If Elizabeth is bad and mansplaining is bad, does fantasizing about mansplaining midcentury French movies to Elizabeth make me bad too?

I argued last season that, because we saw a flashback with a digitally de-aged Anthony Hopkins as the young Robert Ford, there’s no way that William and MiB could be the same person. The show went out of its way to show us that one actor=one character, no matter the point in time. Why would it break its own rules?

I was similarly underwhelmed by the episode—lots of fill-in-the-blank stalling. But I like your suggestion about the divergent timelines. We know there have been two “incidents” at the park, and it’d be shortsighted to think we’re not seeing them play out simultaneously.

Yeah but Elizabeth has always been an ideologue. That’s why I’m not so sure I agree with Erik’s guess about where this is all heading--there’s not a lot of room for her type in a post-soviet, hyper-capitalist Russia. Wouldn’t it make more thematic sense if Philip survives?

Surely “One Giant Leap” is a parody of “For All Mankind.”

Zemeckis’s work—from I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND’s pre-60s panic to BACK TO THE FUTURE’s Reagan-ite ending to FORREST GUMP’s postwar revisionism—is either fundamentally conservative or a career-spanning parody of American conservativism.

From what I understand—I’m no sound engineer—Guyville was recorded and mixed using some extraordinarily all-analong process that only the initial release reflects. Everything since has been digitally altered. I guess it’s most noticeable on the 2008 (?) Matador reissue. Curious to hear where they’re getting this one.

Anyone else picking up a “Where Eagles Dare” vibe before the reveal?

So we definitely can’t fuck animals with flukes?

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062233097/meet-me-in-the-bathroom

In the early going, part of what made that scene so exciting was that it was sonically nebulous, backed more by a propulsive, derelict swagger than a cohesive sound. But you’re absolutely right—even at the time, Ted Leo seemed like an anomaly of genuine craftsmanship.

He first showed up in DC, but he’s from New York and was back there in time to be name-checked in Strokes-era hype. I caught him a few times at Luna Lounge and CBGB during the heyday. He was also prominently featured on the (admittedly shitty) comp “Yes New York.”

Ted Leo was (by miles) the cleverest and most politically thoughtful member of the early ‘00s NY scene, and I’d argue that Hearts of Oak stands as that whole thing’s most substantial creation. Like Kenneth Lonergan’s similarly sprawling Margaret, Hearts of Oak is a swirl of time-and-place-specific anxieties and a…

I’d like to argue that the way she says “Ingrid Bergman” is pretty close to perfect.

Wait Woody Allen did WHAT?!

Mark E Smith died.

I dig that Zapruder-esque (Zaprudian?) “Jackie” poster in April Wolfe’s cubicle. Anyone know where it comes from?

Weirdly unmentioned here is that the article ends with Johnson giving a vague hint about Episode IX:

You’re all a bunch of jokers.

OK. But is this really the hill you want to die on?