No it doesn’t, it says he is the youngest son and Shiv is the youngest child.

My favourite sibling element: the way that Siobh repeatedly giggled off-camera at Roman’s jokes. That felt very true - and quite revealing of Roman’s character. He’s not just the self-loathing guy who makes jokes to amuse himself - he’s the class clown who found a place in the family by making his older sister laugh.…

“My apologies for using the term “slash fic” last week when referring to Gerri and Roman. I thought the term implied all sexual character pairings, not just queer ones”

I’m pretty sure Marcia is still there. Probably just went home in a separate car. The scene where she got up and left the negotiating table showed that she was confident she would get what she wanted, and indeed that seemed to be the case as she was standing with Logan while her lawyer negotiated with Logan’s underling…

I thought it was a great episode and really liked the semi bottle episode nature of the siblings in Rava’s apartment. The entire episode was well written (no surprise), but the scenes with the kids were really the highlight for me. All four of them really sold the sibling nature of it all, with the standout for me…

This is a weird hill to die on. People named John who go by Jack must drive you crazy.

Carl and Frank going back and forth on each other in the season two finale on why the other should be the one to get fired is so great. I just love how when Frank is suggested he starts with “thank you”

I hear that requires breaking a few Gregs

He’s in the manic stage of manic-depressive.

It’s how it’s officially shortened by the show.

Logan forgetting Connor exists until Willa reminds him? Exquisit!

Mostly a table-setting up but it’s Succession and it’s perfect. I love watching a show where you can tell the people working behind the scenes just feel absolutely confident in what they’re putting out there and fully understand the tone they’re going for and the world they’re depicting. And Succession feels like that.

Best phone call ever:

In fairness to Michael just arriving on a random street and killing people, there is at least the half interesting idea stated in Halloween Kills for like two seconds that killing is just what he does, it’s not about Laurie and Michael just kills whoever and it doesn’t matter who, where, or when.

Hi, me again again.

It’s funny to be a horror fan and find yourself objecting to gruesome violence, isn’t it? I love gore, I love slasher films that use gore, and I think that gore can represent so many different things, and engage you in so many different ways, that it’s a useful and important tool in the horror…

THANK YOU for saying it! Like, the scene where he uses the one guy as a pin cushion for all his kitchen knives, who’s that for? To me that doesn’t show reverence for the originals at all.

The thing that got me momentarily excited in the lead up to Halloween 2018 was a comment that McBride made in an interview in which he observed that in the original, Michael Myers is a creepy stalker more than a murderer. I’m not sure when he changed his mind but the original observation points to why none of the…

That’s so kind of you! I’m truly humbled. Thank you for taking the time to write that, I’m really grateful. I think about Halloween a lot, so I’m very gratified that the post spoke to you.

After seeing the movie tonight I went back to the review of Halloween 2018 because I remembered you had a really brilliant comment about why the original was such a masterpiece, which I still totally agree with.

The thing that gets me about the 2018 movie (and from the sound of it, this one) is how the makers went on and on about their reverence for the original. Then I watch it and the level of brutality is far closer to Rob Zombie’s version than Carpenter’s. One of my favorite elements of the original is that its most…