Two different people, two different opinions.

This review is a convincing argument that personal beefs - in this case bitterness over a not-very-faithful adaptation - can cloud one’s judgement and render one’s opinions suspect. I’m just saying that maybe read a couple more reviews before you give up on it.

Are all of these reviews going to be devoted to bitching about the adaptation or lack thereof? Haven’t we s known for a while that the story was a lot different from the book and that they just basically adopted the setting?

I’m pretty sure my SO sits down to pee at home but he won’t admit it and we (thank god) have a closed door bathroom policy so I never see him.  My evidence is that he often pees in the dark but there is never pee all over the place so it seems like the only explanation is that he sits. 

I mean, I’m not a cop AND the author of this piece sounds like a dick.

You think that because you’ve never had my mom’s brown gravy. Sadly, it died with her in 1999 and I haven’t had decent gravy in almost 20 years. 

The gravy would be tastier with a cooked roux.  Particularly if the roux is allowed to brown.

I weep for myself when I happen to read pretentious posts like yours.

I’m guessing that the bacon in this dish predated the recent bacon fad by quite some years.  

I’m not a cop and the author or this piece sounds like a dick. 

That’s where I thought this story was going to go - with the kid drinking the pill-laced booze.  

That’s only if you’re depositing actual currency, I believe.  Regular people make regular deposits over $9999 without getting reported to the IRS all the time. 

I don’t think “nonplussed” means what you think it means, unless you’re saying something other than “the siblings were more-or-less indifferent to Ian’s plight prior to this episode.”  

I worked with a woman who put on lipstick before she left the office so she’d look nice for her husband.  They ended up getting divorced. I don’t know if those two things are connected but I just felt really sorry for her. 

I feel like I’d be a terrible parent because. Not because I’d spend half the time wanting to drown them in the bathtub but because the rest of the time I’d spend laughing at them.  So it’s probably best I won’t ever breed. 

That was my mom.  She would eat it if someone else cooked it, but she didn’t want anything to do with cooking it because it reminded her of childhood chicken trauma.

A bun failure could result in a non-sandwich transforming into a sandwich in the middle of being eaten.  You’ve never had a hot dog bun break in half?

Same with the DC suburbs.

Panda Express is really good for what it is.  They aren’t microwaving shit in the back - they’re cooking real food right there in the store.  All those bins of vegetables aren’t just for show. 

There has been great ethnic food in the DC suburbs for decades. But then I think that the DC suburbs tend to be superior in most ways to normal suburbs. Too many of the so-called suburbs have city centers and old towns of their own so the dynamic is a lot different from other, less interesting places that I’ve lived.…