I saw the film last week, and a few sweeping shots of Iñárritu’s reminded me of Sorrentino. Some of the characters, too, seemed as if they had flown from Rome to the Rome of America, Mexico City, to deliver lines in Spanish.

I think Albie and Portia are interesting only in that Albie believes he is acting differently because he is using different language. Regardless, he is still constantly calculating how to have sex with Portia even if its in a more politically correct way.

The scene where Daphne describes her difficult, very difficult birth, and Harper watches Cameron’s real emotion — real love for Daphne — was pretty amazing. It lifted all of the characters. You could see Harper trying to get beyond her own (probably perfectly correct) prejudices.

Well hey, a little art history show ’n tell is in order I guess, though the episode title is ultimately a great deal more subtle than merely a knowing tongue-in-cheek pun.

Thomasin McKenzie is going to be in a film adaptation of “Eileen”, and after “Leave No Trace” I’m not sure how consciously she’s trying to follow in Lawrence’s footsteps.

I agree - the assistant subplot is (granted, the series is young) idiotic. First - Greg would certainly be intimately familiar with his wife’s personal assistant, so the friction is confusing and forced. Two - once he’s expressed disappointment with her presence, can’t Tanya simply say - “go shop...see the…

Portia’s sweater, albeit short-sleeved, was making me itch with discomfort just imagining how hot it is there. 

If you ever hear Conan O Brien (or even Bill Hader) talk about working on SNL, it sounds really brutal. Conan specifically has said repeatedly that he has a love hate relationship with it, as the work itself he’s very proud of and he had a lot of fun, but that he was constantly near panic and the pace of the show…

Although those creepy noises from the third floor weren’t cool.

It’s like when The Facts of Life girls went to Paris or when the Head of the Class class went to Moscow or when the Seavers went to Hawaii or The Brady Bunch went to . . . Hawaii or the Owens’s went to, I think, Altoona or the Tanners went to the airport and they didn’t go anywhere because it snowed but they still had…

You know what was a good Jesse Eisenberg movie? The Art of Self-Defense. No joke I just really dug that movie.

His real name is Ed Hardy?

It’s almost as if (and this is no slight to the Russos, but rather a general observation on showbiz’s obsession with directorial auteur theory) the people writing the scripts have just as important a job as those who oversee the filming and editing of said works.

What’s the most 80's way to kill a sitcom dad? I think you go Punky Brewster and have him suffocate to death in an abandoned fridge. 

not sure why it hasn’t caught on, it’s one of the better shows this year, especially this season they really found what they wanted to present.

The fact that he kept tinkering with the water heater, making a mild nuisance into an unbearable racket is classic Walter White.

It’s kind of nice that, as it turns out, what is almost certainly our last glimpse of Walter White in this world isn’t the Nazi-killer super-scientist managing to effortlessly outwit his enemies one last time, but the pompous, bitter and frustrated pedant who can’t even let a harmless thought experiment about time…

not to be too literal... but for me, it feels kind of clear that the viewer is intended to mainly relate to Nathan as author/filmmaker, with the emotional draw being (as he described in this episode) the absurdity of modern life, as heightened and illuminated by paradoxical meta performances. even though that scene…

I just want to take this opportunity to say that I very much enjoy reading all the comments here after each episode (several days after, because I’m not usually able to watch until Wednesdays).
That said, I’m glad none of you are writers for the show, because all your theories and speculation and ideas for what…