I actually quite like the accountant line, it was symbolically rather eloquent I thought.
My go to example of terrible delivery in the show will come in a few months, I'll rant about it then.

The week's pop culture reference that no one understands anymore: Lane was watching VIP.

The show definitely never got enough credit for the direction. It was always very efficient, another scene was the little looks Rory and Lorelai gave each other at the beginning of Forgiveness and Stuff, far more eloquent than any dialogue or recap.

I used to find it one of the most cringe-worthy line of the show, but watching it again, I don't why, it felt better. It certainly conveyed everything you needed to know: Tristan is rather pathetic, Dean will do anything for Rory and cares about her(quite nice to show and know that early in the relationship).

How awesome are we talking about?

Edward Bond's Bingo already was based on him being an exploiter of the proletariat, a pattern emerges

I think they can get on board with an angry black murderer.

Thanks, I'd never really seen it like that. Women in his movies have agency and are definitely independent characters, but they often tend to be frivolous and treacherous.
I don't know enough about social history to be able to tell if it was really exceptional or just a normal representation of the youth of the time.

I think there is some sort of poetic justice to that.
Americans won't watch foreign films, and now the foreign markets are turning American movies into crap.

Either that was the point or the point was so badly made that you should be happy it at least made you laugh.

Would you mind developing what you thought felt like feminism in A bout de Souffle? Godard was far more often accused of being a misogynist, and while I don't necessarily agree, I see where this is coming from.

He's done Simon Boccanegra a couple years ago, he held his own between Calleja, Poplavskaya, and Furlanetto, which is after all quite impressive already.
He's done Rigoletto for Italian TV, I'm not sure in which conditions it was recorded, but as it was shot on the actual locations where the opera is set, it was…

How did Domingo fare as Germont?
All I've heard him in as a baritone was good, but it's never the best I've heard.

The pop part of the weekend was mostly TV with the new Happy Endings episodes, as great as ever.
For some reason, I also watched an episode of Whitney, not quite sure what I expected, I don't care that it's multi-cam with audience laughter, it's not even that the jokes weren't particularly funny, there just weren't…

That list is awesome, and Testament needs more love.

I won't try to argue that it's his best (cough, cough Operation Shylock cough, cough), but it's definitely his most underrated along with Letting Go, I only read them because I'm a completist, but I enjoyed them more than American Pastoral or Sabbath's Theater.

It's been a few years since I've last seen Les Carabiniers so don't remember in details, but while I won't claim it's one of his masterpieces, it's very much worth a look.
It's definitely underrated; for those curious about Godard, it might not be the best introduction (I'd go with Une Femme Est Une Femme or even Pierr…

Especially in that case when, for some reason, a British accent seems to be shorthand for smart.

Do you remember when M. Night Shyamalan was cool?

One of the main arcs of the series is Rory little by little "coming into the fold", I'm just relieved she still ended independant enough, having found the middle path between her grandparents and her mother.