Let no one complain that The Gilded Age moves too slowly. Or is that just Rev. Forte cutting to the chase? He’s matched by Ada, though, who goes from foisting off the vicar’s roses on Marian to accepting his marriage proposal in record time. And with no hesitation, either! Nay, with enthusiasm! We’re all so proud of Ada.  So in case you thought the season was only building up to Opera Rumble, surprise!

Let’s start this week with the subplot to “Local News,” which I think is the part of this episode that will matter the most to the overall direction of this What We Do in the Shadows season—and is also the part I found the most genuinely affecting. For the past couple of weeks, the story of Guillermo’s half-transition to vampirism has been mostly shunted aside, but here it reaches what could be a turning point, for the character and for the show.

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There should have been three. But tragedy struck when a near mint, boxed, example being shipped over from the US was mercilessly intercepted and crushed by US Customs for being in possession of a battery. Sadly one less Roboscout on the planet. I had a deal of sympathy for the seller. Roboscout’s large SLA is difficult to remove, even after detachment of 15 miniature Molex PCB plugs and extraction of the main board.

Many things about my NYT op-ed antagonized readers, but perhaps none more so than my insistence that liberals shouldn’t call Ron DeSantis a fascist. My case wasn’t just a function of the fact that, in terms of electoral tactics, hurling hyperbolic epithets could backfire on liberals. Beyond that, I really don’t think DeSantis is a fascist, even after last week’s flood of news about numerous flagrantly illiberal bills being introduced by members of the Republican majority in the Florida legislature.