Rogin

God, Rebecca's mum is so brilliantly terrible. I think "Where's the Bathroom" is among my Top 5 songs in the first season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVjq4v1B4pQ

The whole episode is such a lovely dysfunctinal mess. I love how Greg is styling himself as a total victim of his supposedly terrible stepfamily and mum. Heather is really the total voice of sanity on this show. Also I kind of ship her with absolutely everybody.

Also how awesome is loathsome Valencia. This song is another absolute favorite of mine in season 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4zhrlxnXnE

I see this so fucking often, women professing lip service to feminism and the putting each other down. Songs and statements like this is why the feminism on this show always reminds me of Margaret Atwood, it never shies away from looking at women's roles in the whole mess and also not from naming double standards.

Good luck loosening the strangle hold of the orange monster on the world, people of the USA.

Took me a good long while to find this one online. No idea why this show is so hard to get sometimes. If Hulu worked in my country I'd pay them right away. Man, this episode was awesome.

( Spoilers )

It is all so weird right now, it feels like the whole country is just going insane, with violently shutting their eyes. This week there are lots and lots of memorials because 80 years ago Austria was taken over by the nazis.

You see the pictures of people cheering for Hitler at the Heldenplatz in Vienna and how overenight the Jews started to dissapear and everybody uses that empty phrase "never again", when we have nazis sitting in the ministry of internal affairs. A police force (from the street crime department), which is lead by a nazi politician, just stormed another police division, that is responsible for protecting our constitution. They pretended that the search was about corruption, but they took all their data on right wing extremists (their own guys mostly) and likely also on left wing activists.

The whole thing is just insane. It looks like the nazi minister is now pitting parts of the police against each other. This is not normal. This is democracy going away. And all the while they sit in golden halls and solemly proclaim "never again".

I'm so sick of the nazis in our government

Damn, this is good. And painfull to watch. Atwood really refuses to look away from the horrible places. She's like a feminist Steven King in a way.

Damn what an awesome episode!!

I guess the things to come must be horrible because this episode was so full og treets!

( Cut for spoilers )

Any chance this is going to turn out well for you guys?

I'm currently reading this book and about half way through, I have to stop and post because it is such a brilliant piece of fiction!! It's amazing. I love how the author plays with the power dynamics here and how she goes to the bottom of the gender inequality so ruthlessly. Anyone else here read this maybe?

Kindly give the Putin puppet a kick in the butt. Without France Europe would die.

I meanwhile bingewatch (as much as I can these days) Sense8 season 2, which is made of lovely once more. Suddenly there is an awful lot of good tv going around.  The Handmaid's Tale, American Gods, Sense8 again.