, except for the obvious use of a confederate inside the "closet" pulling of her clothes. When she goes from the red outfit to the all-black one, you can see the black pleather-type leggings underneath her dress as she turns, so that's just a fast tearaway. But the ikat-style dress to the little green shift, the camera moves to the stage right of the closet and a black-gloved hand reaches out between the curtains (shown in a poor screenshot here) to snatch the dress off. Not sure what the magic part was that P&T missed--maybe the shenanigans with the hangers on the side rack? The rest seemed pretty amateurish to me. Real magicians and aficionados are welcome to smack me down if I'm wrong.

Thank you for saying that, and everyone else who thought the same. I feel validated. I really tried to watch with a nonbiased eye and ask myself, if I didn't know what I know, would I be rooting for Sherry Pie? God knows I love a big girl, a comedy queen, and one who references fashion and culture herstory. But honestly, she does that same broad, dated mugging in costume-shop drag every week, and I was, not offended, but uneasy about her Katheryn Hepburn on Snatch Game. Making fun of someone is ok. Making fun of someone for their disease is not ok. (I don't mean she mocked KHep for having had Parkinson's, but for how the disease controlled her movements. If I were a relative, I'd be furious.) Anyway, the single-color costumes and old-lady schtik got stale fast. I would still be fine with anyone's win but rooting for Crystal. CRYSTAL!!!!