After seeing the movie tonight I went back to the review of Halloween 2018 because I remembered you had a really brilliant comment about why the original was such a masterpiece, which I still totally agree with.

Yup, he’s consistently said that he doesn’t like Joe, which makes his performance all the more impressive.

I didn’t want a happy ending and don’t think she’s necessarily GOOD but wished she could’ve at least extricated herself from Olivia, but alas, the ep is all about the futility of pattern breaking.

I also think Paula’s insistence for Kai to commit the robbery may have been born more from spite at Olivia and her insufferable family than an actual concern for Kai and his situation. Kai ultimately was manipulated by Paula, who took advantage of a naïve and desperate kid to fulfill her own revenge fantasy.

Christ, this was depressing.

So that’s why he’s called Winnie the Pooh.

My feeling from Paula is that she’s a not-rich person struggling to fit into a rich person’s world.  I’m not exactly sure how she met and befriended Olivia (my guess is that they’re dorm roomies) but stepping into Olivia’s world has her trying to emulate Olivia’s behavior in some ways.  She’s definitely rude to…

Your assessment of Paula is the same as mine.  Almost like her whole persona is just putting on airs

For anyone whining about how this show is overhyped, could you please point me to any other debut show that came out this year that’s even close to being as good? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, I get it. But for what it’s attempting, it does it very solidly. This year has been absolutely terrible for tv,…

I think the best part of tonight’s episode was the brother. Completely without any agency at that age, trying to tune out the world through his ear pods or smartphone. When he finally has his fill of his sister and her friend, he tears off to the beach and sees the whale.

I think it’s safe to assume that season 5 was always going to be books 5 and 6 combined.

Yeah, while I think this probably speaks to younger women a lot more directly than it was speaking to me as a middle-aged dude, I felt like I could still identify the emotions that it’s getting at.

Good god, this show. I feel emotionally assaulted each episode. Coel forces you to witness, essentially be a participant in and then try and process all sides of very complicated sexual interactions in a tidy half hour. The assaults of the three leads were more easily sussed out compared to Theo’s story. Her opening…

He is so good playing “the heel” for so long even The Undertaker payed a visit.

then blames her death on her thoughtless failure to be a hardbitten action TV star with a flamethrower

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example and not his advice —— Charles Kettering.

It’s hard to notice stuff like that when you only watch for 3 minutes at a time...

“The problem with the new Lion King is that the animals just aren’t expressive enough”

When I was maybe 10, a friend’s teenage son babysat for me and my younger brother, and it was one of those things where everyone was like “well... I *guess* that’s OK” because the adults really wanted to go out and it was about 40 years ago and he wasn’t a criminal or a creeper, just a thoughtless asshole who didn’t…

I was eight, watching Attack of the Crab Monsters, a Roger Corman opus*. Atomic tests embiggen some crabs, who eat everything in sight. In one scene The Girl™ is in bed asleep, and a giant crab claw comes in through the window and grabs her. I nearly jumped out of my skin, and for a long time after I carefully closed…