The "Lady Mary in the bath" line might have been okay had it been delivered in a spirit of offense at the intrusion, but the pause and chuckle beforehand made it seem as though it was a line he was pleased at having come up with, and as such was pretty gross. Between that and Carson offering wine to an ulcer patient,…

Truly. Even in some of Takeshi's good directorial efforts there are moments of goofy amateurism (so they seem to me, anyway), but that was just a bad idea performed terribly.

Each one more dour and bland than the one before. The only thing that changes is Mary's attire — I believe she attained complete armlessness this week.

I wonder whether he'd talk about it, even now. When he was doing the talk show circuit to promote "Krippendorf's Tribe", amid rumors that it was going to be a dud, he more or less pleaded for people to go see it so he could continue to have an acting career (people didn't). The naked desperation of it was pretty…

Sure, I have nothing riding on it.

The festival walkout phenomenon is generally overemphasized anyway. If you're trying to see 4 or 5 films in a day in different venues, you might walk out of a movie to get to another you were already anticipating. So it makes sense that an end-of-day screening would have fewer walkouts. Or you might have a dead…

Shout out to the McDLT packaging — "Keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool!" said the double-wide, divided styro box holding a single sandwich.

Let's none of us tell michael about the Florida panhandle Fudpucker's chain….

I might be out on this season until Restaurant Wars. I get no sense of fun or camaraderie in this group at the moment. With a couple of exceptions they are a bunch of earnest dullards.

I appreciate the attention paid in this review to the technical and subtextual aspects of the show. I watch it mainly to live-tweet snark with friends, so it's good to be reminded that these are real pros at work.

They inducted the wrong Steve M. (Morse, not Miller)

Angelina was a casting error, and she has to go. Whatever it is the producers hoped she would bring to the table isn't being brought, and the only question from week to week is who she'll drag down with her.

OK. Still, that would have invited scrutiny that Keith would have absolutely crumbled under before the vote ever took place. The more blatant the deception, the greater the likelihood that he would fail in its execution. Keith, to his credit, seemed to realize this. I don't think there was much doubt among the…

What would have been the point of Keith actually playing a fake idol? Weird that this was brought up as something he should have done. Although his execution was predictably clumsy (he actually called it a "trick", and Wentworth's exasperated reaction was priceless), the only value of having an idol you know to be…

My only complaint with the editing was that they skipped forward to 1:20 without giving a sense of the time passing.

The Worst Idea of All Time is a fine film/comedy mashup pod. If you like the "old friends hang out" vibe of Film Junk, I'd recommend Uhh Yeah Dude.

Ciera departs with high honors in my book. I loved that she refused the role that was assigned to her by dint of the combination of her youth, size, and gender. She was lightly regarded from the start among both participants and most spectators, but look at what it took to get her out — an idol play by the leader of…

She's making the appeals she has to make. Stephen gets points, and rightly so, for defining the narrative of the game, but he's doing so in part by witnessing Ciera's constant, evenhanded, logical appeals to game theory to anybody willing to listen.

Man, every week I come here expecting to read some recognition that Ciera is killing it, and every week it's just crickets. Letting Stephen define terms on the first boot of their voting bloc is something she can claim credit for every bit as much as he can. CIERA. IS. KILLING. THE. GAME.

Timely, in that I've found myself recently to have passed through my "Doors were overrated" phase and come out — even broken on through, one might say — the other side. Separating the band from the long-evaporated self-mythologizing of Morrison (self-mythologizing which I now find so tired when I see it celebrated…