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The reviews are shockingly pretty solid. I don't know about the numbers, but I will watch. I will say I do think Season 10 should be watched as background on the new family members, etc. especially Mark, but that's me.

A friend informs me Sherilyn Fenn is playing Raven's foster mom on DC's silly-looking Titans show. Any port in a storm!

That's wild. I had no idea.

Don Lemon can be crazy dramatic himself but his initial non-verbal reaction just cracks me up:

He doesn't!

My ex was bipolar. Roseanne is probably at least bipolar. I have some sympathy for the man he was, but this shît stopped being an excuse awhile ago. There's also a lot of free floating deep narcissism and misogyny in there - and there always was with Kanye.

I officially want out of this dimension:

Since day one, Rose has pivoted from her assault to talking about her amazing projects, deals, scripts etc. in development, often in the same breath. I never trusted that and never will. She seemed deeply damaged but also deeply egocentric. I absolutely believe she was assaulted and traumatized and deserves her pound of flesh from Harvey Weinstein, along with Asia Argento, whose family's work I grew up watching as a horror buff (often featuring her) and whose story was equally gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. But I also believe they're both capable of doing awful things or being shitty people. I've seen predictions recently that Rose McGowan will end up pivoting from the movement to becoming a right wing or libertarian personality to service her ego. I wish I could say I find that implausible.

Ray Wise brings up Season 4 during a convention Q&A:

The late Scott Wilson (Herschel) and Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha) will apparently be appearing in the upcoming season I won't be watching any time soon as part of Rick's sendoff.

Season 2 trailer is surprisingly pretty good and upbeat, though I'm still not keen into leaning on TOS characters with Spock (now played by Ethan Peck). The new Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) look good though, and Sonequa and the main cast are still excellent.

When men avoid hot button issues in favor of commercial market share (however unsavory I find that personally) we call it good business. When a woman does it we call her a Nazi whore. Racists make her a lust object. Faux-woke left blogs make her the one woman they can call a c_nt and call it a political action. There were even people calling her getting groped by some drunk DJ some kind of calculating ploy from Taylor Swift, the perpetual kinder-demon. Name another woman anyone else would put that [!@#$%^&*] on. You can't - except maybe Hillary Clinton, or Michelle Obama. But when a man with a really big megaphone obsesses over her, demeans her and fetishizes her naked body for almost a decade as she grows from teen to adult, we can choose sides and say it's okay to do some light misogyny because hey - it's just Taylor fúcking Swift. Nah, I'm good, thanks. And BTW I don't even listen to her music much, whereas I listened to Kanye a ton til 2016. But I've just always found this shït vile, ugly and a 'woke' excuse for misogyny and fantasy vilification.

The way Kanye treats the world and his own immense power and responsibility is deplorable. He's mentally ill, but after a certain point that stops being an excuse (see: Roseanne). It's very sad what's happened to him, but I stopped being sad for him a while ago. He just makes me angry. I don't have any evidence Taylor Swift is a conservative, or that she courted the MAGAs. I keep hearing these claims and I never see any evidence that I find remotely credible. All I have is evidence of how easily other people project onto her. I saw her being completely apolitical; I didn't necessarily like that in 2018, but I somewhat understood it. She is a very calculating performer and commercial artist, she's not the first or the last - that doesn't make her the Antichrist, or the one woman everyone can vilify and excuse any behavior towards (like, I don't know, let's just say for example interrupting her speech and then fetishizing her naked body over and over for years afterwards as she grows from teen to adult). Anyway, I'm glad she spoke up.

I love the new theme - very JNT 80s. With the throbbing synth. Isn't that the woman from Coronation Street in here?

Sigh.

I never watch the show on BBCA. I don't tolerate the ads or their tendency to cut the show, or speed footage up for time and ads. That's not acceptable.

I haven't heard complaints about tonight, but I wasn't looking much. I'm still only halfway through Series 10, which is great.

Meanwhile, in Egypt, this is actually somehow happening:

Massive marches in DC today.

Chuck just got ratio'd on Twitter for trying to both sides Kavanaugh and 'our cold civil war' and is now whining about it, so there's that.

Aren't they claiming the new Cristal What a crazy show.

Finally wrapping up Season 10 - the Bev episode has maybe Jackie and Bev's only candid conversation in I don't know how many years. Jackie admitting she loves her was big. The Mark subplot was really sweet. That kid is a gem and I'm glad we'll get to see him, Darlene and Dan continue together. Becky turning on Bev in hours was great, explaining how quickly Bev and beau Christopher Lloyd moved to having sex in her apartment - 'it's four o'clock!' 'yeah, they went to dinner, came back and started doin' it!' I'm just really glad this cast and crew get to continue. I hope the quality continues to build. It may be a debacle, who knows.

I love the other news buried in there: Steve Zahn as Jackie's love interest.