I thought he had been possessed or something, so I still was completely surprised by the big reveal.

First off, I am so, so glad I decided to watch this show from the beginning. I kept trying to convince others to watch it, but every time I tried to explain the plot or what happened in a given episode I got that 'awww, she's nerding out about some nerd thing she likes to nerd about…how cute!' thing-which I suppose is…

Meh, agree to disagree. I don't see how Joel's problem is so incredibly passive when he doesn't seem to give a shit about his wife's feelings and he can't even muster the respect to try to arbitrate. I feel bad for Julia, despite the bashing she gets around here, even if some of it is justified. She might be better…

And I would just add that I still blame the writers for this.

Yeah, I'm not so much excusing Camille here as bringing up some way of thinking about things from her side, since I saw so much negativity in reaction to her. I think she was tremendously selfish, and I like your point about deciding to just dial out of a marriage-that's never ever a good thing.

So maybe I'm a crazy sentimentalist, but the 'point' of working things out would be something like: you love that person and realize that changes have to be navigated by two people, not one, you accept that having someone help 'both' of you, rather than it being 'you' getting counseling, might be something worth…

See, I thought her saying that was a bs, horrible way to keep herself there. It was manipulative and gross.

So I only watch episodes of this show here and there, but Amy annoyed me to no end yesterday. It drives me nuts when female characters are basically saying 'I have no identity unless I'm in a relationship!'. Srsly, that girl needs to get it together and sort that shit out on her own-going through life unable to deal…

Amen!

I'm surprised that more folks don't find this to be a somewhat reasonable explanation for Camille's behavior this episode, and that the reaction to her is so unsympathetic.I'll qualify this by saying I've only watched this show sporadically, but I can totally get behind the idea that Camille is someone who got…

As much as two people pretty much always play a part in a marriage falling apart, I haven't felt so strongly against Joel as I did this episode. There was a stage during the failure of my first marriage (I'm happy to say that after all was said and done we actually keep in touch and are friendly to each other) where…

My goodness, all of my favorite heist movies being mentioned (I was thrilled to see the Dassin get a shout out yesterday) is making me want to figure out how to teach a class around all of them. I'd been putting together a class on film narration (so I can finally teach 'The Killing'), but now maybe a class on…

Sadly I can personally relate to this whole storyline, so much so that I didn't get through the review here last week and I almost turned the channel during their final scene. It was incredibly wrenching.

Joy Bryant is so, so, so beautiful-I could barely look at her during that come to Jesus scene with Oliver.

Interesting. Thanks so much-I'll have a listen to the songs again with this is mind. :)

That's a great suggestion, actually. If I do get up there to see him this year (fingers crossed) I think I'll see what I can do, and maybe even talk to his neighbors (who are really sweet) to see if they might be able to help him out with it occasionally. :)

Hmm.. I'll do some digging around. DVD players are an absolutely necessary tool for me and yet I've never really thought about having to buy a region free player since I was spoiled by the facilities at school. I'm away for the year and have only run into region issues once (an Ozu film I wanted to show my class was…

Which one did you go with? I'm going to need one in my office soonish.

I want plane tickets to go see my grandpa for Christmas.

Thanks (and thanks @avclub-b1930b61fe9011a84ab4eb80af65ec45:disqus ) for the suggestions!