I feel similarly about George Saunders. While his fiction work is very good, his non fiction essays are so much better that i wish he'd just write those all of the time.

If you're looking for AVClub company when you go catch a showing, happy to tag along. I believe we exchanged emails in the past.

It's not just about having a subway - it's about how deeply public transit integrates into your life. In every other city - DC, Chicago, SF and especially LA - the public transit options are secondary to having a car. There is sprawl and suburbs and highway interchanges. You are expected to drive places. There are…

The foodie references this episode were great.

Going to disagree with @avclub-02c1dd6ad234773aeffd7f7067784d58:disqus here. I'm as big a fan of Jon Hamm as can be, but Damien Lewis's turn on the first season of Homeland was absolutely captivating. It's the kind of performance that can only exist within the first season of a tightly plotted conspiracy thriller and…

Manhattan's title sequence is so pretty, I might start watching the show for that alone.

Come to Detroit. Midcentury Modern townhouses by none other than Mies Van der Rohe going for much less than that.

Mies Van der Rohe did some interesting work in both Chicago and Detroit, but he admittedly is a bit of an anomaly in that regard.

Paging Jon Landgraf.

And the fact that she went to Brown.
Oh wait, this is from four years ago.

You're a reviewer now? That's so exciting. Congratulations.

I suppose so, even though I don't really share any of the character's idiosyncrasies or the codependent relationship with his father.

This a long tale about what Mad Men means to me as a person, but I wrote this primarily to spill my guts. It’s also a jumbled mess of thoughts and poorly written but I’m hoping that it’ll also be interesting to some of you here.

That would make my day. The state of South Asian representation on American television is horrendous. It's been improving recently (Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari) but Riz in Nightcrawler was a big deal for me personally - high profile indie movie and he inhabited a role that was race neutral.

Haven't gotten around to watching either this or The Past. But A Separation is one of my favorites ever so I really should make the time for these.

Mid-century furniture: specifically the Eames lounge chair and Barcelona couches

Nope. She only made him aware that the conversation took place, but left out any details of said conversation. I got the impression that the show was using the scene to signpost that Paige would remain faithful to her parents.

This is a show set in a comic book universe. No closeup on dead body == Character can be resurrected at any time for narrative purposes

I'm intrigued. How'd you end up almost working on Upstream Color?

How do you feel about Asian Americans from East Asia forming the dominant representation of Asia on television? I'm still waiting for a breakout South Asian person in the industry that isn't Mindy Kaling.