Gah.  Who?

It was a great performance in a great film. I’d love to hear more about how Forman cast her in the first place, and why this and Man on the Moon didn’t lead to more. A two-time Oscar winning director casts you as a lead twice, and that’s the end of your run?  Strange.

Wow.  That sucks.  She also sounds like a rotten, near sociopathic person.  Was she crummy in other ways?  Because that’s a hell of a leap.

It’s about when he married relative to his experience. If he married her at 40 under the same circumstances (virginal and inexperienced) it would be too early too.

Oddly, I have the same answer in terms of show, but a constantly different order of ranking seasons. (Has any show gone after different theme songs with such panache? The Wire changed its versions of Way Down in the Hole but there all I got.)

Yes. EIGHT YEARS is what sealed it for me. What did he expect? I don’t understand how he could live like that for so long.  He doesn’t feel love for her, he feels like some fucked up martyr.

Well then we just need a different mix of crime.  Maybe some random assaults and murders can help.

Somehow, I think Lillian Kaushtupper would be all over this plan, working out the details in her tugboat (“not a tugboat!”) 

Oddly, the only hope for the city to not become 100% owned by billionaires and bankers is for the crime to surge again.  Scaring them out is the only hope.

With all these projects getting pushed back, will it be harder to get a new thing produced?

Ok,  but why would people prefer that platform to regular video platforms?

Agree.  Lalo genuinely thought he was buddies with Saul and Nacho.  At the end of Bad Choice Road, Lalo’s epiphany comes when he promises Nacho they’ll be working together and sees Nacho’s very unexcited reaction - just like Jimmy’s.  Nacho is one of those people who thinks the world loves him and then realizes he’s…

He told a story, gleefully, about setting a hotelier on fire with his business (and maybe his family)?  He had no emotional reaction at all to murdering a random guy (Fred) at the wire place.  He had no reaction to seeing his family.  Lalo is clearly twisted.

Instagram has shows?

I didn’t understand the padlock thing - how does the metal help open it?

Godfather II is just definitely better than Godfather I. They work together as pieces, but Godfather II is the resolution of the unclear ideas of Godfather I about the American dream, family, and the perils of ambition. The Godfather I’s ending is moving and sad - Michael, who did not want to enter the family business…

Hoping that somewhere there’s a SUPER EARNEST 20-something socialist who is furious about this and demands that the 1% share their kindbud with the common motherfuckers. If Bernie had that on his platform, he’d be the nominee!

Right.  24 was a pure plot show with incidental interest in the world of spies and terrorism.  Homeland is very explicitly interested in minute details of spycraft and foreign policy.  These shows are simply not in the same realms.

Homeland has nothing to do with 24 any more than Hannibal is like Dexter or the Americans is like Burn Notice.  This is a show that has always been about something far deeper than the plot of the week, and this season has elevated that substantially.

Wow, I disagree with this review.  This was a fantastically paced and written episode.  I particularly liked the reveal of the Cold War dealings.  The cross cutting reminded me of le Carre.