His girlfriend goes to another high school… across the country. I mean, in Canada. Why do you care anyway? *pouts*

Listen up fives, a ten is posting

Seinfeld has always made it clear that he doesn’t really give a shit about other people. Especially people he sees as ‘below’ him (such as someone’s who job it is to hold cue cards). The whole insincere “that’s a shame” reaction is mostly how he goes through is life. Someone getting yelled at by their boss for not…

Glad to hear noted non-asshole Jerry Seinfeld chime in.

Two powerful people having a laugh at an underling’s expense is never awkward for the powerful and the underling hasn’t earned the right to have thoughts and feelings of their own, so no harm done. 

I personally agree that Murder on the Orient Express is overrated. In my opinion it is not one of Christie’s or Poirot’s best mysteries.

Personally I found Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? a big disappointment in the end. The first episode was excellent, practically perfect; the second episode was fine but rather unfocused (giving a lot of time to minor plot threads but not enough to Frankie’s stay in the mansion, which is the important bit); and then the…

Branagh’s Death on the Nile suffers from unnecessary back story and dreadful CGI backdrops. Why he filmed on 65mm for this I have no idea

Obviously this is limited to movie adaptations, but I think the fact I’d rank most of David Suchet’s Poirot above all the films on this list I’ve seen is partially down to the fact that Christie’s works generally work best on the small screen. You can lavish up the production design, but fundamentally whodunnits are…

Speaking of the culture change, I haven’t seen any reviewer mention that Ted’s “thank you” / “fuck you” speech to his mom is a direct reflection of what Jamie told him he wanted to say to his dad. That’s a storytelling mode the show works in well for me: Ted has influenced Jamie to grow and be a better person; the…

Nope, Dottie had not been set up as problematic for Ted at all before this episode. It kind of came out of nowhere. I liked the character and the way the actress played it, but I wished we’d had some setup for her appearance.

Plus, there’s absolutely no reason that a team on a 15-game win streak would entertain bringing a potentially toxic person back into their clubhouse. You don’t mess with chemistry at that point, particularly when the person in question left so badly. So seeing exactly how the team came to this decision would have done…

I loved Roy being smitten with Jamie’s mom

I feel like this would work better, then, if we saw Nate putting in more effort to change. As written, it kinda feels like Jade took an interest in him and that just brought back the old Nate. We really didn’t see him do much to try to improve himself or make amends until these last couple of episodes.

Oh, two other really funny moments:

I had quibbles with Ted and Nate’s storylines this episode (although both overall worked for me), but Jamie’s might genuinely be my favorite thing the show has ever done. His breakdown in the boot room was hilarious, his scene with his mom made me cry for the first time ever watching this show, and that match is I…

There were so many callbacks this episode. Just a few that I noticed:

Regarding: the guys visiting Nate. That’s been my biggest problem with this season. It feels like everything (outside of his relationship with Jade) is being resolved offscreen for Nate this year. We didn’t get to see him leave West Ham, we didn’t get to see the guys talking about bringing him back, etc. Those feel…

Oh, and in one of my favorite Jamie moments, I did love his little dickhead smirk he gives when he re-enters the game and the crowd starts booing him again— even more than the “come on” type gesturing afterward.

Both plots found these grown men needing to reevaluate their relationships with their moms...