I don't know and can't find out about the toothpick chewing and feet on desk stuff, and to be honest my gut feeling is that they're embellishments, probably from Haggis. I have read and seen enough to know that he had a very abrasive style and was the kind of guy who unironically referred to himself in the third…

I looked this up and what happened is Columbia University's Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board relayed a student's upset on being assigned and lectured on part of Ovid's The Metamorphoses (not Kafka's Metamorphosis), which apparently has a narrative about Persephone getting kidnapped and raped, but was discussed…

Firstly, I think you're putting aside that the show has had the housing plan's opponents represent the arguments you've stated, a lot more than we've seen any of them spout racial invective. Nor has the show played down the genuine presence of crime in the projects. What surely goes without saying is that the victims…

Not to mention decades of contriving to cram public housing inside a square mile on the poorer end of town seems like a hell of a way to inflate private property values.

Agree. This is the first episode to not cause me to laugh out loud. The more I think about it the more I feel a little stunned at how predictably it played out, without any of the trademark R&M absurd rapid escalation. The Ice T stuff also struck me as lazily cast-off zaniness, apart from I will confess to being…

That episode had a thin premise with a fantastic ending and some worthwhile character development from the Rick & Summer / Jerry & Morty pairings. This one takes a thin premise and then just peters out with only a few decent gags, as well as all the character notes being more or less openly recycled. I know they can't…

"aesthetically speaking Alfred Molina's character wouldn't be out of place in a Marvel movie as the villain"

You binged, like, 18 hours of television inside of 24 hours, and your reaction is mostly compulsive nitpicking? I am glad I do not operate how you operate.

They're already skull-helmeted, work for an evil, racially exclusive empire and have the given profession of "stormtroopers" so I'm not sure how much more damaging that is as a point of reference

In the interest of trying again, "not very", "like to" and "tend to" contain what are known as qualifiers, so the concept that someone might bear a grudge against a specific person with the followup that they usually have a positive take on people is not really the striking hypocrisy it's framed as, nor is it unusual…

Try reading every word in a sentence then because the quote you gave does not match your conclusion.

Perfidia was a bit of a disappointment to me, it put Ellroy's iconoclastic / sensationalist sensibilities a little too front and centre, over the plot and characterisation. I'd recommend The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and American Tabloid as the best examples of his work.

I get what you're saying. There are quite a few Jewish characters that Gold meets while investigating the anti-Semitism angle on the murder, like the library clerk or the old leathersmith guy he shows the GROFAZ fragment, who just seem like decent people with no hidden agenda, albeit he gets ragged on for stuff like…

Mad Max: loud, sure; dumb, no. How do you end up seeing so many blockbusters in the first place? What's the last one you actually liked?

Well I might be wrong, but that's the only way that whole waitress bit actually makes sense to me. She obviously thought he'd found someone, so to speak.

It was a coconut cream puff, "cream puff" being slang for homosexual. Pretty sure she had a different read on Forrest's rendezvous with Tim.

I don't think Forrest lacks the capacity for empathy so much as the perspective for it. If anything he thinks he's doing the world a great service, so I would say he's more of a particularly driven narcissist.

They're both "nearest" his dad's house, not "near", which means a relative measure, not planting the house in the gay part of town. I'm pretty sure it's just a funny line framing.

Daniel also binge-plays Sonic the Hedgehog, so I think the Holden commitment to high culture has been overstated.

What did you take as anti-Semitic about it? Genuinely curious as I happened to watch it last night without knowing or expecting it to engage with the concept of Jewishness. And ended up feeling like I didn't really get what it was going for.