In fairness to Jake, it's really annoying when people haven't seen The Wire. Think of all the conversations that they can't have and all the jokes that Jake can't make if Boyle hasn't seen The Wire!

There are dozens of us!!! Dozens

In fairness, the original shitty version also had terrible special effects. It was just bad model effects rather than CGI.

Criminal Cock

^The number of people who saw his Faulkner adaptation, As I Lay Dying.

This comment makes me blue.

Standing in front of a camera making fart jokes takes talent, damn it!

Ohhhhh, I like this theory.

Annaleigh Tipton ended up in that movie with Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie.

It boggles my mind that anyone would hear any version of this song and find it cheerful. But in my mind, Christmas=melancholy, so my own attitude colors my impression.

I used to feel that my grandparents had a mood that was stuck in the 30s and 40s—probably PTSD, but anyway—and you could go back in time by visiting them. Not because of their house/furniture (which was always stuck in the 70s), but just because they inhabited the very mood you describe. It's contemplative,…

My only problem with the song (a song I rather like), is when she says "I ought to say no no no, at least I ought to say that I tried." Which is…well, not really rapey, but an implication that: a) if anyone asks why she stayed the night, she should CLAIM she was raped; and, b) people will be cool with that…

Ugh, yup! At first I thought they were going for "he's a pawn of the corporations," which worked—I completely believe a police inspector can be bought off. But then he was more of a power broker and kind of autonomous. It was a weird shift. It might help if they had another corporate guy who was pulling the…

Rather like Date Night.

I can never decide if I should be annoyed by these "buy this—FOR CHARITY!" promotions. On the one hand, hey, at least some money goes to charity. OTOH, very little goes to charity, and I don't really appreciate being guilted into purchasing something, as though consumerism is my civic duty.

Yes. It gets better in the second season.

Agreed! It felt like they should have just killed off everyone in old Liber8 and had the group spin off into its own decentralized mess. I couldn't really follow which Liber8 terrorist I was supposed to be rooting for, if any. And—if I wasn't supposed to be rooting for anyone, why did we spend so much time on their…

Yeah. That's the joke.

I hope it picks up after space marines, but I have very little hope of that (mostly, because of the budget).

But I love Kellogg!