She won my heart the moment she revealed her [Don't Want No] Scrubs pillow

Yeah that scene was one step away from Melissa McBride repeatedly punching herself in the face before flinging herself through a glass table.

"Mommy Horny, Phil."

All that matters is that January Jones exists. All the other animals can go die.

Totally just added to sex playlist.

Yeah I'm really perplexed by how much fan backlash this episode is getting. There was really nothing even dramatically experimental about this episode. We got this hyper-subjective treatment in (like you mentioned) Decision Tree and Last Call. In fact, almost everything in this episode (the center-framed…

I think "Mind's Eye" was far from a gimmick episode, and revealed one of the most startling truths about how the American political machine corrupts and compromises candidates by encouraging extreme moral relativism in service to an elusive greater good.

Carol: You see those cookies in the oven, little boy? Why don't you watch the dough rise?
Boy: But I don't see -
Carol: Just look at the cookies, son. You just keep looking at those cookies.

Aaron: You seem like a great judge of character who never gets emotionally attached to abusive father figures. You should definitely be a recruiter.
Daryl: Please daddy, hit me so that I know you mean what you say!

Damn this episode was a solid A+ for me. I laughed out loud like, 6 times - and only one laugh was in response to something archly macabre ("Cookies… lots of cookies"). Sure it had a lot of the stilted dialogue and wooden character problems the show always has, but it dealt well with its biggest problem - a total lack…

Damn, you have a pretty low expectation of teens. I think part of what makes Linklater such an amazing, iconic filmmaker is that while he's always been able to capture the naivete and limited perspective of American adolescents, he never once underestimated their intelligence. I could appreciate Slacker, Waking Life,…

Now let's dissect that little exercise - first prompt: what was the timeframe for those three films? Second prompt: notice how you couldn't find more than two, and how you had to branch off into TV just to find a second example? Third prompt: "a number of romcoms" - can you name them? Are they notable films? Also,…

I don't think I made any vague or slippery aspersions on the film or its creators. The scene made a lot of people feel uncomfortable and those people needed no prompting from me or Mike D'Angelo. Now you can just call those people whiny bitches making chickenshit non-criticisms (what you might call "vague or slippery…

I would have been as mad as I was about Birdman winning best picture if Patricia Arquette HADN'T won. She was perfect in the role, and the movie wouldn't have worked without the caliber of performance that she delivered. And you don't cast diverse just to make a point about diversity. Film casting is just like any…

Nowhere in any of my comments did I even come close to implying that Boyhood is racist. A scene or an aspect of a film can still be problematic or part of a larger problem - or as D'Angelo put it, "macro"-problematic rather than "micro"-problematic - without being racist. Nobody is calling Linklater a racist filmmaker…

The mom. Which would make both kids mixed race. Yeah, I actually finished reading.

Name the last lead male black superhero, the last Asian non-martial arts-proficient action hero, and the last leading Latina in a romantic comedy. If you can't name 3 in each category, you might begin to understand why the argument is worth buying into. The problem is that the "racial separation" of "real life" gets…

You say "without making one of the members of the core family latino, there's really very, very very few places you could shoehorn in any non-white characters" - as if MAKING one of the members of the core family latino would be inconceivable. Nobody's asking that Linklater make a film speaking to the Latin American…

"non-whites regularly appear in the background"!

Ew. I thought it was very un-Good Wife. It was probably the only time I felt like the show was getting too cute by half. Oh wait, there was that one other time where the judge ordered the bailiff to close the window because the traffic noise outside was bleeping out everyone's profanity.