About Ronald’s evasionary tactics: He’s being a moron, right? Or am I giving the show too much credit? Wouldn’t repainting his truck be a red flag? Isn’t introducing yet more evidence that suggests he’s based locally (like the note) a terrible idea? Doesn’t he have a license to drive that truck, and doesn’t that…

no no, that’s what fiber supplements are for

o.O if either show ever happens.

HE’S THE ONE SUING OVER IT?

He can’t raise the minimum wage for the whole country by executive order. The COVID bill he’s proposing also has a $15/hour minimum, so it can happen if Schumer gets the Senate’s shit together.

It would not have occurred to me that it was a lie because I assumed it was a deliberate riff on the hipster coffee shop meme.

that’s a fantastic alt-title for ZEP. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend got incredible nuance out of friendships, romantic rivalry, mental illness, familial relationships- everything they did they were trying to do well and largely succeeding. the only thing ZEP does without paint-by-numbers is deal with grief.

yeah, he’s pretty boring on his own. but the boilerplate nice-guy-pining-friend (who actually kind of sucks) writing they gave his character really accentuates the negatives. I didn’t love the other guy they were maybe pairing Zoey with, but at least with him they could get into the grief discussions that play to the…

There were parts of the first season I liked but his character just nukes my interest whenever he’s on screen, which is often.

Really enjoy the OTT accent for Stacy’s Mom.

How much time does Finding Your Roots spend on recent family history? I don’t really give a shit about people’s great-great-grandparents, but Glenn Close’s dad was the personal physician to a dictator, worked on an early Ebola outbreak, and got his family involved with a cult, so THAT I would watch the hell out of.

Every case of Bury Your Gays has straight people arguing that it’s not fair to count this dead gay/lesbian as an instance of the trope.

bury your gays but they don’t want the fanbase revolting so they pretend there’s a chance they didn’t bury a gay.

It did well, but not enough to justify the cost of sequels (movies set on water are notoriously expensive and difficult shoots).

+1

It could be interesting- I thought the McCain in Game Change was a crappy performance. But if they want to do a hagiography it’ll suck no matter who they cast.

And simultaneously dumb enough to get herself in an anti-vaxxing controversy.

question for fans of the author: should I read White Tiger if I was just ok on Last Man in the Tower?

Speaking of the Friedmans, Jason Fagone’s book on them, The Woman Who Smashed Codes (with long-ass subtitle) was pretty good. The whole Riverbank setting where they met is just incredibly weird.