It’s heartening to see occasional commenters not just how good Open Range is. It really is terrific, the requisite big gunfight is fantastic, and it’s full of detail you don’t often see.

“I just read the greatest screenplay ever written!”
“Oh yeah? Who wrote it?”
“I did!”

Oh absolutely. Agreed on all counts.

It’s finally happened! I’ve found the other person who saw The Hudsucker Proxy!  And all I had to do was kill . . . er . . . have Bill Cobbs die by natural causes.

Bill Cobbsby died?!

One important one AWOL:

I wonder if any of it has to do with how they fuck over crew on money. Like if it’s a binge model instead of a weekly, is there any need to keep a writers room for more than a couple of weeks? Can you go hard on production and get two episodes worth of filming done in the span of one standard show episode with the…

I’ve never understood it on any level.  Binging is bad for marketing (because the buzz is over an gone with faster) and it’s bad for revenue- because you could have people watching weekly for 8 or 10 weeks, instead of for one weekend.  I guess the business model relies somewhat on the apathy of people not cancelling…

A person with intense self-loathing and self-destructive tendencies implodes in a self-loathing and self-destructive way under intense pressure, just like his mother? I have seen this play out in real life more than once with my own eyes in real time.

What about Carmy’s behavior prior to the show made it seem especially surprising? Because as far as I’m concerned he is exactly the kind of guy to have an out loud tantrum while locked in a freezer.

Fully agreed. This is the same point I’ve been making for... what, eight, nine years now? I was perfectly happy to give the binge model a whirl back in the day (we binged the hell out of the Marvel Netflix shows, and many others), but the problems you describe all became evident really quickly as I tried to have…

I definitely end up discussing less with people on shows that are binge dropped. You never know where people are so it makes discussing certain things difficult because you’re always doing that dance of “Have you seen this yet? Wait, no, don’t tell me!” And by the time everyone has caught up, the moment has passed and…

now now, you really shouldn’t blame the idiot for buying the CT.

lolz

“and a movie you’ve probably (hopefully!) never seen called Soul Man”

do not taunt CT 

You can tell that the person who wrote this article is a child, because of course you saw Soul Man if you had Comedy Central in the ‘90s. It played constantly.

Thank fuck.

It’s a made-up word referencing Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, a Parisian horror theater in the early 20th century.

What about Kelsey Grammer, Betty White, Ted Danson, Michael Landon, or Bob Odenkirk?

Those are some bizarre choices.