honestly with the level of paranoia and delusion she shows, maybe she did do acid

Sure, I’ll have a go:

And the fake EMTs were Thomas and another actor from the Fielder Method class (don’t remember her name...maybe Angela?).

The next episode looks like it’s going to explicitly bring up Judaism!

Yeah, the question of whether he knew the OD would happen threw me. Of course he knew, how else does he have a fake ambulance/EMTs on standby.

Angela is no more real than the second Nathan teaching the second class while real Nathan played Thomas. She’s doing improv as someone in this situation without actually being that person in order to allow Nathan to pretend to be someone figuring out his role.

These reviews are Manuel rehearsing for the more thoughtful reviews he’ll be writing when it comes time to write his reviews.

Manuel it’s very interesting reading your reviews because it’s so difficult for me to get into the headspace of someone who is actually horrified by this episode and doesn’t think it’s absolutely brilliant. To give this episode a B, to have essentially given the series to date a B, just means that no matter how much I…

It boggles my mind that some people can watch this and think he is doing any of this flippantly or hasn’t thought about it at all. This episode especially is so deep in multiple layers of absurdity to illustrate it.

Ehh, coke I can believe—but acid? Her?

He’s entirely missing the point.

I’ll leave it at this for now, because you’ve left a lot in this review to take umbrage with, and I’m too tired to bother with listing it all out: I don’t know how to take criticism of such groundbreaking metafictional art seriously (or even respect it as criticism in the first place) when it doesn’t remotely attempt…

Can we have someone else redo these reviews?

The protagonist sits for dinner three times in this movie but manages to eat zero times cause bullshit kept happening :( I felt very much emotionally connected to that

You should consider re-reading that article because you seem to have missed the point. They didn’t get a screener to review New Mutants and would have to go to a theater, so they didn’t review it. Presumably that’s not the case with Tenet.

Someone like David Lynch, I suppose. Dumb movies for smart people would probably be someone like Paul Verhoeven (who is the master of well-made dumbness, and is great). 

Who makes smart movies for smart people? Feel free to supply some of the other combinations as well.

saw it last night and found it incredibly dull.

Maybe this is too grand a conclusion to draw, but it sounds to me like Jonathan Nolan is a really important creative partner for Christopher. I don’t know much about their creative relationship but it would make some sense, if Jonathan was more the character/emotion guy, that this movie would tip over into “parody…

So it's half Source Code, half Deja Vu.