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Is it just me, or has Veep gotten very "on the nose" this season? Selina's bullying and unlikability has really been amped up. The insults and cuts used to be more subtle, now it's all up front and clumsy. When Jonah's storyline becomes a welcome relief from whatever the hell they're doing with Dan, and Selina's

"Let's do entire episodes as dream sequences" - Every Writer ever.
"Just….. don't". - Every viewer ever.

Last 5 minutes of this episode were decent, but it was a struggle to get there. I think I hate most of the characters now, and Tandy seems to get stupider with every episode.B+? Surely you jest.

This show is reallly testing the faith of its audience. I feel like it's moved from amazing to great to almost intolerable.

This is 100% bang on. pacing was horrible, lingering on things that meant nothing, went nowhere. Seems like this was how ASP wanted to do the next season, but a huge time gap meant weird things like a clearly too old Luke and Lorelei deciding to have another kid, Rory in a slump about her career etc…

Seriously? A B? This was a D(ud). Going with the "add a kid to the cast" gambit speaks volumes. I have a special place in my heart for this show, but it's often as stupid and clumsy as it is great. Maybe they should just follow Kirsten Wiig's character for a season or two.

Yep, that plan was bonkers from day one.

(Tiger appears suddenly from offscreen). Cut and paste that a couple more times, we're good.

Civil War dragged its third act on in to oblivion, after an endless no-stakes fight at an airport, we get another drawn out fight scene with the same information we already knew being repeated over and over throughout. It was kind of a mess.

IN a time when most most white performers wouldn't be on stage with black performers, The Rat Pack were a prominent face of tolerance. Yes they made fun of Sammy for being black, but they also made fun of Frank for being Italian, Dean for being a drunk, etc. etc. Sammy took it all with a smile, he was part of the gang.

Sinatra was big supporter of the NAACP, and campaigned publicly for equal rights for minorities. Appearing with him on stage went a long way for people changing their minds, as they were clearly friends.

Actually, Lego is an adjective. So "LEGO brand bricks" would be the plural. But it's not my job to reinforce The LEGO Group's naming convention, so Legos, Legii, Legoses, whatever.

Maybe because she was trained by her father that you always aim at the center mass.

Not misdirection, purely your own creation.

The twists is that the entire film has been a Super Villain origin story set in the same world as Unbreakable (in fact, Kevin's father was likely killed in the train crash we see in Unbreakable.)

Only if Robin Wright got really scary and changed faces, and changed his name from Kevin to Joseph, then back to Kevin?

Interestingly, we barely see the curb stomp. Only in a long shot, and quite briefly. The imagination is much better at this game than actually showing…

Exactly. They take risks, try new things, aim for excellence. Never dull.

I'm talking scripts and effort. Guardians was okay (though the villians were awfully acted. Ant-Man was nothing special, and Doctor Strange was just Iron Man done with Inception graphics. Yawn.

I don't even care if its amazing any more. I would watch films that swing for the fences and fail a thousand times rather than the formulaic dead-inside Marvel offerings of late.