The boys did a great job in that scene - the tangible horror/embarrassment both of "we're not supposed to see that" and "why doesn't she KNOW we're not supposed to see that?!" was really well conveyed.

Yeah, they could take Stephen King's hallmark archetype of "small(ish) town where terrible things keep happening" and recast as they see fit, whenever, with whatever characters they want.

I think it's relative - when we're little, the biggest TV on the block seems HUGE because all the other TVs we interact with are so much smaller by comparison. Then we take that memory with us into adulthood, but kids are black and white - they don't do "Well, it's comparatively a large TV"… they just imprint the…

I loved that her defense actually got him, too - Hopper turns and gets quiet when she asks, "Wouldn't you know your own daughter's breathing?" because yes, every parent would.

YES. That is something about my affection for the actor I hadn't been able to articulate yet - that he FEELS right. He FEELS like a sardonic kind-of-mean alcoholic sheriff whose life has gone down the drain, but there's still enough of the really good cop underneath all the alcohol and unhappiness that he can only…

I don't know, I get the feeling that the TV brag was less "this is the biggest TV ever", but more "I definitely have a bigger TV than my friends" bragging. Like, objectively it's not even that big, but if he has the bgigest TV of his friends, the brag makes sense.

I love that the Sheriff character and the El character are both played by actors who do -exceptional- work with very little written dialogue. Both of them are great at acting with facial expressions and eyes - and the Sheriff is great at having a four-word line that says about five different sentences with his…

I think that just makes you human - I'd say the vast majority of us struggle to feel sympathy when bad things happen to bad people.

Well, a mix of "because they can" and "because wouldn't YOU go crazy stuck in one place with the same four other idiots for 200 years?"

It seems to be - it's more predicated on how the emphasis on academic "early education" is actually hurting kids, whereas an emphasis on "early education by learning through living" is showing and has shown better results overall.

I love it and reread the book often. There's such an immense amount of context and information and yet you still feel like you're being dragged along on some kind of insane wild ride the whole time. I feel like Reiterman did the best job any writer has done of getting us to understand why so many people got pulled…

Abercrombie, King of Grimdark, taking on one of the most Grimdark movie series to date? This can only be good.

The Importance of Being Little apparently only just came out, so I haven't been able to get much of a look at it yet, but I'm very interested - it's essentially about how we need to stop getting in our toddlers' and preschoolers' way and let them learn the way children have always learned - through play and fun and…

Reading List this Summer:
The Importance of Being Little : What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups (mother of a toddler, this is all terribly fascinating to me right now)
FINALLY finishing the Ron Chernow Alexander Hamilton biography (it's really good, just super dense and has a lot more on early American fiduciary…

Sedaris's family has been… less than pleased with their portrayals in his books and while they've mostly kept to themselves about it, it's been implied his stuff about his family is pretty heavily fictionalized.

Plus, Bethesda's attempt at a multiplayer game for its Elder Scrolls universe landed with a bit of a WHOMP because Elder Scrolls fans really love the first-person aspect far more than they wanted multiplayer.

I will pay to see Gay Balto. I will pay cash monies.

Derail away! Honestly, I hate the idea that comments have to stick to one teensy topic.

The epitome of "Well, I didn't MEAN to…"

The whole POINT of Frozen was that true love can mean the love you feel for your family, not a romance, that our fairy tales maybe got that part wrong, that 'true love' is true no matter who it's aimed at. I feel like "give Elsa a girlfriend" undoes that and makes her character just about romance, like every other…