I don’t find Notaro especially funny. I don’t think she’s a particularly good actress. Still I agree it’s an improvement.

If you’ve read a script, you know that stage direction is eschewed in a script. That Richmond Hill mall was chosen well after the script got written. The set design happened after the script. Snyder oversaw all of that. His inert, unconscious body was not dragged across the finish line by Gunn or his DP. He made that…

Dawn of the Dead was Snyder’s best movie. Yep. James Gunn wrote it. But Snyder directed a pretty slick piece of entertainment. He called shots, blocked good scenes, chose angles and honed performances. None of that is on the page. A HUUUGGEE part of what made Dawn good was Snyder directing it. I’ve despised Snyder’s…

I see what you’re saying, but I don’t think the analogy is particularly apt. We see the group fan out quite widely. So, okay, the ones at the back can’t fire. So maybe not all 1000 agents can shoot, but a couple hundred can. And, unlike the tree analogy, with their big spread, they can fire at the two of them from…

I dunno, bud. He successfully lied to his wife so he could skive off somewhere...and he chose the company of horned up sweaty men watching a woman gyrate that they couldn’t touch while drinking himself into a stupor. That doesn’t scream, to me, a philanderer. He pretty earnestly states that he was faithful. I believe…

The comic book version, who is 10 years old, can NEVER get out of the 10 year old body. I think that might suck. If 5 gets to age up, (and with Gallagher having to age it’s a surety), I think it would be a great thing to have happen as well. We can see, though, that a man with great life experience is struggling with…

I’ve been trying to do the math on Klaus. He’s, baseline, 31. But he spent a year(?) last season, in Vietnam. This season he spent 3 years being a guru. So, in terms of life lived, he’s 34 or 35, right? And those are incredibly eventful years.

Ah.  I knew I was misinterpreting it, somehow.  Apologies.

Well said. I agree that the whole family dynamic was sad. Clearly it was teetering before Vanya ever showed up. Carl was guilty of that oblivious sexism, but he really seemed to want to be the good man he hoped he could be. I’ll say again that I’m impressed they gave him as much nuance as they did. For a character…

I’ve read the family dynamic correctly. Had Vanya used a connection to stop a stranger from slinking away with her family, Vanya being the hero in the show, you’d think it was justified. You seem not to be able to look at the actions from any other perspective than what the show led you to see. Carl is a little bit of…

That isn’t what happened though, is it? Carl was taking the kid to a facility and his wife pulled a gun.

Gender swapped, gritty Simon & Simon or GTFO

That’s true. Jack Ruby, a mobbed up guy who fixes bare knuckles boxing matches in the basement, did think Carl was an asshole while Carl was drunk in a bar.

Ah. Well, that’s stupid. As I recall a woman who speaks multiple languages finds an axiom apt in Yiddish and says it in Yiddish. If, for example, she said, at some point “c’est la vie!” would the show be anti Gaul? If she had said “ Beware, caveat emptor, if you fuck this up you’ll be persona non grata at the…

I feel you...... But that was at least alluded to last season.

Watched S1 and called ‘er done.  Chris Rock in a fedora?  I think I’m back in.

I upvoted you because “The Greys” are stupid. But I don’t think this is a worse written show than most of the CW garbage in the superhero vein (and other veins, to be honest.)

Ok.  I sat here for two full minutes, not only trying to think of an anti-Semitic moment, but trying to remember if there was a Jewish character in the show.  Came up empty.  I feel I may regret this, but:  Waddayamean?

It didn’t “ruin” it for me. But I agree that it’s a fairly uncreative way to neutralize a super team, at the last second, in a big reveal. Still, it’s worked for comics over and over again.  But it doesn’t give Lila much growth room now, and I have to assume we’ll see her again.

So it really was a regional definition difference.