Yes and no for me. The changes in Hank didn’t feel so organic — that felt to me like a poorly sketched character who they filled in and course-corrected.

That may well be the case (there’s a decent amount of murky Christian themeology in the book). So certainly a possibility that she wanted to bring religion to American culture.

Nah, it was published at the beginning of the 60s. The 60s didn’t really become the 60's until the later half of the decade. 1962 was still the 50s — No Gulf of Tonkin resolution, Kennedy was still alive, ...

I was really hoping for this:

There are two major missteps at the beginning of the Expanse:

You’d argue wrong. Knowing Ashford is an antagonist in the books merely means you know Ashford is an antagonist in the books. Something you probably don’t want to know if you’ve chosen to watch the show without reading the books.

Hot take: The movie version of Get Shorty sucked.

Parker Posey is awesome. For years, I think I actually hated her a little bit due to negative feelings toward characters she inhabited so completely (Dazed & Confused, Best in Show).

Again, the mockery is for ‘unnecessary verbiage’. If you don’t see that the quoted statement is itself swimming in unnecessary verbiage, I guess I can’t help you.

“as important ... as He-Man” is pretty much the opposite of the author’s claim. that it put “television animation on the map.” It was just one more reasonably popular TV cartoon written for kids.

The mockery is re: unnecessary verbiage.

They see Waco as a what now?

I think you misunderstood me, or I wasn’t clear. Let me state my impression, which thought was implied in my earlier comments:

I’m actually getting the vibe that he didn’t lie... but that he what he said was wrong, because he was mistaken.

In Parks and Rec, he went from uptight (with a hint of dickishness?) to insanely likeable and worthy of Leslie Knope. He’ll always be Ben Wyatt to me, and therefore a worthy inclusion in the Affables.

Clearly we go into this sort of experience with completely different expectations of what the service is that we’re purchasing. Re-read my first paragraph to understand my point of view.

This is a recipe for sadness and disuse.

Eh, is this perhaps a little trollish by the team? They’ve decided to make themselves the Pizza Rats for exactly 5 games... one of which happens to be Italian Heritage Night?

The enjoyment of a meal like that is predicated on the idea that you’re putting yourself in the hands of well-compensated experts who are going to attentively pamper you.

Read a little closer — it was a holiday meal, thus the seating schedule, not a restaurant week.