The opening scene at the stadium was one of the best things I have ever watched in my entire life. Everything was so well done. I am very impressed with the whole episode, but that scene was quite special.
"You smell like books and you are wise. You really are the whole package."
I actually enjoyed most of the storylines this time, and I love that Neil Gaiman participated in this! Penny's struggle with being heard and credited took a long time coming, but I loved that they finally mentioned it. I am not sure I liked where the Amy story went, but that was it. It was an actually good episode, the better one for a while.
I have often felt like Zak abuses his position as a leader a bit, even when I think the isolated/scary locations he chooses are actually relevant and turn out, if no evidence, entertaining footage. But I think it is very petty of him to take revenge on Aaron for a prank, when he has done so much worse to him for the sake of shooting. In fact, Zak rarely ever stays anywhere too scary on his own, and when something happens, he screams for help, while never helping anyone who is in an uncomfortable place, often placing himself out of earshot anyway!
I still like the show, I guess, but I like the dynamic of the team less and less.
Every week is someone new to fight. Vixen is too exhausting.
Also, Blair and Mayhem sitting on one corner, and then Monique and Vixen in another corner, the contrast was huge... It is hard to accept they are all equally safe.
I am biting my tongue here, because Aquaria was amazing today! Though my favorite look of them all was certainly Miz Cracker's Martian look, which I found so entertaining to just look at. Still, I am in love with Blair's style, I wish I had each and every one of her outfits in my own closet! I would hire her to be my personal stylist could I afford what she deserves, haha.
I have said I do not like Vixen's aggressiveness before, but Aquaria is someone who is impossible to sympathize with. I think this is one of the rare RPDR fights that makes both sides look equally terrible.
I know the drama is funny, but Vixen is way too belligerent. I find it very difficult to like her, or even be amused by her picking up fights and blowing things out of proportion.
Blair is my chosen queen. I just love her Golden Age of Broadway vibe, and I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS ALREADY, OK, I WILL STILL CHEER FOR HER.
My favorite runway look was Kameron's, even if she did fall flat in the challenge. It just gave me such a Kaori Yuki vibe! Had she wings, it could have been an Angel Sanctuary costume, hahaha.
Also, did anyone think this victory was ridiculous? I could totally get past that runway, but all she did on the challenge was a funny face. I really do not think that that is very impressive. I for sure thought it would be Blair, or maybe Eureka. But never Asia or anyone in her team.
That was a bit underwhelming, compared to the series so far. Maybe it should have stretched into a 12 or 13 episode season.
I do hope they get renewed and move on to The Angel of Darkness, it is my favorite of the novels!
I enjoyed seeing Hitchcock and Scully having more air time, and I specially enjoyed seeing them working with the rest of the cast separately, because the show often packs them as a single item. I understand their humor is known as being more crude, but I think it balances out with all the other different styles on the show.
Uh, how many Glossners boys are there?
Liv and Tim echoing Will & Grace's closing line from last week's episode, "Why are the hot ones always gay or nazi?", hahaha.
There are no words for how much I love this show, and this episode.
"Why are the hot ones always gay or nazis?" Hahahah.
I knew it was coming, but still... the show actually made it harder this time :(
They took a great book and made into another, different, but still equally great story. I do not think a more faithful version would make me happier, only just as happy, at most. I was at first skeptical by how they changed Sarah, and the Doctor as well, but now I am enjoying their new, and more palpable vulnerabilities, and that was a pleasure I did not have while reading.
The development between Kreizler and Mary was done so well. That final scene was just lovely, and yet so bitter. I love how they did it, and I think Brühl is really showcasing his skill here, and Q'orianka Kilcher has the ability to make my heart ache just with her eyes.
This show has just been so above any expectation I could have, it has easily climbed to my number one favorite show right now.
I laughed way too much while watching this, best episode in the season so far!
I actually saw this one coming. This was the most Dela thing Dela has ever done.
