I generally strongly dislike postmodern literature. It took me a few months to finally get through 200 pages of Naked Lunch.

Yeah, you're right. Same idea though.

There was a clear look of jealousy from the dude playing the guitar to another instructor making out with a tourist.

I'm a week behind here, but the abolition of slavery was NOT the fourteenth amendment. Can someone in the writer's room do a simple Google search?

I know a lot of educated people, 50 and older, who make a lot of money and are voting Trump solely because it will likely save them money in taxes. They don't really give a shit about the potential ramifications elsewhere and think Trump is a buffoon.

There's generally some leeway between the actual law and in fiction for entertainment value, but I hate when it's this lazy. You can make a fictional portrayal of anyone's life and they have no cause of action against you. You have no intellectual property rights in your life.

I think it's more than ambivalence. The message I got was how everything is society has to be "normalized" and it's considered intolerant to have a reaction to something that is anything but acceptance.

I disagree. I think they didn't really start with social commentary until the Bin Laden episode right after 9/11. I think Parker realized at that time that the show can transition to more of a vehicle for social commentary, and also, it probably alleviated a lot of creative issues since that was the fifth season of…

The L.A. equivalent to the Atlanta rap cliche is a trust funder working on his "music" (of the indie variety) with his childhood friend from Crossroads/Harvard Westlake. His cousin is working his way up from the CAA mailroom rather than trying to be a music manager.

So John Stone is supposed to be a Jesus-like figure, right?

I think Todd Phillips should get more credit than he does for revitalizing mainstream comedy out of the whacky era that was the 90s. And his movies basically made Apatow and Adam Mckay projects possible.

"Look, Mr. Stone, I can explain explain financial advising to a monkey. It's all about relating the material."

I stopped with a couple episodes left in the first season. Are they still financial advisers? Because a show named Ballers focusing on financial advisers is like naming a show Rock Stars and following their accountants.

Kind of similar, although not of the cartoon/R variety. When I was a kid, a ten year old friend took a bunch of us to see Forget Paris for his birthday party. His mom thought that it was about basketball.

Black Sheep, High School High, Bio-Dome

The effects of drugs and how they may or may not prove the elements of the crime or the crime itself would have to be established by expert testimony.

Well if the media didn't jerk off Heath Ledger for going "method," maybe he wouldn't be so inclined to behave this way.

Yeah, pretty certain when he balked to Box at being her "father" rather than "step-father" was a pretty strong inference that they had a sexual relationship.

"Alright, let's make a show about athletes! Ballers! And all about their extravagant and crazy lifestyles! But instead of focusing on actual athletes, let's focus the show on a retired NFL player who works for a financial planning agency! It'll be like watching a show about accountants, but with CTE!"

The obvious is he lives on the West Side in Flaked and Hollywood on Bojack? That's like two completely different worlds!