Was I the only one who saw a Jew/Wasp resentment thing all over that scene with Mathis? It's very possible that I'm projecting here, but it would fit with the times, I think.

"Fertile ground" - I see what you did there.

I bailed on this train wreck three episodes ago.

I was thinking that any comedy club that casually follows Louis CK with Steven Wright is one I would be at every damn night.

Surprised the review didn't mention yet another negotiation - convincing Louie to host the open mic. "I'll give you five hundred dollars, four hundred dollars." "Okay, four hundred. You ruined the five hundred." Neurotic New Yorkers collide in some of the strangest ways here.

Yeah, I'd be more likely to reassess the movie if the ending was the only problem I had with it. All the "damaged robots" and analogies to racial oppression were pretty ham-fisted, and I wasn't at all convinced by Jude Law (to say nothing of the dumb Robin Williams cameo). I have to rewatch the thing, but somehow it…

Some Star Wars geek on the internet (easily could have been here) gave some explanation of midichlorians that, he insisted, made them something besides The Force destroying concept that everyone knows them as. I responded that if just about everyone in your audience misunderstands what you're trying to say, and they…

*cough*Sondheim*cough*

I'm a little confused about the people saying that the hat saved Raylan's life. Wasn't the hat immaterial to Boon missing? The bullet went through the hat, ruining it, but I don't know how it would have had any effect on its trajectory.

Well, like I said below, Tony didn't die. Tony never lived. Tony is a fictional character, which I think is much more to Chase's point. He's a reflection and representation of evil that we are all complicit in, yet the audience spent ten years (and all of us nerds debating in the year's since then) investing in him…

Actually, I'm kind of with you on this. When Chase says, "Don't stop believing," I want to ask him, believing in what, exactly? Sopranos isn't just about the terrible people in the mafia, it's about our collective, unthinking, self-serving relationship with evil that allows it to thrive, and there are hundreds of…

Well, the show didn't do what you're describing, strictly speaking. It left everything ambiguous and open-ended, and you're correct that if it had resorted to, "The irritating lawn guy came back and popped him," that would have been just silly. The only point I was making is that outside of what was shown onscreen,…

It's the worst thing EVER!

I can't believe you're being stubborn about this of all things. I'd argue that, regardless of David Chase's take on cable interruptions, my second point stands. Chase doesn't strike me as a practical joker overall, especially regarding the final scene of the most important narrative he'll ever tell. This is his…

Seeing how the script went out of its way to tell us that it's Tony Sopranos favorite scene in the Godfather trilogy, which is referenced throughout the series, it's hard to believe there isn't a deliberate connection being made and that there's some meaning behind it. This ain't Community.

Thanks, Captain Literal. It's just a very different perspective on things, is all.

Well the twin brother came to his house with a gun, just sayin'. How about the Councilman (?) he whipped with a belt?

The part that always cracked me up was the people who said, "Tony doesn't have any enemies left." Have we been watching the same show? The gambler, the Jews with the hotel, the twin brother, the motherfucking landscaper. Tony Soprano has enough enemies to create a new baseball league.

It's all fucking Clinton's fault.

That scene? The hallucination in Carcosa?