I’d love a season called The White Lotus: Colorado, being Mike White’s riff on The Shining.

Mike White did the best directing I’ve ever seen from him tonight, showing how he was a master manipulator and creator of suspense. Every scene was meant to confuse us to what was actually going on, ambiguous, while ratcheting up the tension. Tanya on the boat felt it could have been a very giant, comical…

Good point, hadn’t thought about it.

I was hoping Lucia wasn’t playing Albie. We’ve seen her feel guilt for dragging her friend into her sex work. Why write that if she’s gonna be a one-dimensional bad girl? Her declarations to Albie seem genuine; we haven’t seen evidence she’s lying, yet. But if she’s legit being menaced by her pimp, it’s a contrived…

Yeah, 2000 Euros seems like the rate a very high-end escort service with very beautiful models would charge (not that I have any idea!) and not a freelance amateur as Lucia might be, casually doing it with her best mate. But then again, she is very attractive and has a very sexy body. I’m assuming she knew Dominic and…

Kanye? Dr. Anthony Fauci?

I’m amused at the directional identifying of Sally Field and Jim Parsons in the header. They’re not exactly unknowns and easily confused with each other.

I do think Quentin needs money to support his lavish lifestyle and that’s why he asked Tanya to the villa. Foreshadowed by Tanya warning Portia about how people want her money. Jack also may be a sex worker himself and Quentin owe a very large tab he needs to pay off. He may also genuinely like her, but his response…

That didn’t occur to me, but, yeah, could be. I read Daphne with some pathos. Meghann Fahy has done an excellent job in a couple of scenes showing how hurt and vulnerable Daphne is under this performative mask of a happy wife.

This season has less thematic depth than the first one, but I might say it’s more flat out entertaining. An Italian comedy of errors examining sex, lies, hypocrisy, and searching desperately for companionship or love. I don’t think Lucia will charge Albie. As she said she wouldn’t. I think she sees him as penance for…

Seeing the header pic for the Club’s Disenchanted review, I thought Amy Adams could eventually play this garbage person’s life in the 2022 midterm election movie. They had the same hair. But then Amy Adams is very easy to like, while Lake is very easy to hate. I’m glad Petty’s estate called her out in that forthright,…

A.I and Empire of the Sun are cinematic masterpieces and should be in the Top Ten. The BFG should not be ranked even one higher than Duel. But good list. Your #2 is my #1 (my top three would be E.T, then a moving list of Jaws and Close Encounters depending on the day). Fabelmans’ not out yet, I have seen all his…

I wanna hang out with Bert. Delighted his grandson is involved with the girls his son slept with and he saw naked. “Like father like father, like son.” F. Murray Abraham—good choice for charming, mischievous libidinous old man.

I wouldn’t be too harsh on Albie. Portia does clearly like him, and, as she said tonight, did want him to go up to her room. But I have sympathy for the kid since he doesn’t want to be like his sex addicted father and mistreat women. While unhappy Portia, in Italy, wants a guy to ravish her. Both are sympathetic and…

It’s true that men, certainly more than women, have created the world they find themselves lost and miserable in. Toxic masculinity (and I have no problem with the term) has been accepted for far too long as how men should act, and many boys had no other model culturally put upon them, so they could not do anything…

I’m the sucker who thought Cameron and Daphne were being written against type and had the more emotionally healthy and loving marriage. The last two episodes I thought they weren’t particularly douchy, but this episode Cameron surely was. Though I think Daphne’s monologue about the insecurity and miserableness of men…

HBO's much better house of dragons succession show. Characters with complexity and depth. 

It’s interesting this show coming out not long after Roe was overturned. Showing how wanted births can go terribly wrong and costing the life of the mother. So the depictions of bloody still births didn’t bother me. In its own feminist way, the series is saying that pregancy is a serious medical condition that can end…

Agreed. I loved the heart and sincerity. Criticisms are valid, but some of it feels very irrational (not just the racist bs). Like so what if certain twists were predictable or if the show is changing the original? In the context of this new story they’re telling, the choices, to me at  least, were fine. And the best…

But what about the mermaid fetus playing an old flute movie?