I don’t understand how one can rightly applaud Waddingham without mentioning Harriet Walter (niece of Christopher Lee!) as her mother. The two of them made this episode, their scenes even stronger than Lasso and Sharon irrespective of how great Sudeikis was.

So I was actually dreading that Rupert might be the funeral in this episode and we would never see ASH again but I am so happy to see he’s got an evil goatee and is manipulating Nate for his nefarious purposes. This is the darkest timeline.

I reject the idea that this is all to create a love triangle. I think it is more plausible that is creating a conflict for keeley where she is wrestling with who she was and who she wants to be. The men involved are essentially metaphors. I don’t think she has actual doubt about what she wants especially given how…

There’s no rule that says comedy has to be under 30 minutes. Just silly, outdated “traditions”. More comedies should have longer episodes.

The show won eight Emmys during its first season, at the height of its popularity.

He has a great “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” section where he reads one that goes “Why does Gerard Butler keep doing all these shit films? Does he have a load of student debts or something?”

Hard to believe he was still able to get a fuck montage set to Hallelujah in that one. 

There are certainly worse ways to spend one’s time.

I was a-ok with the length, because it gave us a ton of space to move almost all the storylines forward, which I’ve felt have advanced more piecemeal than last season (which at this point is my only major gripe with S2.) I especially like that we finally got stuff from Sharon that allowed the actress to show some…

You say that you aren’t sure how the Rebecca/Sam storyline serves either character, but it seems to me like we’re building to a point where Rebecca has to choose between Sam and Cerithium Oil. The actor on the other end of the phone at CO is a known quantity given his work on Fleabag, so I’m certain he’ll appear…

It’s also hard to, like, build a tiny TV set that’s to perfect scale of a tiny NYC apartment, and give the actors room to move around, and place all the cameras and lights and block many different scenes over the course of hundreds of episodes. The sets are built big because that’s just easier to work with from a…

As clearly stated in the show, Monica was illegally subletting her apartment from a Great Aunt (or something like that). None of these “takedowns” of her place and its rent for the past 2 deacdes mean anything.

It’s kind of dumb to go after the Friends apartment from perspective of how much the West Village costs these days, because while it was always unrealistic, prices in the 90s and early 2000s were much, much different than now. He tries to pretend like the difference in price is solely inflation, when real estate…

I’m not ruling out a power play/controlling personality, but I’m also getting “too cowardly to end it myself” vibes from the partner. “I’m unilaterally altering the terms of our relationship and will brook no compromise; take ir or leave it” is a harsh opening position that doesn’t reconcile all that well with respect…

Under the terms LW#1's spouse put down? Leave. That’s the classic “I get to do what I want to do, and you get to do nothing but are required to support me” deal that a lot of Savage Love correspondents seem to get offered, and it’s hard to believe that anyone who’d propose such a self-centered arrangement could be or…

Yeah, I’m not quite as on board with LW1 as Dan is.

Also, I don’t get these people who basically act like marriage vows are ironclad and incontrovertible as a way of trying to get their partners to acquiesce to fundamental changes in their relationship

The real question comes down to what was Black Widow’s three day take on Disney+. Black Widow’s total opening is reported to have been $80 million domestic box office + $67 million Disney+ global for an actual total of $147 million. Without Disney+, Shang Chi’s will be $75 million. This would indicate that ScarJo came…

I’m an LCSW, and though I’m no longer a clinician for individuals, I’d say Sharon acts pretty typical for how a workplace wellness professional might if they were very strict about boundaries. I used to work inpatient at a hospital, so I was responsible for not only my patients’ health, but occasionally also offered…

It’s definitely part of being a therapist. I’ve got two family members in the field and studied a lot of social work myself, you set very clear boundaries where you are not your clients’ friend because it’ll impact the work you do and cause emotional transference. The whole point of a therapist is being an objective…