It’s a great approach! For my 40th and 50th I did weekend getaways with a relatively small group of friends (5-10 people) which was a good compromise - you get to spend actual quality time with folks and if you do your dinner in the same place where you’re staying you can avoid wearing uncomfortable shoes and go to…

I originally thought you meant this was a “purse chair” - as in, something you carry around to balance your $10K Kelly bag or whatever on so it never has to touch the floor. (Pretentious restaurants sometimes have these). I was astonished to find it was actually something even more useless!

I feel this episode also amply displays the perils in throwing a huge party to celebrate a major birthday. Even for people who are not basically suing their family and have actual friends, this type of event creates a LOT of pressure to have the most amazing time ever on a single night that will never be able to measur…

I do think there are some wealthy people who are relatively sane and happy, but that ends long before you get to Roy levels of rich. There is no way you make billions of dollars in one lifetime without doing some incredibly unethical things (e.g., screwing over a business partner, exploiting low-wage workers,…

I can’t tell if that is a cinnamon stick or a cigarette butt in that photo. Neither has any place anywhere near a turkey!

I’m picturing that meeting between Jenna and James Franco and his “people” on 30 Rock where she agreed to pretend to be his girlfriend while shilling for Jamba Juice to conceal his affair with a Japanese body pillow. Those were the days. . .

I feel Connor was maybe originally supposed to be that guy but they then figured it out it would be way funnier for him to rock this loopy presidential run thing rather than be the one sane Roy kid. The only current player who would sort of fit this role is Rava I think - she’ll take the alimony and massive apartment…

You can emotionally cut off a child as well as disinherit him/her, but Kendall’s status as an officer of Roystar Wayco is a different matter. Technically speaking he is a whistleblower and they can’t just fire him for pointing out wrongdoing at the company without risking legal penalties/a suit for wrongful termination…

In a post-COVID world it honestly scares me that ANYONE is completely unable to cook. These days you can no longer rely on restaurants to do your cooking for you, or on grocery stores to be able to keep prepared/frozen foods, mixes, etc. in stock. During the early part of the pandemic I made every single meal I ate…

My family is from Asia and pre-COVID I was flying back and forth every other year or so. There is NO WAY I am keeping my shoes on for the entire duration of a 15-20+ hour flight. Indeed, many of these flights give you a pair of slipper socks entirely for that purpose. I’ll put them on if they give them to me but…

Amen. I enjoy cooking and am good at it but long ago thought this through and decided that it was more important for me to entertain frequently without tearing my hair out than to meticulously make multicourse meals from scratch once or twice a year. And overall, as long as the food is good (and the liquor is flowing) …

I am no grill maven but it’s been a lifesaver during COVID - I live in Manhattan and am lucky enough to have a terrace large enough to accommodate a (gas) grill as well as seating, enabling me to have folks over to dine outside during the warmer months. My go-to has been pork ribs, parbaked with a rub either earlier…

What I meant is that I watched both seasons in my spare time, I certainly don’t know how things work for AVClub/real-world Vaulter. And again, it would take 10 minutes to verify the Colin thing. 

I mean, I have a fulltime job that does not involve writing recaps for Succession and still watched both seasons to get ready, but that isn’t even neecessary. All you’d have to do is go to the last episode of S1 and FFW through until you got to the coverup section. It would take 10 minutes and seems worth doing?

Kendall is also the only sibling constantly shown listening to to music, it makes perfect sense that he’d go this route. Meanwhile, Logan still cares about the stock price. He wouldn’t be above driving a wedge between Shiv and Kendall but never would have done it in such a public way. That town hall was being…

I think my poor cousin honestly had no idea what he was getting himself into. They have two kids of their own and at one point the daughter’s entire family (at that point 7 kids with one on the way) was staying with them during a home renovation. We barely see my cousin now and when he does come to things he usually…

I think it’s similar to GOT a bit - they’ve likely aged up Paul a bit both because it’s a hassle to cast actual children and because contemporary audiences are not too interested in seeing kids who are not old enough to drive or vote kill people and have sex. I feel Chalamet is supposed to be college freshman age in…

Ha. I have a relative who married a woman whose own family were all Quiverfull-type religious nuts. She herself got married to her first husband young to get out of the house and had two kids in her early 20s. Unfortunately the daughter reverted back to the cult and started having kids in her late teens. So by the…

Well, Alan Ruck also played a high school student when he was 28 so that’s casting for you. . . 

I mean, that’s basically what they did in the Lynch version. I also thought they dragged out putting on stillsuits for a REALLY long time. (I don’t remember how it happened in the books but know they were wearing them before they even stepped foot onto the desert in the first movie.) I kept picturing all the moisture…