Well, now that HBO has quietly put Confederate to bed, how else do you expect them to clumsily handle the topic of racism?

That’s a lot of words to say that it's okay to settle for mediocrity. 

It’s referred to as a prosthetic in the behind-the-scenes video.

Halle Berry's Catwoman would like a word with you.

The way she talks about Scruggs as though Scruggs is a character (and not an actual deceased person with a family) is pretty gross. Like, you’re not making a fictional character more complex. You’re just slurring a dead person.

I’d be disappointed if it was anybody other than the ‘authentic’ Elliot. If there’s a running theme throughout the series, it’s the main characters’ inability to accept reality. For Elliot, that means fabricating entire personalities to avoid dealing with his trauma and mental health issues.

Couldn’t agree more. The best examples of genre filmmaking are, more often than not, films that subvert their genre: Psycho, Casablanca, Rocky, The Princess Bride, etcetera.

Having the video makes sense to me.

I’ve watched Breaking Bad twice now. The first time as it was airing and the second time just a few months ago. It was a dazzling show during my first watch, but it loses something in the retelling.

I’m honestly curious: Has any television show risen to such a climactic crescendo as The Americans did in this scene? Everything is so perfectly timed to knock the wind out of you.

I’d been feeling blue for awhile when I watched One Cut of the Dead, and it turned out to be exactly the kind of joyful, punk rock experience I needed. It’s so suffused with passion and love for the craft of filmmaking that it’s almost impossible to come away from watching it unhappier than you went in. I can still…

Simon, as usual, is being histrionic, but he has a point when he calls out the media for failing to report on sexual misconduct in a way that’s authentic, sensitive, and accurate. 

Jim is genuinely a bad person (which to its credit, the show occasionally explored, but not to the degree that it warranted). He was petty, snarky, aloof, selfish and deeply insecure in a way that was manifest to every character that had to put up with him.

I don’t think it’s deliberate, either. Mostly because Michael’s experience is relevant to almost everybody on the planet — as a recovering addict, his anxieties certainly speak strongly to my own sense of self.

I laughed at this for a solid minute, and then I spent five minutes unsuccessfully explaining to my wife, who has never seen the show, why I was laughing. I can’t say for certain, but I’m pretty sure she fell out of love with me.

I need to give this album another listen, but I was underwhelmed on my first pass. For more than a few of the songs, it sounds like he’s reciting bad spoken word over his soundtrack music. It’s a little too formless and meandering for my tastes, but maybe it just hasn't clicked for me. 

That’s exactly what Scorsese, and by extension, PoetJunkie did, you mouthbreather. You have been the only one in the discussion thus far whose input has been totally without substance. That you’re this far in and have yet to realize it is an embarrassment.

Do you even read what you write before shunting it out into the world? In your screed, you literally wrote “we’re offended that you think we’re interested in hearing about [sic] that you don’t like them.”

Why do you imagine anybody is even talking to you?

Imagine being so insecure that your feelings get hurt when somebody on the internet doesn’t like the same music as you.