Season Two. Nite Owl = Jeff Goldblum. Make it happen.

I could see some noms. HBO has their manic need to have the most nominations every year. The flacks pushing GoT have nothing else to do.

Totally honing my three-sentence elevator pitch now.

The camera reveal pulling back from the “feed a child” video to the Hack Famine spread got a big laugh out of me.

With Alice’s Alice in Wonderland affinity seemingly organically developed, it does bug me that Mad Hatter has nothing to do with this. Still, there’s years in Alice’s development where she might have connected with Mr Tech - now instead of molding her insanity, maybe they fed off each other - two superfans of the same…

Maybe she shot a tv pilot or a movie or something in her time away, she certainly deserves starring roles.

Agreement on the Kate & Aidy dynamic. Why not a Kate and Cecily duet? Or Kate and Heidi? I get that everyone is in their own competitive lane, each with their assigned writer(s). Have Kate and Pete ever been on screen together?

That was like a Bigfoot sighting: Man with actual cajones on Fox News.

Speaking of...

I think in Blazing Saddles the audience is invited along with the joke, while in Holy Grail, the joke is on you - the audience. If Python had followed the ending scene with with Arthur and Co in front of a judge in the DOC, and then all the surviving characters in prison ... there’s funny stuff there, but they…

What people in 1982 didn’t get yet was that every generation wants to build their model of what they deem is “success” and then hold onto it in a tight grip for the rest of their fucking lives. The auto industry doesn’t want flying cars. They don’t know what they would fucking do with flying cars. The asphalt business…

Eleanor said to Chidi something about a thousand clues in front of him. I think Schur & Co are signalling the same. These are the clues to the show’s endgame. Maybe Brent doesn’t have to change for the better, but just getting him to the stage of questioning & doubt is as good as a victory.

They ought to call it, “You Should be Dancing.” They won’t, of course, but that’s what they should be titling it.

Mitch:

“The gun, the gun. The gun-the gun. Reached for the-gun - for the gun.”

Amen. That there is an argument of sorts as to wether The Deuce muffed it in the last episode, I think is mostly due to how you view Vincent’s pov in that last sequence. Yes, Alston’s speech was a little speechy, so were the final thoughts of two or three other characters. But here’s Vincent’s nostalgia at the end,…

My gut says Disney is waiting for The Mandalorian reviews to come in. If good, they’ll offer any new trilogy to Feloni and Favreau. Double duty? Yeah, but The Man can wrap up four seasons before any new trilogy appears. Plus what is Disney going to do? Have a Pre-Prequel Trilogy unspooling at the same time as a…

I’d say it was a B/B- episode that capped with an A+ final sequence. The drama hit its crescendo last week with Lori’s death. Simon & Co deserve credit for making the complicated issue of Koch-politics New York easier to digest than, say, newspapers going under in The Wire season 5. The show was ostensibly this take…

My son was born in 2000 and he hit the zone of PotC mania right after Dead Man’s Chest (aka part 2) came out. I had to watch them over and over and over again. The first three wore me down until I gave in. I like them. The music in #3 is fantastic so, props to Hans Zimmer. #4 has one fantastic sequence - the mermaid…

Ludo! Broken Bride. Scream it from the rooftops how good this ep is. Here’s a standout.