She's always been on sort of an island with no real characters around her, but after the divorce, she's even more on an island.  I'm a Betty defender and I don't think the show should just be about Don's workplace, but her presence tends to slow down the narrative momentum.

You mean 'in Kazakhstan' - the actual scenes were filmed in Romania, and were unquestionably exploitative.

Even though I can't say I like either of these episodes, I do love the bit when Gary gets let in, gets on to the elevator with Jerry, and walks to the adjacent apartment with him.  It's a great New York-style bit for a show that seemed to be becoming more L.A.-centric as the writing staff changed.

Even though I can't say I like either of these episodes, I do love the bit when Gary gets let in, gets on to the elevator with Jerry, and walks to the adjacent apartment with him.  It's a great New York-style bit for a show that seemed to be becoming more L.A.-centric as the writing staff changed.

Senator:

I saw it on video 15+ years ago and haven't thought about it since besides 'These pipes are clean' and 'Wanna buy a monkey?'.  All of the old Hollywood stuff went right over my head.

I mean, is it really possible to make videos for MTV and be part of the mass media culture while maintaining the pretense of doing anything except a surface critique of that culture?

No Country… is bound to be overrated - like most of the Coen Brothers movies, it's not really trying to deal with complex ideas - but that movie blew me away in theaters.  But if someone hadn't seen it yet, I don't think I would say 'Wow, you have to see this'.

AP English, Junior Year, at least when I went to high school (Late 90s) was American Lit - we read Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, and selections from Thoreau's Walden and R.W. Emerson.  At least that's what I can…

I recently saw The Room and I don't know if I'd characterize my reaction to it as fully ironic.  There's something special about a bad movie that's just not there in e.g. a bad book or bad music.  There are plenty of terrible movies out there, but it's hard to get just the right mix of awfulness like The Room (or…

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wow.  i don't even like faulkner that much (probably started off on the wrong foot) but this looks incredibly promising.

I mean, it's hard to disagree with this, but on the other hand, it has to be tough to a horse lover to run a show where horses die as a result of working on the show.  Andrei Rublev this isn't.

C'mon Luck fans, let's do like our Thursday night brethren and petition HBO - we want six horse deaths and a movie!

I agree, but it's the way it was said.  Milch often has his characters talk odd; it brings out different shades of words.  'Wide berth' is one of these phrases that Milch turns from a dead metaphor-esque statement into something new in his characters' mouths.

I don't have the heart to dissect what's going on in this show, but this episode is a more poignant reminder of what we're all going to be missing out on.  I'm concerned that with Milch being 66 years old and probably having enough money (hopefully his love of horse-racing hasn't claimed all that NYPD Blue cash), and…

There were two other Deadwood allusions, or so I thought - one character makes reference to a 'wide berth', which I seem to remember Persimmon Phil saying to Al.  The other I don't really remember, but I'm sure it was there.

Fork:  I saw it once in syndication years ago.   And I still watch a disturbing amount of Seinfeld on TV.

Way late to the party, but Sci-Fi made them create a whole plot for Season 9, which explains the drop in quality.  I still love the Prince of Space sketches where they go through the wormhole - 'Where's my chicken puppet?'  'Why are we in a sylvan glen?'

But they count for something - Sam's driven mad by the fact that Diane is never fully won over by his looks and charm.  He's not able to trick her into thinking that he's smarter than she is.  Diane's just not the kind of woman that Sam would ever run across in his normal hunt for poontang; she challenges him in a way…

Amy Poehler has some great drunk acting in the Upright Citizens Brigade show as well.  Drunk acting is an underrated skill - most actors don't have it.