“Ted Lasso is absolutely not a show about soccer.”

Amen. How could we be in the third season and have people not realizing this thing that was quite clear from the start? The Office wasn’t about paper, for Christ’s sake.

She wants to disappear and she wants the spotlight. That’s the human condition. We want conflicting things.

He only made up “really wanted to be a doorman”, I think.  I think?

Fun-fact, around the time of the third or fourth film, my wife attended a party, which she knew would include Rickman. The kids begged her for autographs, so she took along a couple of photos of him as Snape, and shyly presented them to him.

I know I just wrote a long self indulgent post below, but if you will indulge me one more I want to say why I have always liked Good Will Hunting. The story of how me and my wife fell in love is kind of similar to the “Have to go see about a girl” story Robin Williams tells in the movie.

“today’s parents do seem to want to wrap their kids in bubble wrap”

Loved this write up. This is one of the most formative movies of my childhood.  Flaws and illogical nonsensical plot —I don’t care. I will re- watch it every Christmas and enjoy each minute.

I disagree. Everybody has an inner life - even though for some people, it’s exterior.

That sounds a lot like my son.

Yes, yes, yes!!! Ever since I first saw this article I’ve been composing in my head a post about how this movie may be Marty’s story but it’s George’s arc. He was nervous enough to approach Lorraine in the diner (and yes, I love that moment where she first really sees him and how it’s essential, that moment, because…

Screw you America for not liking Used Cars. That movie was hilarious!

Lea the mother would get a brief chuckle. Crispen the father might start wondering if Marty was his kid, and whether Lea the wife had a brief affair with Calvin 17 years prior.

In addition to the fact that their acquaintance with “Calvin” was very brief (if significant) and enough years ago that their memory of his features would likely have grown fuzzy, they have more importantly raised their son Marty from birth. They have watched him slowly grow into this physical appearance from an…

Yes God forbid we have a nuanced adult answer.

Ironically perhaps, they were right to nominate Katherine Heigl for that absurd storyline.  Maybe because she was so aware that the material was weak and felt actually vulnerable, but her performance across those episodes was far moreso than her prickly (jerk-ish) demeanor in a lot of her work.  I think I’m thinking…

Not sure there’s gonna be a better place to post this, so here we go:

Hey that piece of shit nestled between that pig’s enormous testicles looks just like Jim Spanfeller! Uncanny!

Ironically, thanks to the 24-hour news cycle I doubt your average American even cares about ISIS anymore. And didn’t Trump go on months ago about how he defeated ISIS then?

I mean if there’s one thing that io9 (sometimes) encourages its commenting community to do, it’s split hairs...