Mason Treadwell is one of those characters who automatically improve an episode when they show up.  He gets great lines, and Roger Bart has a lot of fun delivering them.

Mason Treadwell is one of those characters who automatically improve an episode when they show up.  He gets great lines, and Roger Bart has a lot of fun delivering them.

So this isn't an account of the McCain/Palin ticket?

So this isn't an account of the McCain/Palin ticket?

Someone should try to do the fourth story in Different Seasons, since it's probably feeling left out when the other three have been turned into The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and Stand By Me.

Someone should try to do the fourth story in Different Seasons, since it's probably feeling left out when the other three have been turned into The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and Stand By Me.

I thought those kids with Susan Sarandon were meant to indicate she had a family or something, so it seemed like she hadn't just been waiting around.

I thought those kids with Susan Sarandon were meant to indicate she had a family or something, so it seemed like she hadn't just been waiting around.

I liked it as a whole, though for all that it gets praised for ambition it's appreciably much less so than the book.  Obviously, many of the changes are just because we need to keep the running time to about 3 hours as it is, but others aren't time-necessitated, they're about more obvious/"relatable" payoffs for the…

I liked it as a whole, though for all that it gets praised for ambition it's appreciably much less so than the book.  Obviously, many of the changes are just because we need to keep the running time to about 3 hours as it is, but others aren't time-necessitated, they're about more obvious/"relatable" payoffs for the…

1.  Sonmi
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2.  Luisa Rey
3.  Frobisher
4.  Cavendish
5.  Ewing
6.  Zachry

1.  Sonmi
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2.  Luisa Rey
3.  Frobisher
4.  Cavendish
5.  Ewing
6.  Zachry

Brubaker leaving really feelsl like the end of an era.  I've been reading his run pretty much since the beginning, and it's been quite a ride.  In truth, the halcyon years were over by this point, so it was probably time to go, but it never got bad or anything (there's no "Cap-Wolf" here).  The first 42 issues, in…

Brubaker leaving really feelsl like the end of an era.  I've been reading his run pretty much since the beginning, and it's been quite a ride.  In truth, the halcyon years were over by this point, so it was probably time to go, but it never got bad or anything (there's no "Cap-Wolf" here).  The first 42 issues, in…

The series are being relaunched/ended with new writers.

The series are being relaunched/ended with new writers.

It's a good album.  She's got a talent for catchy music, even if by now she's strayed pretty far away from country — several tracks on this wouldn't be out of place on a U2 album.

It's a good album.  She's got a talent for catchy music, even if by now she's strayed pretty far away from country — several tracks on this wouldn't be out of place on a U2 album.

The "slacker parents from the 90s" notion reminds me that we should be expecting lots of 1990s period pieces to start up soon.  Sigh.

The "slacker parents from the 90s" notion reminds me that we should be expecting lots of 1990s period pieces to start up soon.  Sigh.