Can’t wait for Reservation Dogs. We just finished season 1 of Dark Winds, so it’ll be fun watching Zahn McClernon having two very different takes of what’s essentially the same character.

I suspect one or more writers have kids of this age, because some of the stuff (the constant “guess what?” prompts, the inane babbling about lego shit, the bizarre interests in things you’d never think they’d even know about) feels VERY on-point, at least per the 9-year old in my home.

If my 5-year old daughter had spilled 500 Lego bricks on the floor and I told her to “pick up your Lego,”  I would come back later to find one brick in the box and 499 Legos on the floor.

Americans* say Legos , pretty much nearly every other nation on earth says Lego (or Lego Bricks).

Dick jokes are not automatically funny, but they aren’t inherently unfunny.

The other way to interpret it is that kids are just natural energy vampires 

Someone in the writer’s room definitely has a second-grade age kid – Colin starting every sentence with “guess what?” was PAINFULLY accurate

Found the energy vampire.

It’ll never be not-weird that American rednecks adopted Taliban facial hair after 9/11.

The Jack Ryan with Krasinski and Pierce? I remember it as turgid and dumb, and kinda jingoistic (which I suppose is a “no shit”, but it also didn’t need to be?). I just watched one season.

Which sounds even funnier and more awesome!

They just have so many pockets!

Not only do you have to watch it, you must be in uniform* as you do.

Between Jack Carr, Jack Reacher and Jack Ryan, Amazon Prime is committed to establishing itself as the place to go for a combat Jack.

Yeah, this sounds simultaneously deeply stupid and awesome.

Yes Jack Ryan the show is ridiculous but it’s an enjoyable ride.  Reacher was better than I thought it was going to be based on the terrible trailer.

I don’t have high expectations for this, but also, you write about it with the kind of ridiculous disdain that only makes me want to watch it more.

I wish it weren’t “Worst Chris” Pratt, but as long as it falls somewhere between the very good Reacher and the embarrassingly stupid, but still entertaining Jack Ryan, I’ll be happy.

And the Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for this episode right alongside it. I was convinced a tiger was going to come crashing right the fuck through that wall, but the sounds of it dying were so much worse.

Barry: “Hey, Sally. I love you.”