that one bugged me…it was cute but it had a pop movie lightness to it that seemed completely at odds with pretty much every other conversation we've heard them have in private.

that's a valid theory….forced levity.  On a surface level it felt very odd considering the otherwise pretty dark/serious tone of their interactions when the kids are out of the room.

i was totally thrown by the light tone of the opening….the whole banter-y thing felt very much out of place….

one of the best.
http://youtu.be/F1TOkSYmNFE
so f-in good.

very good.

i hope that's true…if so it is pretty much a perfect little anecdote.  i can hear her saying that exact thing in her distinctive drug/alcohol/rock and roll textured voice.

zzzzzing.
it's also possible he doesn't consider cathy griffin to be a comedian.
it's ALSO possible he suspects that cathy griffin is in fact a man in drag a la ann coulter.
i'm not taking any sides tho.

eddie murphy's richard pryor impression is more accurate than his bill cosby impression.

plainview is more terrifying than any monster in any horror movie.

just out of curiosity is this show almost cancelled yet?

imo each rusty should be a different age ranging from 15-65 and the sex of the actor should also be varied as in tod solondz's Palidromes..men playing boys, boys playing men using old age make up, women playing men…every possible variation.  it's time to get post post modern up in this piece.

@avclub-32b63dd70d870580128d83e930199e1c:disqus again…i am not denigrating the show or characters and i was fully invested in whether bob would survive because of patton's strong sympathetic performance over the season, good writing, etc…I just pulled back from "full A" for this particularly climactic ep.

i am definitely a fan…but it is possible i have just seen too many "guy punches the other guy to make him say where the other guy is" scenes.  Much of the dialog in general definitely is great (if slightly short of deadwood, the wire, and the sopranos imo) but occasionally stumbles into more generic "tough-guy-ese".…

DAAAAMN patton took a lickin and kept on tickin.
overall i totally enjoyed the ep but thought it fell short of an A due to some cliched dialog and slightly awkward pacing.  still good stuff for sure tho.

never really paid him much attention cept for "the social network" but besides being an all around talented entertainer i think one thing sells this guy:  he is unfailingly pleasant and charming at all times (at least in public)…almost to a disturbing degree.  no hate filled rants, public intoxication, drunk driving,…

"I read somewhere that she's struggled with paranoid schizophrenia for a number of years"
i think this may be the "it" in this story….

they already tried this with Kramer…and it did not work.

interesting interpretation.  I always vaguely interpreted the whole supernatural/dream element as residual catholic guilt existing in an essentially godless universe, also sometimes combined with drug trances…but that's just me.  There also seems to be an element of strange things happening mostly as a means of seeing…

flea be a groovin…yorke be a dancin like a freak!

i always took the supernatural elements as projections of the characters (paulie seeing the virgin mary, etc) rather than genuine supernatural elements the audience is supposed to perceive as real.