oh, i'm into negative ethics and all that jazz. life isn't all that. but you do you.

perhaps gabriel (semyon andreyevitch, rather) will try to court her now that he's a step closer to winning her favor by putting little olya on her path. I want to see gabriel happy too. I mean, he's no clark, but frank langella can still get it.

this made me think of smeagol saying "hobbitses". heh sorry

yes, it was in cyrillic script. I learned the alphabet, which is better than not learning it, despite the fact that I can't understand russian. there are (true and false) cognates, too, so it's fun to know.

I don't know classic ussr rock bands. I just thought it was cool that I could read what the poster said and that I'd heard alla pugacheva before (and actually found it a bit… funny, sorry). but yeah, maybe it was a misstep from set production? or pasha has more layers to him than we got to see.

crumb <3

if by weird you mean dreamy, then yeah.

I'll bet it was.

not many 30 year-old men I know act like 30 year-olds, to be fair. so dev is quite realistic.

I don't think he was pushing it. he warned dev before and he was ambivalent about it, which is normal. if you just try to educated your friends all the time, the friendship becomes a lecture, a pain in the ass. sometimes you just gotta go with what they want. I have a friend who has only ever dated shitty guys, and…

I pretty much agree with you. I just think that people hardly ever intend to use friends like that. but they do anyways. last time I saw myself almost doing that, I shut it off immediately. nobody should use "it wasn't my intention" as an excuse, I think. I still like francesca, but yeah, she low-key used him, even…

poor aziz, now I feel bad for picking on his voice. it's just so… unattractive. I felt like a jerk watching those episodes with francesca: I couldn't shake the feeling that she did get emotionally involved with him not just because she was dying to get out of her life but also because she was "safe" with him due to…

ooh dang, and here I was all this time picturing most avclub commenters with an ansari-like whiny voice plus vocal fry.

really, should it be? tell me more.

I'm so attracted to Eric Wareheim it's not even funny.

that I do not know, but i like that he had an alla pugacheva poster too.

we already know he is. no?

I've been on at least two sides of the equation and I still think francesca was thinly sketched. I did relate to a lot of what was going on, that's for sure (and kept cringing), but still couldn't see a real person in francesca.

sepinwall mentioned it in his great review.

what I like about that is the fact that yeah, what we saw was probably his way of dealing with his demons and getting clarity, but interspersed with genuine mystery, such as the departure, enough that we get a more interesting, slightly surreal/fantastic reality to make "a man's personal journey" a bit more appetizing…