I enjoy the show overall, but I think that whenever it pretends to be dealing in Hollywood, it is somehow less realistic about it than Entourage, and not for any particular good reason. It's just the performances that make it worth watching.

I wasn't totally sold on the show, but I watched the second season because the two of them had such good chemistry in the first that I couldn't let them be left off where the first season left them off.

Joey got two seasons because NBC would've owed LeBlanc so much money if they cancelled it after the first season that it wasn't worth it to them to cancel.

That's only true when both people are lesbians, though.

The first two seasons were the good ones. The third season was awful, except for Castor. The fourth season was better than the third, but mainly at this point LeBlanc is the only part that's really worth watching. But the episode about the dictator's birthday party was as good as any I can remember.

Castor didn't trick her into quitting her job. Castor is delusional and genuinely offered her a job, it's just that the job didn't exist because he's delusional. She is deluded enough to believe him and to think it's a good idea, but she kind of had to quit because of the boss either way, the job offer just let her…

I'm not going to defend the show strongly, but not only does what you are describing sound nothing like LeBlanc on the show, but what you are saying you would prefer is exactly what they do.

LeBlanc had some deal that imposed such severe penalties on NBC if the show was cancelled in the first season that there was strong financial incentive to go to a second.

"The The" and "The Band" were two I remember having trouble with.

To be fair, I'm not sure that giving people cheap access via rental to a digital format without even the possibility of buying the content legally would've damaged the movie industry, inasmuch as it would lead to widespread theft. I mean, the studios were already worried enough about people stealing from Blockbuster…

How did you get it into PAL?

I paid $100 for a bootleg VHS of "Fear and Desire" and, within a year, it was widely bootlegged on DVD on ebay for at most $20. And then it got an official release a few years later.

Also, low-production + cult audience = out of print DVDs will be expensive.

People who work in either the movie business or the talking-about-movie business insist that Blu-rays are a real thing that has caught on and everything, but I have literally never seen a stand-alone Blu-Ray player owned by anybody who didn't fit one of those two categories.

The main reason that the studios like Blu-Ray more than DVD is that they can charge more. But, with TV seasons, the # of discs means that the price increase is significant enough that most people balked at it.

About what a DVD cost.

Is that the one where Bobcat keeps talking shit about what a dick Cusack was, and Holland kinda tries to defend him but not really?

They have both popped up on cable, though I think now it's mostly the theatrical versions.

Here is the difference between the five versions of Blade Runner:

Not *exactly* the same, the limp-wristed aspect wouldn't stand out so much if he didn't specify the guy he was playing was gay.