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Outlander: The Deep Heart's Core (2019) Season 4, Episode 10

Brianna is a Disney Princess

[5/10 · 30 March 2024]

Just like the modern Disney princesses, Brianna Fraser Randall McKenzie suffers from the adulterated idea that an angry personality is a female substitute for strength. It is not, little girl. A better definition of your all-too common girl behavior is that it is spoiled, petulant ENTITLEMENT.

There is also the lesser-acknowledged trope of 'dads (or men in general) are ignorant buffoons so let's treat them that way.' Even in Claire's eyes, Jamie went from The King of Men to the savage who is offending her little princess by taking revenge on the man he thought was her rapist. Because she didn't give him all of the information.

Brianna had a silly girl argument with her handfast husband and then gets into a bargain with a rapist. It's not her fault she got raped but she thought it might be. Once Jamie proved she was smart to have just stayed alive, Brianna decided to foist all of her guilt in the direction of the men in her life.

No good deed goes unpunished, Jamie.

The Walking Dead: How It's Gotta Be (2017) Season 8, Episode 8

How many lectures do we have to sit thru?

[6/10 · 24 July 2023]

How many lectures do we have to sit thru? This is Negan's fifth appearance with his bat and a lecture about somebody gone die. It was chilling and brutal the first time but it's played out.

And it's so freaking dark I can't tell what's happening. It's already confusing but throw everyone in the dark and it's hard to care.

Hopefully we'll all figure it out by the time the sun comes up. Where's Rick or Daryl? I can't remember.

Why doesn't Michonne want to fight? I don't know.

What's Maggie The Widow's plan? Doesn't matter, she's caught and given the option to go home.

Who's babysitting the kids while houses are blown up?

Thank goodness for closed captioning.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Who ended the war?

[7/10 · 14 April 2023]

Nixon ended the war. Kennedy started it, LBJ escalated it and Nixon took too long to end it. They skipped over that but it was still a stunning movie and Tom Cruise deserves all the praise. Oliver Stone's maudlin soundtrack was heavy-handed but the moviemaking nearly flawless. Not surprised by Stone's omissions. They left out one of the most memorable chants of the 60s peaceniks: "Hey, hey, LBJ! How many boys did you kill today?" That would be 16,899 casualties by 1968.

The vets' experience at the VA hospital was nightmarish, the confusion of war hellish and the contradiction of a "peace movement" illuminating.

Effie Gray (2014)

Oedipus complex

[8/10 · 13 February 2023]

Clearly John Ruskin, Impotent Lout, thought female children, I.e. Virgins, were safe company and a proper audience for his ego and any woman who isn't a virgin - or isn't his mother - is a harlot.

His resentment against his wife was clearly self loathing. Would loved to have seen Effie and Millet get together. I know they did but less Ruskin and more loving would've been great. Clearly Ruskin was friendly to Millet because of his giant ego at having his portrait painted by him.

Appreciated Emma Thomason's character's insight into the cruelty of unrequited love. Some of us have felt that first hand.

Inventing Anna (2022)

Shonda dragging Pres. Trump into this scammer's story is pathetic

[1/10 · 23 February 2022]

The nonsensical attempts to use this story to bash the president is beyond a stretch. Hey, Shonda, we get it. You hate Trump. So sell a show about that, if you think you can (which is when I stopped watching Grey's self-righteous droning). Don't spend 9 LONG episodes dragging out a whole Tinder Swindler story about a girl with a bad accent and her Ponzi schemes and try to sell it with sad acting. If we've seen one phony text wire transfer, we've seen them all. And yet every episode is filled with 5 or 6. Boring.

Longmire: Goodbye Is Always Implied (2017) Season 6, Episode 10

More seasons of Longmire, yep. Vic & Walt in love, nope.

[7/10 · 21 February 2022]

I loved this series, great modern western. The music (and a lot of guest stars) echoed Friday Night Lights. A lot of characters to keep up with arcing over several episodes. Vic spent the whole last episode like a nagging wife, all of a sudden worried about daddy/Walt getting shot even though it's their job and he's her boss. I would get fired for that esp. If I'm packing. Loved Zach's character and would've loved 6 seasons of those love scenes - WOW, I don't care who he sleeps with, he's yummy. Henry Standing Bear cleaned up nice at the end and A Martinez as Nighthorse was the perfect villain trying to retroactively do the right thing. Graham Greene actually was an excellent villain. Didn't like all the white people bashing all thru the show and racial rhetoric - can't we all just get along? And yes you get the bail money back, the casino isn't Enron.

Grey's Anatomy: No Time for Despair (2020) Season 17, Episode 6

Weary of the anti-American ranting

[1/10 · 6 September 2021]

No time for despair but always time enough to whine. Weary of the anti-American ranting, Grey's has become one long liberal sermon from self-righteous Hollywood telling the rest of us we're doing it wrong. This show hits all of the left-wing nut complaints, even mocking and deriding "white women" (Bailey and the DAR). Jackson's complaint that the only thing this country understands is money (he said on his way to his penthouse after he had to sell his yacht). Shonda Rhimes should live her principles and make her endless soap opera in a better country - if she can find one. Time's Up, Shonda.

Outlander: The Doldrums (2017) Season 3, Episode 9

Modern Man lands on moon, 18th Century Man shrugs

[6/10 · 5 October 2020]

Claire and Jamie looking at the moon in the late 1700s A.D. Claire: Men flew to the moon. Jamie: Hmmm.

I believe the writers had the doldrums, hence the title.

Really? Has the whole time-travel storyline become so blasé that a needle full of penicillin become more interesting than interplanetary travel?