Forster just waiting for the cops rolling up, letting Jesse rant — what a boss. He can play cards Jesse can’t and Jesse is still too dumb to know this. But he wises up.

Mine was ‘that’s not your daddy, that’s CGI baby.’

My money would still be on Amber nailing Jesse’s fatass, zig zag or not.

Levi’s sadness reminds me of no one being upset that Barney visits the burlesque house on “The Simpsons.”

I am so much more invested in this show than I ever thought I could be when it first started out. Don’t have much insight to lend, but goddammit Kelvin better get his shit together and go out and beg for Keefe back because I will be devastated if this show is missing his sad, strange, gentle, and delightful energy for…

So no gangsters in The Aviator somehow means that there’s not a bad guy being humanized? The movie about one of the most ruthless, cold-blooded, and flatly batshit crazy human beings of the 20th century isn’t about humanizing a bad guy - the “other,” the outsider?

YES.

Ah yes, don’t believe all THOSE reactions to the movie—they’re just fearmongering bandwagon irrational nonsense! Believe THIS reaction to the movie, which just happens to fit my own preconceptions and is the only rational take!

Donnie Brasco does a great job showing what a grind it is to be a low-level grunt in organized crime. You pay tribute every month to the next guy up the chain, even if that means knocking the heads off parking meters and prying them open for the change.

To be clear (since I apparently wasn’t in my first comment), I’m not suggesting that this is going to inspire those types to become Travis Bickle. In fact, I think it probably won’t—anyone who is predisposed to that sort of action has a lot more going on behind it than just watching a movie about the type of violent…

It would behoove you to reread what he wrote. It pretty clearly was not a critique of the artist, it was a critique of the response TO the artist. You’re factually correct that not all of his movies are like that, but that’s pretty irrelevant to the argument. Whether it’s 100%, 50% or 25%, the point is that Scorcese…

That would be a worthy twist: the guy we’ve been following all along backs out when the chips are down to go off and live normal life... only to stare astonished at the TV screen when they report that the Joker (presumably a copycat) is still in Gotham committing crimes.

I was being sarcastic, but I won’t lie, I think I’d do really well in a communist state. I’d inform on my neighbors, do whatever I could to make government quotas, and in general make myself available as a lick spittle to the party elite in order to secure myself a position on some local executive council.  

I legit don’t get why the Kremlin is upset. The Soviet Union was literally a different country and government. The cause and subsequent denial of the tragedy were undobutily the faults of the Soviet culture /government.  BUT The show makes the Russians themselves seem incredibly heroic. So many of them sacrificed…

I don’t really argue with the grade. There were some good defining moments, but not really new defining moments. Many people didn’t have anything to do, Al was barely involved in the plot, the plot was kind of a retread of the last episode, Trixie’s match-in-the-gascan was artificial, Hearst’s final gambit was both…

I wonder if some of these scenes involve the new whore character. I wasn’t quite sure why they brought her on.

Pretty much all of the main characters should be on the list. Even Paul Ritter. If there was an Emmy for “best portrayal of a complete prick” nobody would even be in his shadow, he killed it.  

And yet you misuse “whom” twice for no apparent reason other than that you perhaps think “whom” is a smug version of “who.” Give the writer a break. None of these sites can afford copy editors, much as I wish they could, speaking as someone who makes his living as a copy editor.

To get a third season of Twin Peaks *and* a conclusion to Deadwood seems kind of surreal to me, as those are two of my favorite shows of all time (Twin Peaks is #1, and Deadwood is IMHO the best show HBO has ever done, GoT, Sopranos, and The Wire included).  I would have killed for an 18 hour conclusion of Deadwood…

He got what he deserved for killing Raylan’s dad!