As you’re saying what everybody else has said about it—that it pulls of being very funny and very sweet—I might check it out again at some point. The two episodes I saw I was too caught up in the illogic of the premise—that a guy would believe as real incredible wacky things happening in a courtroom he knows is being…

Well, I mean, most rom-coms don’t feature mothers, just women who find true love at the end. It doesn’t automatically mean they’ll start families. Did we find out Harry and Sally became parents (maybe a bad example if they said at the end they did—I don’t remember)? How about Kathleen Kelly and Joe Fox, or Susan Vance…

I saw two episodes of Jury Duty and I don’t get why it became a hit and racked up award nominations. To each his own, I guess.

Matthew Rhys is...Lloyd Braun! Selling as many computers to earn the Costanza’s Waterpik!

The old MPAA rating for adult films before the NC-17. Look for lots of Midnight Cowboy memes.

She did hear the last words of the biker she stabbed in the eye. There is literary tradition, I think, of a person’s shadow following them. Ok, that may be a reach. How did the guy lock her in the bedroom and how did she escape? Did we see her removing an obstacle from the door? Who would do this? Bevel? I guess he…

A big reason why this show is so good is that these people are indeed terrible but the show makes you feel empathy for them because it humanizes them. It’s almost tender the way the writers treat these characters. They’re not one-dimensional villains. They’re far more complex, interesting, and tragic figures. The show…

I don’t even think Roman is really ideologically aligned with Mencken and his fascism. He said tonight words to the effect of “Nothing matters” after he said his dad was dead. The last few episodes he’s been spiraling in his grief. So in his nihilism, electing Mencken doesn’t matter. And it is a better chance of…

I disagree that her apology was purely a strategic business decision. I think she meant it and she was taken aback that he didn’t apologize. I think the writers have written that relationship as real, with both of them actually caring for each other and also hurting each other. As Tom said last week, Shiv is a very…

Excellent directing by Hader in the home invasion scene. The abrupt reveal of the black-clad slender man behind Sally was a good horror movie surprise. I don’t know if every thing that followed was exactly real. Sally did hear the last words of the guy she killed. Likely over a real ripping out of her wall and a real…

Tom was vicious to Shiv after she apologized and told her she was pregnant. I don’t think he believed her. I don’t blame him but I also don’t excuse him. In that marriage both can be awful. But watching the end of the last episode before the new one, I saw their balcony fight, again (surprised it was in the last ten…

He’s also Hamilton Burger (Ham Burger), the closeted LA district attorney on Perry Mason. Burger and Mencken in a room together would be something.

I was just about to say this. ATN doesn’t actually control the election count, and they calling it early by mistake, before it’s revealed that Jimenez actually won, can set up the end of Waystar Royco and the end of the kids controlling the company. The share prices plummet and Mattson buys the whole thing for much…

No there isn’t, and the psychological gymnastics, justifications, rationalizations that type of person needs to feel like a good, healthy person can be great and actually screw up the person. I’m sure there are various ways the super rich handle it. And I would not doubt they live in great anxiety a large part of the…

No, I agree with you. This episode showed that creating a totally new identity that suppresses who you’ve been for a long time doesn’t work. You just make life more miserable for yourself and loved ones. It’s an instant solution that isn’t one. Barry, in order to change, must do the very hard work of actually changing…

I can’t really because I don’t follow the lives of the super wealthy. But just on probability alone...There’s not a direct causal link between wealth and unhappiness. We commoners like to think so to feel better about the lack of wealth we have, but money can make life better and easier, which can result in happiness.…

I don’t know, but they might talk like that if they’re not particularly ideological and only care about money. It’s plausible super rich people might accurately describe the fascist right wing and corporate Dems since it’s common knowledge for any one who follows the news that both exist. That they’re the sons of a…

I’ve never rooted so hard for Shiv and Tom to make it work. That was a brilliant argument, and, I think, kind of healthy for the both of them. They were honest about each other and the hurt they did to each other and the hurt they did to themselves. Shiv announcing right there and then that she was pregnant would have…

They’re in Hell. (You thought Kim Wexler had a rough go of it--meet Sally.) I’ve never rooted so hard for Barry to go back to being a hitman. He talks about responsibility and thinking about others here to his son, but he’s just as selfishly monstrous sans the violence. He knows his wife and son are miserable, but,…

TIL that wealthy people are never, ever allowed to be dissatisfied and unhappy with their lives. And that’s why Succession is a terrible show.