Yes, childhood must have been tough in Robot City.

I loved Togetherness-- among other things, it seemed to usher in a new Amanda Peet Renaissance-- but it REALLY tanked by the end of season 2.  I thought the terrible, contrived school plot was due to them having to rush to ‘finish’ the season ahead of cancellation.  Now that I see that wasn’t the case, I’m not sad it…

Why not just release it in theaters so all the Covid-19 deniers can hold watch parties?  Go where your audience is, people

Yeah, I knew they hired Pauson to do something. Paulson is such a heavy hitter—she’s like the Yakuza in the white suit in that classic Simpsons bit. You know she’s gonna do SOMETHING... and when she does, it’s gonna be good.

Margo Martindale sounds exactly how you want Margo Martindale to be. Margo gonna Martindale! Just the best.

The fuck did I do?

Kang rushed to his computer to post this exact same scene-- which shouldn’t work nearly as well as it does.  But it has 2 aces:  1. Souxsie and the Banshees, and 2. Michelle fucking Pfeiffer, who sells the SHIT out of this moment.

I love that this show focuses episodes on individual characters. It’s effective at spotlighting the individuality and specific challenges unique to each of these women— they aren’t reduced to a monolithic ‘agenda’. It allows the show to breathe and portray each of these people with their own unique hangups,…

This brings up an interesting point about how bad this season turned out, and how thematically unconvincing it is. Think about it: The idea of randomness and choice is supposed to be the liberating alternative to overdeterministic algorithmic existence. Dolores’ befriending Caleb would be so much more interesting…

Yes, people are so caught up in how badly written this finale was, that they’ve forgotten to give proper credit to how shittily directed it was.

Sigh. The new, engaging ‘Westworld’ has sadly reverted back to the bland, vague, and needlessly convoluted old ‘Westworld’.

It might have to do with the fact that he seems heavily medicated/drinking vodka for breakfast 

Westworld the straightforwardly-shallow-future-robot-revolution-show co-starring Aaron Paul is already waaaay better than Westworld the just-as-shallow-robot-revolution-show-dressed-up-with-boring-fake-existentialism-and-disguised-with-temporal/structural-fuckery

Agreed. Kang couldn’t stand Buttigieg in the debates— he struck me as a sanctimonious, overly rehearsed and smug— or his message, which seemed to be: ‘We need to bring the country together--to recognize electability is the only important thing about a presidential candidate, and wouldn’t you just know it, no one on…

Cool, I knew about ‘Grimhaven’— Just that it was an unpublished version of ‘The Way We Die Now’ that had Hoke do something so unforgivable that his editor advised him he should shelve it and try again or he’d never be able to use Hoke as a character again. Sure enough, that scenario would be extremely upsetting to…

Since when was it titled ‘Burnt Umber’?  I have a quite old paperback copy of this book and it’s ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’.  Also, Charles Willeford rules.  

This has William Sadler AND David Patrick Kelly AND George Wendt??

‘Gains traction’?? This was perhaps the dumbest episode yet.

 Ben-Wahn Obi-Blonk

The utterly delightful Betty Gilpin playing that completely unappealing and rapidly decaying racist mummy could be considered the most daunting acting challenge ever conceived.