I thought the winners deserved it. And I love Ben, but I am ok with her being safe. This was not a great week for her. I honestly thought this was Trixie's best performance so far, and I am glad about her being a top 2! I was just not sure that Bebe did as well as Trixie, but I think she was at least better than everybody else.
Aja was gorgeous. I LOVED HER OUTFIT. And they could really read her for her lack of history and mispronunciation, but oh, that was gorgeous. It was really not very disco, it was more I Dream of Jeannie, rather than Bardot, Cher or Frances Joli (in fact, I saw nothing of Frances Joli at all). I am terribly sad to see her go, but I would not be happy to see Shangela go either.
Honestly, Kennedy was the one I least liked. Not because she failed, she did not... but I just did not like what she did with her can, I thought it was boring, and I did not love her outfit either, though it really was better than Ben's... Ben's look was, to me, worst than even Shangela's bizarre improvisation.
Overall - I have no idea what to feel! Hahaha.
I have now watched this episode 4 times, trying to decide where they are taking this murder investigation, in comparison to the book. I am not sure I like the way that is going, because I am so fond of the source, but oh, do I love where they are taking the characters! I love how they are exploring the rivalry between John and Lazlo, which is not really something that happens in the book, even though the Mary plot is faithful enough. I am quite enjoying all these new interpretations, and Dakota Fanning is coming off so well as Miss Howard! I cannot wait until we see more of Cyrus and Steve as well. Will Kat make an appearance, I wonder? Ah, I am looking forward to this!
Aw, Chi Chi. I felt my insides freezing when I noticed her name plate, I cannot imagine what she felt when the mistake was pointed out to her.
I was so relieved they chose the same person. I was TERRIFIED there.
Ben for the win, but keep Trixie in second for the running commentary!
I am happy to see Beth Behrs as a guest star! She really needs a new show, I miss her terribly since 2 Broke Girls ended.
For someone who was so in love with Móreno, Irma sure got over the whole thing fast...
Finally, Sue and Sean! That was certainly the high point of the episode. But I had problems with the Frankie and Axl church plot - guilt tripping your kids into attending church is not cool. Attending church with no faith is not cool. Church is not a social experience, it is not a space to showcase your singing, and it is not a place meant to be seen picture perfect with your family. Not attending church when you do not feel like it, is just fine, and not attending at all because you are not religious, is just fine too! Be social at a party, sing with a caroling group, perhaps try other kinds of celebration if you do not like the Christian one. I think this kind of behavior would classify as an unhealthy relationship with religion. I wish the writers had been more sensible about it.
GINA! I am so happy.
The only reason I watch this show is for Sheldon and Amy, and pure habit by now, but I am kind of glad they addressed Howard's behavior as being that of a jerk rather than just being "funny". And Raj with natural hair could totally be a Bollywood lead!
It took me the exact length of Helen's first letter to decide that I am in love with this adaptation. Or at least with its first episode, which was a high note until the very end. I am looking forward to the next!
Still very charming leads. Still very stale script.
Scott and Robinson were sufficiently charming and competent, but the writing is failing badly in this pilot. Everything feels rushed and cliche, and not really funny. Still, there is some potential, if they actually try to bend these cliches a little.
If they have the concept of hours and minutes, why were they counting time by fingers against the sun a few episodes ago?
That was far darker than I expected. I have trouble with the mockery Miranda makes out of people with mental disabilities, but I appreciate how terrifyingly truthful the whole plot with her father was. It is true that Miranda is difficult to like, but he left when she was a little kid. The act itself is cruel, admitting he did so because of her is cruel, and do we not see this too often when a child with disability is born? How many parents simply cannot take responsibility for their child and leave, sometimes completely abandoning them? It really got me.
Whenever reality crosses Miranda's perception, it is nothing but absolutely harsh and cruel to her. Maybe it is not such a wonder that she would rather live so far away from it.
