The funniest word in the English language is "boner." I will tolerate no argument on this.

It's weird that your assessment of Mission: Impossible makes it sound like memorable setpieces AREN'T to be expected in a movie with De Palma's fingerprints all over it.

Is it any weirder than calling the new Thor "the new Thor," given that "Thor" is, y'know, actually the guy's name and not just a super-mantle?

Is Michael Shannon not white? Or is that just a general observation?

My best friend viscerally despises all renditions of the song for the reasons listed above. I don't share his (or Katie Rife's) antipathy; to me, it's pretty clear that the narrator is not singing about the literal Santa Claus, and is instead simply using him as a metaphor for the lover she hopes will ply her with…

"Barbados Slim takes an early lead. God, I hope he wins. What's this?
Hermes Conrad is closing the gap. He's limbo-ed out of retirement and
straight into my heart. I say go to hell, Barbados Slim!"

That's actually not Gaddis himself, but Academy Award winner Edmond O'Brien.

I didn't need a Molly/Malvo showdown. Malvo was Gus's cross to bear. Lester was Molly's white whale. They both got their man, and even though Molly wasn't the one who actually caught Lester, she got her vindication about him, which I suspect is the victory she wanted all along.

On his way back from burying the money, he came across the car crash that killed his son and his right-hand man, brought on by a rain of fish brought on in its turn by the storm. The last we saw of him was him weeping in despair over his dead son, which would read less like a conclusion than a final-act setup in even…

I don't know what these last two reviews have been talking about; Stavros' story doesn't seem anywhere NEAR finished. I can certainly see the show not going back to him at this point, but man, the last we saw of him seems like a bizarre note to end on.