You just sealed off the entrance to Plato's cave, and now everyone is trapped inside and running out of air. Your middlebrow ignorance, is it a cause or consequence of Americans getting dumber?

Please explain to me in 25 words or less why an activity you participated in during high school disqualifies you from having an opinion on a general subject, when indeed, that same activity qualifies you to have more knowledge, not less, of that general subject?
Or, were you being falsely modest and humblebragging in…

More like elephant terrible, amirite
(because he's fat and remembers every slight)

Phil Dunphy owes you bigtime, Hal

"In 1981, the time was right…" Huh? This statement is the equivalent of saying the Pony Express would have been more efficient if they had used cars.

Remember when Chair was pregnant?
Remember when Hortense was pregnant?
Remember when you couldn't tell the show was filmed in Southern California?
Remember when Dodo in withdrawal went on a rampage and ended up nowhere near the Dog Dinner party?
Remember in 1902, when 90% of all children were conceived from rape?

DFW took self-consciousness as far as it could be taken, unfortunately, to self-abnegation.

Good for you. The first step is to acknowledge you have a problem.

You can't even make the right joke. It would be my great-great-great-great grandfather

lol. u r 2 funny.

Gold historically has been a key medium of trade; even if it doesn't move from a warehouse for 100 years, at every point in that 100 years it has to have the potential to be transacted. Irradiated gold can't be moved without great danger, and is thus useless. Not only would the price of non-irradiated gold go up, but…

Obvious to you, right now. But how obvious to others, later? The narrative is neutral in this regard.

Almost. People shouldn't make irony, because of the children. But they will, because irony represents the height of comedy. Unfortunately, the next step is off a cliff.

Again, this is nothing more than an anachronistic farce in which the characters' personality traits - such as Beatrice's varied talents - are only revealed to serve the jokes, not to create a credible human being. That being said, Frederick's "Washington, B.C." still has me laughing.
I am surprised that the reviewer…

Get used to it. The trend in movies and art, since they've been so meta for so long, is to become increasingly stylized and unnatural.

The Counselor extends and/or updates the philosophizing of Tommy Lee Jones's character in No Country for Old Men. It would be interesting to find out if this movie had any influence on Nic Pizzolatto, though the timeline is pretty close. Needless to say, it reflects a trend towards explicating philosophical ideas…

Actually, it sort of is, because it is framed as a reality show. Since this would be the first reality show in fake history, we can presume they naively believed that it was documentary rather than contrived drama.
Now, the quality of a show is largely determined by the motivations of the characters. I believe it's…

This reviewer definitely has an odd sensibility. How an intentionally anachronistic, broad farce can be seen as "lived in" is beyond me. There is nothing resembling true human emotions on display. For example, by now the Lady of the house should have realized Chair is carrying her husband's child, which could lead to…

hey, wait a tic….is Ramsay royal blood?

7 months or so, give or take 19 months