A lot of the time when a movie adaptation doesn’t work it’s because they cut the wrong stuff out, or too much. But to get a good sized novel into a 2 hour movie you have to cut out a lot, like 75%. The nice part about a TV adaptation is you don’t.  Now you could still screw it up. But at least the format is no longer…

It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life.

Someone was writing this with a glass of win in hand

“The lack of food in Caroline’s homes is such a great continuing detail for this cold, unloving mother.”

The lack of food in the refrigerator - after she had invited her family to visit - was such a great touch.  She really doesn’t have any maternal instincts at all, and then we learned the main reason for the invitation was a pitch meeting for her toady husband’s friend.

Random thoughts in no particular order:

I think you’re entirely right about his inability to express his love to another man is Isaac being Isaac, not a generalised inability from the straight characters. In fact, just minutes before that, we have Sam telling the team he loves them all and Jamie being the one to jump on it and reinforce it through the whole…

I get most of the criticisms of this episode (although personally I don’t share them, and thought this was maybe the season’s single best episode), but this is a pretty ungenerous interpretation of that final beat between Colin and Isaac IMO. The point isn’t that straight men don’t have to say “I love you” to their…

I’m American, but I lived/worked in the Netherlands for a few months. It’s not a perfect country (as my Dutch friends are quick to point out, but to borrow your words, I always found it a “quiet and warm” place. There is something just so lovely about it and I don’t know if I’d ever have the courage to make it my home…

I think it’s all about making new connections - covering up the tracks with fresh snow as Beard put it. Rebecca literally fell head over heels to meet that flying Dutchman (he said he was military and had flight memorabilia all over the boat), Rebecca needed to make a new connection with someone to wipe Rupert’s…

how skittish elderly people could be ‘cause of the war

That line was awesome lol

One underseen movie of hers I really like is Hello I Must be Going, where she plays an agoraphobic divorcee who finds herself in an unconventional new relationship. The director I think said they lost the funding for the movie because they didn’t cast a big star as the female lead, so they had to make it with no…

The av club review episodes of a cool, exciting show, and provide a place to discuss it?? That is an out-there idea 

Just to be comprehensive:

It’s the dramatic pause before “... I no longer love him!” that does me. The going all-in on the 19th century Russian realist novel this moth apparently lives in.

I think this video makes some good points on the subject of Norm and his comedy.

we get a brief glimpse of Roy

Check out Joel Kinneman on The Killing.

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