I know at least a couple of you are on the fence about giving this show a shot and so I'm splitting this post up into the non-spoilery and the spoilery. But, long story short, yes, I can definitely recommend this show! It's got the right mix of fast-paced political thrills, soapy relationship drama, and sharply cynical characterization. The first ( Read more... )

This a subject that I've  had so many thoughts about for so long that I could never quite figure out how to pin them all down into a structure. Then I spitballed a reblog on tumblr a while back and, because I was just intending to make a quick comment, ended up accidentally forcing myself into organization. So here is the greatly-expanded version ( Read more... )

Only fifteen years behind the rest of the world, I have FINALLY started to watch The Sopranos! Unlike most shows which I missed when they were on, this isn't so much about my ineptness at popular culture. This is about, I know I joke about the Catholic thing, but half of my family is VERY Italian and so seeing that culturally familiar stuff ( Read more... )

SPOILERS, obviously. tbh very little we couldn't have guessed from what we've seen, this is mostly about S8, but for the purists out there, don't click.
( i am very excited! )

I loved S8 of Supernatural for a lot of reasons, most of which were emphatically the opposite of "profound." A few of them, though, were at least to me kind of a big deal. Most crucially, I think the season did a wonderful job interrogating the show's treatment of sociological difference, which has been...uneven. AKA, the first two parts of ( Read more... )

I have absolutely no intention of shutting up about Supernatural.


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WHEW OKAY I AM CUT OFF. I'm really hoping to do a S8 writeup sometime during the summer but I just had to get so much vindication love out for this episode now so! The first part of this is about the broader season metaphor, the second part is about DA BRUDDERS, and the last part is about the angels. Split up by gifs, if you want to skip to ( Read more... )