Aww, I love these two dead assholes. 

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of watching these clips. They clearly loved each other. But damn, Siskel’s put-downs were weak compared to Ebert’s.

Didn’t we know this already? I thought this was covered in This Is Not Yet Rated or whatever it was called years ago.

He wasn’t Scott-ish. He *was* Scott.

Chiming in from Scotland here: CineCraft is right about western society in general as people in Scotland (and the UK) as a whole gloss over mental illness. Things have gotten better over the years (the Scottish Government have pushed more for mental health acknowledgement), but there’s still a long way to go. RIP…

Fine. When will this country get serious about Scotland’s mental illness?

This Is America is just an incredible piece of art. I was not expecting it at all. The hype is justified. Anyways, I look forward to both Glover and Murai developing more projects. 

truly incredible collection of comedic talent

I guess Stan didn’t really move around much stuff. Though I’m hoping the cigarettes don’t play a role in him finding out and we get a “SMOKING KILLS” joke.

And yes, I’ve now stupidly given my general location to the internet, but at least it’s a street full of thousands of residents, and if someone just walks up and down the street screaming my username because they’re pissed that I said something controversial about Handmaid’s Tale or something, at least a hundred…

Really disappointed that Stan didn’t find a volume of Pushkin poetry in the bathroom when he broke into the Jennings’ house. 

My stray observations:

Sure, the scene with the dismemberment was gruesome, but there was something horrifying and sad about the way Marilyn’s wig was half-hanging off her head limply when Phil dragged her out of the van.

No decent human being, much less a loving mother, would ask her daughter to enter that life. Paige has no idea what she’s signing up for. “Taking risks” and “doing dangerous things” still don’t conjure up the visual of chopping someone’s head and hands off, or of the many other horrible things her parents have done…

And then we hear a bell on mail robot, and fade to ‘I’d like to buy the world a coke’

You’re a real cut up, Drew.

No, Elizabeth was working Paige... pulling her in deeper. She used a setback that could have made Paige want to quit (marilyn’s death), and used it to bind her more tightly. Now that Paige feels like she was given an out she belongs even more to Elizabeth. (but she wasn’t really given an out, if Paige thought about…

Oof. Take your up-vote.

Eric didn’t mention Erica giving Elizabeth a dying command to put all of herself into what she was seeing so that she could become more than herself and draw better. In addition to being a nice formulation of how art is made, it was a metaphor (as of course this whole Erica plotline has been) for Elizabeth to save her…

This show is great. Really gotta give them a hand for this one. So tense. I nearly lost my head. What a great episode.