I’m going to guess the Republicans’s bad-faith and hypocritical instigation of Clinton’s impeachment is the actual crime here. The series could take the view that the whole thing was a tragedy for not just the main two people involved, but for the entire country. Which it was.

In the next year or two, probably, I look forward to Young Dr. House. 

Frances McDormand should use her Lady Macbeth seduction skills on her brother-in-law to change his mind.

In the brief history of pop culture (and the much longer history of art) we have never been in an era where so much entertainment was recycled instead of original. It’s frankly embarrassing. Even Shakespeare did wildly creative and original things with his borrowed IPs. The multinational conglomerates that create most…

I hadn’t known private equity companies were in the EMS business as well. Like a deadly virus, they pervert  and destroy anything they touch. They should be abolished or deeply regulated.

Great episode, with the series having gotten better to me as it chugs along. I especially like all the lovely lyricism White creates amid the satire. (I didn’t see Enlightened, if that show did the same thing.) The cutting between all the elements in the dinner scene was terrific, creating suspense and a sense that…

It wasn’t a perfect show, but kudos to the team for attempting to subvert a beloved trope—and easily trigger those who continue to defend a “Kevin.”

The running for office plot was lame. It felt like Kevin as a character had nowhere to go so let’s make him run for office because a real life toxic and narcissistic male ran for office. I briefly wondered if the writers were trying to connect watching and enjoying these sitcoms to how we got Trump. That would be nuts…

Thanks for that delightful DuckTales Comic-Con vid. Laughed at Brewster saying “There’s no evolutionary trail for the octopus whatsoever!” I don’t know much of her work, but it appears her sparkling comic personality was wasted on a grim show about serial killers. Hope she does more comedies.

Kathleen Turner affectionately bickering with Michael Douglas was the only good thing in the last, terrible season of The Kominsky Method.

7th? Are you kidding? I thought Burton would be dead last, if not at least one better than Oz. He’s made big, obvious mistakes, can’t read clues well, yells to the contestants like they’re children which make me recoil. I like the guy (I grew up watching TNG) but he wasn’t good as host. Sure, he could get better if…

I was recently talking to a friend about this: she wondered how many of his followers actually know he got vaxxed. I have no idea, but I would assume it’s not a secret if not to the level of common knowledge.

Thread: The Semiotics of Malaise in Coming of Age Stories in The Graduate and Great Expectations

Maybe I needed som fun escapism right after reading Michael Lewis’s latest book, but that was a great trailer. Ghostbusters by way of Spielberg and Amblin, or, since one of the cast is in this, Stranger Things (which amounts back to the first comparison). Including a shot that was CEOT3K-ish. Was that the voice of Dan…

Both host and one contestant were painfully bad in Burton’s debut. He was too affected, trying for formal, grand MCing that just came across as very unnatural and stilted. I think he’s been too overhyped as a great choice without he, you know, actually hosting the games first. As this showing demonstrated, he could be…

I thought where the girls were sleeping was the living room, as it’s where we’ve seen the family be in most of the time. But Nicole (Britton) mentioned it was the girls’ huge bedroom. I’m not buying these people booking a room with not enough bedrooms either.

It was the third. Unless you're watching further episodes on HBO Max. But on regular HBO, they've aired three episodes so far.

It’s possible the writers are doing some subtle work in depicting Allison’s experience as not being as terrible as she describes. Because she’s miserable she could be misreading how awful Kevin and their marriage are. Certainly her plan to kill Kevin is a cockamamie overreaction and not at all what a “realistic”…

I guess I still am trying to see Kevin as a realistic, credible character, because Allison is portrayed that way, or meant more to be one. Instead of Kevin as a meta critique only. The mismatch btwn the two characters, one a sitcom and the other a realistic-ish person may still be too great for me to accept. And thus…

Kevin’s speech about protecting his family with the gun was probably the most sympathetic he’s been all season. I still think the writers unintentionally created too big an imbalance/gap about his character, where we’re shown a better guy than the monster Alison only tells us about. Not that Kevin is likable at…