Almost everything from this season is from The Big Nowhere, but especially the plots about Paul being closeted (Danny Upshaw) and Ray killing his wife's rapist and raising the offspring (Mal Considine). I haven't read it either, but there was a list on Reddit recently listing a whole bunch more elements being taken…

If we're splitting hairs, Paul is Danny Upshaw from The Big Nowhere - but it'd be hard to draw any other concrete comparisons, seeing as how self-loathing and harbouring dark secrets are traits shared by both most of Ellroy's protagonists and the protagonists of this season.

If this season is nothing but Ellroy parallels (I hesitate to use the word rip-offs), then I say that Paul will turn out like Bud White: barely alive, but alive. I say shot in the spine or back of the neck, and will come out of the season as a quadriplegic.

Though noise rock is an underrecognized genre in Woody Allen soundtracks.

Woody Allen said something about himself - QUICK, RALLY THE VILLAGERS AND THEIR PITCHFORKS!!

I've never noticed that before, but now I'll never be able to unnotice it.

Mariel Hemingway just released a memoir that claims that after filming Manhattan, Woody waited till she turned 18 and then asked her on a trip to Paris with him, which she declined, and the relationship in the movie itself is supposedly inspired by an actual relationship he had with a 17 year old girl named Stacey…

C.K.'s an idol to us all, which is what compelled me investigate this sordid tale further. Apparently, it's more or less of an open secret in the comedy world that one of Louis' sexual proclivities is to masturbate in front of [consensual] women (the event that's referred to specifically regards two women who asked to…

"I learned a little bit about cults during that year I was a Scientologist…because coincidentally during that year I happened to read a book about cults"

I will never get sick of Hollywoo Stars: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!.

Credit to Alison Brie where credit to Alison Brie is due: I absolutely thought Vincent Adultman was voiced by an actual child before I checked IMDb.

This show and it's unexpected and insane cameos literally made me think that after the "Book Beck" line, Beck was totally going to show up somewhere later in the episode.

"He had blue balls

I want my life in Bastille-o-vision.

I mean, this series is funny and all in the occasional chuckle at the ridiculousness sort of way, but honestly, I could watch the entire thing again just for how fucking amazing it looks. The photography, the sets - everything it's sending up looks so weirdly goddamn amazing, it really, really proves that everything…

You forgot,
Troll mentions for no reason:
a. Woody Allen
b. Roman Polanski
c. Both
d. Both, and also Lena Dunham

That's simply ridiculous; everybody knows that the Kennedy assassination was masterminded by two crooked CIA agents by the names of Kemper Boyd and Ward C. Littell, along with Pete Bonduraunt, the heroin dealer/strongarm of Howard Hughes who also did some dirty work on the side for Jimmy Hoffa and Guy Bannister, in…

"This whole 'animated film' fad has worked out all well and good, but now we must figure out a way to make toy commercials 90 minutes long…"

Two episodes in, and I find something off about the structuring of these episodes. There were some stray thoughts I had in the pilot, just along the lines of "Oh, that scene would have probably worked better at the beginning to let the whole thing flow better" and whatnot, but in the first ten minutes of this episode,…

At least Ford had the audacity to end The Searchers with John Wayne being ostracised by the very society he was trying to preserve.