Shout out to Elizabeth Perkins as the crushingly dry studio exec — she’s still got that sharp edge that made her a great romantic figure in Big and such an interesting character in Weeds.

What’s not really discussed in this drop is the fact that the closure of the Russian service led to a drop of 700K subscribers. They would have grown had the war not occurred. Even as it stands, they made up more than 60% of those lost subscribers. 

Netflix is finally publicly speaking about ad-supported versions of the service for the first time (a clear act of desperation), yet they still haven’t figured out the #1 way they could retain subscribers (and easily erase that 200K drop) — launch series on a weekly, rather than all-at-once, schedule.

“The Bone show is a blow” come on guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ken’s descent into cynicism was one of the show’s low-key tragedies.

But he does innovate the long-form TV ad for Ginsu.

LOL. MM ended in 2015, so I’m 2 years off. ANYHOW...

Doing the math, it’s now 1975. Sally is a script superviser on Jaws when, getting stoned in her motel room with Murray Hamilton, she sees a TV report about the Simbianese Liberation Army and recognizes Glen among the group. Meanwhile, Don becomes consumed with the Betamax account. “People will forget VHS even…

Just make the next season all about Jack Bauer taking on “Big Christmas.”

I saw Louis CK in a Brooklyn basement comedy show in 2012 or 2013. He was a surprise guest. The room went wild. Me included. He had his notebook out and went on a loose comedic tear for more than an hour. It was one of my favorite nights as a comedy dork ever.

I hope Lynch just pays publicists to leak fake projects for the next 20 years.

How ... did we not manage to get to The Mindy Project in this convo? He and Fortune Feimster made for a great, weird sibling pairing. Probably his best comedic role. 

Hey, Black Mirror, this is how you do speculative fiction.

This is my Frost/Nixon

Al was speaking about weed when he told Fernando that he liked trees. That’s why he’s so perplexed when the host shows him an actual, literal tree.

I know Stiller spent years wanting to adapt CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, so I think this show is a fitting alternative — a reality that is like ours but somehow just off-center. (And shout out to making ORIGINAL content with no existing IP tie-in.)

The moment the Devonte-inspired Loquareeous turns and catches the viewer (or Earn?) creeping up on him is just such a fantastic moment. It felt like the tables were being turned on the viewer. 

I’m 47. Degree of difficulty is certainly an issue — especially by class/circumstance — but that’s true of all ages. The idea that one has essentially hit the end of the runway at 55 is bonkers (which was my original gripe). And the idea that 20, 30 or 40+ years is not a sufficiently long time to enact life changes is…

This show is a perfect counterpoint to the nerve-racking shows on my current watch list (Severance, The Maid). These sort of low-stakes shows seem to be filling the space that hangout shows like Friends or Seinfeld once occupied.

While we’re showing our appreciation for Carrie Coon (she was amazing in Leftovers), ICYMI: