I never noticed this myself but learned it from the BCS wiki page:

Best I can figure is Chuck’s comment to Jimmy that Jimmy with a law license is like a chimp with a machine gun. Maybe Kim just no longer trusted herself to wield that power.

Just an incredible episode. I did a BrBa rewatch after the midseason finale and was surprised at how much distance remained between BCS Jimmy and BrBa Saul in terms of the latter just being an utter scumbag. I questioned if they were going to be able to narratively bridge that gap in a way that made sense. And then…

Tarrare has one of the best pages on all of Wikipedia.

It’s not spoiling anything, her death is the entire premise of the show and revealed within the first few seconds of episode 1.

The song is “Motivation” and came out in 2011

Also that Kelly Rowland song came out 12 years after that scene was supposed to be taking place...

Man I wanted to love this. I’m a Mann fan but the bottom third or so of his filmography is *rough*, especially when it comes to dialogue and casting, and unfortunately that’s where this show seems to slot in. Definitely more Blackhat than Insider. I’d never heard of Elgort before this but agree with the commenters…

Seyfried’s performance alone justifies the show’s existence. Just absolutely crushed it. She deserves all the awards.

Definitely recommend the HBO doc. What she did was foul...and yet somehow not malicious? And certainly not a crime under the statute she was charged/convicted. Very difficult case to understand.

Totally man, I too think that people who narrowly miss achieving something that literally no one in history has ever done are irredeemably weak failures.

I know right, she couldn’t even get elected president of a country so sexist that it chose a serial rapist instead, what an ineffectual loser.

I really enjoyed this. Downton was one of my favorite shows so I’m here for another workout of that formula, in another interesting historical time and place, with a superior cast even. I don’t even mind the regressive elements of Fellowes’s sensibility, I just love the gentle, low-stakes nature of his shows, and how…

My school banned them because they became a class status symbol and made the kids from less well-off families feel bad.

Earlier Lottie had said “Something’s coming” and the camera immediately cut to Shauna’s baby bump. In the moment I thought it was definite foreshadowing of Shauna miscarrying and the girls eating the fetus...but yeah that’s hella dark.

Homeland is indeed a cautionary example but I’d argue this show is already ahead of Homeland S1, which was good because the excellent cast managed to elevate some highly questionable material. Then it immediately became terrible after S1. Anyways, fingers crossed Showtime at long last manages to make a good show for…

Just to say, I didn’t get the same contemptuous vibe from the ending as the author did. Loving this show though. Has to be the best Showtime show of all time, non-Twin Peaks division, right?

There is plenty of bloat, but they still put out some good stuff. I’ve enjoyed Unsolved Mysteries, Sophie, Sons of Sam, Tiger King S1, The Keepers, The Innocent Man, Wild Wild Country, Wormwood. Hotel Cecil was more on the bloated, thin side though, so my expectations for this Times Square entry are not particularly…

I watched it last night without noting the runtime and was surprised just now to learn it was 145 mins, it really didn’t seem overlong.

What a tragic loss. He was such a talent. Sharp Objects in particular would have been middling in the hands of an average director, but he singlehandedly elevated the material to create something truly special.