It's in the way some of the interactions of the characters she describes
are just a wee bit off. Epipens and tomatoes. A beautiful famous musician is kidnapped from Cuba and nobody notices?

+1 for "reveal at the Olive Garden"

I saw it yesterday. Had to drive an hour to get to it, since it's been so universally panned it's already gone from the city. Maybe if I had read the book I'd feel as cheated as all the critics apparently do, but I believe a movie adaptation has to stand on its own, and be judged that way too.

Hm, I'll have to think about that. I never would have called Juno a "genuinely subversive send-up of pop culture", even though it is subversive and dripping with pop culture references… Interesting idea.

Always love her, don't see her enough. "Fancy a breath mint?"

See, that's the thing I don't get: the movie gets criticized for not being genuinely subversive enough, but please name me a genuinely subversive send-up of pop culture in the last 20 years.

Take the Chevy to the levy.

I like the show. There's a little too much setup-without-payoff for my tastes — are we sure Damon Lindelof isn't hiding backstage somewhere? See, the thing about payoff is that once you have it you can move the story on. Try to keep it all setup and things get static. There's definitely something static about this…

Ideas can take a while to grow, and that's fair. But Eliza Dushku was just unwatchable. Unlikeable. Unbearable.

Just finished watching the season closer. Overall I like the show. Am glad they're setting up for a season 2 (I haven't looked yet to see if it's has already been purchased—I hope so). I was waiting for a badass black superhero and I think Luke Cage delivered on that front.

Also involving tracking shot of a limousine.

I think the many dark scenes are too flat. Compare to the dark scenes in Breaking Bad, where there is much more definition of the objects and people in a room. I've been wondering if that's a difference between shooting on film (as in BB) vs. digital?

It's easy to overuse cliffhangers—a few of them go a long way. I was pretty annoyed when Darlene answered the omnipresent Pounding On The Door and we didn't get to see who was there. All we got to see was the flicker of her eyes which told us it was more than one person.

The obvious reference point to me was Fight Club, when Jack silently watches from the sidelines as Tyler Durden does his leadership thing.

In the umbrella scene with Whiterose, Price reminded me of Danny McBride's character in This Is The End, if McBride had decided to go straight and had aged another 30 years. "I'll come wherever I want!"

Well I was kind of wondering about the angle of that pee-stream. OTOH sister clearly has some electrolysis to finish.

That's totally what I'm saying: we don't live in the world where 5/9 happened, but I don't want an in-story additional alternate universe.

I wondered what that was. And I wonder what Project Berenstain really is… I hope we don't go all Fringe and alternate reality — beyond the fact that they ARE in an alternate reality from the world the audience inhabits, if only by virtue of this being a fiction.

I really hope that's not all it is. That she wasn't letting Price bullshit her about being all Bold and such. That she's actually got some long game going that we can rally behind.

I just want to know if she really means it or not. With the shoe salesman I wasn't sure. Given the fact that she was drunk this time, it seemed more like she did. What convinced her to go over to the Dark Side? I don't remember a particular moment…