Good call. I didn’t watch the pilot as a pilot, I saw it back to back with episode 2. If the pilot sucked, I didn’t notice. It was just setup for the story.

thanks - I think I’ll give it a go. I do like Fincher’s work...

It’s excellent. This reviewer clearly never talked to a college co-ed or a law enforcement officer in the 1970s. Watch it. All of it. It does not disappoint.  

• “Ford and Debbie see Dog Day Afternoon during their first date; Ford then plays it to his Quantico students. Can we please call a moratorium on TV shows reminding us of the vastly superior movies we could be watching instead?”

I binged all 10 episodes yesterday. Best thing I’ve seen this year. You have to go into it understanding that the protagonists are pursuing knowledge rather than specific criminals, for the most part. And it’s not—contra this review—an extended joke. Yes, we know many of the things they will eventually discover…

Seen all episodes. Show is amazing, no episode is worth less than a B just for the directing and writing alone.

Ford’s flights of literary fancy

Having now seen the episode, I actually liked the stiltedness of the dialogue and found it kinda distinctive.

This is interesting. As an adult I realized that I hated Sandy. As I child I thought she was perfect. I liked Shirley better than Laverne, so this was consistent with my preferences in general.

I had this realization about a month ago when he’s like “we made out under the dock” and her version is “we stayed out till 10 O’Clock’

“He ran by me, got my suit damp”

I had a friend who thought the line in “Sandra Dee” that goes “lousy with virginity” was “lousy West Virgina tea.”

I was like 23 when I was singing Summer Lovin’ and heard the lyric “Did she put up a fight?” That took me aback. And Greased Lightning with the “chicks will cream” and “getting lots of tit” - that went right over my child head also.

OMG so she was totally my mom’s age when I first saw it!

And honestly maybe the whole thing is a virgin suicide situation. Frenchie definitely ended things with a hair dryer in a bath tub after she failed out of beauty school. I mean that song is for sure her dying. Rizzo probably really was pregnant but didn’t have any access to a safe abortion option and died trying to…

I just went to a lyrics search engine to look up Greased Lightnin’. Good God!

I, too, was confused by Rizzo and Kenickie’s exchange in the car as a young catholic boy. However, it took me a very very long time to realize that the thing that Kenickie was carrying around since the 7th grade was in fact a condom. I thought it was a ring. Like a wedding ring that he was going to give her so they…

The visual pun(?) of this phallic object between Marty and Vince’s flirtation... and when she says her name is Marty Maraschino. “You know, as in cherry.”

- That it was really inappropriate for Vince Fontaine to be flirting with Marty.

Hung out at Gawker and Deadspin yesterday to get the lay of the Kinja land.