I would have to go back to see if the movie touches on Jews in particular, but Ned obviously is the sort of Connecticut WASP who would have been an anti-Semite, naturally.

“Atlantic City” is basically forgotten now but that film is brilliant.  Does a topless Susan Sarandon massage her breasts with lemons?  Yes!  (She works at a seafood restaurant at a casino and comes home smelling of fish.)

“Mad Men” is so Cheever that Matt Wiener probably should have paid the Cheever estate royalties.  The settings (upper-class NYC and NYC suburbs), the time setting, the characters.  That show was just soaked in Cheever.

Well this is the second time in just a few days that the AV Club has examined an obscure 1960s movie that I’ve seen, after “The Swimmer”. I’d have to agree that “Toby Dammit” is the strongest of the three adaptations, although I found the first two more watchable than the reader did.  The set design in that segment…

GIVE US BACK THE MICHAEL JACKSON EPISODE, GODDAMMIT.

Hello from 2020, you wouldn’t believe the shit that’s going down right now.

She has a few lines.  She meets Ned at one of the pools and is intrigued by the tall, handsome guy wearing nothing but swim trunks, until another party guest warns her to avoid Ned Merrill.

The film telegraphs, pretty clearly, that everything terrible has happened to Ned Merrill in the past and he has had some sort of psychotic breakdown and is living in a state of denial.

Shelley Winters was sexy as hell back in the 1950s.  Lord.  Whoever had to make her look dowdy in “A Place in the Sun” should have gotten a special Oscar.

I was a subscriber for a good 12 years or so in the 1990s and early 2000s.  The articles were terrific.  Read every issue thoroughly.

You know, it’s funny, the push-pull in public mores. Like the James Bond franchise. There was a movie called “Octopussy”. Think about that! “Octopussy”, on theater marquees across the nation.

If memory serves, they were full episodes.  I know that they definitely were discrete episodes not “Best of” compilations.  But back then I was young and single and did not have a DVR so I routinely stayed up and watched.  There was a 1 hr block for syndication after the new episode ended, and then at 2 am they’d run…

Disney+ censors their movies?  Pretty good argument against buying that service.

That is an excellent idea.  “The Lost SNL Sketches.”

I’ve actually seen them before.  In fact, a long time ago, and I’m talking like 15 years ago or longer, for a while NBC was airing 1970s vintage episodes at 2 am.  They’re like the show is now.  Some really funny stuff, some not-so-funny stuff.

They’d be better served running classic episodes.  Let’s start running through Season 1!

This show was running out of gas before the ending anyway.  The last season, where they got rid of Clementine and Garcia and brought in a couple of Cousin Oliver deputies, wasn’t very funny.

“Hausu” is batshit crazy and a whole lot of fun.

The AV Club sure is pushing Quibi.  Lots and lots of Quibi articles.

I quit LMOE before it ended.  Forte’s character whose name I am now blanking on was just too unsympathetic.  Every episode was just his character being an asshole and a liar until he was exposed and humiliated.  Thought for a while about *why* I disliked it so much and I think it was because there was no Jim & Pam…