The prostitute sweep reminded me of The Wire too, but not the brown paper bag; more like when Cutty started his new job of rounding up delinquents. It was kind of a sham in that situation as well.

I went to this with my 61-year-old mom, because I’m cool like that. She loves music festivals and I like them. I was most looking forward to Gogol Bordello and At the Drive In. They were both great but I felt kind of empty about it. ATDI is one of my favorite bands so I should have been elated to see them for the…

I liked it because I found it unsatisfying and therefore brilliantly subversive. We’ve got this horrible asshole who’s making trouble for everyone and we want to see him killed, but the way it happens (with his wife watching and his grandchild in the car that crushes his head) is so horrifying that it robs it of its…

What do you gotta do to get an F around here?

I’ve been enjoying Fargo’s music a lot. I didn’t notice that there were German and Russian themes going on, but now that he points it out, it makes a whole lot of sense.

I was expecting these to be collected in a single book with large font and massive margins at a price of $20, which is how most post-death Vonnegut publications have gone. It’s nice that they’re actually being published in a standard book this time, but it’s not so nice that they’re being published at all, since…

I’m disappointed to learn that The Current War is no good, but at least it resulted in the line “Fashioning it into something this insipid is almost an accomplishment, like shooting yourself in the foot twice.” 

Unless I’m mistaken, The Daily Show’s “Between the Scenes” segments are just Trevor Noah riffing to the audience. I’m guessing most of the Emmy voters never saw this but just thought, “Oh, The Daily Show is in this category? Their thing is probably good.”

I see Wormwood as half bad in a good way and half bad in a bad way. Mostly I think of it as a precursor to Demons Dance Alone, which indeed is fantastic. The world could use some more Molly Harvey, but it looks like she’s given up singing.

One effect of this is that in the preview image, the YouTube play button in the middle functions as a censor bar.

Huh, I’m reading that they do music together now. That’s surprising.

Half Jack by Dresden Dolls, where Amanda Palmer sings about how much she hates her father. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be anyone’s father, but being hated so much by your offspring would be awful. I’m assuming he deserves it though. Actually, the song is from like 15 years ago so maybe she feels differently now.

That’s cool. The movie looked really good. However, I’m not sure I agree that when most people think Miami they think of the 1996 film The Birdcage.

The chicken truck brought to mind the ice cream truck in Better Call Saul. One was hiding drugs from the authorities, and the other was hiding the authorities from the drug cartel. Plus they had similar music accompanying them.

Oops, here’s another comment, because I forgot I wanted to mention: I wonder how they filmed Older Cooper and Younger Laura together. Did they have footage of her being led by someone else for Fire Walk With Me, or did they use visual effects to make Sheryl Lee look like her younger self, or some other thing?

I had a lot of dreams that ended like that when I was a kid. I’d sense some unseen horror and start screaming, then everything went black.

EEEEEEEEEEELEEEEEEECTRICITYYYYYYYYY

Wow, okay, it took me this long to figure out that these aren’t reviews of the new season. I didn’t want to watch the new season yet so I was trying not to pay attention to what I thought were new reviews. The images confused me, though: there seemed to be a lot of dead characters, so I thought this new season must be…

Wayne Knight randomly showing up was ridiculous, mostly because he wasn’t in the opening credits. If you’re going to have Wayne Knight, don’t put his name in the end credits (which Netflix annoying forces you to click a button to see).

The inspector thought the cartel was trying to force him to do stuff by showing him that his wife was having an affair? That’s not how blackmail works, inspector!