He sort of was, in that Conde Nast said they wouldn’t hire him for any of their magazines going forward.

Power play, I guess. It’s like sending unsolicited pictures of your penis; I’ve never tried, but I can’t imagine that has ever once worked as a way to get women interested.

It’s not like the boys are fearlessly staring down the Demodogs either (or, really, the adults).

1. Nah, it’s clearly a reference to Max and Lucas’ shared love of the filmography of Andrei Tarkovsky.

I’m fine with Billy primarily being character context for Max.

“How was the pull-out?” is a god-tier joke. I’m not generally a fan of having one character tell other characters what they’re feeling, but that sequence was done with a light touch, so I think it worked (even if it’s kind of creepy when you remember what age those characters notionally are, as opposed to what age the…

This whole thing already aired on the CBC (it’s a CBC/Netflix co-production, akin to the new Anne of Green Gables series — seems like a way for the CBC to considerably up the production value of some of its product). It’s pretty good, and Gadon is great in the lead, though the fact that they cast a thirty-year-old…

“It’s eleven o’clock: do you know where your children are?”

The “Am I done here?” afterward was also great. He just seems to be there to put in the absolute minimum of effort.

I’m pretty sure Lucas wrote that creepy arcade manager a cheque he won’t be able to cash. That seems like a risky proposition given how much time the boys seem to spend there.

In the alternative, Max is a Tarkovsky fan.

At the risk of disagreeing with the reviewer again, I thought that sequence worked fine. It goes directly to Eleven’s whole situation, that she’s been unable to see Mike in-person for almost a year, whereas this other girl can just hang around him as much as she wants.

The followup joke where the kid getting candy back exclaims “My candy’s back, and all the raisins are gone!” was better still, in my opinion.

I thought the kids were a bit blase about the creature at first given their experiences in the previous season, but I guess I can buy that they at first didn’t know it was a sci-fi creature.

Those Fios commercials that Matarazzo is doing at the moment gave me additional appreciation for his talent, because he’s a really good pitchman, which depends almost entirely on charisma.

Statutes of limitations would protect him from criminal charges in most of the incidents that have been reported, as with the incident Sciorra describes here.

Ava Acres is such a fun presence that it’s too bad the nature of her role means she can’t be on the show more.

Dustin and Lucas working in tandem to get Max into the group is weirdly collegial, seeing as she can only date one of them.

Is this confirmation that Jane The Virgin has a set end point with season 5?

Mike’s face when his father asked what he would do if his friend jumped off a cliff was hilarious.