I fully expected Mando to give The Marshal the armor at the end of the episode—genuinely surprised when he didn’t. But maybe it’ll still happen later in the season, as you say.

I’m torn between thinking he could look better if he tried & thinking good for him for not giving a shit.

I wondered about that, too.  My guess is it’s just a hat to him, but who knows?

No—Maddox was the second victim, the lady. Rex was the guy with the Scottish accent, with the penguin.  Maddox was in fact the witness who was there when Rex killed the guy who was sabotaging the antenna.

Not to be that guy, but since you singled it out AND bold-faced it: though it does indeed rhyme with Chevy, the word is levee, not levy.
(Tangential: When I was little, I pictured the “good old boys” from the song as the guys on the Dutch Masters cigar box. My dad was a model railroad guy, & he kept his Xacto knife &…

The whole movie is full of great moments, so it’s hard to pick just one, but the dialog from the scene on the bridge when Malone & Ness first meet is hard to beat.

Malone: Now, what do you think you’re doing? You want to throw garbage? Throw it in the goddamn trash basket.

Ness: Don’t you have more important things to…

Depends on where you live. The Trump campaign has pulled ads from states they don’t think he can win. This includes some of the midwestern states Trump won in 2016. I’m just glad our state is one of them.

Nope. (Though I think I’m in a decided majority—I personally never found Taylor particularly attractive.) And at least Gadot is Mediterranean.

My main issue with Gadot playing Cleopatra is that she’s way too good-looking. (Though to be fair, she’s better looking that almost everybody.) Portraits of Cleopatra survive, so we have a decent idea of what she looked like.

Hoping the backlash hinted at in the article isn’t racial, because Cleopatra wasn’t Black. Her…

It’s pretty fucking scary, definitely one of the scariest movies I’ve ever seen. A while back I found Blatty’s novel at a garage sale, & it likewise is one of the scariest book’s I’ve ever read. Still, unless you’re really averse* to horror, it’s a (well-deserved) classic & I’d recommend watching it.

* I used to…

So, you don’t know songs like “Jamie’s Cryin’”, “Dance the Night Away”, “Runnin’ With the Devil”, “Jump”, “Panama”, or “Hot for Teacher”? Or their covers of “You Really Got Me”, “Dancing in the Street”, & “(Oh) Pretty Woman”? That’s crazy! Their first six records, as well as their last one—more than half of their…

I’m with you on Dracula—I was genuinely surprised by how boring & not at all scary it was. The book is at least creep & atmospheric, if not exactly scary. That said, I still consider those classics worth a watch, if only for the historic value. They have the advantage of being short, as was more common at the time, so…

2,000+ years ago, the Roman poet Ovid wrote, “Ars est celare artem”—“it is art to conceal the art”. (Note: In Latin, ars primarily means “skill”, which also works here.) The great ones always make it look easy, even though you know how much hard work went into making it look easy.

Not to mention his technical & mechanical innovations, born mostly from necessity. I mean, LES PAUL once told Eddie that there were only three people who *really* knew how to build a guitar--himself, Leo Fender, & Eddie Van Halen.  I watched an interview with him last night & it’s totally worth spending the whole hour:

Have to assume you’re pulling our collective leg—you cannot possibly claim Van Halen fandom & pretend not to know who David Lee Roth is. True, the guy’s what we call a character (or a piece of work), & Eddie himself, who by all accounts was a sweetheart & a pleasure to work with, had trouble working with Diamond Dave,…

To be fair, “pranks” & “practical jokes” are NEVER funny for the victims. I don’t think I’ve ever seen or even heard of one that didn’t, at minimum, create a mess, a hassle, stress, or some kind of pain to the recipient. At best, there *might* be the relief of finding out it was “only” a prank, but even then, I’d be…

I wouldn’t worry about it. For one thing, there are a LOT of red hats out there that aren’t the“other” red hat you’re talking about. Secondly, the “other” red hat is usually a different style—more a trucker cap than a ball cap—so it looks different enough. I mean, I guess one can’t be too careful, but the people who…

You do understand that a joke is supposed to be funny, right?  Please explain what’s funny about this “joke”.  I have to confess the humor eludes me.

Also, she talks Swedish with the Swedes. And doesn’t she at some point say “Que sera, sera”?  And what are we to make of Sir Reggie’s fondness for ancient Ionian Greek?  “Ah. Well, that’s stupid”, indeed.

And for a group with such an important, sensitive mission, their security is laughably nonexistent.