I love them all, PF is one of my top favorite movies, but for some stupid reason I've never gotten around to seeing Jackie Brown, this article is motivating me to sit down and get it done, I think it's in my netflix queue anyway.

This had to be added into the discussion, thank me later. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

When I hear his standup on the radio, I tend to mix Birbiglia up in my mind with Eugene Mirman, their voices sound similar to me. I don't know what Mirman looks like, in my mind's eye he looks like his character on Bob's Burgers.

What I said instead was, "You'd be surprised."

One thing I've wondered is whether or not anybody was actually looking right at the "departing" and saw them just vanish; or if it was always that they'd turned away momentarily, like with the little girl in the car in the first episode, and then when they turned back the person was suddently not there.

Absolutely, and so is Popeye, even if I am the only one in the world who was smart enough to realize it. No kidding or anything, I thought it was amazing and just flew over the heads of everybody who panned it. Did an incredible job of capturing the look and the spirit of the original 30's Popeye cartoons.

Yes, that "Uganda" title is terrible, makes me even less interested in Chelsea Handler. But all those other specials sound great, especially love Jim Jeffries and Bill Burr (pretty disappointed by what I've seen of Legit; love Jeffries' standup and O&A appearances, hoping he has another better sitcom in him)….look…

But I was really surprised that when Bill changed his mind and admitted that yes, her continuing to sleep with him was "part of the job" and a condition of her employment, she went right along with that and said ok. From just her previous line, asking if that was the case, it seemed that she was standing up for…

> I am just now actually watching the series and that's one of the
> few "doesn't make sense within the logic of the show" questions as > well.

The whole series made not a lick of sense. It infuriates me to this day. The first few episodes engendered and asked for a trust, on the viewer's part, that it would add up to something coherent and it was a bad-faith bargain on the part of the show's creators. (Makes me very wary about the current "The Leftovers"…

That is pretty funny, and I have never heard this song and hope I never do again. I thought it was going to be about "Tomorrow" from Annie, never really thought it would be about "Tomorrow" from Wings' Wild Life album (one of the very few Paul McCartney songs I really dislike). I haven't watched SNL in a year or two…

I like Jim Jeffries' standup and his O&A appearances a *LOT*, but seven or eight episodes into the first season, I am pretty underwhelmed.

The movie was, I think, The Secret of My Success

Wasn't there another episode with a single story/sketch that took up the whole thing? Something about a legendary organized crime syndicate in pinstripe suits?

I just watched the second ep last night and your are right about how they integrate humor into the darkness nicely. Most of this ep seemed pretty serious but the sequence of shots where the various inmates found out and reacted to the results of their vocational "aptitude test" were laugh-out-loud.

I think I'd appreciate these more if each review were headed up by a strict summary of what actually happens in the episode, this would jog my memory and help the review/analysis of it make more sense. The reviews seem to assume that you remember a lot about the episode but the writer just rewatched it before writing…

Agree so strongly with you and with Chumbly (as you might be able to discern from my own post in here somewhere). So glad to know I'm not the only one here who feels this way about the series overall, with all the love it frequently gets.

That is very possible, thanks for the reply!

I was hooked by the pilot too, but disagree strongly with the reviewer as to the overall merit of the whole series. IMO, at its best it was pulpy, fun, irresistible, exciting and silly, but lacked any real artistic value and is nowhere near the pantheon of great series. My biggest problem with it is that it failed…

Yeah, bummer that Mad Men, Louie and Veep are done for now; but Masters of Sex is coming back in the next week or two I think, that's a good one.