I was terrified that this season was going to become like the TV version of my parents reacting to the trump administration, which it sort of is but in this weird unique way. It’s such a good, interesting show that is airing in way that makes it effectively not exist. 

When I was in high school, one year my high school marching band spent a whole day filming a scene where the characters walked passed a marching band performing on the sidewalk because I guess the director thought that was like a thing that happened in DC. (This movie was not a comedy)

It’s crazy that netflix is letting Tambor (or Cross) do press for this and that any of his costars thought it was a good idea to take his side. Also releasing this season in parts so you are gaurunteed to have another set of interviews where this is all anyone wants to talk about seems like a bad idea. And not firing…

Season 2 of the Leftovers was built around a mystery with an explanation, lost gave satisfying explanations for most of the character’s mysterious pasts, etc. I think he understands the difference between a mystery like the murder in Watchmen and a mystery like what are the exact mechanics of the world that makes…

Adelaide Clemens!

Subway here now has a taco sub, which I think might be a war crime or something.

There are a lot of very upscale BYOBs in Philly (and I assume in similar cities that also have rich histories of very restrictive blue laws).

Starz picked up a tv show about the hotel a few months ago.

You guys know that you could have a sweet, exclusive spoiler if you just picked a random character without a love interest from any upcoming blockbuster and wrote that they are LGBT. I’m sure the marketing people will be happy to back you up as long as they don’t actually have to represent LGBT people in the actual…

It is genuinely sort of shocking that no one is doing this (or a Book of the Long Sun series, which maybe has an easier to sell pitch although is a worse series).

It’s amazing that, given how long we’ve been in the era of every game needs choices and those choices need to matter, how bad pretty much all games are at this. I feel like I can count on one hand how many games I feel like did narrative choices well (Alpha Protocol is of course the gold standard for this)

Ugh I can’t believe I got that wrong. This is so embarrassing.

I love salmiakki. The first time I went back to the US after moving here I brought some for my parents and after trying it they really wanted to know if I was like mad at them for something.

The rye bread here is not like the what I think of as typical US diner/deli rye bread. It is very hard, dense, and chewy, you cut it into very thin slices to make it edible. I think the difference is the amount of wheat flour or something?

We don’t talk enough about how there was a Pretty Little Liars spin-off about ghosts fighting the devil. And then when it ended, the guy came back to the main show and was somehow still able to care about high school bullies or whatever.

Here in Finland I think the only weird mcdonalds things are burgers with rye bread instead of normal buns (not sure why anyone would get this) and salmiakki (licorice made with ammonium chloride) mcflurries, which I can’t imagine anyone outside of northern europe would ever buy. 

The commercials for this, which can only very obliquely refer to what the main conflict of the story is are so funny.

I 100% watched the pilot of this just so I could see him take off the glasses he was wearing in all the promotional stuff and yell at some general who assumed he was some sort of fuckin’ nerd and let’s just say I was not disappointed.

I’m a did hard fan of Ceres character needing to pick up a suitcase every week or something and that’s why she’s in the loft and I refuse to acknowledge the new status quo (she is clearly ranked right above Schmidt). I genuinely could not remember is Aly ever lived in the loft.