Children are so fat these days -- isn’t there a way we can make money off of that?
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I think the fact that the Issa/Lawrence relationship was so stable when neither of them were really happy with where they were in life is a strong argument that they’re compatible personalities. Infidelity and wounded pride are big challenges, but real-life couples with much less in common manage to overcome them.…
For me, it was the second chlamydia reference in a week since I caught up with the premiere of Shameless on Saturday. Play safe out there everybody!
That was a squirmy laugh for me at the bit where he denied having the dog. Dude, you’d rather I believed it’s your turd I’m cleaning up? And then the dog barks and it’s just this sticky web of lies!
There’s no accounting for taste, of course, but VB has never been shy about dropping villain bodies for a (somewhat uncomfortable) laugh. How soon we forget the massacre of the twisted Groovy Gang in ¡Viva los Muertos! all the way back in season 2 — which for my money was a lot more disturbing thanks to the…
Moreover, GRRM has television-writing experience so he certainly knows what to trim to bring his idea in on a budget.
The sad part is that we’re already what, halfway through the new season we’ve waited so long for? They don’t have the runtime to spin things out for an extended period.
I enjoy the character, but I really am brought up short every time Tom Pelphry’s oddly waxen face gets a close-up. It’s like he had a Daredevil-style accident where his face was splashed with Botox and he became unable to achieve proper facial expressions.
It feels like the show did this just to address certain complaints about Finn Jones and Danny Rand as a character, and I’m not a fan of it.
I’d advise against it. Events from S1 motivate just about everything that happens in S2, and you lose a lot of the impact if they’re just hearsay.
I have to disagree that Ward and Joy are afterthoughts this season; one of the main themes running through all ten episodes is that “every family fucks you up in its own way,” which, sure, you could argue is way too complicated and subtle an idea for a martial arts/superpowers show with comic-book-quality writing to…
A kindergarten crush is not an ex-girlfriend. I was responding specifically to that situation.
Here’s how you do it: don’t fuck people until you’re 100% certain they’re too cool to ever want completely out of your life. Then if it doesn’t work out, as long as they forgive you for whatever you did, you can still be friends.
I too have read the entire Wheel of Time series, and bloat is definitely its worst fault. Teenaged-me was impressed by the fact that, unlike most fantasy epics of the day, where the Prophesied Hero gets all the Realms of Men behind him in willing self-sacrifice in the space of a couple chapters, WOT was willing to let…
Well, I felt a little bit of a spark, but it did not escape my notice that he wound up answering maybe one question for every three or four that he asked and kept those answers quite vague. That plus a total lack of long-term relationship history has me thinking “con artist.”
Because it will only ever be unified against us. We’re in charge, after all.
He didn’t say less time than it takes to play a game of baseball; he said to watch a game of baseball. Twenty-seven days may be low-balling it.
I gotta say that I never anticipated Hank’s cri de couer about how he’s tried to follow in his dad’s footsteps as a boy adventurer and gotten nothing but scorn for it, while Dean has rebelled and acted out and been lavished with paternal attention in response. Self-reflection has never been his bag, but it was a…
Hot take: Superhero movies are more important to the continued existence of film as an art form than any 100 meditations on growing up, searching for a found family, etc. that your sensitive filmmaker types will champion as real cinema. That kind of story is being done better on television, and it’s time we admit that…