I first saw her on Carson (presumably during the push for this movie) and I remember I happened to be walking across my living room and I just stopped dead in my tracks and stared: "Holy SHIT who is that?"

Y'all saw Vulture's oral history of that, yes?

It's been made as "Men of Respect." (And according to WP, 1955's "Joe Macbeth".)

I was in ours, and played "Don", and that's my real name! TWIST!

I thought I'd throw in that I saw Auto-Focus this weekend and it's just crazy that it ever got made. And it's pretty great except for scenes where you burst out laughing at the pretentiousness.

Oooh, "Smoke too much so I better cut down a bit—" never noticed that before.

Pardon?

"I have a hit show in Canada. You wouldn't know it."

If your DVR is an actual Tivo: their algorithm is that, unless a show is explicitly identified as a rerun, it's assumed to be new, for safety. So I routinely get shows that start in my To Do list as a generic episode, then disappear once they've been correctly tagged as "Season X, Episode Y" reruns.

Reportedly, that second one was based on stuff about David Alan Grier and his actual mother.

I presume all real AV Club fans have seen TVDW's long piece on mutli-camera sitcoms, published yesterday and featuring this show a lot, at Vox?

Her parents know where she is. I guess?

Chris Dia-whatever was billed in the main cast every week this season and I believe he had two scenes.

As did he.

It's impossible to watch a scene like that and not be wondering if it's Sarah-as-Alison the whole time.

OK, I realize it's a couple days later, but I remembered where I got some of that: from Noah Hawley, in Sepinwall's interview with him:

If Nora's story is false, the more likely thing is that she bailed out (ha) at the last fraction of a second, if her "s" sound before the cut away from her in the fluid was "stop". I agree that all those people keeping a fraud secret doesn't sound right.

If we're talking about the first 1.5 seasons of TP classic, that degree is "absolutely, but it's also doing something else", which certainly applies here as well. And note that we do eventually get an answer to the initial mystery in TP.

Yeah, not every "Gosh, what do you think happened?" ending is earned. Leftovers, sure; it's about not knowing. But Fargo is ultimately a crime thriller with attitude, so tell me how your fucking story ends. It's not a matter of whether I'm an optimist or pessimist; you're in charge of your plot machinery, so I'm…

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