Oh, that's right! I didn't even think of her role in that movie when I read the article yesterday. Good catch.

Which can read as part of the symbolism. Canada, if considered in terms of this country, is a more rational, smarter America—and far more stable, too (as was Alex for more than 30 years). Trying to find an American to replace a Canadian host confirms everything is chaotic, and it’s emblematic of too many Americans…

There’s a think piece here about the TV show avatar of America’s intelligence not being able to a) find a host to replace its icon and b) never satisfying its fans who will always find one or another host choice problematic for good and trivial reasons. It’s symbolic all of this is happening now, when too many…

“Kitty!"

I’d like to see my beloved Craig Ferguson on daily TV, again. Geoff can be one of the Clue Crew.

Sony not firing him as EP seems they want to shoot themselves in the foot, again, later.

Come on, Larry David—write the full-length comedy of Penn as the owner of a bird store. I'd see that. 

Reading some of these comments, I get the impression that many posters thought these characters are class and race types over individual people. I don’t think White thought of them as only the former and not the latter. Sure, he was satirizing rich, privileged white people, but he wrote them as people, so I wouldn’t…

Okay, I now have to watch seasons 2 through 4 before 2022. I have the bad habit of watching a single season of a show and then ignoring the rest. I did that with: PEN15; The Umbrella Academy; Grace and Frankie (I watched 2 or  3 seasons, I think); Maria Bamford’s sitcom; Kimmy Schmidt (I watched most of the seasons…

Get Michelle Pfeiffer to be the hotel manager.

Right, and while that was her victory, it came at the cost of not truly helping a misguided, lost woman who was honestly reaching out for aid; a character much more like Belinda, class-wise, than Tanya. Rachel had the much greater problem to fix than Tanya did. And she wasn’t self-centered. I think White was depicting…

The ironic tragedy of Belinda being so fed up with rich people talking about themselves to her and expecting comfort, is she refuses help to a woman much like her, before she got married to a rich jerk, and who now will stay married to him. While Belinda advising Rachel may not have done anything, I think White was…

Given what we know about how Tanya was raised, it’s going to be very hard for her to change herself. She's how old in this series and is still traumatized by her mother. We’re not meant to blame her too much, I think.

I think White was castigating “rich white people” certainly, but the dramatist in him did try to portray them as people, with their own virtues and failings, their own responses to the world they lived in. I thought they were trying to do the best they could to lead happy lives. Some failed more than others.

Oh, I liked Armand much more than I liked Shane. His story is a much greater felt tragedy. When Rachel called Shane a “big baby”, I realized he couldn’t help himself. That doesn’t excuse his behavior, it just, for me, fatalistically locked it in to a certain extent, since he isn’t capable of self-reflection and…

If I may jump in here. I think White was writing very flawed people who were made that way by the inplacable systems of class, capitalism they either grew up in or took as jobs. Shane had a mother like Molly Shannon’s character. He almost had no choice but to be conditioned to be like that. We never saw Rachel’s…

Right, the Seinfeldian, or Curbian cascade of unintentional consequences coming to a head. If Belinda doesn’t get supremely tired of listening to wealthy people asking her for advice and comfort, she talks to this woman who ironically isn’t rich, is in fact trying to get out of that lifestyle, and Rachel does leave…

Great filmmaking by White throughout the series. I especially liked in this finale when the camera focused on Armand in his office while the half-naked boys were partying in the background.

White chose not to tell how they became friends or what they see in each other. So to me that indicates they’re just two kids who became friends and while there may be some class disparity, they genuinely do like each other, or did a lot more before Paula realized how privileged and offensive in their opinions the…

To give credit to Rachel, I read her staying with Shane as not being courageous enough to really hurt him after he accidentally killed a person (and also simply not knowing what to do since she’s never had the experience of marrying and then divorcing a husband). I don’t think it was about wanting the privilege of…