I've been making my way through "The Larry Sanders Show", and was pleasantly surprised to see Robin Williams as one of Larry's guests, doing an interesting turn on his celebrity self. At which point, of course, I remembered how things turned out, and watching him perform became a very different experience.…

The Southern Reach Trilogy left me with a weirdly pleasant sense of longing. It's a place I think I need to reread and revisit.

Maybe age makeup to distinguish the Good FassBot from the Bad FassBot?

Member Berries.

Penicillin found, no doubt, in the mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnalls' porch.

It's a valid way of life. If you can afford it.

Hey, thanks!

Tangent Alert: anyone see The Kettering Incident?

She finds a tupperware bowl of cutting instruments in her own home. (About 11 minutes into E1.) I half suspected she either self-mutilated, or the parents were behind her mutilation, in a sort of…oh, what's that thing The X-Files taught me about…"Munchausen syndrome by proxy."

Zal: "Hey Brit…you see that?"

The remarkably graphic sex scene in E1 seemed way out of place, particularly in retrospect. It struck me as a stupendously cheap way to convince the audience that the writers "get" the hook-up culture…or something.

I'd give it a C-. Far too long for what it is, and as others have mentioned, The Sound of My Voice covered similar territory, much more efficiently, and was a far more engaging narrative.

Isn't the white bread reference just a dead metaphor based on baked goods? As in, white bread is dull compared with, say, sourdough, or a loaf of cracked-wheat bread? (Beard on Bread has a great recipe for that. Quick, too.)

That game gave me fits, and I grew to hate the robotic bartender (in a deco-bar, no less.) So seeing Sheen's character brought it immediately to mind.

I see. My Control-F strategy doesn't work with that.

Nope. I checked. There were no prior references to Pet.

Sure. So long as I don't Burgess my glasses.

I don't know…. I watched that show as it aired, and participated in the running commentary here. Based on their comments, I think most people wanted it to be great, then watched is slowly, painfully nosedive. Too many inelegantly placed red herrings, hokey cliches and character developments, etc. But the real turning…

So it's basically Pet (2016), in space?

That scene…that single scene made the dreadful middle section of season 2 worthwhile.