Well it's extra-weird when you consider that she's a Mormon and the whole soul possession thing is very Scientologist. I guess she got her batshit cults mixed up.

Oh absolutely. But the American writer's room system is designed to train and groom young writers to go on to better things, whereas we don't have that. That's mostly what I mean. It doesn't mean that there aren't any good writers, just that there are too few channels of development for them.

The power of love is fine if it's not a very sudden, baseless revelation included simply to explain a stupid bit of plotting.

In Brisbane, Australia - mostly young people there. The girl sitting near me seemed to express disappointment that the film didn't handle the book's material better.

I know! Look at all the terrific American actors on Enlightened!

The fuck are you talking about?

For an example of what can happen when Tim Roth does put on an accent: Arbitrage. Criiiiiiiiiiiiinge.

Oh I didn't see that you'd said this so I posted essentially the same thing.

Hmmmmm. I think you might be right, although we can still produce a Sam Worthington now and again (though he used to do very diverse roles but these days, not so much).

Yes. Also, I learned just now that Hugo Weaving was born in Nigeria and lived there for the first year of his life.

"Boy, a C+ is GENEROUS for such a massive, sweeping mess. My screening gradually dissolved into giggles because the conceit is so goddamn stupid that it defies belief - not helped by the fact that the grave handling of a love quadrangle involving a tiny, anemone-like alien sends it cackling down the path of glorious,…

Boy, a C+ is GENEROUS for such a massive, sweeping mess. My screening gradually dissolved into giggles because the conceit is so goddamn stupid that it defies belief - not helped by the fact that the grave handling of a love quadrangle involving a tiny, anemone-like alien sends it cackling down the path of glorious,…

Why is Suburgatory so intent on focusing on its worst characters?

@WelcomeShaqKotter:disqus Just the tip?

@avclub-4d0669d1c79eb21e516dbf8b5d5f03ad:disqus I was referring to the episode 'Art Crawl'.

This pretty much sums up how I feel. I really soured on the show in Season 2 - I still like it, but its inconsistency was too obvious. Too much bad pacing and poor character development (plus: not as funny anymore). This might be because it was being outshone by Enlightened every week - as was everything else on TV -…

Clarissa was fantastic and I will feel no shame either. "HEY COOL!" When I was a kid I loved how she wrote her name in reverse and then it flipped around.

But it was really only Linda that was put off by it, which is because it was her parents - which is completely fair, surely? - while everyone else was very accepting and non-judgemental about it. I don't think the humour was "sexualised old people are disgusting" at all.

Except about crappy art.

You were operated on by Leo Spaceman?!