That and the premise that they’re somehow a particularly notable fictional band are really strange. Reminds me of the sweet Laurel Canyon sound of Dawes

I didn’t want to call out Sharp Objects by name yet again, but yeah 100% this

That’s absolutely not true. Stewart got rolled by Republicans all the time–check out his interviews with John Yoo and Condi Rice.

Oliver continues to get lazier and lazier. He didn’t do anything in this episode that you can’t get from a half-hour watching MSNBC every day. He doesn’t seem to even try comedy bits anymore. It’s really strange–has HBO cut the show’s budget? Did they have to fire writers and researchers? Does Oliver just hate doing…

I’ll just say while worries about the plot moving too quickly are certainly justified, I think it’s preferable to the ‘slowly stretch out a thin plot’ method that almost all of HBO’s post-Chernobyl short series have taken.

Just sayin’ an oral history of a C-plot in a current HBO show really reeks of sponsored content. 

It’s possible to use ‘I need to rewatch to remember who this generic-looking bearded white dude is’ as a mental placeholder; the topline narrative–Dylan is shot by someone who thinks he deserves it–is clear enough.

I do want to give that another shot, there were some good moments early, but what I remember most about it is 1) the worst writer in an MFA workshop would say that the John Turturro itchy-feet-as-metaphor should have been pulled back a bit; 2) it goes off the rails when the defense lawyer kisses the suspect in jail;…

Honestly I didn’t find the ‘twist’ at the end of Sharp Objects a twist at all–when the ‘twist’ reveals that the only possible murderer was indeed the murderer it’s not a great surprise. In particular the post-credits reveal was a cheap attempt to create some drama. It didn’t care enough about plot to set up a…

‘Quite a remarkable feat considering this is an extremely June-centric one, with her acting in almost every harrowing scene. As a director, Moss is really into cramped close ups where we can see every contorted facial expression’

Entourage wasn’t canceled; they just added The Rock to the cast and renamed it Ballers

Yeah still need to see if Mare sticks the landing and doesn’t devolve into Sharp Objects-esque ITS NOT ABOUT THE MYSTERY ITS ABOUT THE CHARACTERS nonsense, but so far so good

Great opening episode, after that it stretches one episode of material into nine. Buries the most compelling plot (woman dealing with town who thinks her husband’s a murderer) under hours of quirky detective doing quirky things. It’s a disastrous mess.

I use the same proofreaders as AVC

I think Fey’s moment to be SNL showrunner has passed now–I don’t think she needs it, and yes in general her sense of comedy is kinda stuck in 2008. I’ve been wondering about Keenan lately...

I’ve been mentally counting on all of the people you mention leaving, and if they end up staying–especially Kate, and increasingly Aidy–I’m probably going to take a season off. I wouldn’t mind Cecily staying one more year–she deserves a season as the lead actress–but just about everyone else has been on a bit too long.

Didn’t John McCain host once? Tina Fey seemed to really have a thing for McCain.

– I was listening to an audiobook of Live From New York this week, including the chapter that dealt with Dunn/Dice. From the sound of it no cast is ever going to pull a Dunn again–although Lorne’s obviously been giving actors a lot of slack this season, so I wonder if a lot of veterans will be, ahem, ‘filming a…

I always wanted an explanation why Slim Charles worked in Baltimore because the dude oozed DC. He carries himself like he’s embodying go-go.

I will support this take. A career B+/A- actress, always solid, she’s never made a movie worse, but nothing really outstanding–at least on film. Her season on The Shield might be her best work. She deserves a Lifetime Achievement award.