If you have any 11 year old boys in your life, take them with you. I took Thing1&2, and oh my god. They were screaming, laughing pointing and just being hilarious. I would have been mortified by the amount of noise they were making, but the movie was so loud, no one else could really hear them anyway. And SLJ's…

I thought that broad, shouty and amateurish was pretty much exactly what Gaston is, but YMMV.
Here's the Gaston-off.
https://m.youtube.com/watch…

It's not Stockholm syndrome, it's the implication that your scary, violent, verbally abuse SO will change if you are special/patient/hot enough. It's the same reason 50 Shades bothers the fuck out of me. Most verbally abusive bullying assholes really are Heathcliffe, not a prince underneath.

5-10 years too late, though I understand his broadway Gaston was inspired. I'm pissed that they didn't cast great singers and am refusing to see it on that basis. Why include the songs if you care so little about their performance?

I think Oliver is hiding in his "Fortress of Solitude" because the Shadow King tried to get him at some point. I can't remember what he said that made me think he knew what was chasing David.

"We're emotionally advanced: We can hold resentment and sympathy for a person at the same time." That might be one of the most mature lines ever uttered on this show.

Melanie is a tenuous authority figure at best. Her character seems fully aware of the fact that once David realizes his full potential, no one be "in control" except David. She is walking a very thin line between offering guidance and not alienating him so when he inevitably does learn control, he won't have any…

I think she she got pretty vague at that point in the story on purpose. The logistics of that scenario would be pretty difficult to abide by the rules as set forth, so it just ends with a lot of screaming. I think a lot of it would depend on how quickly the dude noticed that it was Syd not her mom. He may have…

Syd's all in, but Melanie certainly isn't. Melanie is suspicious, to the point that Syd goes into the whole "That's my man" speech. But when the devil is standing in front of you and offering you the one thing you want most in the world, you'd have to be some kind of monster yourself not to acknowledge that longing.…

You can see the battle of base instincts vs "angels of better nature" play out most in Jean Smart. She altruistically knows that she can help him, but she pushes through the obvious danger because of the possible selfish payoff on the other side. She's just immaculate in this.
As to Syd, all I'll say is this: When…

She did it before. I think as long as she knew it was happening it would be ok. The sex role reversal would be the weirdest part. That and the sensation that you were literally fucking yourself. Alright, maybe it would just be too weird to be sexy.

So this is what a Noah Hawley horror movie would look like. Me likey, though that was the creepiest version of Rainbow connection ever, dammit.
So Syd/David sex. Why not just touch? Is he afraid she'll accidentally make the Hoover dam disappear if she orgasms as him?

NifAlice positively lighting up at the mention of participating in a bank heist was the highlight for me. "You're doing this."

He got up and played along for a bit though. Can you imagine if Christian Bale had been nom'd this year? There could have been blood spilled.

Finally someone acknowledging that it was FAYE who Announced LLL, not Warren. Is everybody that fucking afraid of Faye, "NO WIRE HANGERS!" Dunaway that we're just going to throw poor Warren under the bus and pretend she didn't do it?

Fuck it, I unabashedly loved this, though I did note that they did not put any of Hollywoods most notoriously taciturn stars front and center for this. I was really looking forward to Vicki thawing the icy glare of Harrison Ford or DiNiro.

I really like the Angriest Boy book. It starts like a Shel Silverstein and quickly descends into Lewis Carrol. Snicker Snack indeed. Between this and the Fargo Jaberwocky references last season, I think we can say Hawley's a fan. So the demon w/ yellow eyes is probably an xman villian, but I like that it's set up…

Whoever did the editing for this episode needs to be in charge from here on out. This was perfect, not choppy, brisk but not so fast that you got lost, and heartbreaking. Genius to have Emily and Maykovski's stories intercut. Julia's story was big enough not to get overshadowed either. Now that Margo has brought…

It's not so much the possible Stockholm that bothers me. It's the implication that if you're special enough, the violent/abusive person in your life will change because of you and you'll live happily ever after.

Thinking on this, even though they feel like fully fleshed out characters to us (mostly), both Julia and Margo are a "type." Margo has clearly met plenty of Julia's and Julia has met plenty of Margos. Both are smart bitches, and it wouldn't take much for them to start throwing generalized shade they way they did. …