"[S]ucking Dunkirk’s largely unnamed characters toward a climax…"

Never been inside a nightclub … and now it appears I've missed my window ever to do so. Ah, the road not travelled.

In China, they usually have the decency to murder you behind prison walls.

There are no "workers" in this particular case.

What's an Ed Sheera- … you know what, never mind. Old age hath its privileges.

Yep. And what it actually does is self-select for commenters who are too nuts even to care about anonymity. (Also—depending on the site—too old, cranky, and tech-unsavvy to care.)

I'll go a step farther in the direction of generality: ridiculing someone based on appearance—even Ann Coulter—is being far too much like Ann Coulter for my tastes.

Looking forward to seeing where Chibnall et al. take this regeneration! I've never seen Whittaker in anything, so I'll mostly reserve judgment. One thing that strikes me: she's a tad conventional-looking by (historically eccentric) Doctor standards … but then, so was Peter Davison.

Counterpoint: Chris Christie.

My apartment walls and windows aren't papered over with impossibly vile fanfiction about a female Doctor.

Agt. Preston is one of the show's most discomfiting characters … but for the life of me, I can't decide whether that's intentional or not. The show seems insistent on wanting us to see her through the eyes of a skeevy 1950s Don Draper manqué … but is it being meta in doing so, or is Lynch creepily showing his hand…

Spring for the whole box set!
"Livin' and Dyin' on Qyburn Time"
"Pappy Ran on Wildfire"
"A Lannister Always Breaks Her Man"
"Very Bad Day (with Septon Ray)"
"I Made Her List"
"Watermelon from Dorne (I Am the Law)"
"The Brazier and the Damage Done"

Gregor is his own washboard.

Littlefinger demonstrably loved another human being at one point in his life.

I spent the first four decades of my life in Atlanta … and never once encountered the wings in question. (Maybe it's because I never went to a strip club?)

They're not unlike flip-flops, or shorts. Wear them where no one else will ever see you, and no harm done. Wear them in public, and lose your adult card.

This is your prerogative. However, if you should ever have any business to conduct with me, kindly go to the back door, drop off your info, and go far, far away. If absolutely necessary, my people will contact you. Please don't touch them.

Hodgy has more pride than to appear in this movie.

I thought that the bug/frog thing was the larval Bob … and that Girl became his first host (though far, far from his last). Now I think of it, though, 1956 is pretty close to when young Leland must first have encountered Bob—for my guess to be right, Girl's misadventures would've had to be extremely brief and…

Pence is a timeserving weasel of a perfectly familiar type—the sort that the Republic has easily survived before. I've little use for the man, but he's capable of carrying out the office's elementary duties (with however little distinction). At this point, that's good enough for me.