It's worth seeing just to see how full of shit King is. He praises it non-stop as being more true to his vision, meanwhile Steven Weber plays it EXACTLY THE SAME as Jack Nicholson, crazy from the get-go.

Also sadly unnoticed: Gina saying "Why are you hanging out here by this old cell phone?" (a pay phone)

You know, this used to be my problem, but he is so good that I now think "Stephen Root!" instead of "Jimmy James!"

This week's killer Braugher line, for me, was "Try again."

There was something odd about that line, something specific, like he didn't just say "vacation" he said "expensive vacation". I just love the character because he wouldn't mislead people by implying that it was every vacation…

Great punchline, Prole.

Does anybody know, was Richard Price on this before Scorsese or did Scorsese bring him onboard? 'Cause he wound up hooking up with Price for a while in the '80's, I always wondered if that was an element that attracted him or if he just gave Price a big boost. [I know for a while he was interested in making 'Mad Dog…

I was going to say that I'm pretty sure that the most recent film Franco directed was credited as "James Franco's As I Lay Dying", but then I realized I probably only thought that because the only place I've read about it is the AV Club.

Do they actually talk about how it got made or do they just make fun of it? Because I would love to hear behind the scenes stories about the making of Gymkata, but I don't think they'd provide them.

Oh, good, Disqus is now not letting me not post from my Facebook account.

Not that I disagree, but supposedly, it didn't even occur to them until later. I think it was the first flashback episode.

@avclub-fc82c89d70e617206bb6864a2e3886db:disqus The funny part is, he was using the sort of flattery that would appeal to him and wrongly thinking it would work on Jesse.  He doesn't really have much of a sense of who Jesse is as a person anymore.  He thinks Jesse still lives for his validation.

@avclub-fc82c89d70e617206bb6864a2e3886db:disqus The funny part is, he was using the sort of flattery that would appeal to him and wrongly thinking it would work on Jesse.  He doesn't really have much of a sense of who Jesse is as a person anymore.  He thinks Jesse still lives for his validation.