Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton

First off, I love your reviews of LC. You seem to be the only reviewer that gets the nuance of the series. Now, I have read the book prior to the show and was excited to see how it would look. For this episode Misha Green did something I think that Ruff didn’t do well with Ruby’s character in the book. The show gives…

Thank you so much for writing these, I have learned SO MUCH reading your work, I really appreciate the thought and care you put into covering this series. 

I read the book when it was still a galley, and I wish I could remember more of the details. Now you’ve got me wondering!

I absolutely adore Ruby and one of the most heartbreaking things to me is just how beautiful I find her. Every time she appears on screen, I have to mention to my husband that she has the most beautiful skin I have seen on a human being (I know this makes me sound like a creepy Buffalo Bill type, but I’m a beauty…

This is my favorite episode so far too, but I just really love Ruby’s character. Everyone is great on this show, but Wunmi Mosaku is incredible.

The way these secret societies interact with each other seems to be a “Stalin vs. Hitler” situation. Whoever wins, everybody loses.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not just a story about metamorphosis, but the duality of cultural notions/expectations of masculinity and acceptability wrestling with homosexual desire and urges (another big theme in this episode).

crazy, the night before this aired I happened to watch Eddie Murphy’s Trading Places (My GF had never seen it) and saw some similarities.

I don’t think Tic cares about his father’s homosexuality, going based off of the way he didn’t react when he walked into the alley in the middle of the sex scene in the first episode, in addition to his reaction to Tree’s attempt at shaming him for it.

I am loving this show and your articles and the comments.

When Christina had Ruby work the dinner party, I was reminded of the Trinity sketches from ABLSS.

I think Christina just finds it “easier” to be a man (to point). It’s easy to be charming and kind because she has a dick between her legs and won’t be “interrupted” by virtue of being a woman in the extremely he-man woman haters club like the Sons of Adam.

I asked myself: If Christina has the power to change shape, why does she need Ruby to break into that man’s room? Couldn’t Christina change herself into a black person?

Yea I thought it was just some magic they do and switch bodies not a painful change. Also weird they barely made it home in time for the change to happen you think you would get the timing down, especially when you have been doing it so long and you invited someone into your house.

I know I’m hogging the mic, here. Sorry.

I agree that how his father treated him all of his life was the main thing. I thought that there was more to his response to finding out about Montrose’s sexual preference, in the previous episode, than just comic relief.  I will admit that I’m so used to reading and hearing about black men homophobia, I assumed that…

Thanks for these in-depth reviews for this show; I think they are the best on the internet.

That whole transformation thing, on a practical level (or as practical as transformation to another person can be) seems very... Inconvenient. You never seem to know when It’s going to happen, you leave a weird, big mess and you’re left without clothes when you’re done.

I agree that Montrose’s act was despicable AND well set up. It was violent & vile, and contextually, made sense. For me, it was keeping with all of the explicit and disturbing historical references & callbacks in the stury-telling. I believe it was done specifically to literally “scream out” an issue that gets…