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Jason from Taiwan 🇹🇼

I love Marci Miller, but that dress looks like something my aunts would have worn on the farm. I guess it’s better to catch any spit-up.

Ohhh God. Oof. Such cringe at what happens with her character.

They do have one episode where the city is really well-used late in the season, but where are the accents? There’s a unique feel to NO that the show doesn’t tap into. It is worth a watch, I’d say, and some people seem to really enjoy it. I found it a letdown.

Watched all eight episodes. It’s a mess. It wants to capture this moment of inclusiveness and some of the varied experiences not usually portrayed in gay media (particularly surrounding characters with disabilities), and that’s all honorable, but it winds up biting off more than it can chew, and does its characters a huge disservice. They tap into a black queer drag community that comes through vividly, but the show pushes them to the margins. The characters QAF does focus on are rather flat and boring, aside from Jesse James Keitel’s trans character Ruthie. They try to introduce soapier elements (borderline incestuous love triangles), but it all feels so desperate and forced. There’s one love triangle that happens late in the season that’s a real WTF. And what a shame to have a show set in New Orleans and not make more use of it. The lead is the weakest of the cast (neither Brian nor Stuart were this unlikable and you could understand why they commanded such power over men—this guy Brodie just seems like a petulant child).

Maurice Benard will have Michael E. Knight on today. They’ll talk AMC:

I love this guy:

It’s getting better in Episodes 3 and 4, so I’m understanding why they released all of the episodes as a binge instead of a weekly rollout, which would have been deadly.

Ivan from Belarus 🇧🇾

I agree that everything doesn’t need to be a twist or a mystery, at least not for the audience. A weird story for a whodunnit.

Leo from Brazil 🇧🇷

Wendy Moniz (GL) has been upped from recurring to series regular on Yellowstone. Jen Landon (ATWT) recently received the same promotion on the show.

Oh totally agreed on that point and would be perfect as the story progresses, as you say. It’s just weird that they appeared to skip the immediate horror and shock.

There are times when it works for me in Chad’s scenes. The smiling comes across as arrogance. Like “you’re a joke to me, so I’m just gonna grin.” Today, it felt like clowning, and actually the silly music and staging felt like it supported his choice.

It was almost like he was playing the scene as comedy. So goofy-looking.

What weird acting from Billy Flynn. He looked guilty upon the discovery instead of horrified.