(The thesis is that most "domestic abuse" is actually not major physical assaults but consistent minor assaults--too minor to be considered chargeable offenses on their own--as part of a strategy to systematically control a woman's life and autonomy.)
Currently reading "Coercive Control", really interesting, possibly influencing my disgust with aspects of "Money Heist".
IDK y'all. Go to therapy.
But hey, he generously decided not to murder her mother upon realizing she has Alzheimer's and therefore will not be able to implicate him.
Like literally bringing out a polygraph to "prove" that this is true love and the charismatic criminal totally didn't mean to systematically destroy her life and remove all alternatives to their being together.
The text is this domestic abuse survivor meets a charismatic criminal who systematically destroys her life and removes all alternatives to their being together. It's like a horror movie but played for romance? Bizarre.
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The basic problem with the show is that the protagonist by conventional narrative criteria is Raquel, and her arc is being able to solve the heist and outsmart the mastermind Professor but then choosing to defect to his side because of his perfect masculine sex appeal.
I think the only possible reading is they think this makes this guy "intriguingly complex" and not "loathsome".
Yes but as usual I do not remember a single thing.
Finished S2 of "Money Heist" and truly baffled at how they wrote and performed an all-too-convincing depiction of a preening narcissistic abuser, and then also gave him an anti-fascist theme song, a heroic death, and a spinoff.
still can't believe the fumbled the ludicrous cool name "House of Paper" in translation.
I think "The Residence" is really good. Why couldn't they make more of that. (Following my idea which is adapting a different dry non-fiction book into a murder mystery every season.)
Well that does help although aren't there like five total seasons. Eh let me get disappointed at my own pace.
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The show was filmed as a single thing and recut into two seasons for the US release.
(I thought every season of "Money Heist" would be a different heist and my god my face as I realized how glacial this show actually was.)
For which one, although I am sure you're right in both cases.
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Pausing "Money Heist" to catch up on "Bridgerton" but all I can think is like, "crossover of the century".
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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NB: There was a measurement change although this is apparently? something applied "across sports" at least.
Actually, it's a glove on the player character.
When the NFL goes to 18 games and the game becomes synonymous with President's Day weekend, we'll see this fully born out. People will just refer to it as Super Bowl weekend
It’s a holiday.
a genuine actual US holiday with built
In traditions and experiences unrelated to the quality or makeup of the game itself
Yeah between the (dubious) ads tradition and the halftime show, the Super Bowl is an "event" across pop culture even beyond the (huge) audience of football fans.
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my guess is unironically ads even though they almost all suck now, even talking about how bad they are is still talking about them and it feels like the last bit of remaining monoculture
Essay question, why is the Super Bowl alone (?) in being immune to rating decay.
Hey we only did that once! 😂
Reminds me of video game systems where the trains are actually giant hats on NPCs.
For example I found this Pew poll where loneliness and urban/suburban/rural status is basically uncorrelated, although urban people might socialize more with their neighbors specifically.
I'm very skeptical of the idea that "the suburban form" is inherently "atomizing" or even correlated with it.
@xenocryptsite.bsky.social If this is right and there are ~660k elected then in one sense that's a lot, but also still probably less elected municipal officials than in France with 4x the pop?
You're always curious about descriptive work on how many elected officials there are.
