Why wouldn’t they be miserable? Money only brings happiness to a certain extent. Once you have enough money that you don’t have to worry about shelter, food, debt, etc it really doesn’t add much happiness to your life. If someone makes 30k a year and you bump them up to like 100k they will be super happy because they…

Hell, part of Kendall’s brief for the party was that it should be part Dante! (and part Weimar, part Carthage, part post-antibiotic dystopia... let’s be honest here, with all due respect to Comfrey, the party wildly failed to live up to that (delusional) marketing. It’s not even the most bacchanalian party Kendall’s…

I just want to tip my hat to HBO dollars spent very well. First using Hudson Yards and The Shed for part of the party set as well as other locations to pull off a singularly wretched display of excess wealth in the guise of a party. That it turned out to be one of the circles of Hell Dante could only dream about for…

Kendall going from the biggest fucking douchebag in the world to the way his face broke once he learned that his kids’ present to him might have gotten lost? Pitch perfect tragedy. 

Venture capitalists like making money.  I’m not seeing the problem here.

I found it weird that his decision was made offscreen. The Tom convo scene did not feel like he had made up his mind completely but maybe I'm wrong.  

“y’know PGN pulls up that photo of me with a ponytail anytime they wanna make me look untrustworthy.”

I like how the show’s making it steadily clear that Ewan is also kind of a hypocrite, too.

Connor: Ooooh, donuts.

I think blaming the last season is too kind. The show hit the skids when they wasted so much time on the torture and castration of an annoying minor character.  For me it never fully recovered.

Yeah, those are what I would call the “feints” I mentioned. They’re definitely there as factors, but Gus wants to do the right thing anyway, and the sense conveyed is that he probably would if his specific editors weren’t stopping him.

Contrast this with Prez in Season 4 — my pick for the best of the series — who does…

I think he’ll go back on JT’s advice and put the The back in.

I read it through, start-to-finish, in three days. It was a slog. But I made it to the end, at least, which is more than I can say for The Lord of the Rings - I have never, ever finished the first book, let alone the series, because of Tom motherfucking Bombadil.

He’s an addict and this is getting him high. 

I’ve also been re-reading the first page of “Gravity’s Rainbow” since 1981.

Summary: Europe and Asia had more easily accessible natural resources plus easier to domesticate animals, which is why (rather than any inherent superiority of their cultures or people) they developed technology quicker and so dominated the rest of the world through trade and colonialism. It makes sense, although many…

In fairness Many Saints of Newark was really, really bad

There is no way this ends well for Kendall. He’s transitioned from dead-eyed puppet to dead-eyed maniac. Everything about him this episode — the way he talks, laughs, pleads with everyone—is completely unhinged. Also, this show really does love putting him next to reflective surfaces. Kind of like a constant reminder…

Casino Royale is a strong contender for the best-made James Bond movie, but “best-made” isn’t really what I’m looking for in a Bond film, which is why I’m team Roger Moore all the way (The Spy Who Loved Me will probably always be my GOAT Bond film, personally).

Casino Royale was a great Bond movie , all the subsequent Bond movies have sucked in one way or another.