Serious question, could we get the kinja system here without all that nonsense?

I have to click through like two buttons to see all comments chronologically. The default view shows like two comments, then the next view only shows approved comments. There also doesn't seem to be a way to sort newest first.

Please just get rid of that part of Kinja entirely. Or at least have a way in account settings to disable it.

Related, how will this approved commenter workaround work? I'm assuming it will only work for the avclub? Will it only work for those with avclub accounts? Will this link be around for only a limited time.

Will there be a way to do oldest or newest first?

Hey, that was only Sam Wang.

It's Packer, not McGruder who's quoted above about Confederate. McGruder isn't quoted at all in the Deadline article.

From the offical hbo announcement.

If you don't show the brand I believe you can talk about a brand all you want. If you show the brand you've gotta clear it through lawyers. (This is lawyer stuff I've learned from the Breaking Bad podcast).

I'm rewatching the second half of S2 now and there's a reference to project blue book in there somewhere in connection to the Major Briggs stuff. Blue Rose hasn't come up yet. (I think it's introduced in Fire Walk With Me?) But still, this here didn't even feel like much of a reveal of anything.

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I'm probably unreasonably excited to at the prospect of Barry Lyndon in 1.66:1 with original mono.

It's a 2.0 track that's designed to be decoded into 4 channels (left, right, center, surround). There's some technical reason for why it was the standard rather than something with discrete/seperate channels before they developed [digital] 5.1 in the early 90s.

It seemed to me that they had about 13 episodes of plot for a 22 episode season, and much of the first half suffered. The stuff that's good is really good though.

Have you seen Kobayashi's The Human Condition? That might be my pick for best trilogy.

Sounds like if we could have gotten nu-Star Wars's casting and this movie's visuals and imagination we could have had the greatest movie ever made :(

I laughed harder when I realized he was eating two TV dinners than I've laughed at anything in a while. I've always thought Twin Peaks was one of the funniest shows ever even though it's not really a comedy.

Dana Ashbrook was fantastic here, and shows Lynch can still get conventionally fantastic performances when he feels like it.

The use of the subtitles led me to take for granted that it was lodge related, but I now I kinda like the idea he's just high.

This was one of my favorites of the season, probably only behind 3, 4, and 8.