@avclub-32a2e71c97df5281f1324db72c73a59a:disqus  I guess I'm glad I haven't seen them.  I just scroll to the bottom of the page and see a shitload of links and think "well that's that then."

Why don't we all just agree that pronouns should just gradually move from current gender-referential to future gender-referential?  You know, kinda like a word montage.

FOX News doesn't have comments on their website (at least not that I've seen).

Even if they're so bad, they're pungent?

Indeed.

Well yeah, but it's also a caricatured Marilyn, and the fact that the two characters have their own "Suddenly Seymour" says about all you need to know about him, as far as the creatives are concerned.  Perhaps I should have said that he's a better counterpart to the Marilyn that's written (also read: played by Ivy).

@avclub-b522112fc615ecda6dc7b4a4cac5cc4e:disqus  I'm sure there's got to be a Law & Order episode somewhere that would indicate otherwise.

No problem.  Also, the shot before that, when Huston is looking at the pianist and they show a guy sitting at the adjacent table and you start to think, "gee, that's some really weird framing," that's Scott Wittman.  (At least, I'm pretty sure it was.)

It's a shame Michael is such an asshole of a character, because he's a phenomenal DiMaggio otherwise.

Maybe I gave the show too much credit then, because I thought that's what was happening.  That whole spell seemed in kind with the dramatic, "artsy"-type I think Julia's meant to be, but she was in the wrong, so Tom tried showing her that in his bff way.  It reminded me of the Tom/Derek confrontation from a few…

Have you been forming up some smashfic?

He's a good Zanuck I think, though I'm trying to extrapolate a whole performance from what we saw in the episode, and compare it to what I figured Zanuck was supposed to be when we saw Tom perform.

Straight people fuck, it's just what we do.

This makes sense to me, given his fawning over Ivy of late.  I really think they were just trying to make Nick look like Really Just a Nice Guy.

No, no, the pianist was behind it.

I'd say so.  He does good with what he's given, and he's probably given the best of everything written on the show (I know, not saying much, but still).

Yeah I missed the first airing, so I'm watching it now, and I don't really know what to say to that.  There are so many stupid kids on TV these days, I think I'm becoming inured to it.

I gotta say Zack, I'm glad you were wrong about the conspiracy.  While I'm digging the weird, fringe sci-fi elements, that was not something I was looking forward to.  Just because the conspiracy may be based in the procedural side of things doesn't mean it can't be injected with some of the weird, fringe stuff to…

I think it technically does, if it winds up proving true and not a development of the wife world being the dream.  But I haven't seen Inception yet, so idk how this all works…?

The X-Files movie was on ActionMax yesterday, and I forgot DeMunn was in there too and got tore up by an alien.  And then in Rocketman, his boss made him unplug and go home!  Man, his characters catch some baaaaaaad luck.