Speaking to Dowd's recommendation, I watched Paranormal Activity for the first time stoned, and it was goddamn terrifying. You really get sucked into the implications of the horror, so you're constantly thinking "holy shit, this person's life is ruined. What if this happened to me?"

The kind of insightful discussion you get in AV Club comments…

I liked this scene. It's not something that would happen in real life very often, but it is something I could easily see happening. The way it speaks to the difficulties and ungratifying nature of parenthood (as noted in the article) is pitch perfect in my opinion.

Really? That makes me sad. I always thought he seemed nice, and he came off as a wonderfully positive person when he did a Reddit AMA.

Rarely can people look death in the eye and express such a simple wish as Warren Zevon did. What more can you ask, really?

I know the You Made It Weird ep with Harris has been talked up to death, but wow, it was a truly beautiful and heartbreaking podcast. Listen to it.

Riggan is surely more sympathetic, but both are celebrated for doing things (spurred on by mental illness) that would have them condemned under different circumstances.

If Riggan Thompson is redeemed in the ending of Birdman, Travis Bickle is redeemed in the ending of Taxi Driver.

That part and Ben's claymation short alone make it a top 10 episode.

So this is what it feels like… when doves cry!

So Dr. Strangelove as a TV series, then?