I'M TRAPPED IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION

H20 anyone?

H20 anyone?

It's not a question of realism. It's a question of a strange, awkward tone that's owed to a situation where, even in a comedy, the line that's being crossed is creepy. And that's my general problem with the show: a totally scattered tone that never congeals into something specific.

It's not a question of realism. It's a question of a strange, awkward tone that's owed to a situation where, even in a comedy, the line that's being crossed is creepy. And that's my general problem with the show: a totally scattered tone that never congeals into something specific.

I'm a little surprised by all the positivity. I found the "Danny as Mindy's gynocologist" storyline insanely creepy and gross.

I'm a little surprised by all the positivity. I found the "Danny as Mindy's gynocologist" storyline insanely creepy and gross.

The idea that you can't criticize capitalism if you have ever made any money is one of the most tired, pathetic, lamest arguments I can imagine.

The idea that you can't criticize capitalism if you have ever made any money is one of the most tired, pathetic, lamest arguments I can imagine.

Beaten to the punch.

Beaten to the punch.

It really is something, how much effort you're willing to invest to dismiss arguments and aesthetics that make you uncomfortable. It's like reading Ross Douthat. That snarky line about working class folk at the end there? That is not an argument.

It really is something, how much effort you're willing to invest to dismiss arguments and aesthetics that make you uncomfortable. It's like reading Ross Douthat. That snarky line about working class folk at the end there? That is not an argument.

To my mind, you're failing to draw enough of a distinction between the material reality that there are endless movies about pretty young white privileged twenty-somethings struggling to find out who they are, on the one hand, and the vague idea that we "take movies about poverty more seriously." The first is far more…

To my mind, you're failing to draw enough of a distinction between the material reality that there are endless movies about pretty young white privileged twenty-somethings struggling to find out who they are, on the one hand, and the vague idea that we "take movies about poverty more seriously." The first is far more…

I was apoplectic when people were complaining that Precious was "poverty porn." Because, you know, that's the problem with movies these days: there's too much consideration of black poverty. The simple fact of the matter is that a very large percentage of the movies we get are about and for a very narrow segment of…

I was apoplectic when people were complaining that Precious was "poverty porn." Because, you know, that's the problem with movies these days: there's too much consideration of black poverty. The simple fact of the matter is that a very large percentage of the movies we get are about and for a very narrow segment of…

"Glee is a show—imperfectly, I’ll admit—about growing up"
I'm getting vertigo from thinking about this sentence. Attaching that adverb to "to be"… I just don't know.

"Glee is a show—imperfectly, I’ll admit—about growing up"
I'm getting vertigo from thinking about this sentence. Attaching that adverb to "to be"… I just don't know.

"While the second season of the show is more consistent, season one had the most firsts."
nicolascageyoudontsay.jpg