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Yeah, my Stop and Shop has had the hand-helds for decades.  I’ve never tried them, maybe I should.

THANK YOU.  (Belmont Center Coffee Connection, almost daily for a while.)

They met on Fargo -- as did Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst! Horniest indie TV series ever!

It’s really amazing how far down the cast list you have to go to find a male, and the first one there is playing a robot. (This is not a complaint, just an observation.)

It’s amazing how many people who are assholes because “that’s just how they are” manage to not be assholes to people with power over them.  

Quoting John Scalzi: “the failure state of clever is asshole”.

One thing I love in music is songs whose lyrics tell you when they’re done. Tons of good examples in show tunes, but Margaritaville is one of my favorites; the progression from “it’s nobody’s fault”, to “it could be my fault”, to “it’s my own damn fault”.

Yes, I understand that.  I meant that this was my theory between the time that Lazlo had them turn off the video, obviously because something was about to be revealed, and that mid-credits sequence.

Yeah, he should be amazed he’s still alive at all at this point.  Messing with a lawman’s teenaged daughter in any way is probably even higher on “you know you’re getting killed, right?” scale than killing a cop.

I thought the reveal about the vamps’ talking about The Guide on video was going to be that they were really praising Doll Nadia (I actually forget if they left it ambiguous since I only thought of it between the two scenes.)

I think they’re trying to leave it an open “well, what do YOU think?” thing whether Raylan really thought the guy was going for a gun or just didn’t care any more and took the opportunity to have his shoot be...justified (everybody drink!)

Yeah, and a large amount of Andor is this same trope, where the Only Person Who Sees It tries to get the Empire to take the threat of rebellion seriously.

The theater people are/were hoping for an increase in concession sales, which makes them more profit than ticket sales.

I’d like to object to “holding your hand” as a sneer term for what I’d call “telling the story”.

It was written by somebody who calls a steering wheel a “driving wheel”, so...?

My favorite minor point about TS is how it invisibly shifts from being a Cold War spy thriller to a WWII resistance movie.

All the Community Notes will just say “Dog? Dog.”

I haven’t gotten to S2 because I found S1 so not-what-Asimov-wrote that I was annoyed, but I will say in retrospect that I admire how willing the show was to troll its audience with “Gaal Dornick is a black woman? Wait, Salvor Hardin is ALSO a black woman? Are you just super-woking us for no reason at all?” until you…

True, but (only ever having seen about that one as well) I’m not going to forget which one has Bruce Campbell. (Also, those other two titles could probably have been switched and nobody would have complained.)