I know what the writers can do! Why, they can get into a joint venture with Pitchfork to go back to long-form critical analysis of movies and TV!! We just need to come up with a good name for it. Should be something having to do with the trade of movie-making? Hm... Maybe “The Fade Out”?? Nah...that’s no good...

I assumed that the fortune teller was Joe’s real mother. Was I the only one to do so? (Didn’t she disappear very early in his childhood? So perhaps he could visit her as an adult without her recognizing him.)

He talked a bit about that recently in a discussion with Edgar Wright.