I watched the whole first season of The Good Place in about a day and I… liked it? I was goofily pleased by the real philosophy in it, and I really liked the two main characters, but the other characters less (their acting as well as the characters themselves), and it felt a little repetitive to me.

I hate to say it but I totally agree with Gillian Flynn. Men do hate women. Not all men. But enough over the centuries to have gotten us to where we are today. Still underpaid, still underappreciated, still considered second-rate citizens.

I was nodding me head throughout all of the #metoo movement backlash article as well. I love her idea of making the perpetrators and the companies who harbored them literally pay.

As far as TV shows go, I am currently watching Gilmore Girls and Parks & Rec, but I have heard great things about Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Gotta check it out.

I know exACTly what you mean, and I agree wholeheartedly. It’s one of those tricky things where the show has changed a lot from the first season to now but still has to cope with the ideas and plotlines they put in place over the course of the first season. I have had many many MANY conversations with friends about how the show really hasn’t figured out what it wants to do about the other lady characters, tone-wise. Paula and Valencia and Heather all have some genuinely serious Stuff that the show has set up about them, and you’re right — it’s tonally jarring that the show isn’t dealing with that. Paula in particular has done some egregious things that she hasn’t really been called to account for.

My sister and I are also annoyed that Rebecca isn’t facing any real consequences for her cruelty to all her friends before she went to New York. Mental illness isn’t a pass to periodically be as cruel as you possibly can, and we think there should be one character who says “you know what, the things you said hurt, and I need some time away from you.”