Yeah, I think that’s an accurate assessment.

Oh, the dating sites try to collect as much information as they possibly can, but only that information that helps target ads. In fact, Match Group (who owns almost everyone nowadays except Bumble and a few smaller ones) has begun banning people who use VPNs since they really, really, really want to know where you…

If you still haven’t seen it yet - I guessed correctly that it’d be an appropriate Thanksgiving weekend ass-in-lounge-chair-for-4+ hours-in-between-grabbing-leftovers movie - the deaging is not as bad as I thought it would be, largely because even at the beginning of the film you’re looking at DeNiro and Pesci as…

You turned The Takeout turned into my first click into the G/O assets. Feel free to pass that fact along to the cretins in management.

Yeah, Moon was one of the all time great drummers, and on my list of concerts-I-wish-I-could-have-seen is that era Who, but I can’t really fault Townshend for griping about him as a human being and flaky musician even all these years later. When he was on, though, he was on.

To me, the most interesting aspect of this has been the coverage in the typical pro-Royal papers like the DM and the Telegraph.

Thanks!  Just wait until Episode 9 to read a rant instead of more collected thoughts.

The first Deadspin-level comment on this article. RIP.

Couldn’t disagree with you more on the episode - thought it was one of the weakest of the season, with a more-than-likely fictional midlife and spiritual crisis/revival for Philip turning into a largely irrelevant bottle episode. Incidentally, this is coming from someone who has had far better experiences with…

Personally, I think it would’ve been worth it to break the show’s recasting streak and have Jennings play the role in old-age makeup.

Which he failed at miserably since they were lifelong friends whose primary problem in a relationship was that they basically knew each other too well, were incompatible, and thus she declined his proposal. Funny how things work out.

His letters, etc. to family are full of what one of his sons’ biographers called sentiments that he was seemingly incapable of expressing in person.

This is the polar opposite of Coup, where since a good slug of this episode was based in fact it (mostly) works well.

You’re being generous. This is a terrible episode, and more proof The Crown does best when it stays relatively close to actual events.

I’m halfway through and this is by far the best episode of the season, which is consistent. When the show adapts real events like Charles going to Colditz-in-kilts-Gordonstoun and explains Philip’s development, it’s a compelling show, but when it puts fiction on the screen - among others, Profumo last season, The Coup…

While watching, I actually was thinking about Bonham Carter’s role in The King’s Speech largely because I was thinking how well got the brutal accent down, and then realized I’d heard her do it before.

>...allergy/intolerance...and/or a negative association

Yeah, the tendency for Midwesterners to wear shorts inside during the winter is certainly something that is a bit different.

Did your dad get back into chemical engineering after that? So many of the families running Vietnamese restaurants that I visited as a kid had startling stories if you actually bothered talking with them, with all sorts of folks with grad degrees who were now serving pho.

As an old, one of my favorite snarky activities when visiting LA many years back was to walk into various department stores and visit the sections marked cold weather/winter gear for a good laugh.