I would do that too, just assuming one day it was gonna click.

There's a huge portion of today's Internet culture that makes me think I am so glad that this stuff did not exist when I was a teenager. Because I was an asshole when I was a teenager, maybe clever but not nearly as clever as I thought I was, and I'm grateful that I didn't have a whole world of half-clever assholes…

SO NOW HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET AN ERECTION?

"I'm probably going to draw the ire of most of the nerd world here, but can we please all just get over ____"

Half-baked philosophy is one thing but it was the nonsense talk about evolution that got me. Wasn't that character supposed to be a fucking scientist?

Interesting; will have to bookmark this for after the upcoming Coursera game theory class when I might understand it.

Dumbest thought I've ever had, but it's exactly the kind of dumb thing I bet some academic on the internet has done: solve Guess Who? with game theory. My assumption is you'd start with basically a binary search — come up with a question that splits the characters in half or as closely as possible; for each resulting…

I think what bothered me about Hopkins is that I didn't see the seductiveness, the qualities would have been necessary for the character to have gotten away with everything for so long. Part of that is Hopkins is portraying him in captivity, after the mask is off, sure, but innate things like just the way he speaks or…

I'm sure I'm rehashing something that's been discussed to death here, but… Silence of the Lambs does not hold up that well, does it? Jodie Foster is great. Ted Levine, I don't wanna say he's not doing the job he's given well but it was really uncomfortable to watch everything about that character through 2015 eyes…

"And, according to Billy Bob Thorton, he was quite the ladies man."

"that album made me realize that I don't have to choose between the two"
100% what I'm talking about. You'll love it.

Awesome, then you have a lot of great stuff to look forward to. One tip for Rectify is do not rush it. I came to it pretty recently, on Netflix, and adored the first season but had to take like three months before starting the second. It is quietly brutal like no TV show I can remember (except maybe "In Treatment").…

I'm 99% sure the KotH episode used their cover of Tom Petty's "Rebels" — probably the one where Khan becomes a redneck? But yeah, if you're a DBT fan you should absolutely be watching Rectify and ASAP spend the ~30 minutes on Youtube to watch "The Accountant", if you haven't seen it. I rewatched it immediately after…

Real close — creator Ray McKinnon did the Oscar-winning short "The Accountant", which as I recall, inspired the DBT song "Sink Hole". "The Accountant" also involved Walton Goggins, who I think was supposed to star in Rectify had his role on Justified not been expanded, and who is a friend of the band. (A song of…

Attorneys promise this can all be settled amicably if Tucker will just take a quick ride over to Koreatown in a dirty-ass trunk.

The Uhh Yeah Dude bits on those shows are hilarious.
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With 24, there are a couple of different ways to look at its politics. I have no argument with the boilerplate critique of the show's portrayal of interrogations and civil liberties, or the idea that "one man and his gun" saving the world is, broadly speaking, a right-wing idea (and I say "right-wing" as opposed to…

If the show hadn't been so perfectly executed in nearly every respect, "Leslie got me this awesome job" would be the new "Vince is gonna do the movie".

"the new David Duchovny/Charles Manson show"
This sounds like a buddy comedy that would be far more interesting than the real thing.

Yeah watch it like it was produced. Also, really make more of an effort than I did to keep track of who is who. A character or two from the "prequel" season will inform the later season.