Nay! Nay, I say!

Well, you have to save room for all of those Elementary reviews.

You know Transparent has been available for weeks now? Why the delay in posting a review?

Since when are they film-makers? Laurie Simmons was in Tiny Furniture, essentially playing herself, and they used their apartment as the main set, but that doesn't make her or Carroll Dunham film-makers.

Full disclosure: I was the Property Master for the Girls pilot as well as its first season. So my feelings on this subject are based on, to a large degree, being witness as to how the show came about. (Of course, that leaves me open to being charged as a cheerleader for Lena and Girls, though all I can say in my…

I've worked in film and television for three decades now. So I've seen things, and I know things. Not sure how many years you have been around it.

What were you doing at that age? What was I doing? Mostly drinking beer and talking about all of these great ideas for scripts.

Bullshit.

She was twenty-three years old when she started the first season of Girls, in which she starred, wrote most of the episodes, and directed half of them. You don't get to do that because your parents are ensconced in the NY art scene — her career wasn't for the asking, she had to work for it and create something that…

Plus they didn't know who was upstairs in that office. It could have been Betty, it could have been a security guard with a gun. At the very least, it was a person with access to a telephone, which could have blown the whole operation. Elizabeth did the right thing.

Man, was this episode dark. Not in tone, necessarily — I mean in wattage. Lots of scenes at night with very little illumination, even with a big-screen HD TV, I couldn't tell what was going on half the time.

Iggy Pop taught Danny Tambarelli, aka Little Pete, how to play bass guitar.

No, because Toby Huss left the show in season 2, "Farewell My Little Viking".

I was the Prop Master for The Adventures of Pete and Pete, seasons one and two.