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  1. This will fill the Harlots shaped hole in my soul.
  2. This article explores the problematic treatment of Ruby, and also Hippolyta and Dee: https://www.themarysue.com/lovecraft-country-ruby-deserved-better/
  3. Alright! This cold open is already sharper and funnier than the last two. Issa Rae is looking glowy and fabulous! Loving her monologue.
  4. "When my great, great grandson is born, he will be my faith turned flesh." 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
  5. That was such a tender, passionate and gorgeously lit and shot love scene between Ji-Ah and Tic. On a bed and with foreplay everything! I would like that, or something better, for Leti and Tic.
  6. Aw, damn. I totally left out the urethra, lol! I tossed the question to my daughter, and she immediately came up with 10, like you did. Guess Sis had one orifice left over. And back to Sesame Street to brush up on my counting skills.
  7. Soooooo...the tentacles are the 9 fox tails. The recap from Rolling Stone mentioned that said that tails emerged from every one of the Kumiho's orifices...I had to stop and think about that and count my own orifices. There are indeed 9. Man, the stuff this show has me thinking about, lol!
  8. Didn't take long at all. Sigh. Ms. Klacik is quite savvy and totally pwned them.
  9. May have been a reference to Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 - October 15.
  10. That was bad. That was sooooooo bad. It's like certain conservative women graduate from the same finishing school, armed with the same talking points that are purposely geared to trigger progressive folk. Attractive, poised, well-groomed and trained to put out misinformation, deflection, rapid fire word salad. You can set your watch by it. And, Lord, they all fell for it. 🤦‍♀️ Something else you can set your watch by. 😖😞😩 I feel the ladies of the View could have handled that so much better. They let that baby-voiced talking politician Barbie get under their skin. The conservative media sphere is gonna have a field day with this. Damn.
  11. Thanks for chiming in on this! Great to hear from someone with insider knowledge, so to speak. I suspect that Christina didn't want to assume the form of a Black woman and portray a maid. She's obsessed with power and already at the pinnacle of white female privilege. She wouldn't take on a form she considered to be lesser.
  12. Yep. Lots of expectations got upended in this episode.
  13. I don't think she had. I got the impression that she was getting all her ducks in a row education-wise, to make sure that they wouldn't be able to turn her down based on that at least. It was pretty telling that how Ruby's attitude changed towards Tamara when she found out she only had a 7th grade education. A bit of her classism came out. It's interesting that Ruby assumed she needed all that education to work at Fields, when we don't even know what the qualifications to work there were. We really don't even know if there were any particular educational requirements to work the counter there, even for the white women. We might could presume that being reasonably attractive, well-spoken and well put together might be enough to work the counter, and Tamara presented those things. Ruby's resume, at least in the manager's eyes, qualified her for a management position (as a white woman). It may have actually disqualified her as a Black women, as she might have been perceived as a threat, as someone who was striving above her station. This is an interesting theory. She did seem to be really enjoying it, and didn't she say she'd never played? It's delicious how this show is digging into these intraracial issues. I've experienced similar issues that you have in the workplace and in social spaces. Both Ruby's and Tamara's situations and reactions resonated, and I appreciate that the show runners were willing to allow these very real and human interactions to play out as they did. It makes for interesting viewing and discussion. Another interesting angle is how the main characters are dealing with the death of Yahima. What Montrose did was an egregious breach of trust: of both Yahima and Tic. I think that Tic's initial rage was more at the thought that source for being able to decipher the papers had been taken from him. Leti's horror and grief seems to be more about an act of violence being enacted against a vulnerable being that had previously endured trauma. I'm not sure how much empathy Tic had for Yahima. He might have some deeper feelings about Their death, but, I'm thinking that as a soldier, he had to learn to compartmentalize his emotions to be able to function in a violent environment. Sad as he may be about it, his first concern is to protect his people from magic users by learning to wield magic, and Yahima was key to be able to do that. And, poignantly enough, Tic really needed to feel that Montrose did what he did out of love for Tic, to protect him. In some twisted way, it was a protective act, misguided as it was. I wonder if Montrose will come to terms emotionally with what he did to Yahima, and in the past to Tic, now that he's allowed a more tender side of himself to peek out just a bit with Sammy. He, too, has been compartmentalizing his emotions in order function in a dysfunctional environment. Layers and layers of generational trauma.
