The REAL versions of these characters would be boring as hell. The Murdoch kids are snoozes. That’s why drama works so well to tell these stories. They can be punched up a bit to be compelling while still delivering the truth about wealth and corruption. That line was funny, even if it does sound a little like a…

We were absolutely meant to have the “is Tom going to jump?” thought — the lingering camera was perfectly engineered to create that tension. Mad Men did similar teases with Don Draper.

He wants to be relevant, too. Money gives you relevance, but so too does a big network job and association with a famous family. Without 2 of the 3, he won’t be happy. 

I don’t know if Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas were the ideal choices to fill those roles on the recent British seasons, but if you see them interacting with the contestants you can see they’re so nice and gentle, especially when a competitor is having a rough moment or is suffering serious doubt. I feel that those 2…

That’s interesting. I’ll have to rewatch it with that in mind. 

What on earth is going on with the edit capabilities on this site? In any case, I wanted to scratch Martin McDonagh and actually have the Safdie bros direct. 

This seems too obvious and too ripe for fanboyism. Want to make an interesting movie? Do one about the 1980-81 season and let the Safdie bros make it. 

Tyler James Williams as Garrett Morris

This who’s who casting is numbing. Give me a star or two surrounded by solid character actors and new faces. I don’t need CAA’s entire client roster to make a film interesting. 

Yeah, that’s management, not the creators. Netflix doesn’t understand how to construct seasons. 

Honestly, I’m curious how we get from that shot to Barry and Sally living anonymously (it really better not be some cheap hallucination). 

I got the sense that his son isn’t dead. I think that would break Gene as a character. You just can’t come back from that. He’s already come back from one bout of grief. I hope he doesn’t get sidelined in another. 

CAW! CAW! (is that how ravens sound?)

Yeah, the bread cutting was the most unnerving thing in a show filled with unnerving stuff. I am guessing we are to believe the man has lived off of restaurant and take out fare for so long he has no clue how to prepare food. 

Damn, Barry LOVES Bud and donuts. And Sally LOVES wine.

I miss Mencken. His scenes with Roman were some of the best of the series.

These streamers keep putting unique talents in golden cages and the result is always dull, dull, dull. The Russo brothers made some of the best TV of the last 20 years — Community, Arrested Development, Todd Margaret and Happy Endings alone should get them in some kind of hall of fame. But their escalating profile at…

Rip Torn was a legend. A couple years before he died he got arrested for trying to break into a bank that he mistook for his house. 

Hey now! 

What makes a Barry action scene so unique and genuinely exciting is the visceral chaos and clumsiness of the violence. Killers fumble, people get in lucky shots, everything feels genuinely unpredictable — and all the more horrifying and funny because of that awkwardness. Think of Sally’s pen jab or the way Barry gets…