Yeah, my memory of the younger ones is pretty vague but if they’d had a different Kathleen (or Kathy, of course), it wouldn’t have had the same built-in emotional impact. Especially since of the many offspring, she had the most story.

They had the same Kathleen and Dickie, though, which I thought was pretty impressive since of course kid actors often don’t stay actors, and those they do often go west.

While I quite agree with some of that, this is a jackpot role for Ice-T. Steady, long-term work that doesn’t really give him challenging acting material. I enjoy him, but this is a perfect fit, I have a hard time believing this is a waste of his acting talent. This is a dream job.

So you think it was canceled because he was also making noises about leaving, so much so that they cut short the final season? (Or maybe I misunderstood what you meant)

So sad to see it go, got ridiculously emotional at the finale. I still don’t understand why it got canceled so quickly right after it came back, and with a cut-short final season, no less.

That’s the depressing part. Going to a top college does often provide social mobility for working and middle class students, but rich kids are going to be fine either way. It’s a giant waste and doesn’t even ultimately advantage the kids in the way one assumed their rich parents mean for it to.

Yeah, there’s no way she would’ve done all that without a lot of stuff set in motion. It wouldn’t have made any sense otherwise. That was the whole point. She meant to die so that could happen. (Plus I think the idea that they all got their “just desserts” simply because they were arrested is not implied at all, to me.…

I hadn’t even made the connection when I first watched The Wire, there had been quite a lot of daylight since I’d seen 25th Hour at that point, but when I first heard Clay’s “sheeeeeeeeit” I got a chill and it took me a while to remember why (since it was fairly innocuous in that context). And that’s exactly it,…

Oh right, true, they definitely tried to sell her hard as the “naive Southern girl” archetype.

I don’t think Julie got the short end of anything, she and Eric definitely got the most screen time in the first season, there was a whole battle about that with the rest of the cast.

I watched, but damn that was depressing. 

Mini-Veronica Mars reunion, mini-G.L.O.W. reunion!

I agree, every scene with Martin Sheen felt a little too goofy for the rest of the tone because of the prosthetics. (It reminded me of Harrison Ford in 42.)

“And after that, CBS launches its Silence Of The Lambs sequel series, which begins a year after the events of the film and a scant 20 years after the premiere of said film.”

I was really jarred by those very nice, pretty songs. I’ve got no clue what he’s churned out in the past, but the songs he did last night definitely were not what I’d always imagined he was putting out. Based on whatever his whole thing is.

I didn’t like how they skipped so much of the good stuff for Jerri and the girls. They took up a solid 40% of the show thus far, we were asked to be deeply invested in their emotional journeys, and then we got about 2 seconds of their rescue. Then the next we saw them, they had already expressed their relief or…

I didn’t love this as much as the first special, I think largely because the Jules character is presented so heavily in a sexual context (and yes, teens have tons of sex and puberty is a whole thing so of course sex is a big deal, but there’s just something about the way it’s depicted for her and not Rue that makes me…

I quite loved this film, and this review is the first time I read that the ASL was subtitled. It certainly wasn’t in the one I watched, which I really liked since it kind of mimicked his experience of having to pick it up little by little with context clues. (Well, to a viewer who can hear and doesn’t know ASL beyond…

The weirdest part was how often the ads would come seconds before the built-in break, so we’d come back from ads for the last 3 seconds of the interrupted scenes.

Speaking as someone who does not know the story, this was impossible to follow, and not in a “oh, cool teasers, can’t wait till they draw that out and explain it” way, but in a “this is not worth it, there’s no hook” way.