Maybe, but I thought it was something a little more modern. I’m going to go listen to it again and report back.

As a matter of fact, Derek Kolstad, who wrote the first two films, was on Jeff Goldsmith’s when the sequel came out, and said he imagined the third film as a play on a Japanese film I’m blanking on, with Wick homeless on the street taking care of a kid.

Echoing everybody else’s sentiments to say I’m not, in general, a big binge-er. I was hyped for BOJACK to come back this weekend, but around episode 4 I could feel that these were going too quickly, that I should dial back and really enjoy them (BOJACK is also the rare streaming show that still gives a shit about the…

You make some excellent points, and while I certainly can’t fault them for trying to get in as much story as possible, that gradual passage of time is one of the things the earlier seasons of the show was so good at.

Definitely not feeling these wild time jumps. 86 to 90 was a revelation, and 90 to 93 was a fun way to kick off the season, but an episode that spans 8 months+ is both confusing and whiplash-y, and the whole thing winds up feeling uncohesive — “hey, I’m serious about and dedicated to semi-retiring to this plot of land…

Okay, Tron Draper is pretty hilarious.

"No, he was a stripper."

I thought the two Frasier-esque episodes they did last year (the smart one house and the cabin one) were both pretty good.

I had the same reaction as Ashley… at first. I have to admit by the end, the episode was so good, I was able to put Brown out of my mind (partially because he didn't really have anything to do during the episode). And then I started to think that perhaps Brown was cast BECAUSE he gives a significant portion of the…

Erica had an encyclopedic knowledge of recreational pharmaceuticals… can't imagine that would've been much help in identifying anti-psychotic. As an aside I appreciated her having a role in an A-story for once.

The closest 1:1 analogue is really the Corleones, which George Sr for Vito, Buster for Fredo, GOB for Sunny, Lindsay for Connie and Michael for… Michael.

… and most likely Tito's.

Except it's not "really" Columbine, or any other mass shooting, since we know that those events are premediated and significantly less dispassionate, and stem from certain fascinations in the shooter(s), all of which were absent in the kid from American Crime. I always felt it was more of a riff on the sort of…

Man, as someone who loves a good brainless procedural, I find BULL offensive on every level. It's slightly more grounded than say, WESTWORLD, but there's not a moment of it that is believable from a legal or human perspective. All of those characters should be in jail.

Counterpoint: no.

The shock factor was great, but having Wes's flash-forward be the only one out of chronological order for no reason other than to misdirect the audience is just lazy, especially for a show that, as mentioned, has done really dazzling work with time.

The ideas that generations of Fets have been fighting Eichorst as well as that Setrakian and Fet now have a bond that they don't even know about it is a total borrow from LOST and I love it.

I saw a two hour plus test screening of Jersey Girl in, you guess, New Jersey, and can confirm that there was in fact a full monologue written and wasn't very good. It did provide the set-up for what Big Willie Style said to him in that scene though, and now I'm blanking on what the trigger for Affleck's character was…

What? That ending is great! Even if it is more or less a riff on Burn After Reading, who would've thought that movie would end like that?

I agree with this very much. I thought there was some shockingly moving stuff in that season — Lucille's revelation that she doesn't want to be the "Invisible Woman", George Sr's breakdown (and boy, they're going to have to reconfigure where that one was going!), GOB mistaking genuine friendship for love because he'd…