I sat through Scorpion because someone else in my house watched it. And even though I had low expectations for it, I was still taken aback by just how very dumb it was. And it wasn’t even trainwreck/batshit enough to perversely enjoy watching (like Zoo). What a waste of poor Robert Patrick.

Has more red flags than a Soviet parade!

Same here. His music is right up my alley, and I can’t believe I’d never heard his work before now. He was really talented and what a shame he died so young. 

I have always feared anyone looking too closely at my bookshelves. Lots of murder and morbid history and fiction.

I read it for a Russian history class. The only other people I know who have read it were in that class. I rather enjoyed it after I got over being intimidated by the names. 

Yep this was pretty much my takeaway from getting a lit degree. Or one of the takeaways. Hemingway’s short stories and novellas can be quite good. I also really liked The Sun Also Rises. I fucking hated every single other book he wrote.

Yeah yesterday I was on here talking about an old job I had that was extremely toxic, but I still got 2 weeks of vacation and 1 week of sick leave. You got your birthday off, too, though I remember the boss also complaining every time you used it on your birthday. I always used it on my birthday to spite him. But…

That’s entirely possible. The place I was working for, though very niche, was rapidly expanding the size of its business in the middle of all this, so the fuhrer (as I called him) was both out of his element and very entranced with delusions of grandeur. I left a couple of years ago and none of my former coworkers…

I think it’s fear/toxic work culture. I used to work for a really small publisher with an abusive president, and I remember before marketing and planning meetings with him, we underlings would vow that we were going to stand up to him and we would discuss all the stupid mistakes the company made and then my cohorts…

I’d forgotten about Ellen and Heche dating until one of the random articles I read about Ellen’s nice persona being cracked mentioned it this week. Ended up finding a transcript of an interview that Heche did a few years after their breakup in which she acknowledged she dumped Ellen and then spoke about that in vague…

Maybe you’re confusing Ford with Steve Martin, who Heche dated before Ellen? I learned that this week and was genuinely surprised. 

I’m also baffled by the hate Smoochy gets. I went into it expecting it to be mediocre or even awful because of the reviews it got, but I loved it. Watched it with my brother, and we were both asking each other at the end, “why did Ebert hate this movie so much?”

Roose Bolton would appreciate that. 

I had the same reaction you did—watched the show first and actually really enjoyed Dany as a character in season 1. Then after that, I became much less of a fan. Read the books for the first time after season 6 and found her chapters to be a bit of a slog. Rewatched the show this summer and am in the middle of a…

Yes, I admittedly watched the show before reading the books, but her behavior in the show in Qarth in season 2 just really drove home to me that she was not really cut out for politics and every subsequent season just reiterated that for me. And when I read the books for the first time, the “becoming a villain”…

Agreed! Tywin was an asshole, but he obviously knew how to govern. 

Yeah as far back as season 2, I felt Dany had tyrannical tendencies. I recently rewatched the entire series and am rereading the books, and she basically spent seasons threatening to burn cities and being shown to be blatantly incompetent at anything that didn’t involve conquest. She finally followed through.

Octavia Spencer is a national treasure and doesn’t make this mistake in her PSA because she clearly is talking about general historical context, but does nobody in the AV Club office know that “Hollywood” has nothing to do with men portraying women on stage until the 1600s? Hollywood didn’t fucking exist then, so that…

Mine too! I was pleasantly surprised by how funny it was! 

Now this is the movie I want to see.