I think that moment is just to illustrate how dependent Troy is on Jeff and Britta's validation. It's the first of many moments where he rapidly changes opinion depending on what one or the other says.

I'll back you up on this… It was a great episode.
for Shirley, especially. I thought they'd try to bring it up, laugh it off, and resolve it. I like what they did better.

Buried wins screenplay…
Amazing. There are a lot of things to like about the movie, but the screenplay is its biggest problem. Often terrible, even.

Great combination.
Where a film version of IV would live or die is in its depiction of Los Angeles in the middle of enormous changes: gentrification, reshuffling of ethnic enclaves, the end of the hippie era, etc. In other words, it fits in just fine with the casual melancholy of Boogie Nights' second half.

Well, it IS a complicated scene: she's raped by her ex lover, who's been steadily trying to lure her back over Hoffman's emasculated, almost feminine, passivity. Her husband lacks her old lover's aggressiveness, which frustrates her when she wants him to stand up to the hostile people in town. People are…

Yes, I was referring to the story that is apparently about students fighting over racism in the classroom. "American History", as a title for that kind of story, is about as precious/stupid as it gets.

And it's actually called "American History"?
*ugh*

Straw Dogs.
There is no better film study of dramatic irony: the ending is so masterfully constructed that every major character is missing key information that … well, it likely wouldn't avert disaster, but at least they'd all be much more clear-eyed about what they were doing and why. It's a moral muddle,…

And pretty exceptional in its own right.

Favorite shot:
it doesn't get mentioned much in comparison to the river sequence, or the expressionist nightmare of the honeymoon bedroom, but I LOVE the tracking shot near the end as Gish shuffles the children down the street, leading to the reveal of the lynch mob. Fluid, brilliantly composed, and pretty horrific.

Yeeeeeah, I'm pretty much out of the loop when it comes to stuff like this, but even I know this joke.

Yes to this.

It's going to be tough for them to sustain
a Powerful Dramatic Moment(tm) each time a character dies: not that that wouldn't be the case in a zombie apocalypse, but there's only so many times a show can play that card before it becomes repetitive (and I know that sorta happens in the comic, but will it work on…

On this:
"Of the interview subjects, John Waters does an especially fine job"

djf881, I'm aware of this, but Chekhov (frequently) violated this rule, especially in his short prose fiction. He built a career out of mocking literary conventions, and he has fun with introducing elements that he fails (intentionally) to follow up on in any meaningful way. I just think it's funny that his most…

Adz was initially a B album for me, and now it's up to at least an A-… The title track is especially outstanding, and outside of a weak 5-minutes or so in the final track, there's nothing there I don't like.

Thing about Chekhov…
That quote gets used a lot, but remember that Chekhov's gun never goes off according to his own quasi-rule. At best it's fired off-stage; otherwise it fails to go off entirely, or just gets waved around with no particular purpose. Chekhov was a rule-breaker more than a rule-maker.

"the game can safely be called the console's finest shooter"
Are we not counting Metroid: Corruption as a shooter?

Well, his poetry isn't particularly GOOD,
but one of the areas he's grossly underrated is in his essays. He covers a broad range, from sociological snippets to literary criticism, and he has a lot of interesting things to say. His essay on writing "The Raven" is much better than the poem itself.

The show could certainly use more
shirtless Donald Glover. Thanks, Community!