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How is it you're not all talking about the egregious violation of slipping drugs into a person's food? Yeah, most people can safely take most antibiotics, but not everyone, and even apart from the risk of an allergic reaction, that's still on principle supremely not okay. I get that it makes a cute farce, but I hate

The most shocking secret of all is that little Holden's craaaaazy scraggly old-man haircut was foisted on him by his own mother long before he fell into the Countess's clutches!

I think what some of the mystified commenters are missing is what "Bill Murray plays to his own audience for himself" is getting at: it's a kind of indifference to attention that comes across as very genuine, and rare among the Hollywood set. I don't know if this is true, but he seems to me like a guy who has the

I was just rewatching A New Hope and was struck by how badass Leia is, more than I remember, but not in an overtly trope-y way. Let's face it, all the characters are pretty shallow, but if we were to charitably judge on the quality of characters rather than focus on the numbers, it comes across as almost post-sexism,

Josh seems a bit confused about many things.

You're right on about the social ineptness aspect of Cary saying "reverse racism". This is a guy who was passionate about "The Innocence Project", was pretty eager to go after a judge for racial bias, and in general has been shown to be both progressive and hipper/savvier than the old, out-of-touch crowd.

Like with the self-driving car episode we just had, I applaud how TGW takes on these new tech issues, but find it lately lacking in depth. On the surface, that algorithmic labeling of a black woman as "animal" is shocking, and does seem like an indictment of poor workplace diversity. But if you think it through a bit

I'm not sure whether we're meant to see Meg's appearances here (pre-Departure, pre-GR, GR splinter grenade-tosser) as a scary progression or—perhaps indicated by the cinematic ambiguity of the time jumps—as showing that whatever calamity's manifesting in her, it doesn't actually have to do with "the world ending", but

We also (to my recollection) still don't know what happened in the Garvey household in the immediate aftermath of the Departure. We know that Tommy left and wound up with Holy Wayne, and Laurie went to the GR, but I don't think we know in what order. I'd say this is a likelier source of whatever vacuum he has than his

To the extent it's been researched, evidence indicates that foreknowledge wouldn't diminish your enjoyment of season 1 if you came back to it. And a big part of the appeal of the show is having no idea what's going on (chorus of season 2's credits music: "let the mystery be…"), so even if you didn't supplement your

You are sadly mistaken. Ben is entirely handsome.

"ingratiatingly high-pitched"?

The part of the music that kept repeating sounds like overture music to me: music before the curtain rises to get you anticipating that the action is going to start. Its repetition is a fun signal that he's "stuck" until he figures out what move he's supposed to make.

Too lazy to check but I wondered whether the tattoos shown here did not match the ones we've seen on Garvey previously. Didn't he seem surprised at his reflection? If so, nice early clue-in that we're in a full-on alternate reality.

It made me a little curious whether that was part of the unreality of his experience. Like, this was the episode where they allowed him to be most flatteringly lit (and starved) to show off a basically unachievable body, whereas in the more "normal" episodes they try to show him with a physique that's still super

I'd go further than "corny" in criticizing the weird tone here. I think the writing is just getting dumber. Like the reveal scene with Grace listing their new clients: the beats were written for comedic sensibility without regard to believable dialogue for Alicia and Lucca.

In case it makes you feel better, I didn't know who directed Memento. I know it purely as being a really well-done execution of an innovative concept that all my friends and I talked about when it came out.

Respectfully, I think everything you said is wrong!

In what way do we not have functioning driverless cars "at all" right now? They are being tested on the road (right now) and performing very well in a lot of common environments.

Dramatically I somewhat agree with you. But yes, rather apart from my artistic appreciation of the show, I do wish it were more of a paean to driverless cars, because in terms of public policy that's what we need rather than anything contributing to the social media rumor mill.