The best thing they did with his character was later reveal him to be a competent agent with surprising depth. His lecture to Arnold about Curtis cheating landed with unexpected emotion. “What did you expect, Harry? She’s a flesh and blood woman and you’re never around.”  It’s also what set the pretend spy plot thread…

Refueling with gas? Cancel her

Rabin’s back? Rabin’s back! Nobody mention jellybeans—we don’t want to scare him away!

We’re so fucking back

It’s Rabin! Now bring back Sean O’Neil, Tasha Robinson, and Zodiac Motherfucker!

Good god! They really are reviving the old A.V. Club, aren’t they? What’s next? A takedown review by Ignatiy? The long-prophesied return of Snarkmaster General Sean O’Neal himself?!

True, but I don’t think you realize just how hard “getting the interview” is for a random actor.

Is that supposed to be a hard question to answer?

The thing is, a company only gets sold to a PE firm if it’s already fucked up. So you’re kinda looking a sample set that’s already headed for failure.

Terrific movie. Jack Black’s performance is wonderful, walking a fine line.

I hear in the movie Ridley’s character believes the whole time she’s a nobody born to non-descript parents, until the end when she learns her real dad is Johnny Weismuller.  

Crazy thought: How about these artists start touring smaller venues?

Well okay, problem solved and tour’s back on!!

It’s emergent story-telling, the arcs and themes develop naturally from the individual moments.

The “maybe they’re just crazy in a room somewhere” trope has to be one of my least favourite lazy fan theories. It’s almost never based on anything actually present in the text - because it doesn’t need to be; if the protagonist is crazy everything is unreliable - and it usually adds nothing to the story thematically.

Garfuriosa isn’t exciting enough for you?

For me, it started out WAY darker than I expected, and has gradually become more what I thought I was buying into.

This assertion is illogical. If you’re going to accuse someone of clickbait, understand clickbait. No clicks are ever driven by what is in the fourth, or fifth, or sixteenth paragraph of a piece.They didn’t insinuate or dispel anything of the sort in the headline or the blurb, which is the only thing that would…

Yeah, it struck me as just quickly dispelling rumors rather than anything else. 

Is it because the lead actress of a film is speaking the language of trauma, and we’ve spent the last ten years reading about abusive directors going after their actresses? Maybe it’s just me, but I’m glad these two sentences were put in, because I know my mind went to harassment.