I was going to say that I whispered to my friend something along the lines of "I want you to pummel my ass mercilessly."

When I was watching MI:2 in the theater during the final fight sequence I … oh, forget it.

Err, right.

It's the same thing that happened with Radiohead & King of Limbs.  People are really curious to see whether this model is competitive with the more standard model (at least for folks with rabid fan bases), and there's at least some reason to think the answer is yes.

Let's keep it going!

Is there some reason we wouldn't just blame Whitney, like we always do?

Oooh, lemme try!

I'll give the Richard Kind angle time before judgment, but that didn't jump out as an obvious strength, let's put it that way.

HA.

My problem isn't with Penn's performance, or with either the actor's or the character's lack of charisma.  I think the show failed to attach enough gravity to the character.  All this stuff about how Jimmy was changed by the war, how he was one of the lost, how he never really made it out of the trench — we were told…

While the Sigur Ros song when the horse was being put down definitely verged on bathos, I have to say I thought the show did a great job of making the horse's injury affecting.  The racing scenes were tremendously well-done; they really communicated how awesome the horses are, and that made the sight of the leg…

It was dense as hell, but I thought it was pretty damn brilliant.  I'm 100% on board when this thing starts for real, and I have high hopes for the season.

A Q&A w/Terence Winter over the NYT ArtsBeat blog: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytim…

I did watch it, I don't know if it'll be reviewed, and I don't know what the protocol is re: spoilers for an airing that's a month before the official debut.

To start to answer my own question: the show has gestured since the beginning toward the centrality of Jimmy's war experience to who he's become upon returning.  But the lame toast he's always employed, and which gives the episode its title, captures perfectly how poorly those intentions were realized: the gesture…

That was a solid, well-designed, well-executed episode.

I have no time for She & Him, and certainly no intention of listening to their Christmas music, but their rendition of "I Put a Spell on You" on Conan was pretty arresting, in my humble opinion.

I never really saw why people seriously entertained the possibility, so she probably didn't think of it as a spoiler.

Congratulations in advance, Dylan McDermott!

A couple thoughts:
I loved the fact that Robyn was the musical guest.  Way to show Katy Perry what a real pop star looks like, SNL.
Wiig's Kim Catrall got the biggest laugh from me on the night.
The digital short was very solid, maybe pushed up to awesome because Val Motherfucking Kilmer.
Stefon has remained funny much…