No, hers is a pretty unsympathetic character. But Matt Damon as the husband did make me tear up when the doctor says “We couldn’t save her” and he says, “Okay, when can I take her home?” He just can’t take in the magnitude of what’s happened, and the doctor has to gently explain it to him again.

And as the car careens out of control and heads for the gas station, Stu calmly says to the gas station owner, “Best turn off your pumps, Hap.” It’s a great way to introduce his character - very smart, calm, good in an emergency.

I read “The Hot Zone” on an airplane. Baaaad idea.

The non-plague deaths section is only in the unabridged version, and I agree, it’s great. Really adds to the world-building.

Stephen King.

Don’t forget the “Standing at the Back Dressed Stupidly and Looking Stupid” party, from Blackadder!

Natalie Portman. She’s beautiful, but I feel like she’s a blank space in everything I’ve ever seen her in. I loved the “Annihilation” book series but with her in the lead role I thought the film sank like a stone. (Jennifer Jason Leigh doesn’t help either.)

People like this absolutely do believe being gay is a choice. And they believe LGBTQ adults are all perverts actively looking to ruin the lives of nice Christian kids by turning them to the “gay lifestyle.”

Makes me think of Trump’s team defending his statement about Meghan Markle being “nasty.” I heard one of them on the radio saying Trump didn’t say that, and when the reporter read back the quote, the spokeswoman said, “Yes, but after that he said he thought she’d do well as Duchess and that he hoped she was OK. So…

Yeah, I’m from the South too and I’ve never heard anyone say “killed out.” Maybe it’s a very specific-to-Alabama regionalism? It’s weird, regardless.

Back in the day, wealthy women only wore their kidskin gloves two or three times, because kidskin stretches out and gloves like that are supposed to be worn super-tight on the forearms, wrists, and hands. (It was OK if they were slightly looser on the top of the arm.) Replacing them often also ensured they were…

Yeah, the vest looks ridiculous. It’s easily six inches too long. A good tailor can shape a vest so that it hides a paunch; the belly-sling effect here actually accentuates it. Of course, I’m sure Trump ordered it to be tailored this way, just like he wears his suit coats way too big and his ties way too long, because…

The Shining, for sure. It’s beautifully shot and well-acted, of course, and Kubrick certainly nailed the horror, but he missed the heart of the book.

All I can think of is the puffy shirt from Seinfeld.

Nah, he thinks all women who disagree with him or stand up to him are “nasty” (and/or “dogs”). I’m sure he has racist thoughts about her too, but this is his usual misogyny.

I see what the reviewer is saying, and in some ways I agree, but to me part of the point of Season 2 was that THP, before he met Fleabag, wasn’t a very good priest and was a flawed person in general. He didn’t have a good handle on what kind of priest or person he wanted to be. He was optimistic about his calling but…

I have a daughter too, and I’ve never cried as hard at a TV episode as I did at June and Hannah’s reunion, with June valiantly holding herself together to say the things that would be most helpful to Hannah moving forward. Then I read later that the writers actually researched what refugees said to children they had…

This would have been SO much better. For one thing, June would be much better equipped to save Hannah by going to Canada and working on a rescue mission from there. Then she could have returned undercover, etc. And it would have set up a terrific conflict if Luke didn’t agree with her decision, wanted her to stay with…

I remember reading a humor piece once about how dangerous sex with Superman could be. The author pointed out that since ejaculation is an involuntary function, Superman likely couldn’t rein it in and “he’d blow the top of Lois’s head off!”

During WW2, my grandmother and great-aunt, both about 20 at the time, vacationed in Washington D.C. (I think partly just to flirt with GIs!) While there they decided to have tea at a fancy hotel (couldn’t afford dinner there, so tea would have to do!). When they got there, they saw a lot of people going into a…