Beth is such a weird character in the context of the entire series. She was so utterly ignored by the writers for so long that her assent to the ranks as one of the better characters makes it really weird for when and if she dies. Mostly because all of her character development took place when she was away from the…

This is the best album of 2014. Does anybody care?

That fucking song was in my head for the whole half a week everybody was talking about the Miranda July app "somebody." I honestly wasn't even aware I knew what a Wilson Phillips was. I'm not sure that I still understand…

Ill second that

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David foster wallace meanders interestingly enough through the first two thirds of the book but that final chapter… Jesus fuck! I don't really know what to say other than it makes everything that comes before so thematically relevant and painful.

Where is Strawberry? The biggest project in LA would be in Backlot City if the wiki for what city names are called is correct. I'd play the game if that facsimile was somewhat accurate.

I hate video games but I kind of want to play this because I know Los Angeles like the back of my hand. It would be cool to see a city version video game. Is the geography correct? Are the streets the same or at least similar? Can you go places like the projects? Are the gangs that rep certain parts of town mirrored…

One thing that has not been discussed since the first episode is the way the defense painted Adnon (?) as this Muslim who denied his religion etc… it all sounded pretty racist. I don't know a ton about law but I remember reading an article once where racially motivated jury manipulation became the grounds for a…

That's almost as annoying as all the streets in LA being named after movie related stuff. The worst is Exposition BLVD.*

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The English subtitles in Jin and Sun’s conversations don’t capitalize Others, but I’m going to keep using it as a proper noun, and am curious if there was any conversation about that in the writer’s room."
In the second season script that I just spent ten minutes digging out of this pile, Others is capitalized in…

Why would anyone do anything ever again? Too Many Cooks exists! Society has peaked.

That took longer than expected.

"Like the helpful artificial intelligence from the movie Her, you can’t have sex with it"

Do you think they drop the original very dark ending and tack on a happy ending?

The trailer makes it look exactly like Solaris. Does it include The Hunters in the Winter reference?

Oh, hi Beth!

I agree, why would Tommy wait to kill Nucky until they were in the middle of the busy boardwalk? He had ample opportunity, three episodes ago they were alone on a roof together. Even if Tommy was turned off by Nucky giving him money, why wouldn't he wait for Nucky to be alone? Why wait for the moment when he would…

I actually found living in New York to be a somewhat insular experience. You see the people you see, work with the people you work with, hook up at the same bars you've had luck hooking up at. Anywhere you live starts to seem small after awhile, you inevitably start doing the same things, because you find the things…

"Transparent giving into its less-pleasant soapy tendencies" I'd say this moment for me came when Ali told Raquel that Josh "got around." It seemed soap for soap sake and not something Ali would do, especially considering her character arc of the season. It turned the character into such a petty antagonist. Her…

I should probably clarify a little. A lot of these people aren't even collectors they are autograph hounds that sell the signatures to pawn shops and on Ebay. It's pathetic the lengths they will go to to get the signatures, going into trailers, hopping fences, interrupting Q and A's. Autograph hounds are the worst.