“Don’t harsh my vibe, man. You wouldn’t like me when my aura is prickly.”

Dowd’s observation here — “It helps that Sarah is played by Gillian Jacobs, in a rare dramatic role; she has a special affinity for characters sincere in their intentions and sympathetic in their failures at realizing them” — is very astute about what she brought to that show. After marathoning it recently I came away…

What’s Willow?

I thought for a second that “Progressive sign spinner” was an epithet in the vain of “social justice warrior” or “virtue signaling.” But yeah, she's fantastic and deserves a higher profile.

Unfortunately everyone I know is about to turn our backs to the Avengers. We used to be huge fans. My children have already started burning their movie’s. Such a sad day to hear avengers say this. My teen’s took this really hard. Figured they were smarter than this

This is the best example of the Sunken Cost Fallacy I've ever seen.

Yeah, I kind of took it for granted that older Jamie was recounting a true story with enough details changed that it wouldn’t be immediately obvious to the grown-up kids that it was about them. Maybe Jamie learned about Viola or what happened to Hannah after the fact or maybe she just filled in the blanks as well as…

SURPRISE LUMBERFUCKER! 

In this version Dexter is a lumberjack who only cuts down other lumberjacks...with his sharp wit!

That said, I think it’s fucking sad that Jane Lynch is just a dumb gameshow host, so I hope this Supermarket Sweep thing isn’t the first of many.

“hits like a truck" - Dani's fiancee, shortly before being hit by a truck 

the bulk of this finale, pretty much everything after the first 15 minutes, was wonderful to me. I guess that’s not really a surprise, I’ve been super invested in Dani and Jamie from the start, but it basically all worked (and that scene when Jamie comes home and finds Dani with her face centimetres away from the…

Like HALF of those idiots decided to put meringue on their brownies.  Do the British just not have any idea what brownie is all about?!!  The ones with cookie/fig/whatever base - The chewy edge where the pan and batter come into contact is the magic.  Why would you eliminate the magic by putting a barrier (fruit,…

The Brownie Challenge was possibly the worst effort from top to bottom of any GBBO cast.

Yeah, I thought it was me. It’s not a good look.

Maybe I ought to give it another try, but Bad Times at the El Royale really fucking tried my patience. I remember pausing it at one point to go to the bathroom and audibly sighing when I realized how much time was left. 

Totally agree. I remember watching Tesis and Abre Los Ojos 20+ years ago thinking “This guy is going to be the next John Carpenter.” And then The Others came out and totally blew me away. And then...nothing. I liked The Sea Inside ok, but he just faded away after that. I never watched Agora or Regression. Agora looked…

The direction (and cinematography) of The Others absolutely made that movie. The framing of the shots was incredible and made what could have been normal atmosphere shots extremely creepy. Making daylight the enemy was also an inspired choice to flip the normal “afraid of the dark” trope.

Yeah I had real fear for Montrose when he and Tic were at the portal waiting and they framed him directly in front of the window. Hollywood loves a stray bullet moment just when people start to reconcile and I’m glad the writers didn’t go that way. It would have been melodramatic and wasteful.