I decided to try to get into the spirit of the show and I enjoyed this episode more than the previous two. I still am annoyed with the bombastic jungle score, which reminds me of the Seinfeld eps where the regular musical soundtrack was heightened with human voices. With this series, the soundtrack conveyed its…

Having issues with the show from the beginning, I will grant this was a good episode. Like a well-orchestrated farce with a lot of plot happening. I wasn’t expecting the show when I heard about it to be a surreal horror piece but the first episode leaned into that direction a little. Now, unless they radically change…

I agree, but I’m imagining bullying and bullying of mentally or physically disabled kids happening throughout human history. Even in our very well-informed and enlightened times, I think it still happens and maybe to a greater extent than we assume. Kids can be deeply moral and fair, but they can also be cruel for no…

I went from “Oh, pete’s sake, he was a kid who made mistakes”* to “Holy shit, this is how serial killers get started!” in a second. This is not an example of “cancel culture” run amok. This guy proudly told the media this horrible behavior when he was in his 20s. He shouldn’t have gotten the gig in the first place.

I too had the impossible dream when young that one day, just one day, I would appear on the cover of a Time-Life periodical and so be ogled by men who didn't own a computer. History! 

TZ's "Eye of The Beholder" but as a dating show. Now do "To Serve Man."

I’m surprised many critics gushed over this show. Two episodes in, it’s nothing original nor interesting. The satire is heavy-handed, especially the overwrought score that gets annoying. The characters are mostly caricatures. I read a TV critic’s tweets that found the two teens an accurate representation of Gen Z.…

I forgot about the other Vietnam War movie. Yep, in the novel, the film is like Apocalypse Now and the director is a riff on Coppola.

If it wasn’t obvious from the description of the American director making a Vietnam War movie, Downey will essentially play Francis Ford Coppola. Which should be interesting.

The scene with Kevin and Nick at the bar meeting Patrick were done in sitcom fashion, so it’s how Kevin sees himself. My guess is the show will do something with Nick and Pete. They have gotten no characterization outside Kevin’s sitcom land, so their stories must come into play soon. Patrick’s character reminded me…

I was expecting the aural equivalent of a disgusting food, but the peacock’s call is kind of beautiful. Now hearing it every morning might be grating, but just a few times it’s lovely.

Gotcha. I can see how that would be annoying. I'll just mention that Marriage Story was my favorite film from its year. But, yeah, we need to see all kinds of marriage stories, especially those from the non bougie classes.

As long as people exist, there will be art about marriages and divorces, as it’s one of the most universal and powerful experiences in human life. The trick is finding something new to say. And not really since anyone watching can take away something that might help them in their own life. We possibly underrate the…

I’ve noticed a trend in recent publishing of books having the same cover design akin to the Somebody’s Daughter cover above. Colorful, inchoate shapes, similiar font, nothing representational, looks like bubble gum. Makes the books look homogeneous.

Damn you, Seinfeld! You useless Lego!

People wonder why Cameron’s Avatar is getting sequels when the movie was a big hit and then seemingly forgotten, with nary a fond memory and impact today. Tiger King has bigger claim to this phenomenon. It came when we were getting used to being in lockdown. Some of us were entertained. Others felt we needed a bath…

That’s not a bad idea. If the show is doing it, making the audience complicit and unintentionally enabling a monster because we see him as “one of the sitcom guys”, I’ll give it credit. But I still think what we see about Kevin should be revealed sooner than later.

But I guess I disagree that we’ve been shown the abuse. There’s a big discrepancy between the show and tell aspects. Allison has only told us she’s been emotionally abused, manipulated, harmed by Kevin. What we see in her interactions with him in the sitcom world is a put-upon wife who is ignored and who plays the…

How does Kevin exist? This episode makes him into two different people: a man-child who’s well meaning but an idiot, and then a controlling terrorist of a husband who doesn’t care about his wife even though all the sitcom scenes we saw before didn’t suggest that he actively harmed her. (She said he did but it wasn’t…

Her guardian, pictured: