Hot Rod and MacGruber were not that well-received upon opening (both have a 43 on Metacritic), so even with a poor reception I wasn't gonna be worried. But I guess the rising rep of those two movies (especially the latter) is actually reflected in the reviews this time around. I've been enjoying the promotion thus…

Cool. Beans.

Wait, really?

Mr Burns, a Post-Electric Play! I wanted to see it when it was performing in Chicago but was too busy, so I settled for reading the script. A very fascinating piece of work.

I was gonna predict Toni Erdmann as a Palme winner before the fest (Everyone Else was well-received, and the time for a lady director winning the Palme again should be soon), but then the premise made it sound too light. Dammit! Either way, definitely the first movie of the fest that I really wanna see whenever it…

Yeah, this show does cringe comedy in a manner that I actually find tolerable. First there was the art-ruining scene in the premiere, and then tonight's whole plot. I felt horrible for everyone involved, but it never went too far the way, say, the weaker episode of The Office (U.S.) did, which I appreciate a lot.

He's the secret MVP of the show for me thus far. He gets so little to do, but I love what he does have. I hope he gets a nice highlight moment before C.K. is done with the season (or show).

Yeah, the political stuff is really odd. I get the sense that C.K. is trying to capture a segment of the American public that never really gets focused on, but something about the execution of the arguments feels off. But maybe I don't get into enough barroom political debates to know what an authentic one sounds like.

I dunno what it says about me that, four episodes in, the whole show remains a very mixed bag for me, but I still feel compelled and excited to plop down another $3 for the next installment. Has there ever been a series with this high of a budget that could almost be considered avant-garde? C.K. is playing with form…

Yeah, she was one of the very few people from Abbi and/or Ilana's world that seemed like a down to earth, mostly chill and nice human being. Which of course made the blue ink incident all the more horrible and heartbreaking.

Probably saving her for a later episode. Hopefully.

Yeah, scenes of people accidentally ruining precious, expensive, unfixable things are usually a very easy way to put a damper on my enjoyment of things, because the scenes either use any comedy momentum or try to hard to keep it up and lose sight of how horrible the moment is. That moment found a beautiful balance so…

His only real use was as a romantic foil for Abbi, and they used that up pretty quickly (albeit in possibly the show's best episode to date).

Man, Courtney B. Vance has barely had anything to work with so far, but he is absolutely captivating in every moment he's had thus far. I can't wait to see him as he gets pulled into the middle of this whole circus.

I imagine this is part of it, which is why I don't totally knock it. And it's probably the safest route towards comic relief in this whole awful saga.

God have mercy on the poor soul that logs the first rotten review on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is 35/0 right now, so the first rotten review is gonna sting all the more for fans.

I think…

I'm sure I'm the 80th person this season to say this here, but can the entire Supporting Actor in a Limited Series just be Fargo actors? A category made up of Donovan, Danson, Offerman, Woodbine, McClarnon, and Sampson would be a perfectly respectable lineup.

The final scene of this episode was the most miserably intense "how the fuck does this resolve itself???" piece of work that I've seen in a long while. It's amazing to me that Dodd was the only dead body to come out of it because it feels like so much more.

I've read enough about the show that I had a general idea of stuff - I knew Eccleston's character was a preacher at the center of one of the season's most talked about episodes, but I didn't know about his wife. I knew that the second season had changed focus to a town that wasn't affected by the rapture-thing. I…