So this is not normal adult behavior? because.. mean I’m asking for a friend... because I know someone that does this...Not me.
Maybe I mistook the whole Sally v Don conversation. I came away from it thinking that Don was essentially holding a mirror up to Sally and telling her if she hates her parents so much, she can be a better person than them.
Sally is going to be a Springsteen fan.
Gotta disagree on Joan. Yes, she’s feeling pulled in different directions; yes, she’s resentful that her life isn’t as footloose and fancy free as is demonstrated by her fling. But she’d NEVER give Kevin away. That whole scene was pure sarcasm, her underlining to Richard exactly what came out of his mouth, no matter…
I read Joan's statement about her son as sarcasm—but this is the second place I've seen a writer describe it as genuine. I'd love to hear what others thought!
Are you high? Joan wasn’t actually going to ditch her kid for Jerks the Developer, and Don was in no way into Sally’s “fast girl” friend. At the least Don and Sally know how mucked up his life and their relationship is. These people are grifters who know they’re on the grift. The only ones who are in any kind of…
Joan was being sarcastic when she said she would abandon her son. At least I took it that way.
I think Betty is a great character and not so much a repressed loon as a woman of her time, dealing with changing social mores that don’t match with what she was taught - and what she was taught made her miserable.
Someone on Gawker said it’s her first day on the job and she’s already saved taxpayers some money.
Hope they quit the US when Hillary wins.
That’s my best friend, Meryl.
have you ever had a friend bring you a really good bagel or something and you call her an angel? and then another friend is like, “why must you constantly put friends on the highest of high pedestals? can’t they just be someone with a great deal of good bagels doing something good?” and you’re like, “whatever, she’s…
If we’re including Wild Horses, it should be The Sundays’ superior cover rather than the one from the Stones.
Yeah, that was in Bossypants, by Tina Fey.
I yearn for a linguistically simpler time: “Speed.”