That was the same vibe I got from him in the first episode.

I strongly suspect that had James Gandolfini not died IRL, Tony’s “fate” might have “actually” been different--or at lease left vague.

Production actually started before the pandemic. They were shooting parts of it in Chicago back in early 2020*. You know, just before...

(* I think I said late 2019 in an earlier post, but it was, in fact, January of 2020. It all runs together these days anyway...)

QUILTBAG+ is the streaming service. $5.99/month or $50/year.

Um...Kanye? Why would you be having listening parties for an album that wasn’t out? Those typically correspond with the release—that’s the whole point.

Hard to get much more iconic than:

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
and
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Bad idea all around, even if they get the rest of the case to sign on. It wasn’t just the actors who made the show so special—they worked well with the material they had. Will the original creators, writers and show runners be back? Obviously David Angell cannot return, but what about Peter Casey and David Lee?

He spent a few billion Jeremy Bearimies in the Bad Place, a few more million in the Good Place, and then he got to become a real live boy.

I wouldn’t fuck her with Dan Hedaya’s dick.

It looks like the opening credits for a TV show set in Los Angeles in 1983.

Oddly enough, I’ve long said the same exact thing about Betty White. Sue Ann (from the MTM Show) and Rose (from Golden Girls) couldn’t be more different, yet Betty White pulled them both off as seamlessly as if each was an extension of her own personality.

I think you underestimate how much time and effort goes into one of those Triple D segments. Making it shorter wouldn’t make an appreciable difference.

I don’t know about every song, but most of the live versions of “Prove it All Night” and “Rosalita” leave the originals in the dust—and the originals are pretty fucking amazing to begin with. 

Question about a random background person: At about the halfway point in the episode, when Arpi finds Mayor Bremer on his living room floor, there’s a shot where you can clearly see an African-American gentleman in a suit in the far background. The next time they cut to the shot, he’s gone.

Was that an accidental set…

Sort of. Zevon heard the title, changed it slightly, and wrote a whole different song around it (with Bruce’s blessing).

No, YOU must be Don Francisco’s sister.

The Russian version of Scrabble on CCCP1 was much more successful.

Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River

Your honor, I submit to the jury, George Harrison’s “This Song” as another notable exception to that rule.

I get it. It’s easy to take shots at shit like this. But calling wearing masks “dystopian” and editing videos to make them seem scary accomplishes nothing. We need to normalize mask wearing. It’s strange, and it’s not what we’re used to, but it needs to happen if we even want to regain any level of normal activity in…