Da Five Bloods didn’t invite comparisons to Treasure of the Sierra Madre. It grabbed you by the lapels, slammed you into a wall and then shouted ‘Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ in your face, while you pressed your lips together to avoid spit in your mouth.

I had to look it up.

It’s either him or Thomas Rhett, if it was in the last two years.

Heard it many times.

Was that second Morgan Wallen song a sketch?

I’m with you on this. I loved season 3. And, yes, my Mary Elizabeth Winstead bias almost certainly has a lot to do with this.

Well, you and I just differ on Parenthood. I wish I liked it. I don’t watch movies wanting to dislike them, but, here we are.

Yeah, but Reiner started his career with a streak of films that stand up to any director in history and includes, depending on your tastes, two to five classics and no bad movies.

The only one of them that’s worth a shit is the original (and even that’s just a jumped up Flash Gordon ripoff).

A step down from what?

I think I’ll ignore it and just watch Velvet Goldmine again. I love Velvet Goldmine.

Having thought about this some more, I think we have to consider that this is a symbolic visual choice meant to signal that this moment, this death is when things really get dark.

It’s mid-December, Christmas decorations are all over. It gets dark early and fast that time of year.

They have to, right?

What a profoundly stupid reply.

He was asked a question that was posed with the goal of getting him to say something people could be demonstratively offended by and he provided said answer.

If you put Gong Li, Donnie Yen and Jet Li in a movie, I want to see that movie. And I really, really want to see this movie!

I want to love it, but I just like it.

It’s not unusual for a network series to figure our where it’s going, discover what works and what doesn’t and find it’s footing through a first season. It seems less usual for a series that, I presume, was entirely filmed before an episode aired.

It’s the nose. And, yes, she’s great.