FWIW, my brother got divorced a few years back, and while it was a long time coming, he ended the marriage and had no regrets about it, it was still an incredibly turbulent and emotionally devastating experience for him. After it was all done and he never had to see his ex again, yeah, he was happy as a pig in shit,…

I don’t think anyone is saying that he had to stay in the relationship (I personally am divorced and have two kids), and certainly Colin has more context on this than we do, but with no context this sounds a bit mean to say how happy he was about the whole thing, especially from the person he married just a year later.

Yeah...this seems a bit shitty of Rita to say.  Especially without context.  Maybe it was a case of a mutually agreeable divorce where everyone was thrilled, but coming from the second wife it sounds like “lol he was happy to get rid of that bitch and get with me.”  And it’s worse since Lewes is dead now, and her son…

Yes, Yes I do. He knows what he did

Sad and traumatically mortified are two distinct emotional states.

I’m pretty sure when people say ‘sorry’ about divorce, they’re expressing empathy for the emotional turmoil, not suggesting it’s a mistake.

Never understood the distinction being made... if you say you’re sorry about a divorce you’re saying you’re sorry the marriage wasn’t good. That’s something to be sorry for.

Or, there’s a very good chance that, in adulthood, he realized that his parents might’ve made better friends (or at least co-parents) than people in an active relationship with one another.

That in no way casts any aspersion onto Samantha or Tom, but I’m rather strongly of the opinion that parents who stay in a bad…

Hollywood loves to do that, though: make sure some guy gets that woman who is out of his league.

 I enjoy hugging, so I'd hug someone who asked for a hug even if they were a stranger. But I can completely understand the point of view of not wanting to hug a stranger and it's anyone's right to say no.

She was too old for him to be interested.

Exactly. There is a germ of a really great idea here, about to what extend a female artist is governed by her own agency, or by the illusion of agency as it is filtered through myriad handlers. I think there’s a fascinating story here, or from the POV of Rachel Sennott’s personal assistant character.

That’s some serious dedication to something no one was buying anyway.

This. I firmly believe Seimetz’s version had something substantive to say along with a coherent tone, whereas all Tesfaye and Levinson had to say was “Boobies! Boobies! Look at this Super Cool Guy who is just like me engage in all my sordid wish fulfillment with a girl with boobies!”

Kind of wonder what Colin Hanks thinks reading stuff like this as well. 

I remember reading in Kevin Hart’s autobiography that he did a pilot for a show created by Judd Apatow where he was roommates with Jason Segel. This was in 2001 after Freaks and Geeks but before Undeclared. It also starred Amy Poehler and January Jones. I would absolutely check out that show. And there are probably a…

Woah woah woah.

I would absolutley love to watch a mini-marathon of pilots that were immedietly shit-canned but I expect a lot of the folks involved went on to do successfull things and might not want them to see the light of day. 

And a network/studio could break from AMPTP and come to their own agreement with the union.

“You need writers for those shows, and until the writers get a deal they find fair, they’re not coming back to work.”