I am here for this. I was a nerdy, precocious only child raised by a single mom and - although I’m Gen X, already in my late teens by summer ‘91 - this speaks to me. Bonus points for giving Elias Koteas some screen time. He’s the sensitive man’s Christopher Meloni.

Soma is the drug everyone takes in the novel Brave New World.

Ah, Angarano’s great. He’s this runty little everyman with the charm of “that one friend your mom always really liked.” It’s stupid, but yeah, I’ll watch him in anything. And I’d love to see him play against type as a coked-up motormouth with the talent to back it up.

Ah, is this a This Is Us thing? I only know him from the shit god-awful Gentleman Broncos, the absolutely best thing ever The Knick, and guilty pleasure I’m Dying up Here.

Ooo Ooo! I’ve been waiting forever to post this somewhere. My choice for Carlin? Michael Angarano is his full 1970's I’m Dying up Here glory.

For Michael O’Donoghue? Thomas Lennon or gtfo.

I want to say this will probably be good-to-great, but there is no way I’m buying 56-year old Nicole Kidman as the mother of a 1st grader.

Haven’t seen Saltburn but I have seen Priscilla, and he looked pretty handsome in that. But JESUS CHRIST is the loss of facial fat in his cheeks disturbing. I won’t speculate on what’s causing it but google “facial lipoatrophy” for examples of what I’m talking about.

The wife and I were like “This man isn’t handsome,…

Yeah, Angus Cloud didn’t die of an accidental overdose. That implies he took too much of the drug he’d intended to take. He was murdered, poisoned by a drug dealer who sold fentanyl disguised as 30m Oxycontins or Percocets. Only people in the throes of serious addiction willingly smoke, snort or ingest fentanyl and…

We just finished a re-watch an hour ago, and now the wife is putting the kiddo to bed.  So what did I miss that implies they’re Mormons?  Because I gotta know.

Same!

I assumed those were prosthetics in Fargo, to make her look freaky-scary on purpose. I mean, her face doesn’t look puffy or full of fillers like Reinhold - her skin looks stretched taut.

Well, for better or for worse, his casting is seen as a shorthand for “intelligent badass who can shore up a genre picture.” He’s been Felix Leiter in the Bond movies, he’s Commissioner Gordon to R-Pats’ The Batman, he’s Uatu the Watcher in Marvel’s What If...., and he’s played everyone from Colin Powell to Muddy…

10/10 would watch.

Oh, man. In December of ‘92 I went to an art show at an all-ages rock club in downtown Portland and one wall was entirely made up of Gus Van Sant’s polaroids. Hundreds and hundreds of grainy, headshot-style portraits of street kids, Pioneer Courthouse Square hangout kids, crust punks, goths, queer kids who had to…

Beat me to it!

Take your star and get out.

My brain is breaking a little right now that Flavor Flav, of motherfucking Public Enemy, would sing a song whose third verse goes like this:

I’m pretending you’re making a sly reference to How to be Eaten by Maria Adelmann.

Yeah, but it was also the start of one of the worst hairweaves of all time.