@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus Well, you're just going to have to deal with it.

I often wonder how that schtick would play today.

And it emphasizes the blanket sexism of that era perfectly. I remember Don getting home to Betty in (I think) Season 2, and snapping, "Could I get something to eat?"

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus @avclub-9ab64632d020964b691956adbb0d9744:disqus My reply is the same to both of you gentlemen: Respectfully, I think you wouldn't like it the other way.

It occurred to me that the show (and other modern television) is always well-served by "veteran" (ugh) television actors of a certain age.

The Drugs™ reminds me of Travolta as Vinny Barbarino staggering around going, "Gimme drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs."

For Christ's sake, I've had enough of this shit! These guys bang out long, intricate, knowledgeable reviews of each individual episode of our favorite TV shows, immediately after broadcast, which we can read for free.

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus Not remotely sarcastic. I loathe all Altman. Watching his movies is like drinking spoiled milk, for me.

@avclub-0bba551b5f78d9e7647cd7bc006578fe:disqus "Right! Who's this then?" (Goose-steps around)

@avclub-d7b683529752a4d24d84c4941861a363:disqus That's such a great book!

If you overlook all themes, metaphor, poetics, symbolism, and subtext (not to mention artistry), then, yeah…I guess.

@avclub-47b039f251990bd8271bbb18a2c02491:disqus Yes! I agree…and that's the second point I make every time I'm confronted by somebody who thinks it's "someone going out the window." (The first is when I point out that all the furniture and venetian blinds and plants and the lines in the pictures on the wall are also…

Right, because the only purpose of fiction is to deliver likeable protagonists. How can art examine the human condition without restricting its viewpoint to only focus on the good? It's by turning its lens on the unsavory and the dark side that it always fails, right?

I think the most important (unintended) subtext in The Wall is that Waters/"Pink" believes that the lifestyle and the upbringing and the drugs and the injections and the cruel life of the rock star are responsible for all that violent ugliness when in reality that imagery was in his head all along, and is intrinsic to…

"Grandma Ida" also needed another two or three watches.

No, the 911 call worked. It got her to leave, and then the cops nabbed her. She knew her number was up after getting off the phone. (And she also dropped the pretense another notch with Sally — "Now why'd you have to do that?" — which made her even scarier.)

Can't you just grow out more hair? (I'm a guy; I don't know about these things)

That was very, very interesting. Thanks.

Who said she's "single serving"? She'll be back for revenge, enraged and covered in mud like Max Cady.

@Cutlass12:disqus Viz. The Godfather: It's not that they hold anything up as being superior. They just fall back on two of the top three complaints I come across in Netflix comments: 1) It's "boring" (which is usually coupled with astonishment that this particular work of art is so acclaimed, since they — usually "my…