He should be on that celeb show where they drop the famous person in the middle of the woods and watch them attempt to survive... only just drop him in the middle of the woods and leave him.

Waiting for O’Godot.

This is getting ridiculous. Hart won’t rest til every single person on earth takes a moment to appreciate how much he is NOT beating his hypothetical gay children, and how much he is NOT committing hate crimes on a regular basis.

He was actually stealing from Tig Notaro, who’s been going to people’s homes and offices for years to do intimate sets.

If Mel Gibson can come back, why can’t Kevin Spacey?

Might as well be gas-powered if it requires that much juice. No wonder it fell apart--it vibrated itself to death.

The best part of the entire series happens in the first 10 minutes of season 2, and there’s really no reason to watch after (and really just skip around the first season). I like the BBC version, but this version was so completely overrated—it was virtually unwatchable, and I TRIED watching it.

MULTIPLE COTTON BALLS

Indeed. Soon my comments will require footnotes.

I feel a Jane Fonda joke is missing here.

The Norman Bates Issue... One reason I think Gus van Sant’s remake of Psycho failed is because Anthony Perkins was the perfect type to play Norman. Once you cast a large, brutish-looking boy-man in the role, as van Sant did with Vince Vaughn, you change the dynamic—when Marion is in a room alone with someone who looks…

I thought Trust was a lot of good performances stuck with a meandering script. I watched all of it, but didn’t really care for any of it.

I wonder how much in the way of grooming that film managed. I mean, I saw it when I was a teenager and, while surprised at the relationship with Tracy, I thought ‘Well, maybe that’s just normal and I live in a small town in AL so don’t know better.’ I loved the film, but watching it now is almost impossible.

There was a spin-off, of course, so BBC knew they had a hit. I don’t think budget in the 1970s was an issue--I mean, the BBC did some of the best work in the 1970s, from our POV here in the States. You will never convince me that Downton Abbey was better in terms of plot.

I’m sure. But was Crawley a peer? I don’t recall, honestly. The thing with ‘Upstairs Downstairs,’ I suppose, is that it took place in a townhouse--it wasn’t a manor or anything. So it was a step closer to Earth than the orbit of the Downton Abbey characters--but the writers of Downton still tried to keep them…

Once Ms. O’Brien and her murderous soaps left the show, there was no real reason to watch. 

That’s what pisses me off about Downton Abbey. It’s just a direct rip-off of the 1970s ‘Upstairs Downstairs,’ right down to some plot-points. And Upstairs Downstairs had a realistic plot arc—by the end, 1929 had wiped out the family; the servants had left service entirely and the family had lost the house. One of the…

My favorite part was watching it on PBS with Laura Linney. “For no damn reason, here’s Laura Linney” was an oft-repeated line in our household, as she’d show up to introduce each episode while having no discernable connection to the actual show, or Edwardian England in general, and her introductions were completely…

He was so vindictive I’m surprised he had time for anything other than revenge.

Maybe Netflix’s recent cancel-everything spree was really just a viral marketing campaign for this show?