I hope they don’t change the ending, but I do hope they take advantage of this longer format to expand the ending. This was brought up before on another thread, but that last few pages of the book was a lot of new info to dump on the reader and just end like that.

As you plunge downward towards the filthy sidewalk and your broken ankles, you can at least reassure yourself that for a few seconds you were on trend.

What’s your point, exactly? That the comparison is meaningless because the degree of abuse is different? The class stratification, decline of labor power, and lack of regulatory enforcement is leading to similar — not identical — conditions for workers, and they are working under those conditions for very similar…

Chris Pratt is more insufferable the more I hear from him. RIP my crush on Andy Dwyer.

Yea it’s kind of amazing: apparently a guy (who just started commenting on Tuesday night) watched a show he didn’t like, found a recap he didn’t like of the show he didn’t like, then found another recap of the show he didn’t like, and circled back to comment on the recap he didn’t like. Best of luck to him.

You dont have to be here, you know... You don’t have to watch the show, or read this review... You could just... go do something else. 

This just occured to me- the main thing we see him doing is listening to music, the same thing that Alice and later Camille did to escape their lives

no one’s making you watch or read. 

I think the cheerleader outfit was less Lynch and more the fact the town knows she’s going to write a story about them and she wants to be known to the reading public as the cute, sweet, small town cheerleader who takes in her bereaving boyfriend

Pseudo-intellectual whiners, I suspect.

Who calls "HBO" "the Home Box Office," as if it's derogatory in some manner?

I’ve got to disagree, I felt Laura Bogart summed up this provocative episode well. Oh the other hand, I do miss the Stray Observations.

I’m sorry you haven’t enjoyed the show so far, though good for you for sticking with it through 3 hours so far I suppose. I’ve found it to be intense, though of course in a quieter, more simmering way than, say, dragons torching armies. That said, you seem unfamiliar with the AVClub - it’s common for writers to add…

Rude.

I hate when people don’t think how much of an advantage it is. Outside of the connections she has, it’s the money. If an unwed, pregnant 19 year old, that pretty much got a GED, no college, no experience in the industry or knowledge, walked into a bank and asked for a loan to start her business. A business that sells…

Tory Birch comes from a “wealthy investor” father, and Meg Whitman was born and raised in a wealthy part of New York state, to a father who ran a financial advisory firm. So they were at least very upper class, if not multi-millionaires.

Do you never re-read mystery novels? Never re-watch mystery movies? Well done pieces of art will hold your attention for the “how” well beyond the point where you remember the “who”

I kind of feel her struggle. I know this is shocking to some but there are people out there who take their marriage vows seriously, who understand they married an imperfect human being and are willing to help their partners struggle through their imperfections and work toward being better. Of course there sometimes…

I know of a few parents who would feel more chagrinned than amused to find they caused their child needless pain. 

I get the exhaustion though. I do. Whenever I feel something, it’s not enough for me to say it. I have to convince my parents and (later) my husband that it’s true. All of them, by the way, have labeled me melodramatic. It’s never the case they’re blowing me off when I say how I feel in the first place.