Yes this this this and this. Thanks.

This review was secretly written by my sister: 'Ugh, this cake tastes like shit - here, try it'

No, you don't. You don't want to like his work. You want it to be shitty and law of diminishing returns and all that jazz. Yes, I'd agree that Mr Swanberg's got a limited vision but he's telling the stories that he sees. I lived in Chicago between 1998 and 2005 and I saw a lot of the same stories.

I. do. NOT. bray.

… and just to add more praise to this discussion, I'm going to start thinking about a past relationship as a time when I (as well as my ex) probably slipped into abuse patterns without realizing it then. Not in a damn-me-to-hell Catholic way, just in a human-who's-trying-to-fix-stuff-in-their-head way. And hopefully…

SPOILER looper seemed pretty elegant about it