My rationalization for about 5 seconds was that they were walking down Route 2, which would have been a leap of faith as somehow in 20 years it got completely overgrown except for one miraculously clear lane down the middle. Not knowing where Bill and Frank were supposed to be in the game, I was also thinking that…

That’s not weird at all, but I think it shows up in the mid level streamers more than the big ones.

While it was overwhelmed by the Bill and Frank arc, they did a nice job of having Ellie-as-teen show up in ways bad (the trip to the Cumberland basement and pushing Joel’s patience) but also relatable (the excited comments of someone who has never seen an airplane, the video game, and the seatbelt.)

I haven’t lost interest, but I wasn’t enthused with this episode; unlike the pilot, this felt so much like a video game that you were half expecting to have button options pop up periodically. (Given it was helmed by Neil Druckmann who cowrote and directed the game, that probably shouldn’t have been a surprise.)

To me, the weirdest part of the Boston adaptation is the juxtaposition of somewhat exacting details with Hollywood geography.

I’ll let you google it, but the latest CDC piece has emotional abuse of men at slightly higher rates than that of women - and given your concern with abuse, I’m sure you’re aware that the massive societal shame in reporting or discussing abuse among men probably skews that higher; that you’re essentially doing…

How ironic that a troll who labels abuse victims incels because they’re cishet males and had their reported post dismissed now comes back to claim their insight is worth listening to.

I’ve long thought that if Zelazny had died at 78 in 2015 instead of 58 in 1995 so much of his material would have hit a sweet spot for what SF/F had become by then. Instead, there’s a good proportion of the under 40 set in that fanbase who are just completely unfamiliar with him. (Somehow I’m not surprised that io9…

Which is doubly unfortunate given that - as I’m sure you’re aware of given your history - there’s pretty good evidence that cishet men suffer emotional abuse at the hands of women significantly higher than the reverse.

No, it was a good question.

While I don’t doubt her overall story, it looks like she’s mixed up a couple of details of it - not surprising as I’d be shocked if given all the drama she had filming it that she’s seen the film even once in the last 30+ years.

I think the latter is probably a fair criticism of his military hero roles.

I would give significant credit to the corpsman in that scene as well, who was in fact a real one, Danielle Albert, that was only around that day because the XO was concerned that since the cast was doing stunts on the ship that they needed to have someone to man sickbay just in case.

Poor Riley Keough. I hope her father found her mother early enough so that CPR mattered, but she’s the one person in that family who seems to have successfully distanced herself from the drama - and now may have to make EOL decisions.  Let’s hope not.

Bronson Pinchot has talked about it in a few places including his long form interview from 2009 here (which has been discussed several times in threads), but since they’ve never fixed links properly this is the relevant part from that interview:

It’s not a surprise given the stuff that’s come out about Murray but disappointing to hear, since I still watch Quick Change from time to time; it captures the late 80's/early 90's vibe of New York so hilariously well (“you can take this city!”)

And whatever else you may think about Casey Affleck, the reason that skit is so funny because it portrays Massholes, much of the Boston metro area, and Dunkin Donuts so accurately - or as a boss of mine once put it, “Yeah, you really need to go to a Saturday morning Bruins game at the Garden. Just once, though.”

Your comment on Daddario’s acting plays a role in the moment in the opening episode that I realized the show was going to have some real problems - the leadup to the “I’ve had a terrible day and need to blow off stress” hookup scene.

Also, I just randomly learned that Airheads isn’t available to stream.

The original A Little Less Conversation is a worthwhile omission from the top 30; it’s just not all that inspiring.