If the character is the same exactly, it just seems weirder that he'd be as dweeby as Gus if he's more attractive. Part of the DNA of the show is that Gus thinks he's gonna comfortably slide into the role of "dorky but dependable Nice Guy who gets the wayward, troubled girl to settle down with him" and how that…

Nah. Too few hours in the day, too many other podcasts I already like.

He gets good guests.

That sounds like even more reason to avoid it.

I tried listening to Doughboys after hearing about it in the Love reviews, but I couldn't get through all the dweeby self referential shit. I can dig a podcast that has a central topic but meanders a bit, but this just felt like sitting at a table with some guys who were strictly communicating in inside jokes. Hard…

Isn't that a deleted scene though? I always thought that should have been left in. "Even if, especially if, they don't know about it."

Perceived likeability is the scourge of modern film. He's supposed to be seen as a shitty selfish guy who incrementally moves towards being a better person at the end. I just don't know where it's written that every protagonist has to be likeable.

Wholly inappropriate for the source material though imo.

Hornby even described the book as "about London".

I was always disappointed with this soundtrack. I was hoping for more obscure indie and less Stevie Wonder. Plus "In Mendocino" didn't make the cut.

Well, I'll never use the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" again. Thanks for that, i guess. I need a shower.

Anyone trying to argue that the attractiveness of the leads is unbalanced, just google "Gillian Jacobs boyfriend" and look at the first image. Then google Lesley Arfin and look at some of the shots of her. Get the fuck over yourselves. It's not that unbelievable.

Omfg you and everyone else. Seriously, it's part of the show, if you don't buy it don't watch.

Fuck, why aren't his specials streaming anywhere? Gone too soon.

I kinda see where you're coming from. But I think in this case it served the point of forcing intimacy between them.

I LOLed at that. I positively chortled.

I feel like both the reviewer and a lot of the fans are hellbent on reducing this show to something baser and less complex than it is.

I lived in Raleigh the year the Canes went to the Cup. Fairweathers as far as the eye could see.

The Sabre just shoots water at people? The fuck kinda sense does that make? Maybe a Niagara Falls connection but ??? It's a buffalo with a sword, it writes itself.

I've never heard of this but, Tom Waits in a Simpsons episode? That's everything.