It was funny how Betty and Don each thought Sally was most like the other parent. In the mental portrait each of them have of their child, what stands out the most are the ways Sally's personality diverges from theirs, not how similar they are.

Joan could just as easily be referring to Bob with that line, whether she realizes it or not.

Damn, I'm interested in seeing this comforting hug. I don't even watch Hannibal but if there's some real hugging in there, that might be enough of a hook.

Not even close. Sudeikis is a surprisingly good actor who commits to his roles, whether it's as a straight man or someone goofy and over-the-top (even doing both convincingly in Eastbound & Down season 3). Vaughn sort of coasts along on his natural charm, without much variation.

So far after three listens, I'm not feeling like this album could approach the quality of Alligator, Boxer, or High Violet. Any of the top 5 songs from each of those albums seems more compelling to me than the best song on Trouble Will Find Me. Commenters here have listed the tracks they can't take off repeat, and I…

It was great how she explicitly referenced the ambiance of an opium den while presenting the homecoming theme to the committee and they were all totally on board with it.

In all seriousness, when I watched Even Stevens I thought Shia was the most enjoyable Disney child actor since Ben Savage (Boy Meets World). Did he mismanage his own psyche after his show ended by abandoning the madcap comedy which played to his strength in favor of wannabe tough guy roles? Or was he always going to…

His smirk reminds me of Plop from The Office.

That's a really good encapsulation of J.J. Abrams. I see him as having the technical know-how and ambition to be a director/producer hybrid in the mold of Steven Spielberg, but he doesn't have the same ambition to tell stories that aren't retreads. He can put a convincing new coat of paint on existing ideas, but he…

All glory to the Undertoad.

Don looked like he was doing the correct, healthy thing in that elevator scene by choosing stoicism instead of overbearing creepiness. By the end of the episode, he's understood that he can't just conjure up a Hail Mary idea or action that will somehow put back together something that's already broken. He's going to…

Haha, this is great. I was playing with the idea of moving to NYC because I wanted to hang out with the characters on "Girls", but your rant makes me feel better about loafing around Boston through my twenties instead.

I like him too and don't even think he's all that pretentious, but then again I instinctively skipped "Margot at the Wedding".

I agree that what you should take away, @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus , is that a pretty girl reached out to you. It's frustrating that nothing came of it, but at least you know you're looking good to someone who looks good.

Shivrang really wanted to sleep with CeCe and marrying her was the only way to make that happen. It's immature and incredibly short-sighted of him, but there's a kind of logic to him feeling just tempted enough by the promise of seeing CeCe naked to keep going through the motions of the wedding before being snapped…

I think you meant Carla Gugino, because Carla Bruni is Nicholas Sarkozy's wife.

I still think it's a great movie. Beyond the great editing and the great cast, it is interesting for its dismissive view of moral society as we know it. The movie treats career criminals as a shadow middle class with brutal and enigmatic kingpins as their ruler. Anyone left who's willing to follow the law (any law)…

I've been wondering all season: did the show producers really add a second story to the existing SCDP set from seasons 4-5? If they didn't (instead building a second set for upstairs while modifying the original) then they could've fooled me. There have been multiple camera shots looking straight up or down the…

Season 4 is one of my favorites, but I don't think "The Suitcase" is anything special. In the beginning of the episode, the Don-Peggy relationship has awkwardly regressed from where it was in the season 3 finale, so that by the end of the episode they're back where they started. I guess she saw him crying and…

People have mentioned "The Rescuers", but I only saw the sequel "The Rescuers: Down Under". I didn't know any of the backstory of these mice who had their own UN, and it's a credit to the movie that I didn't feel like I missed a thing. The Australian landscapes were beautiful and had a great sense of scale and depth,…