Grandma Huang is such a badass. Love her.

"But 'pride is a sin'" sounds like the Huangs aren't feeling prideful; they were quoting Gloria.

I liked Eddie's story because they finally had SOMETHING specific to portray about what is ostensibly the main character. Definitely a little jarring to finally start connecting the dots to the real person all of a sudden, though, yes.

A little sad seeing her AND Ken Marino in the same episode after their show last year turned out to be bad.

I think you may have read my earlier comment as a criticism of your criticism of the show, but it was not. I was criticizing the adaptation and the way the adaptation has sold you "its premise".

The bookie's business does just fine without launching a full investigation into every cheater he catches, methinks, even if he doesn't see right away how the cheating was done.

If it happened all the time, Cowboy Bookie might have to invest some resources into figuring it out for the sake of their business. Just this once? It was clear they cheated, it seems like they aren't that bright, and in their professional experience it seems likely if they beat the shit out of him it might not happen…

No, Al proved the changes stick right at the beginning when he had Jake carve into the sapling outside, he came back and the scar was in the fully grown tree.

Jake isn't getting laid, he's finding the love of his life. But unfortunately the adaptors wanted to cram as much of the thriller parts in as possible so they cut most of the development and humanity of the relationship. I agree it played better in the book.

Speaking of…odd cadences…

I think wookiee mentioned that, and YeahNo's point was that whatever region he hails from, he's doing a pretty good job.

It probably depends on how you feel about "Free Bird", but I actually think that's a FANTASTIC song choice, because it's a good song, it starts out fun, but it kind of goes on and on and ON, to the point where it starts to feel like the musicians are no longer in control of themselves. I'm listening to it right now…

I actually thought the tone of that scene was really well handled. You kind of enjoy the insane violence. And the choreography is kind of beautiful in a horrible way. But eventually the beauty starts getting lost in the horribleness. The scene just goes on, and on, and on, past the point an action scene would normally…

They actually just really like drinking games.

Shoulda just replied to you in the first place…I'm curious if you read Film Crit Hulk's piece on that joke: http://birthmoviesdeath.com…

Which?

Calling Mr. Threepwood's criticisms "pearl clutching" is kinda rude after inviting a "genuinely interested" discussion.

Once this episode started, I was kind of hoping it would never break format even once. I could watch hours of just straight Diane Documentary. For that matter, no reason to even bother with the Black-ish plot, I'd've been happy to just let her build the world of the Jack Attack for the full half hour, we can get to…

Normally Ruby grates on my pretty quick but her role here was just perfect. Starting off as the team prayer leader pretty much gave her as much leeway as she wanted for this week haha.

"…Jack!"