Vince is a morally irredeemable character but as people keep pointing out the whole point of that scene is how badly fucked Vince and Jules are because he blew a man's head off in broad daylight in the seat of a moving car. There is no way Vince is stupid enough to intentionally do that, and if you read him as some…

If people hating on Hannah and her moochery — whether this is in context of hating on the show or being fans of the show — somehow ends up making "unemployed, basement-dwelling loser" a gender-neutral negative stereotype rather than a basically exclusively male one then I'll be happy.

If people hating on Hannah and her moochery — whether this is in context of hating on the show or being fans of the show — somehow ends up making "unemployed, basement-dwelling loser" a gender-neutral negative stereotype rather than a basically exclusively male one then I'll be happy.

I'm the invisible Asian guy who totally lives in Hannah and Marnie's building that they just never happen to run into.

I'm the invisible Asian guy who totally lives in Hannah and Marnie's building that they just never happen to run into.

@avclub-472d722b57a4ed37e41e70c9c9d7d0f3:disqus You know, I totally agree with the prevailing sentiment of to hell with @google-bd16794bec1c79b30c916f3451e4482c:disqus and so on, but you are equally being dumb by saying that appropriating the grand social issues of our time as a backdrop for one's personal…

@avclub-472d722b57a4ed37e41e70c9c9d7d0f3:disqus You know, I totally agree with the prevailing sentiment of to hell with @google-bd16794bec1c79b30c916f3451e4482c:disqus and so on, but you are equally being dumb by saying that appropriating the grand social issues of our time as a backdrop for one's personal…

Meh. I'm concerned because I don't think Sorkin's ego can take having his characters ever really be less than heroic. He couldn't bear to have his President of the United States be less than heroic, even though even the most "heroic" of our real-life presidents — FDR, Lincoln, whoever — have had very deep and very…

Meh. I'm concerned because I don't think Sorkin's ego can take having his characters ever really be less than heroic. He couldn't bear to have his President of the United States be less than heroic, even though even the most "heroic" of our real-life presidents — FDR, Lincoln, whoever — have had very deep and very…

I'm going to just leave aside the actual stupid intergenerational debate and point out that there's an obvious, deeply cynical, possibly-conscious-possibly-unconscious reason for Sorkin to stick that jarringly pointless line in the Sorkin Speech:

I'm going to just leave aside the actual stupid intergenerational debate and point out that there's an obvious, deeply cynical, possibly-conscious-possibly-unconscious reason for Sorkin to stick that jarringly pointless line in the Sorkin Speech:

The fact that the message is so deeply intertwined with the product is one of the things that people mean when they say Sorkin is "smug" — his huge reliance on telling rather than showing, his willingness to have characters just tell you what you're supposed to think and be smarmily confident that he's written them as…

The fact that the message is so deeply intertwined with the product is one of the things that people mean when they say Sorkin is "smug" — his huge reliance on telling rather than showing, his willingness to have characters just tell you what you're supposed to think and be smarmily confident that he's written them as…

That's the thing, though, it's a story about the Redemption of the Establishment White Guy, and while that is a compelling story and one Sorkin probably finds extremely easy to identify with — as does his target audience — a lot of people have reason to find it to be a tired one.

That's the thing, though, it's a story about the Redemption of the Establishment White Guy, and while that is a compelling story and one Sorkin probably finds extremely easy to identify with — as does his target audience — a lot of people have reason to find it to be a tired one.

Except unlike Lena Dunham Ayn Rand specifically said that the universal human kneejerk response to physical beauty was Truth and to reject it in favor of saying "It's more important what she's like on the inside" is anti-human irrational self-delusion.

Except unlike Lena Dunham Ayn Rand specifically said that the universal human kneejerk response to physical beauty was Truth and to reject it in favor of saying "It's more important what she's like on the inside" is anti-human irrational self-delusion.

So not the Jockey version of Frye so much as the Jockey version of Fry. From Futurama.

So not the Jockey version of Frye so much as the Jockey version of Fry. From Futurama.

Unless the actor in question was specifically the one who fell down on the job and made the movie suck, I don't see anything hypocritical about keeping your paycheck and mocking the film, any more than you'd blame one of your friends for not mailing back all the paychecks from their last job before badmouthing the…