It’s going to be up to Avatar to revive the cinema business, and that is depressing.

When businesses announce new hiring requirements, people update their resumes. It’s not cynical; it’s a labor market.

It looks like Judith Light and Bette Midler have discovered the secret of perpetual youth: Strategically covering your neck. 

I posted something for episode 3. 

Season 5, Episode 3

“The nepotism is now in its second generation”

“non-threatening, no complaints, no opinions, no controversy, sticking to the pre-approved talking points, never showing off intelligence, never speaking up”

Why should your library contain books you’ve already read? Isn’t it more useful to have a roomful of books available to read?

“His number one issue was lowering the minimum wage, per this 2019 interview with The Daily Beast, despite the fact that congressmen don’t have the power to do that.”

You’re right, that was some classic Law and Order conversational box stacking.

Understood. But even in the situation where the USSG advises the SC to grant cert to a case involving NY state, that doesn’t let the NYAG to personally appear. He said he’d bring Kate with him, that means he expects to appear personally; it’s not enough that the state is heard. But it would be the NYSG that appears,…

But Chuck said if he goes to the Supreme Court, he’d be sure to take Kate with him, meaning his plan is for the USSG to get the NY AG in front of the Supreme Court in person. How? 

I posted a homemade recap of tonight’s episode to this thread. Can you help get it out of the grays? 

Season 5, Episode 2:

I was pleased to learn his real voice much nicer. 

Talladega Nights came out the previous year. Goofy Adam McKay-style comedy was so dominant at the time, and John C. Reilly was associated with it. The poster said “From the guy who brought you Knocked Up and Super-Bad.” That might have helped sell tickets but it probably set expectations wrong. 

I’m in!

“The whole thing is bookended by an oddball stunt”

Is there a more speech-police phrase than “even in jest?”

Stop saying what people should stop saying.