  14. Tamara's most cardinal sin was existing as a Black woman a hostile environment to serve racist customers, which frustrated those customers, cost Field's immediate sales and lost her some commission. I'll agree that Tamara did make some rookie mistakes, but there was a lot of sabotage happening in this situation. It was a no-win situation, and she had no support. I could see Leti pushing back on the dreadful co-workers. Ruby, I'm not so sure. Even as a white woman, she didn't push back that hard, and even pressured Tamara to take them on "safari" to her neighborhood. That's one thing I do appreciate about this show, how it examines the nuances and layers of Black culture and interactions. How rage, jealousy, inability to communicate, and internalized racism can cause folk to inflict pain and violence on self and others. I love that no one's perfect here, but are allowed to breath as damaged, struggling and fully human beings. And I am LOVING the discussions happening here and in the media about this show!
  15. TBH, we never saw Tamara loafing or screwing up. The main criticism of her came from her racist co-workers, who were shown to be actively trifling, and HillaRuby, who was torn between being spiteful and helpful. Tamara was essentially given very little characterization beyond how other characters perceived her. If Tamara was guilty of anything, it was being average (and perhaps naive) in a world that expected Black women to work twice as hard to be perceived as half as good as the most mediocre white woman.
  16. I wonder, though, if Tamara was bad at her job due to lack of training/mentoring. There wasn't much time for that with her co-workers either quitting, ignoring her, insulting her, or loading her up with their work.
  17. Dammit, nobody in this universe believes in foreplay.
  18. I took that as sarcasm, not as anger or judgment towards Leti. Obviously Leti belongs to no one as she was doing what she wants (and it didn’t appear that anyone was judging her character for that), but if Tic wanted her he needed to make a move because she was not going to be sitting around waiting for him. The other guy was judging Tic for being a punk, not Leti for dancing with another guy. I think the linguistic choices fit in with the period without dehumanizing Leti at all. I agree, Tree was nor harsh or sarcastic in his words about Leti, he was quite genial in his gross inquiry into the nature of their relationship. As you said, Leti belongs to no one and does as she wants. If Tree was interested in Leti as a full human with agency, he would have gone directly to her with his inquiry and proposal, and not involved Tic at all.
  19. Tic and Leti's "love" scene and the scene leading up to it really did not sit well with me. The crassness of how that man spoke of "tussling" with Leti in high school, and saying "If THAT belongs to you, maybe you ought to tell her," -- ugh! Like she's property. There was no respect for Leti, only respect for Tic's property rights. No, there was nothing loving or tender in that bathroom scene, just Tic staking his claim, primed by the poison that grotesque fool of a man poured into his ear. I know first times are rarely ideal, but, I wish for something better for these two. I'm so glad they were able to have that conversation and clear the air somewhat. That exorcism scene was so powerful! I actually started weeping and rocking back and forth. The incantation, the song, Leti's strength, and the tortured, murdered souls re-membering themselves back to wholeness as they joined together to cast out that white man's evil. Ahhhhh! It was perfect on every level.
  20. Why is the forum for this show under Drama and not Genre?
  21. What annoyed me the most with Jonny is that, at least twice, the judges dinged him for having pieces that they have seen before. That spoke to a certain laziness and lack of creativity. And yet, he kept getting rewarded for it. And, yup, dude definitely had a sweatshop.
  22. I, too was insulted when the judges accused Meghan of being influenced by Ester's and Jonny's edgier styles. They often seemed to talk down to her and minimize her talent. If you watch her face throughout the competition, you could tell she was aware of this. And, honestly? I feel that Meghan should have gotten some credit for influencing Jonny to explore his softer side. It was after his partnership with her that his work started to evolve.
  23. Meghan spots inauthenticity everytime she looks in the mirror, she just doesn't recognize it. Sunny dragged Meghan just a little bit. Think she noticed?
  24. Joy and Sunny's faces when Meghan spouts her nonsense. She is such a smug and entitled twatwaffle. I wish they could freely unload on her. Christian Cooper epitomizes grace and thoughtfulness. I don't appreciate that the questions seem to imply that he should feel bad about the consequences that the woman is experiencing. I agree with him that death threats against her is wrong, and that she should definitely reflect on why she chose to take the actions she did. Her fit of spite and willful lying could have cost this man his life.
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