I think the intended reading of that line was "the way Adam is in bed, you can tell that he's just an unloving, heartless person," but the character couldn't think of a better way to convey the general idea of "heartlessness" than to accuse Adam of not even having any love for his mom, and she didn't notice how weird…

My super queer girlfriend watched it, and was the one who told me about it in the first place.

"Facial hair that people with actual jobs have"? I don't know where you live, but in San Francisco and every other city I've visited in the last 5-10 years, there really are people who have mustaches and/or beards, yet are gainfully employed.

I think you're reading way too much into a half-hour episode that focused on a short period of time and a very small group of friends, and you're also over-generalizing with statements like "Gay guys are _____." What would "completely integrated" even mean for a person like Pat, whose defining characteristics so far…

I noticed the voice, but I assumed there was just no way they realistically could've used actual on-location sound for all the background stuff— especially for a voice announcing one specific stop on one specific line, hard to do multiple takes to record that.

"He's not in a "creative" occupation like Pat so of course he's stuffy and insists on splitting the check": that's kind of a weird reading of that scene. If you think the show is trying to set up a dichotomy between cool people who design videogames and boring people who do everything else, then why is Pat clearly a…

"Travis doesn't have anything real inside of himself except for hostility"

According to this guy, while the coloring in the Eclipse collections was a lot better than the Eclipse single issues, the Marvel re-color is a considerable improvement over that. Judging by the samples at that link, I'd have to agree.

I did see Sal as closeted from the start, but lines like that didn't seem like the writers belaboring a point, just Sal amusing himself. He knows that he's gay, and that he'll never do anything about it, and that his co-workers are mostly clueless, so he sees no reason not to tell what to him is a fairly bitter joke;…

"…the shot of Peggy watching as tissues covered in lipstick are deposited in trashcans works a little too hard to underline this particular point"

The first time I saw it, I didn't have any way to see it in a theater or rent it, but the library had it and they had some tiny video-viewing desks. So I sat at one of those for 2 1/2 hours, and then did it again a day or two later.

There are different kinds of fantasy epics, though. Unlike GoT, Sandman has very few scenes of big events happening to big crowds of people in a big landscape; most of its "oh shit lookit that" moments involve stuff that's kind of abstract, rather than an immersive "realistic" environment. The challenge would be more…

Catching up with this late so no one will see this comment, but… Hunter's performance is one of my favorite things about the show. Of course it's mannered! Someone with a less bizarre personality would not be in the position she's in— basically an accidental cult leader for people who are damaged enough to respond…

My biggest problem with it was that it let the general public totally off the hook. Moore made it pretty clear that although the future British didn't deserve to be trapped in totalitarian hell, they had been complicit in the rise of the regime and shared most of its bigoted point of view— e.g. when people get…

No songs in this one. Just Lovecraft + Poe + Tom Swift and some good solid horror-adventure. It's got more of a back-to-basics feel than the recent ones (though I did like "1969", so YMMV). Also has an impressively elaborate setup for a pretty obscure dirty joke about Citizen Kane.

She's stuck with quite a last name, too. It took me a while to remember why that sounded familiar— my anatomical vocabulary has gotten rusty since I stopped practicing.

I think it was also implied that she'd been on thin ice for some time— she told that guy he was the only ally she had left on the board. We saw her in this episode doing things that would really piss people off in acute care, like drafting random charge nurses as research assistants and trying to commandeer beds that…

I've been a nurse - mostly acute care, didn't spend much time on a unit like this, but I agree that a lot of it rings true, even when they were playing things pretty broadly. They really captured that bizarre gray area where on the one hand you're in a super-structured environment full of rules and without any…

IMDb cast lists, at least for TV, shouldn't be taken as gospel— they're just filled in by whoever feels like it. I would love to see Beverly back on the show too, not sure if "balance" is necessarily what the show needs but the character was really well written and acted.

Everything about Mickey is an affectation. He's a Polish Jewish guy whose idea of how to fit in with Irish gangsters involved changing his name and dressing and acting like a cartoon leprechaun.