It definitely sounds plausible that Mickey Rourke lost a part because a former co-star refused to ever work with him again. On the other hand, because of what he paid to have done to his face, it’s tough to buy Rourke in any role in which he’s not playing a fictional creature and/or someone who’s had way too much bad…

Spike Lee’s made a lot of so-so and bad movies, but he’s also made a lot of good movies and interesting ones that don’t quite work. And speaking of, “maybe this doesn’t really work,” I still can’t decide if Summer of Sam is a good movie.  But it definitely held my attention while I was watching it.

I don’t judge movies by their trailers, but the trailer for this is terrible. Aside from the ages of the actors it could be advertising a terrible attempt at an art film made by Manson-worshipping 17 year olds.

If by “this” you mean “getting into stupid internet fights about TV shows,” then you may be right, but in my defense I doubt I’ve had as much practice as you.

Did you watch the first season at all?

I just have a difficult time imagining Logan pulling the strings to get Roman into what Logan would perceive as an “elite” college. He very, very, clearly likes and respects Roman least out of his four children. Combine that with the fact that Roman’s “I don’t give a shit about anything” attitude probably extends back…

Yeah, they look completely believable as father and son.  Until I looked it up I just kind of assumed that Brian Cox was about 20 years older.  Whatever Alan Ruck’s doing to defy the aging process, I need to get on the same program.

Are we even sure though that Logan went to an Ivy League?

Definitely no offense intended to St. John’s, or any of those other schools. It’s more just an exercise in, “given how each kid thinks of himself/herself, and what Logan would have wanted from them, where would they end up given that he could probably get them admitted anywhere?”

As it came on he seemed to be having trouble speaking, which rang my alarm bell that it might be another stroke. And strokes sometimes induce vomiting. If I were with someone in real life who’d had a previous stroke and then an episode like that I’d call an ambulance.

I don’t get the impression that Roman was ever smart enough, socially-adjusted enough, or hard-working enough to either get into an elite Ivy League school on the merits, or to get his dad to pull strings on his behalf. NYU came to mind just because it seems like an option Roman would pick that would allow him to stay…

Her intelligence/drive combined with her dad’s name and money seems like it would’ve made Harvard very do-able for her. The question is whether she was already, as a teenager, sticking a thumb in her dad’s eye and avoiding the plans he had laid out for all of his kids. Going to a different Ivy League school seems like…

I’m not sure, but that sounds like a fun guessing game. My speculation would be:

If she can act out, in a fictional drama, the way she can appeal to some people as a down-to-earth “I’m your best friend” figure, while simultaneously repelling other people who view her as a malevolent phony, she’d be a great villain in any story. (I say this as someone who likes Taylor Swift, but who likes her in…

“Who Gives a Shit, Internet?!?!”

I can’t decide if it would be better (“better”?) if they cast her as Flagg and just had her play the character basically the way it’s written in the book, or if they rewrote the part so Flagg was a pop star who finds her true calling as a post-Apocalyptic fascist Antichrist.

My more-inspired casting choices:

I’m looking forward to seeing Trashcan Man kill Flagg in an ill-considered gasoline fight.

“Dirty” being the key word.

That’s kind of an amazing paragraph, because you can see, sentence-by-sentence, how each ridiculous thing he’s saying is sort of . . . adjacent to something that’s actually true.  And when you string it all together you get glorious nonsense.