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I think it just highlights that the investment class doesn’t actually understand the things they invest in, they just throw money at shit and wait for the system to ensure they never actually lose.

Yeah... and lots of people make fun of Jobs and Musk for their weirdness.

Every biotech investor she approached apparently did say that, or she avoided presenting to them because she knew what the answer would be and didn’t want to poison the market.

She managed to use connections to rope in some highly respected board members who knew nothing about biotech, and leverage those associations into investment dollars. As others have pointed out, there is a group of massively successful healthcare-focused venture capital funds with the expertise to evaluate the science…

I would watch this for WH Macy and Laurie Metcalf’s scenes together alone, but Macy should also sue the production for defamation for what they did to his head.

Because people like her and Ivanka Trump just do it so obviously, like they’re speaking with this stupid affectation thinking they’re making themselves sound more serious or something when it’s really the exact opposite.  The only people they’re ‘fooling’ are stupid old men who aren’t paying attention to anything…

There is no moment when she’s speaking in real footage that I’m not thinking, “Just speak in your normal voice!”

she comes off as a complete nut job

It’s hard obsessed, though, because her voice is so bonkers. It adds to the whole incredulity  of the story. She was so bizarre and weird and yet people threw money at her. I mean, she comes off as a complete nut job and yet everybody seemed to pretend it was normal 

I can't believe people trusted Holmes to this day.  Everything about her company felt off and I know its not nice to say it but, she just has this blank stare that is so creepy to me.  The fact so many threw so much money at her on so little never ceases to baffle me.

The very good 1978 adaptation with Peter Ustinov also stays true to that structure.

I think you’re maybe reading into the context too much and / or selectively choosing which uses to remember. Google “whip smart AVClub” and you’ll see that the results that come up have them using it to describe male characters or celebs (Patton Oswalt came up for me), female characters or celebs, and even the writing…

Not as star-studded as (slightly tighter) the 1978 version, which in addition to Peter Ustinov as Poirot had Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow, Jane Birkin, Angela Lansbury, David Niven, Olivia Hussey, Jack Warden, and George Kennedy.

I’m gonna miss you most of all, Dowd.

I have never once thought of whip-smart (or smart as a whip) as meaning anything other than someone, regardless of gender, who is smart and gets things right away. Not sure where you’re getting your definition from.

The novel itself takes its own sweet time, with an excruciatingly poorly written prologue before everyone gets on the cruise. I can’t imagine why someone would want to slow things down further.

No, that’s part of Eli’s character, who’s getting hella tired of his family bickering and bitching among each other and wanted to peace the fuck out, but can’t as he’s very much stuck with his children and their problems.

Judy who is the worst (but yet is the most entertaining character) finally showed some heart this week with Baby Billy wife. I was happy to see her and PJ have a good moment each this week.

I get the strangest sense from John Goodman that he’s not enjoying acting so much anymore. He comes across as indifferent and not quite committed to his Gemstones character, and he doesn’t appear to have the same enthusiasm for Dan Connor that he used to have. The last time I remember him in a role where it seemed…